2026 LCK Cup Finals in Hong Kong presented by CGA to Stage Historic Showdown in the City
Kai Tak Sports Park Set to Become the Global Esports Focal Point
HONG KONG, Jan. 27, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- The League of Legends Champions Korea (LCK), one of the world's premier esports leagues, is set to reach a historic milestone. The 2026 LCK Cup Finals in Hong Kong SAR presented by CGA will be staged outside Korea for the first time, marking the Finals' first overseas edition. The event will take place from 28 February to 1 March 2026 at Kai Tak Arena, Kai Tak Sports Park, and has been recognized as a "M" Mark major sports event in Hong Kong, it marks the arrival of a world‑class esports spectacle in Hong Kong.
Jointly presented by Cyber Games Arena (CGA) and the LCK organizer, the event represents a milestone in bringing top-tier League of Legends competition to fans outside Korea. Held over two consecutive days, the Finals are expected to attract more than 10,000 spectators per day, turning Kai Tak Sports Park into a major focal point for esports fans around the world.
LCK: Widely Recognised as the Highest-Level Professional League of Legends Competition
The LCK has long been regarded as one of the strongest and most competitive professional League of Legends leagues globally. It brings together the world's top teams and legendary players and has been a dominant force on the international stage for many years. Teams from the LCK consistently occupy leading positions in the Global Power Rankings, including powerhouse organisations such as T1 and Gen.G, whose competitive standard is widely considered the benchmark of excellence.
Among its players is Faker, the first inductee into the Hall of Leagues, the first six‑time champion in League of Legends esports history, and the player who led his team to three consecutive World Championship titles. Other world‑class stars such as Gumayusi, ShowMaker, Bdd, and Chovy all compete in the LCK. The top three teams from LCK Cup 2026 will advance to Hong Kong to contest the Finals, delivering a series of dream matchups for local and international fans.
The 2026 LCK Cup Finals in Hong Kong presented by CGA will bring the most decisive stage of the tournament to Hong Kong:
- 28 February (Saturday): Loser Finals
- 1 March (Sunday): Finals
- Match Start Time: 16:00
- Venue: Kai Tak Arena
Each match day will feature one high‑intensity best‑of‑five (Bo5) series, will directly determine which teams qualify for the next tier of international competition. The top two teams emerging from the Hong Kong Finals will earn the right to represent the LCK at the world‑class international tournament First Stand Tournament (League of Legends Global Vanguard Tournament). As such, the Hong Kong stop is not only a championship showdown, but also a pivotal gateway to the global stage.
World-Class Venue for World-Class Competition
The tournament will be hosted at the recently completed Kai Tak Sports Park, providing spectators with the opportunity to witness the world's top League of Legends teams compete at the highest level in a world‑class indoor arena. The intense on‑site atmosphere and live viewing experience will offer fans a level of immersion and excitement that simply cannot be replicated through online broadcasts.
Festival Zone with Free Admission. An Esports Carnival for the Entire Community
In addition to the main event, the Organizing Committee will establish a Festival Zone within the shopping mall and event venue during the competition period. The Festival Zone will be open to the public free of charge, inviting residents and visitors across Hong Kong to experience the dynamic atmosphere of the 2026 LCK Cup Finals in Hong Kong presented by CGA.
The LCK Festival Zone serves as the official fan engagement initiative held annually alongside the LCK Finals and is recognized as one of the most anticipated experiential components of the tournament. The 2026 edition will feature a comprehensive array of interactive activations, including team presentation booths, official and limited-edition merchandise outlets, designated photo and check-in areas, a Cheer Wall for fan messages, cosplayer appearances, and sponsor-led brand experience zones. Through this diverse and immersive offering, the Festival Zone aims to enhance audience engagement, strengthen community connection, and further reinforce Hong Kong's position as a premier destination for international esports events.
LCK 2026 Festival Zone – Pop-Up Store
- Dates: 14 February – 1 March 2026
- Location: MCP CENTRAL, Metro City Plaza Phase 2 – L2 Atrium Footbridge
- Pop-Up Store Highlights:
- Official and limited-edition merchandise sales
- Themed photo and check‑in areas
LCK 2026 Festival Zone (Kai Tak Arena)
- Dates: 28 February and 1 March 2026
- Location: Kai Tak Arena
- Festival Zone Highlights:
- Team booths
- Official and limited-edition merchandise sales
- Themed photo and check‑in areas
- Cheer Wall for fan messages
- Cosplayer meet‑ups and activities
- Interactive experience zones hosted by sponsoring brands
The Festival Zone will be open before and during the competition days, featuring a wide variety of interactive experiences. Even those who are not regular esports viewers will be able to participate through these diverse activities and share in the excitement of a world‑class esports event together with esports fans and members of the public from all walks of life.
