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Level Up Season 2: The Paris Premiere

Amazon Ads Brand Innovation LabLevel Up, Esports World Cup

When the premiere of Prime Video’s Level Up Season 2 moved from London to Paris, YW3 rebuilt the production for Amazon Ads Brand Innovation Lab in under 45 days: a red-carpet screening at Élysées Biarritz, a courtyard after-party at Prince de Galles and a three-day international VIP program.

Premiere night: reception, strings, screening.Film
Production partner
YW3, for Amazon Ads Brand Innovation Lab
Venues
Élysées Biarritz and Prince de Galles, Paris
Premiere
June 26, 2026
Practice
B2C Brand Experience

The brief

Bring the world of Level Up into a live premiere ahead of the 2026 Esports World Cup. When the event moved from London to Paris, YW3 rebuilt the production plan around two venues, a live orchestral program and an international guest arrival schedule.

delivered

Spatial & Set DesignCustom FabricationLighting & Technical ProductionDigital Display Production & Content IntegrationLive Show ProductionVenue & Vendor LogisticsCatering & Bar ServiceVIP Travel & 24-Hour ConciergeOn-Site Guest ManagementPhoto Experiences & Live Photo Delivery

The delivery

  • <45 daysto deliver
  • 2 venuesÉlysées Biarritz and Prince de Galles, Paris
  • 3 daysof international VIP hospitality

“The kind of team you need when literally everything is trying to go wrong and they still make it incredible!”

Chris Wilson, Amazon Ads Brand Innovation Lab
Read Chris’s post · Aayushi Dadhich’s post
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The build

YW3 designed the guest experience from the red carpet arrival and Rotunda reception to the screening room and after-party courtyard. The team managed fabrication, lighting and technical production across both venues, including the entrance truss, custom bar and signage.

YW3 also delivered the seven-screen digital display network, from the cinema entrance to the Rotunda reception, and integrated the content supplied by Amazon Ads Brand Innovation Lab.

The arrival, walked: red carpet at Élysées Biarritz
Guests on the red carpet in front of the Level Up and EWC step-and-repeat
The red carpet, Élysées Biarritz
The Rotunda reception under a sculpted light ceiling, with neon signage
The Rotunda reception, Élysées Biarritz
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Branded items

YW3 applied the approved Esports World Cup 2026 design system to every piece a guest touched: the welcome card and envelope, the guest pin and its packaging, cocktail napkins, a custom popcorn box and water bottle sleeve for the cinema, and badges for the client and production teams.

The same system dressed the venue, from the flag at the cinema entrance and the welcome reception counter to custom neon that moved from the premiere to the after-party.

A custom Level Up popcorn box on a cinema seat arm
Custom popcorn box, design render
A water bottle with a custom You’ve Been Drafted sleeve in the cinema
Custom water bottle sleeve, design render
Three lanyard badges for Esports Foundation, YW3 and Amazon Ads staff
Team and client badges, design render
The welcome reception counter wrapped in Rise Above and EWC graphics
Welcome reception counter, design render
A You’ve Been Drafted flag at the entrance of Élysées Biarritz
Entrance flag, Élysées Biarritz, design render
The orange welcome insert from the Esports World Cup Foundation
Welcome insert
Rise Above in red neon
Custom neon: Rise Above
Level Up, Esports World Cup in red neon
Custom neon: Level Up
This Is Not A Game in red neon
Custom neon: This Is Not A Game
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Premiere night

YW3 ran a full dress rehearsal at Élysées Biarritz to bring the host, orchestra and technical crew together before doors opened. Premiere night opened with Saudi coffee and tea in the Rotunda. In the cinema, OJ Borg hosted and Euterpe Paris performed the 2026 Esports World Cup anthem live before the screening. YW3 then managed the guest move to Prince de Galles for a courtyard after-party with live music, catering and bar service.

YW3 built the branded environment for the Rise to Legend photo booth and coordinated red-carpet photography. Guests could scan a QR code to open a dedicated gallery and download their portraits in real time.

Élysées Biarritz: the 2026 anthem, performed live in the cinema
The Prince de Galles courtyard lit for the after-party
Prince de Galles: the courtyard, lit for the after-party
The Rise to Legend player-card photo experience with a scan-to-claim QR display
Rise to Legend photo booth, Élysées Biarritz
Live strings
The custom EWC guest pin held in a white-gloved hand
Custom guest pin
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International VIP hospitality

YW3 coordinated flights, hotel stays and ground transfers for VIPs arriving from Europe, the Middle East and North Africa, and the United States. A 24-hour concierge and dedicated on-site VIP handlers managed arrivals and itinerary changes across the three-day program.

Read the companion case: International VIP Hospitality

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Press & receipts

What the client, the partners and the room said.

Client and partner credits

From the night

Creators

Press on the series

See every record in the YW3 press archive

Client Amazon Ads Brand Innovation Lab · Partner Esports World Cup Foundation · Venues Élysées Biarritz and Prince de Galles, Paris

The complexity was ours. The experience was theirs.

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