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We’re excited to welcome visitors for our one-hour, in-person campus tours on most weekdays. A current student tour guide will walk with you around the River Campus while sharing their personal experiences and answering your questions along the way.

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Group visits are available for high schools and community-based organizations to bring a larger group of students (15+) to the University of Rochester for a student-led campus tour.  Group visits are available on most Mondays-Fridays. Please submit your request at least three weeks prior to your intended visit date.

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Groups of school, community-based organization, or independent counselors are welcome to request separate campus visits to the River Campus of the University of Rochester.  A minimum of three weeks notice is requested in order to best meet the requests of visiting counselors.

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Meet with a faculty or staff member, sit in on a class, or visit a campus department or lab. Prospective students can visit department websites, and reach out to the undergraduate coordinator in the departments and programs they’re interested for more information.

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Research rochester open-house days.

This is your ideal opportunity to see if Rochester is the place for you. Attend a session about the admissions process or student life. You can also talk to current students as they show you key landmarks on campus, share their stories, and answer your questions about Rochester.

Multicultural Visitation Program

This program brings together high school seniors from diverse backgrounds to experience Rochester on a more personal level. Admission to MVP is a competitive process that considers your academic and personal qualities.

Yellowjacket Experience

These exclusive events are for all admitted students, including transfers. Whether you can’t wait to enroll or you’re still deciding, come be a Rochester student for a day and see what the next stage of your life could be like. Virtual and on-campus events will be offered in late March and April.

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*These hotels offer University of Rochester visitors a discount. Just mention you’re a visitor when making reservations.

GPS destination: 252 Elmwood Avenue Rochester, NY 14511 Google directions to campus

Once you reach 252 Elmwood (the main entrance of the River Campus), turn onto Wilson Blvd. Stop at the Visitor Parking and Information Booth (in the middle of the street) for parking instructions. Plan to arrive at least 15 minutes early to give yourself enough time to park.

On more popular visit days, we often have our visitors park off campus. If this is the case, parking details will be in your event confirmation email. You can always call our office to double check.

The University’s River Campus is about two miles from the Greater Rochester International Airport (airport code ROC). Commercial taxi services, ridesharing options, and car rentals are available from the airport. Cab fare is about $10, depending on the number of people and luggage.

The Rochester city buses stop at several locations on the River Campus, as well as at the Medical Center and Eastman campuses on all routes. For schedules and bus route information, visit Rochester Transportation Services .

The Rochester Amtrak station is located at 320 Central Avenue, Rochester, NY 14605. Taxi services, ridesharing options, and car rentals are available, and the station is located on the municipal bus line that serves the River Campus.

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We can recommend our tours to you because we’ve experienced them ourselves. We’ve explored the magnificent basalt columns at the Giant’s Causeway and breathed the coastal air at the mighty Cliffs of Moher. We’ve experienced the warm, inviting atmosphere of a Dublin pub and immersed ourselves in the rich mythology embedded deep into the living rock of Irish castles. We want you to feel the same enthusiasm about Ireland that we do. With us, your vacation is in good hands.

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As we open tours to new regions of the British Isles and beyond, our priority is that we don’t forget where we came from. For this reason, we’ve rolled all of our tours in under the name of RIT. Under this banner, we are proud to present you with your 2024 vacation options. Happy travels!

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Brit Floyd tour dates 2024 - 2025

Brit Floyd is currently touring across 13 countries and has 29 upcoming concerts.

Their next tour date is at Helsingin jäähalli in Helsinki, after that they'll be at Peer Gynt Salen, Grieghallen in Bergen.

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Malmö Arena

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Sala Santa Cecila, Auditorium Parco della Musica

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Teatro Cartiere Carrara

Teatro Arcimboldi (Teatro degli Arcimboldi)

Dvorana Tivoli

ICE Congress Centre

Zenith, die Kulturhalle

Alhambra Theatre

Foellinger Theatre

Past concerts

North Charleston Performing Arts Center

Koka Booth Amphitheatre at Regency Park

Ovens Auditorium

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Brit Floyd, amazing venue, lovely night, great crowd, terrible beer and wine attendents.... But you don't want to hear ab9it that. Brit Floyd was spot on with their song choices and their talent to play Pink Floyd. I would see them again and again. If you never experienced Pink Floyd go see Brit Floyd or Aussie Floyd...... Amazing musicians and incredible voices. Eva Avila is amazing on Great Gig In The Sky......

