The Game Awards Will Feature A 'League Of Legends' Musical Performance By Sting

Ugh, who do I blame for this decision Geoff or Riot? Frankly I don't see how he relates to this event, but I guess that's just typical awards show BS.
And this is off-topic but speaking of Sting the wrestler I always felt that his old look, Surfer Sting, was highly underrated/overlooked in favor of his later incarnation

He seems to have come out of the woodwork lately, maybe he wants even more money than he already has!

Sorry but don't know any wrestler called Sting, there is only Fields of Gold, Englishman in New York Sting to me.

And love his work in Dune, need to watch that again.

Have I lived to see a British newsblog having to explain who Sting is? As opposed to some eponymous wrestler I've first heard about from this same article? What kind of timeline is this?🙀😄

LOL at the dig on Sting the wrestler. In all fairness, that guy carried WCW when WWE had all the best talents in the business.

Why does he sing with a Jamaican accent?
I guess it's too late to change it now

@nhSnork I honestly hate it when this site caves to the Americans. Like when they have to explain the difference in football or who some really not very obscure celebrity is.

Sting's the man<3

@steely_pete just like Post Malone, Katy Perry and J Balvin don't relate at all with pokemon, yet, here we are...

@nessisonett that's surprisingly xenophobic from your part

"The McStingster!"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h1Fk_mDem4o

@nessisonett @Damo to be honest, guys, the supposed necessity of having to explain Sting to American audiences doesn't make me feel much better.😅 IIRC, the man even performed at the Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City way back when.

@nhSnork hey, we are also young whippersnappers who cared squat about some 2002 olympics at that time 😂

@Bunkerneath you should, both Stings even appeared together some times hahaha.

The only reason I'm watching the Game Awards is for a possible BOTW 2 announcement. I'm prepared to be disappointed, mostly the show is a waste of time and I just check-in on the winners and watch the new trailers the next day. Last year was nice, Smash trailer was early and I stopped watching after then.

I'd rather listen to sting the wrestler sing. Never liked the police since I was a little lad (the band, not the emergency service)

Should've brought in Imagine Dragons to perform Enemy from Arcane!

@Damo First, great job on that photo. Much better than Shogun's boring pic of the anime. I'm impressed, good call. 👍

Second, on this reply to @nessisonett :
"Our audience is mostly American, so we gotta do what we gotta do sometimes, I'm afraid."

Am I right in translating this sentence as:

"Our audience is mostly American, I hate it as much as you do."😉 😂

Also acceptable photo of Sting. Bellboyyyyyyyy!!!!

@nessisonett I mean, Americans make up a lot of the user base of this site. Completely leaving them in the dark about something only Europeans understand is just dumb.

Of course I know who sting is, he was in the bee movie (he actually was)

What next? The Rock comes in to announce some game based off of...a Fast & Furious spin-off?

This is imposter Sting.

He should settle it in the ring with the real Sting, in a fields of gold match.

@nessisonett @nhSnork I'm American and obviously know the difference between holiday and football, but I had no idea who Sting was lol

@nessisonett Considering the age of the average reader here, and the fact that Sting hasn't had a single in the top 100 since 2004, I don't doubt that this will be the first time some will have heard of him.

I'm an old timer and love Sting (have multiple albums of his and The Police), but he hasn't had radio play in 30 years. I understand having to explain him to this site's demographic. His new album has some great songs.

Eh, the performances are always so cringey. This year I’ll skip watching it and enjoy some Curb Your Enthusiasm (cringey in a different way that’s fun!) instead and look for the game announcements the next day.

Let's hope he only signs, he literally makes my toes curl up. I can't think of another rock star with as big as an ego as him. And not in a fun way, more in a cringe inducing way. If he isn't going on how how great his talent is, he is talking about how amazing his body is, or how good in bed he is. He was on Jonathan Ross the other night and in dead seriousness said he came up with all the harmonies on the live aid song and that all the other stars copied him. Even typing out what he said is making me squirm.

@steely_pete maybe if you read the article you'd know that he is singing a song he helpd compose for a Video Game IP. Namely league of legends. Honestly its a really good song, better than some of the crap performances they do get in. At least this is related in some way.

The best reason yet to avoid the game awards if that utter waste of DNA is involved. Vomit.

@Derezzed I was a fan back in the 80's when he was still with The Police and Madonna was still an up and coming pop star