Tickets to Go on Sale – Global Esports Community on High Alert
Following the official announcement of the event, a significant surge in ticket demand is expected. The ticketing information is as follows:
Ticketing Information:
- Ticketing Platform: HK Ticketing (https://hkt.hkticketing.com/hant/#/news/detail/0/25)
- On-Sale Dates:
- PAYKOOL Priority Sale: 29 January, 10:00 a.m. – 8:00 p.m.
- Public Sale via HK Ticketing: From 30 January, starting 10:00 a.m.
- Ticket Prices: HK$1,688 / HK$1,388 / HK$1,188 / HK$888 / HK$688 / HK$488
- Travel package platform : Trip.com
- Official Merchandises pre-order：https://lckmerch.cga.gg/
About the Event
The 2026 LCK Cup Finals in Hong Kong presented by CGA is proud to be recognised as an "M"Mark event, supporting the enhancement of Hong Kong's status as a centre for major international sports events. The "M"Mark awarded by the Major Sports Events Committee signifies major sports events that are exciting, world‑class and highly engaging.
- Event Name: 2026 LCK Cup Finals in Hong Kong presented by CGA
- Dates: 28 February – 1 March 2026 (Saturday and Sunday)
- Time: Matches start at 16:00
- Venue: Kai Tak Arena
Tournament Format:
- 28 February (Saturday): Loser Finals
- 1 March (Sunday): Finals
Ticketing Information:
Other information for downloading: https://tinyurl.com/LCK2026HK
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LCK Goes Overseas for the First Time
NEW YORK and BELLEVUE, Wash., May 22, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- For 80 years, every chip ever built has moved data back and forth between memory and processor - consuming more than 90 percent of available power before a single calculation begins. At Anker Day in New York today, Anker Innovations announced it has ended that for consumer hardware. THUS™, the company's first proprietary AI chip, computes directly inside NOR Flash memory, eliminating the transfer entirely - a neural-net compute-in-memory (CIM) architecture the company says is the first ever commercialized in a consumer device. The product carrying it, the soundcore Liberty 5 Pro, has already earned a Guinness World Records certification for the highest objectively measured speech quality score in TWS earbud history. Anker calls them Earbuds That Think.
THUS™: Breaking an 80-Year Assumption in Chip Design
Every chip built today descends from an architecture established in 1945 by mathematician John von Neumann. Its defining logic was divide and conquer: break any problem into discrete steps, translate those steps into code, and execute them one at a time. Memory and the processor can therefore be physically separated. Programs live in memory; the CPU fetches one instruction at a time, executes it and advances to the next.
AI breaks that assumption entirely. A neural network does not divide a problem into steps - it processes end-to-end, drawing on millions or billions of learned parameters all at once. Every inference requires every one of those parameters to make the round trip between memory and the processor. In a data center, that movement is an engineering cost. In a wearable device that is powered by a battery smaller than a fingernail, it is a wall: more than 90 percent of chip power is consumed by simply moving data.
Introducing THUS™ AI Chip Platform
The answer has long existed in nature. Neurons in the human brain do not separate where information is stored from where it is processed - they do both in the same place. THUS™ applies that same principle to silicon.
Rather than shuttling model parameters between physically separate memory and processor, THUS™ embeds computation directly inside NOR Flash memory cells. The model parameters never have to move. The energy previously consumed by that movement is redirected to actual computation. NOR Flash-based compute-in-memory also requires approximately one-sixth the physical footprint of SRAM-based alternatives, making it viable for the most constrained consumer devices.
"Every AI chip built until now stores the model on one side and does the computation on the other. To think, the device has to carry all those parameters across, many times per second, every single inference. THUS™ puts the computation where the model already lives. The model never has to move again."
- Steven Yang, Founder and CEO, Anker Innovations
Earbuds That Think: The First Consumer Products to Run THUS™ CIM AI
The soundcore Liberty 5 Pro and Liberty 5 Pro Max are the first two products to ship with the THUS™ chip. Their positioning is organized around three on-device intelligence layers the chip enables - understanding, adapting, and tuning - each representing a function earbuds could not credibly perform before neural-net AI became viable at this scale.
It Understands - Call Freely. Be Heard Clearly. / Meeting Ends With Plans, Not Messy Notes.
In April 2026, the soundcore Liberty 5 Pro earned Guinness World Records certification for the "Highest speech quality score (G-MOS) for TWS earbuds" in objective testing - the measurable proof of what it means for an earbud to truly understand its speaker. The Liberty 5 Pro Max features identical earbud hardware and achieves equivalent call performance.
Behind that result is a system built differently from the ground up. Conventional earbuds rely on microphone arrays alone to separate voice from noise - a process where both signals share the same medium (air), making clean isolation increasingly difficult as the acoustic environment grows louder or more complex.