LOVED THE SHOW.....

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I'm not normally into Cover Bands, but this Band is the exception. I've seen Pink Floyd at the Oakland Colisium, many years ago, and this is my 2nd experience with Brit Floyd, and I honestly, can't tell the difference, and would see these guy's again, anytime they come to town.

I really enjoyed the show at sony centre. I have seen pink Floyd several times at big arenas. This band was able to entertain us almost as good as p Floyd. Since I will never see the real thing again I am going to see this band anytime they come back. Everyone in the band were great at what they did. I have seen cover bands before,this band made it feel like they were the original. The female singers stood up and whaled the tunes.

I am going to see local natives and then the Specials..looking forward

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Riot Games Reveals Plans for Valorant Champions Tour in 2025

Valorant esports will make some international stops in 2025 in europe, north america, and southeast asia..

iot Games details Valorant Champions Tour format and locations in 2025. Image Credit: Riot Games

This week Riot Games gave a preview of things to come for Valorant esports, including revealing what cities would host major Valorant Champions Tour (VCT) events in 2025 and 2026 .

Following Champions, Challenger teams from around the world will gather together to compete in Ascension in their respective regions, vying for an official spot in the international leagues. Those sports in the international leagues will expand from the current 11 to 12 teams in 2025, and at the end of the season the winning teams that moved from Ascension (tier-2) to the international leagues (tier-1) will defend to keep it at the end of the season ( this was detailed earlier this year by Riot ).

Riot also revealed that starting next year, partner teams will be able to run Academy teams in Challengers, and though these teams will not be able to take part in Ascension it will give organizations a way to develop talent.

The offseason returns in 2025 as well, with a slate of tournaments comprising show matches, open bracket events, influencer tournaments, and invitationals operated by third parties. Some of those special one-off competitions include RedBull Home Ground, Ludwig x Tarik, and Spike Nations, among others.

In November—as was previously announced this week —Riot will run the Game Changers Championship at the Riot Games Arena in Berlin, crowning the best GC team in the world. The Game Changers Championship will expand from eight (8) to 10 teams.

Looking ahead to 2025, Riot said it will bring its global events to three locations. The first Masters of the year in February 2025 heads to Southeast Asia. or more specifically Bangkok, Thailand. In June Toronto, Ontario, Canada, will host the second Masters, and VCT Champions will close out the season in Paris, France.

The 2025 season will now run from January to October, and every competition will award teams with “Championship Points” that will help them earn their way into the year-end championship—details on this point system are to be announced at a later date.

Riot also noted that it will host the kickoff tournament in January, featuring a new format: Twelve (12) teams will compete in a straight double-elimination bracket, with the top two (2) teams qualifying for Masters Bangkok. From there, Stage 1 will qualify the top three (3) teams from each international league to Masters Toronto. Stage 2 (which Riot says “will no longer carry over records from Stage 1”) will qualify teams for the final playoffs of the season. Playoffs will expand from six (6) to eight (8) teams. The top teams from the Stage 2 Playoffs and the top teams with the most Championship Points will qualify for Champions Paris.

Finally, Riot announced that it plans to bring VCT Champions to China in 2026, and to the Americas in 2027, though specific dates and cities were not revealed as of this writing.

Interestingly enough, there appears to be a space in the competitive calendar that falls in line with the timing of the Esports World Cup in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, in 2025. You may recall that The Esports Advocate reported in June that the only reason Valorant wasn’t part of the EWC in 2024 was due to scheduling conflicts. Riot has said that it is in talks with organizers of the event about the inclusion of Valorant in 2025. When asked about the inclusion of its games in the Saudi government’s other big esports event in 2025 – the Esports Olympic Games – Riot declined to comment.

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"Bash on the Riverwalk" @ Pueblo River Walk

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"Silver Creek Event Center" @ Four Winds Casino

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Apache Casino Hotel

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Marion Popcorn Festival

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Dak Jam Music and Arts Festival

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Southern Iowa Fair

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Mid-America Music @ Black Silo Winery

"Catfish Concerts" @ Greenville Lions Park

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Mississippi State Fair

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Hard Rock Hell AOR Festival

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"Kick Off" @ Monsters of Rock Cruise

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Quechan Casino Resort

Sugar Creek Casino

Borgata Casino

Dakota Magic Casino

Tybee Island Pirate Fest.

