Let's Play Live is a touring

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show featuring

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s and internet personalities. Let's Play Live grew out of

Rooster Teeth Rooster Teeth Productions, LLC is an American digital media company headquartered in Austin, Texas. Founded in 2003 by Burnie Burns, Matt Hullum, Geoff Ramsey, Jason Saldaña, Gus Sorola, and Joel Heyman, Rooster Teeth is a subsidiary of W ...

's gaming division,

Achievement Hunter Achievement Hunter is an American video gaming division of Rooster Teeth Productions. Founded by Geoff Ramsey and Jack Pattillo on July 6, 2008, the website is largely based on the achievement mechanic in video games. Since its founding, Achie ...

, and is now a collaboration with multiple channels including members of the Let's Play family:

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, Kinda Funny, Cow Chop and The Creatures.

Tours

Described by organizer Geoff Ramsey as, "the new-media equivalent of a concert or sporting event," LPL re-creates web videos his company is best known for, playing video games in a humorous manner to a live audience. Let's Play Live originated in

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in 2015 featuring six Achievement Hunter personalities:

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, Jack Pattillo, Ryan Haywood, Michael Jones, Gavin Free and Ray Narvaez, Jr. Drawing comparison to

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, the first Let's Play Live took place at the

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on February 20, 2015. Let's Play Live sold out shows at

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, and

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' Dolby Theatre in 2016. The NYC LPL took place during the 2016 New York Comic-Con in the

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and was broadcast live to over 240 theaters across the country in collaboration with

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. In explaining its appeal, one reviewer noted that knowing the game was irrelevant, the interest came from, "watching the real people on stage react to video games – often in angry, hilarious ways I can relate to". From April 24–30, 2017 Let's Play Live toured through

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, Orlando, Florida and

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and featured members of Achievement Hunter and

. LPL returned to Austin the night before RTX 2018 began. In August 2018, Rooster Teeth announced they would replace RTX Sydney 2019 with three Let's Play Live events in different Australian cities. Achievement Hunter traveled to Australia to perform Let's Play Live as Achievement Hunter Live from January 23–27, 2019 in Sydney,

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, and

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. Another show occurred as part of RTX Austin 2019. Achievement Hunter Live West Coast Tour was scheduled to run from March 13-20 2020 in Los Angeles,

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, and

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. It has since been postponed due to the coronavirus pandemic. On January 28, 2021, Achievement Hunter announced that the rescheduled tour dates have been cancelled due to COVID-19 concerns with plans to reschedule after the pandemic.

Tour dates

Documentary

''Let's Play Live: The Documentary'' is a behind-the-scenes look at the inaugural event and was released September 14, 2015 to First sponsors. It has been called, "the origin story of the next generation of movie stars and rock bands."

References

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Tours

Tour dates

Documentary

See also

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