The Liberty 5 Pro and Liberty 5 Pro Max deploy a 10-sensor matrix - eight MEMS microphones and two bone conduction sensors - feeding a large neural-net model running entirely on-device via the THUS™ chip. The MEMS array captures the full acoustic environment; the bone conduction sensors simultaneously detect the mechanical vibration of the speaker's cranial bones - a signal physically coupled to the speaker's voice and structurally independent of airborne noise. The THUS™ chip cross-references both streams simultaneously, producing a far more precise isolation than microphone-only systems can achieve. Call Freely. Be Heard Clearly.
AI Note-Taker (Liberty 5 Pro Max)
The Liberty 5 Pro Max extends the understanding layer into meetings. Its charging case - operated through a 1.78-inch AMOLED display - records sessions without a connected phone, then generates transcripts, speaker identification, and action items via the soundcore app. The case's 512MB of onboard flash supports up to 12 hours of local recording; cloud transcription deletes audio immediately upon completion, with local files encrypted via AES-256 and all transmission secured by TLS 1.3. Meeting Ends With Plans, Not Messy Notes.
It Adapts - Instant Focus, Zero-Pressure All Day Long
Adaptive ANC 4.0 monitors external and residual in-ear noise at 384,000 samples per second, adjusting cancellation depth in real time across noise types - low-frequency mechanical vibration, mid-frequency office ambient, high-frequency voice - while simultaneously managing the in-ear pressure that sustained fixed-level ANC typically generates, reducing listening fatigue over extended use. Rated at up to 2x deeper cancellation than the Liberty 4 Pro.
It Tunes - Pure Sound, Just Right
HearID 5.0 builds a personal EQ profile from an in-app hearing test. AI Sound Enhancement reconstructs frequency content lost in Bluetooth compression, restoring up to 65% of the audio quality typically discarded in wireless transmission.
Both models: three-device Multipoint connectivity, Apple Find My, Google Fast Pair, IP55 dust and water resistance, Bluetooth 6.1. Battery: 6.5 hours with ANC on, 28 hours total with the charging case.
Pricing and Availability
The Liberty 5 Pro is available starting today for SGD 239 in Singapore on Shopee and Lazada, RM 699 in Malaysia on Shopee, Lazada and TikTok Shop, and ฿5,999 in Thailand on Shopee, Lazada and TikTok Shop, in Pearl Blue, Pearl White, Midnight Black and Rose Gold.
The Liberty 5 Pro Max is available starting today for SGD 299 in Singapore on Shopee and Lazada, RM 899 in Malaysia on Shopee, Lazada and TikTok Shop, and ฿7,999 in Thailand on Shopee, Lazada and TikTok Shop, in Titanium-Gold and Black.
15 Years, One Promise
The Liberty 5 Pro series launches at a milestone for Anker Innovations. For 15 years, Anker soundcore has been driven by a single promise: Seeking Ultimate Innovation in audio experience backed by the confidence of an 18-month warranty.
About soundcore
soundcore is a smart audio brand under Anker Innovations, committed to providing an immersive audio and video experience with premium wireless headphones, indoor and outdoor Bluetooth speakers and high-definition projectors. Soundcore is the world's No.1* wireless headphone brand by shipment volume among mainstream premium audio brands. For more information visit www.soundcore.com.
About Anker Innovations
Anker Innovations is a global consumer technology company driven by ultimate innovation, creating products that help people power, create, connect, and live more freely. Founded in 2011, Anker Innovations serves more than 200 million consumers across 146 countries and regions. Learn more at anker.com.
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[1] All performance figures are based on internal Anker lab tests. The 150x AI computing power figure applies specifically to the environmental noise cancellation task and reflects the shift from rule-based DSP to neural-net AI processing. It is not a general performance claim and does not reflect a process node upgrade.
soundcore Liberty 5 Pro was certified by Guinness World Records in April 2026 as the "Highest speech quality score (G-MOS) for TWS earbuds (objective test)."
[2] Source: Euromonitor International (Shanghai) Co., Ltd., in terms of mainstream premium audio brands' global shipment volume of wireless headphones in 2025; mainstream premium audio brands refer to brands with ≥75% of revenues from audio equipments (headphones, speakers, etc.) and meet the criteria of mid-to-high-end brands in terms of pricing, brand positioning, and distribution channels; wireless headphones are headphones that pair with electronic devices (mobile phone, computer, etc.) using wireless connection technology (e.g., Bluetooth); research completed in Mar. 2026.
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Earbuds That Think: Anker unveils soundcore Liberty 5 Pro and Liberty 5 Pro Max with Anker's First Neural-Net Chip
Earbuds That Think: Anker unveils soundcore Liberty 5 Pro and Liberty 5 Pro Max with Anker's First Neural-Net Chip
Earbuds That Think: Anker unveils soundcore Liberty 5 Pro and Liberty 5 Pro Max with Anker's First Neural-Net Chip