Hot Shots Sports Arena

H-E-B @ Cedar Park

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Vette City Motorcycle Music Fest.

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Brown Grand Theatre & Opera House

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Sky Ute Casino

Town Toyota Center

Dodge County Fair

Swift County Fair

"Hog Daze 2019" @ Ballard Field Park

"Tomato Festival" @ Huber Park

CannaFest Music Festival

22nd Ribfest @ Vetter Stone Amphitheater

Kewadin Casino

Big Sky Bash

"Slam Fest" @ On the Grand and Pavilion

Harrah's Reno

"Freedom Festival"@ Jefferson County Fairgrounds 

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Tachi Palace Hotel & Casino

Ameristar Casino & Hotel

Rocky Gap Casino

Jackson Rancheria Casino Resort

Holiday Bay Room @ Canyon Lake Lodge (Private)

Black Bear Casino

Club Regent Casino

Century Casino

Gibtown Bike Fest.

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Bear River Casino

Sunsplsh Water Park

Proof Rooftop Lounge

Three Rivers Casino

Pearl River Casino & Resort

BMI Speedway

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Southwind Casino

Bundy Auditorium

“Rockefellas Music Festival II” @ Dysart Equestrian Center

Grand Falls Casino

Grand RockTember Music Festival

Jergel's Rhythm Grille

Shenandoah County Fair

"Idaho Rock Fest 2018" @ Melaleuca Field

Foundation Performing Arts Center, The

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Clearfield County Fair

Psycho Silo

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St. Clair Riverfest

Macon City Auditorium

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Treasure Island Resort & Casino

Cliff Castle Casino

Thunder in the Valley

“Magic Springs Theme Water Park” @ Timberwood Amphitheater

"Alive at 5" @ Riverfront Park

City of Beaumont Cherry Festival

Temblor Brewing Company

"Coleman Veterans Memorial Concert" @ Coleman Veterans Memorial Park

London Music Hall

Full Metal Cruise

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"Big Rock Pub" @ Indian Spring Golf Club

Jackpot Junction Casino

Sandia Resort & Casino

"Choctaw Grand Theatre" @ Choctaw Casino 

Coral Head Music Musicfest

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Grand Casino Mille Lacs

Morongo Casino Resort & Spa

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"Wienerbash Music Fest" @ Magic City Casino

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San Manuel Indian Bingo & Casino

"Mayfest on Main"

"Outerbank Bike Week" @ Outerbanks Harley Davidson

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DeJoria Center

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On Aug. 16, 2024, Bruno Mars and Lady Gaga released their new throwback single “Die With A Smile.”

Music Talkers called the track “a soulful masterpiece,” Clash claimed “their voices blend to profound effect” and Entertainment Weekly dubbed the tune “a spiritual sequel to ‘Shallow.'”

And, according to Set List FM , Mars is already working the soaring duet into his concerts.

If you want to hear the brand-new jam live — along with all of Mars’ other major hits like “Uptown Funk,” “Locked Out Of Heaven,” “24K Magic” and countless others — tickets are available for all ten of Mars’ remaining Las Vegas residency gigs at Dolby Live at Park MGM.

You will need to be a bit of a high roller to afford them, though.

At the time of publication, the lowest price we could find on seats was $178 before fees on Vivid Seats.

Other shows start anywhere from $215 to $386 before fees.

That being said, the top dollar price is likely worth every penny because the 15-time Grammy winner puts on such an entertaining show.

“The energy and excitement in the arena were electrifying,” Ebony raved about a recent Sin City concert. “Mars and his band put on a very high-energy performance for the sold-out crowd.”

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You’re in the right place, Hooligans.

For more information, our team has everything you need to know and more about Bruno Mars’ Las Vegas residency below.

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Bruno Mars concert schedule 2024

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Anderson .Paak tour

Mars’ Silk Sonic bandmate Anderson .Paak is striking out on a tour of his own this year. He’ll perform his 2016 album “The Malibu” in its entirety at all shows.

If you want to see him live, Anderson .Paak’s complete tour schedule can be found here .

