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Naver's streaming platform Chizijic is the official sponsor of the LCK and the official media partner of the Overwatch World Cup.
Expand fan participation through on-site booths, group viewing, and streamer live
(Seoul = Yonhap News) Reporter Sang-yong Han = Naver streaming platform Chizijik announced on the 11th that it will broadcast the '2026 League of Legends Champions Korea (LCK) Finals' and the '2026 Overwatch World Cup' main and finals this weekend.
As an official sponsor of the LCK, Chizizik will operate a booth at the LCK Finals, which will be held on the 12th and 13th at Haneul Square in front of KSPO Dome at Olympic Park in Seoul.
The 'Cheerful Drawing Contest', in which fans create phrases and pictures to cheer for the finals, will be held online and offline, and Cheerpool created by Chizijic streamer and LCK broadcasters will also be displayed.
The Overwatch World Cup finals and finals held at BlizzCon 2026 in the United States will also be officially broadcast live.
There will also be a 'Drops' event providing game items, a watch-together event for streamers, and an on-site live broadcast from seven Cizizik streamers.
Cizizic plans to participate as an official media partner for the Overwatch World Cup and support streamer competitions with Nexon, Blizzard's Overwatch publishing partner.
Naver Entertainment leader Geon-beom Joo said, “We will go beyond live broadcasts of large-scale e-sports competitions and connect various online and offline experiences such as watching with streamers and fan participation events to create an e-sports viewing culture in which fans can participate more actively.”
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Czizyk's fan participation event will become a standard model for future esports broadcasting platforms.
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