Imagine Dragons release a new song for League of Legends World Championship 2014

The 2014 Grammy winners for Best Rock Performance, Imagine Dragons, have taken time off from their busy schedules to produce a song to celebrate the League of Legends World Championship 2014, which is to kick off today in Taipei, Taiwan. Apparently LoL is their favourite game, and a new animated video called Warrior has been released by Riot games, featuring this song. This collaboration adds further hype to the tournament which had drawn about 32 million viewers in the finals last year.

“To kick off the start of the action, we set out to craft a war cry to rally behind in a creative collaboration with Imagine Dragons,” Riot said in a statement. The stylized collaboration sets a competitive tone for the tournament which drew 32 million viewers last year.

According to tweets of Brandon Beck, the CEO and co-founder of Riot games, most Imagine Dragons members are level 30 in League of Legends. This he states is the reason why the collaboration was so fun. "They are legit gamers", he says.

Today, the top 16 League of Legends teams in the world will begin competition in the Group stages. The teams will placed in four groups and the best two from each group will advance to the quarter finals, which will be held in Busan, starting October 3. The Semi Finals and Finals will be played in Seol in the Sangam Stadium on October 19th, where the winner will receive a million dollar prize money and The Summoner's Cup, not to mention the honour of being crowned world champion.

Most of the band members of @Imaginedragons are lv 30. They are legit gamers, part of why the collab was so fun. Hope you guys like the vid

— Brandon Beck (@BrandonBeck) September 17, 2014