Bruno Mars set list

While we can’t confirm what Mars will play at the show of your choosing, here’s what he brought to the Intuit Dome stage on Aug. 16, courtesy of Set List FM :

01.) “24K Magic” 02.) “Finesse” 03.) “Treasure” 04.) “Billionaire” 05.) “Perm” 06.) “That’s What I Like / Please Me” 07.) “Versace on the Floor” 08.) “It Will Rain” 09.) “Marry You” 10.) “Runaway Baby” 11.) “F— You / Young, Wild and Free / Grenade / Talking to the Moon / Nothin’ on You” 12.) “Leave the Door Open” (Silk Sonic song) 13.) “When I Was Your Man” 14.) “Locked Out of Heaven” 15.) “Just the Way You Are”

16.) “Die With a Smile” 17.) “Uptown Funk”

Bruno Mars new music

As you may have noticed above, Mars and Lady Gaga dropped the single “Die With A Smile” on Aug. 16.

The impassioned duet is Mars’ first new release since 2021’s “An Evening With Silk Sonic.”

In the off chance you haven’t listened yet, you can give “Die With A Smile” a spin here .

Huge stars on tour in 2024

For those unable to make it to Las Vegas these next couple months, there’s no need to freak.

Many of the biggest names in music are on the road all year long.

Here are just five of our favorites you won’t want to miss live.

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Who else is out and about? Take a look at our list of the 50 biggest concert tours in 2024 to find the show for you.

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Riot announces VCT 2025 details

Riot has unveiled details on the 2025 Valorant Champions Tour calendar and changes to the overall circuit. The revamped system includes new formats, an expanded calendar spanning from January to October, and will implement the new Ascension changes . Additionally, Riot has revealed the next locations for Masters and Champions, as well as announced plans for new in-game cosmetics based on the VCT.

In 2025, Bangkok and Toronto will each host a Masters event, while Champions will take place in Paris. Riot also confirmed Champions will be held in China for 2026 and the Americas for 2027.

The 2025 season will begin in January with Kickoff. The new year brings a new format, as each region will seed their 12 teams directly into a double-elimination bracket, forgoing the group stage and play-in stage from 2024 . The top two teams from each tournament will qualify to Masters Bangkok.

For the regular season, Stage playoffs will expand to eight teams, compared to the six from 2024. In Stage 1, the top three teams from each region will qualify to Masters Toronto, for a total of 12 teams. Unlike this year, Stage 1 results will not affect the Stage 2 standings. Eight teams will advance to the playoffs, with the top teams qualifying directly to Champions 2025.

The final Champions slots from each region will be determined based on championship points, which have been reworked for 2025. Riot will confirm further details on their points system at a later date.

Finally, Riot will update the Classic skins for team bundles, as well as release a new capsule similar to the LOCK//IN skins from 2023.

toronto is lowkey W

fns needs to win toronto

FNS has passed away from old age

Thousands come to his funeral to honor him

Saadhak shows up in a wheelchair to pay respects to his old rival

The funeral attendant tells Saadhak to open the casket to say goodbye

He opens the casket but only a note is left

"I'm not dead. I rotated B. Get owned."

Saadhak yells at Aspas to go grab his Operator

Bro overcooked

tears are running down on my face

You should be the one writing the valorant lore

he cooked with this one 🔥🔥

nah u cooked with this one fr

bro is a chef

toronto and paris will be exciting

u underestimating bangkok?

Snakes jumping out of toilets and shi, yea I’m excited

W (mostly, will see how they distribute championship points)

tickets will be sold out in Toronto, i can almost gurantee that.

100% agree they will sell fast too.

W Toronto. But why tf is kickoff still a thing. 8 teams is criminal for an international tournament, especially when we only have 3 major tournaments a year.

Also two teams make champs by winning in split 2??? I think I liked 3 teams making it through points better. That favors consistency over a good run.

Shorter off-season hella nice tho

only 1 team made it through points in 2024.

Kickoff is a thing because its optimal to having a masters without an overlly long time of qualification. The masters being 8 teams is also to make the event shorter.

Thanks for the correction on points, forgot about that.

I understand your point about about masters being shorter, but I still really don't like that. I would rather there be a full split to start the year and full 12 team tournament. Wasting one of three majors we get a year is a horrible decision.

Think it boils down to money. Riot doesn't wanna do more than they're already doing. Viewership tanked in League of Legends and so they're probably afraid it'll eventually happen to Valorant too.

riot also kinda cant, throughout the entire year there is something riot related, they literally dont have extra time in a year

Problem with that is, your the need to miss a qualification for another event, and then cram all the work to compensate for the longer masters or you stream multiple games at the same time.

