{"id":18262,"date":"2018-09-11T15:38:22","date_gmt":"2018-09-11T14:38:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/esportsinsider.com\/?p=18262"},"modified":"2018-11-16T00:34:30","modified_gmt":"2018-11-16T00:34:30","slug":"league-of-legends-brazilian-championship-picks-up-gillette-sponsorship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/esportsinsider.com\/2018\/09\/league-of-legends-brazilian-championship-picks-up-gillette-sponsorship","title":{"rendered":"League of Legends Brazilian Championship picks up Gillette sponsorship"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino, serif;\"><strong>Gillette<\/strong> and Brazil’s top professional <strong>League of Legends<\/strong> competition, <strong>the Campeonato Brasileiro de\u00a0League of Legends (CBLoL)<\/strong> has announced a new partnership for the 2019 season after the pair joined forces at the recent CBLoL\u00a0Winter Grand Finals.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino, serif;\">Details on activations between the two will be announced at a later date, however, Gillette did mark the new sponsorship by airing a <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/GilletteBR\/status\/1038441974871805953\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">League of Legends commercial<\/a>\u00a0for Brazilian audiences. Gillette will also team up with global media company <strong>Webedia<\/strong> and esports broadcast\u00a0group <strong>Versus Studio<\/strong> to develop a new reality show that will follow an aspiring League of Legends player on their quest to win a $50,000 (\u00a338,400) prize.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino, serif;\">We spoke with <strong>Gillette’s Brand Manager, Emiliano Zamperoni<\/strong>\u00a0in April about <a href=\"https:\/\/esportsinsider.com\/2018\/04\/gillettes-brand-manager-and-bjergsen-qa-on-the-team-solomid-partnership\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Gillette’s approach to esports<\/a>: “For more than a century, Gillette has worked with leading professional sports leagues and athletes. So, as one of the largest and fastest growing leagues globally, it\u2019s been very natural for us to enter and partner within the esports community and bring TSM into our roster of all-star athletes globally.”<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino, serif;\">Looking to the future he added “Looking ahead, we look forward to further expanding upon such partnerships in this ever-growing space. And, given fans are the reason why esports is what it is, we are also committed to continuing to make fans the centre of all that we do.”<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino, serif;\">This was not the first partnership by Gillette, having worked with League of Legends in the past. Their first move into esports by Gillette <a href=\"https:\/\/esportsinsider.com\/2017\/01\/league-legends-pro-xpeke-becomes-gillette-ambassador\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">was appointed<\/a> former LoL player and current Origen owner <strong>xPeke<\/strong> as one of the company’s ambassadors, alongside the likes of\u00a0\u00a0<strong>Lionel Messi, Neymar Jr<\/strong>. and <strong>Roger<\/strong> <strong>Federer<\/strong>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino, serif;\"><strong>Esports Insider says: Support for the wildcard regions is great for competition in League of Legends, teams from these regions have continued to show up at major events, especially when certain top regions have failed to do so. Gillette are no strangers to esports and their continued involvement in the scene continues to show the mainstream appeal and the brand power esports can bring.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">[maxbutton id=”3″ ]\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gillette and Brazil’s top professional League of Legends competition, the Campeonato Brasileiro de\u00a0League of Legends (CBLoL) has announced a new partnership for the 2019 season after the pair joined forces at the recent CBLoL\u00a0Winter Grand Finals. Details on activations between the two will be announced at a later date, however, Gillette did mark the new … <a href=\"https:\/\/esportsinsider.com\/2018\/09\/league-of-legends-brazilian-championship-picks-up-gillette-sponsorship\">Continued<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27,"featured_media":18263,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","esi_template":"default","excluded":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[63,55,106,58],"tags":[649,1443,217,5038,469,311,1444],"class_list":["post-18262","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-commercial","category-esports-titles","category-latest-news","category-lol","tag-brazil","tag-gillette","tag-lol","tag-partners","tag-sponsorship","tag-tsm","tag-xpeke"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO 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