Case Study: Riot Games achieves synchronized, low-latency REMI remote production and 10x bandwidth savings with Haivision

Riot Games Solves Remote Production Contribution over IP for League of Legends Invitational Broadcast

Riot Games needed to scale live production for the 2018 League of Legends Mid-Season Invitational in Paris while centralizing broadcast operations in their Los Angeles REMI studio. Facing up to 34 simultaneous player and camera feeds in 1080p60 over ~6,000 miles, Riot wanted low-latency, frame-accurate A/V sync and to leverage its global WAN/PoP infrastructure to cut contribution bandwidth from a 10 Gbps model toward 1 Gbps. Riot Games selected Haivision to address these requirements.

Haivision supplied Makito X encoders and decoders with Stream Sync to ingest and keep streams synchronized within one frame, enabling sub-500 ms latency for remote production. Using Haivision’s solution, Riot streamed dozens of sources (24 cameras in production) at under 1 Gbps total, eliminated the need for OB vans and satellite links, reliably delivered the MSI finals to over 60 million viewers, and significantly reduced operational costs while improving production flexibility.

Riot Games

Mitch Rosenthal

Senior Manager of Broadcast Operations