Agreed. I think then I would prefer something like lcq for champs instead of the split two. But that comes with it's own issues

I wish they had a lock in event in January

we're getting new designs for the team classics?

As far I heard yes (plus they showed some regional knife skins)

The regional knifes from Lock IN were really good, hopefully they make something similar like that. And it's a good thing that the bundles get a fresh design too

dont think so

whats the capital of thailandd

a. bang cock b. bang dick c. bang pussy d. bang tits

for those who don't know

these people don't even know memes 😭

I have to visit Canada next year so this is an absolute W for me. I pray Riot lines up the dates perfectly. Holy shit

it looks like its just june

Damn I hope it starts late June or at least it's a month long event.

1 Pacific, 1 EMEA, 1 Americas. Every region viewer base gets 2 neutral timezone. W allocation.

Aus still nothing even up till 2026 :C

ppl barely exist in AUS

ayo how is ur haunted forest did it catch any fire ? ( just playing ) u guys took our WC tho

"how is ur haunted forest did it catch any fire ?"

is this some sort of reference? because I dont get it T_T

aus forest fires and the wildest creatures

paris crowd should go hard

French crowds are the best in the world

if KC somehow makes it to champs itll be way toooo hype

i rly hope they host it in the bercy arena its like 20k capacity, both worlds 2019 finals and csgo major 2023 were hosted there, both were bangers

Doesnt KC owner have his own large arena?

its 3k capacity iirc LUL

fr tho i think he should talk to rito about having KC play their vct regular season games there, would be good crowd finally

they should do EMEA playoffs there but i guess its annoying to travel just for that

nah i agree with you we need roadshows for regional playoffs like in league, they already did have those for pacific and cn playoffs top 3 teams, not sure why not for EU and NA

I need to see the format of both stage before taking a decision

toronto??? make sure not to step in some needles.....

Try Vancouver if ur worried about stepping in Needles. Anywhere near Toronto arenas/sports venues is fine.

Maybe Masters will be hosted in a building on Jane & Finch, only if we're lucky....

But I actually do wanna know the venue. No way it'd be scotiabank/Roger's, right?

The Grand Finals and lower finals might be in scotiabank arena thats what they have done so far where the first set of games are in a lesser arena but the lower and grand finals are in the cities main venue

The league NALCS finals back in like 2015 was held in Scotiabank. So probably there again

I didn't know Tucker Carlson was a vlr user

8 teams masters is still a joke honestly.

Paris huh! The phrase "get shit on" would be quite literal I see

ironic really

At least we dont got a 6 month off season anymore

that was to compensate for chia

MASTERS TORONTO BABY

will u attend it canadaman

Yes, I will be going to multiple days with a different sign each time, one of the signs will say "I Love boilin_cock"

pls include my name somewhere too 😔

I will try it depends on how many games I will be able to go to since I already promised the boilin_cock one as well as a "TMV Hates NA" sign

You could do a vlr.gg sign with names of pleasant users (wink wink)

Someone wants a shoutout on the main broadcast

I was going to do one for y'all but I couldn't catch a China LAN.

8 team tournament for a 48 team league.

Incompetence

I also want to say this: Why can't we let more league teams participate in the Masters? It would be more interesting.

because time

There are 48 league teams, but we can only see a very few teams competing in the Masters and Champions. I personally feel quite disappointed. I hope there is a LOCK//IN every year.

well if people didnt shit on lock//in, we mightve had a second one, but atp I dont see them ever doing it again

W moves but why classic ? just change it to ghost or maybe shorty or even knife

Because free gun possible to have every round with no economic sacrifice

nyc snubbed of another live event smh

Mumbai pe chahiye

When do tickets usually release for masters events? I NEED to go to masters toronto and I know it is gonna sell out and sell out fast

masters shanghai sold out in 33 seconds, champions seoul still has tickets for certain games. so basically you are good unless the tournament is in china. Americas will probably sell out but youve def got some time, its not gonna be a china situation

Next year may actually be decent. Great locations and new changes. Hopefully the teams that make Champs entertains the crowd a whole lot.

No one is talking about it but 4 split for challengers in 2025??

Guys when will Toronto Masters be? The dates or month?

June 2025, dates aren’t announced yet but it’s somewhere in that month , most likely late june consider champs is from september-october

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Kerry King riffs about his return to the stage after Slayer and the band’s unexpected Riot Fest reunion

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As the final moments approached, Kerry King faced the end of Slayer’s supposed last performance with an epic heavy metal gesture. During the band’s closing minutes the night of Nov. 30, 2019, the guitarist stood onstage at the Forum in Inglewood and removed the heavy chains he’d worn for years as a weighty symbol of his metal fervor. He then dropped them loudly to the floor.

Slayer, the pioneering thrash metal band he co-founded in 1981 from suburban Huntington Park, was finished as an active touring and recording outfit, much to the sadness and disbelief of the teary, moshing crowd in front of him. But King already had a plan for his future, with a solo career and a new band he’d never intended but would tackle with full force.

King had most of the roster for his new project figured out, starting with Slayer drummer Paul Bostaph, and several songs already written. He was ready to go.

“I was in a good spot,” King says now, on the phone from a tour during a recent travel day off in Madison, Wis. “It was different for me because starting over and getting everybody together, it’s just an entirely different thing. But I had lots of ideas and had lots of [song] titles, and I never got to panic mode.”

On Wednesday, King will be back at the Kia Forum for the first time since that last night with Slayer, now at the head of a new metal outfit under his own name, appearing as a support act to co-headliners Lamb of God and Mastodon. This follows the release in May of his debut album, “From Hell I Rise,” a 13-song collection of speedy, raging guitars that sounds remarkably like Slayer — unsurprising, since King was the hands-on architect for the band’s last several studio recordings.

The first public evidence of King’s new solo career was the February release of his single “Idle Hands,” with a galloping riff and a raging vocalist (Mark Osegueda), which reassured any fans worried that the guitarist might wander from the aggressive chaotic sound he’d spent the last four decades helping to create.

“It checked all the boxes: It’s got a great riff in it, it’s got a great vocal break, it’s speedy like people expected me to be,” says King, now 60. His solo career had begun.

Then, before the month was over, fans were shocked when Slayer announced three festival reunion dates this fall: Chicago’s Riot Fest on Sept. 22, Louder Than Life in Louisville, Ky., five days later and Sacramento’s Aftershock on Oct. 10.

The guitarist notes that the predictable offers to reunite came in as soon as the group’s final show was over, but King and founding singer-bassist Tom Araya turned down everything for nearly five years. Araya was the band member most anxious to retire from the road, and King didn’t expect that to change.

“I wasn’t ready to hang it up, but there’s really no point in going on with someone that doesn’t want to do it anymore, because then you’ve got a half-hearted person onstage,” says King, who ultimately accepted, then embraced the notion of retiring while Slayer was in top form. “We won the Super Bowl and we left. That’s pretty cool. Now we’ve got these three anniversary shows. Will there be more? I don’t know. Will we ever record again? Definitely not. Will we ever tour again? Definitely not. But a show here and there to make some people happy, I’m not against that.”

For King, his work wasn’t over even if Slayer no longer existed as it had. One sign was how close the sound of his first solo project echoes his old band. And Bostaph was happy to rejoin him there.

“One thing I’ve learned through all these years is to do what you do best,” Bostaph, 60, says in a separate phone interview from Moose Jaw, Canada. “Kerry writes a certain way, and I like to play drums a certain way. When I play with him, this is how I play. There’s definitely going to be a familiarity there.”

King’s preparations included securing four members of the Slayer road crew. Originally, he also wanted Slayer guitarist Gary Holt (who had replaced the late Jeff Hanneman), but the inevitable comparisons to King’s former band weighed on him. He instead recruited Phil Demmel (formerly Machine Head), on second guitar.

“The more pieces of Slayer I have, the more people are going to tear it apart and call it ‘Slayer 2.0, Slayer this, Slayer that,’ whatever,” King says. “So I decided to get somebody other than Gary. I don’t have any problems with Gary. Obviously, we’ve got three Slayer shows coming up, but it’s just the right choice, because then it makes the two bands too similar.”

In Demmel, who filled in for Holt on four Slayer shows during its final European run in 2018, he had a musician whose melodic playing offered a contrast with King’s wildest guitar spasms. Although King has long been a fan of solo players like Eddie Van Halen and Randy Rhoads, he’s always craved the dual guitar attack of his favorite band, Judas Priest.

“I really am a fan of harmonizing guitar parts, harmonizing guitar riffs, like the main riff of [Slayer’s] ‘Raining Blood’ has numerous guitar harmonies, and you can’t do that with one guitar player,” says King. “Holt and Demmel are very similar. They’re a lot more melodic than I am, so it creates a nice balance of anarchy and melodic music.”

Another early recruit was bassist Kyle Sanders, formerly of Hellyeah and older brother to Mastodon singer-bassist Troy Sanders. Singer Osegueda (formerly of Death Angel) was the last to join up in February 2023, after King heard friends describe him as having “a quiet reputation of being the best singer in thrash,” he recalls. “His vocal sound has teeth. It sounds like the vocals are just gonna jump out of the speaker.”

The pandemic delayed King’s initial plan to begin recording in 2020. During that time, he left Southern California and spent a year living in Las Vegas. King and his wife, Ayesha, then moved to New York and settled into a Tribeca condo in 2021. For the metal guitarist, that meant a change in lifestyle, which included giving up owning his own car and his expansive snake collection.

Recognizable for a shaved scalp tattoed with demonic images and with the words “God hates us all” tattooed in block letters along his left arm, King now gets around the city by subway.

King’s intention was to find a new band name to perform under. A couple of potentials he liked — Blood Reign and King’s Rain — linking the new band to Slayer’s best-known album, 1986’s “Reign in Blood,” were already in circulation. It would take some legal work to secure either name.

“Let me tell you, it is difficult to come up with a band name because I tried for months and months and months,” King says. “Every time we landed on one, it might make its way to the trademark attorney, who would say, ‘No, it’s kind of a headache. You don’t want to go there.’”

With a series of festival dates coming up that had to be announced, he finally went with his own name under protest. For the next album, King says, he remains open to finding a band name along the lines of Ritchie Blackmore’s Rainbow.

“I think it would be cool for the fans to be able to chant something other than my name,” he says with a laugh.

Ideas for songs and riffs usually began as rough recordings on King’s cellphone. He wrote and recorded demos of new songs for a year and resurrected two recorded originally by Slayer for its final album but never released — the title song and “Rage.” The new band recorded the album at Henson Studios in Hollywood with producer Josh Wilbur.

The increased influence of punk rock can be heard on “Everything I Hate About You” and “Two Fists,” with echoes from two 1980 bands from Fullerton, , the Adolescents and D.I. Among the lyrics is the line, “I think the ship’s about to sink/I think I need another drink,” words King says he can’t imagine putting in a Slayer track.

Slayer, like other thrash originators in the 1980s, had a sound partly fueled by its collision of metal and punk. In Slayer, Hanneman was the first to embrace the punk sound.

“It took me a while to get it. Jeff was into it before any of us were,” says King, who at the time couldn’t understand the appeal of blunt punk vocals in comparison to heavy metal heroes like Rob Halford and Ronnie James Dio. “How can you like this when there’s these singers out there that sing like birds? It took me a while to understand the angst and the rage and the very remedial guitar parts in most punk music. But once I got it, it’s definitely part of where I came from and what I am today.”

After this leg of his first solo tour ends, King and Bostaph will turn their attention to the three Slayer festival dates. King’s band includes a few Slayer songs in its live set, but even Bostaph was surprised when the reunion dates were lined up.

“I’m like, ‘You’re kidding, right?’ I really put that to bed,” the drummer says. “When something like that ends, I’m not going to do that to myself: Gee, someday it’d be great to get back together again. Life is life and this is how it is, and I’m moving on to whatever the next thing is. I put that to bed and then all of a sudden the call comes.”

Beyond Slayer, King says he looks to the examples of an earlier generation of metal players for guidance regarding his future. At age 72, singer Rob Halford continues to lead Judas Priest onward, while Black Sabbath retired in 2017 with its founding band members in their late 60s. King is already planning for his band’s next two albums, with several songs already written.

“I’m certainly not getting any younger, but as long as it’s viable live and it doesn’t look like a bunch of old guys trying to play thrash music, it has life,” King says. “I’ve got to work my way up, earn my dues in this band and show people how great it is to see live. I want to retire in this band. I want this to be everybody’s last gig.”

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