Back in June we announced the return of Honda Scouting Grounds, North America's flagship League of Legends amateur competition. There are no changes to the event schedule -- but there are some format changes, including having the entire event remote. Read more here:
Team Dynamics announced that Kim “Beyond” Kyu-seok will be retiring from professional play. Beyond debuted in 2015 as a member of MVP. He contributed to the team's promotion to the LCK
The final teams for the LCK franchising will be concluded in early November. Previously, Riot Games announced that the teams would be announced in mid-October, but after checking with Riot Games, they
Verizon will showcase power of mobile gaming on iPhone 12 and iPhone 12 Pro with a League of Legends: Wild Rift event on October 22. Read more about the event and the players here:
Excel Esports Head Coach Joey "YoungBuck" Steltenpool discusses the current state of the championship, the team’s season at the LEC, and more.
UPDATE 10/20: Mark "RiotScruffy" Yetter has Tweeted changes coming to League of Legends in Patch 10.22 that he claims are 'not 100% locked but pretty close. In addition, it was confirmed in another Tweet that a bug affecting Kindred's Mark of the Kindred passive would be fixed in 10.22.
On September 29, Riot Games released a complete list of items that will be changed, augmented, or removed starting in the 2021 pre-season. In the update, League of Legends Lead Game Designer Mark "RiotScruffy" Yetter confirmed that the changes would go live on the PBE for six weeks, and that there would be more updates regarding items for the next season in the near future.
UPDATE 9/29: Riot Games has released another update on Mythic items, which includes the previously teased Galeforce and updated versions of Crimson Shieldbow and Behemoth Slayer — Immortals Shieldbow and Kraken Slayer, respectively. 19 other Mythic items for all other champion classes were also revealed.
Nike has announced the official release date of its newest Air Jordan design. The design was created to pay tribute to the biggest online gaming community in the world - hint, they are looking at League of Legends.
Riot Games has published a blog post on the League of Legends website outlining the developer's approach to the 2021 Preseason. Preseason usually begins in December, but annual adjustments to LoL are
Taking over social media, the #SINGMORE challenge encourages users to unleash their inner K-pop stars by creating their own covers of K/DA songs.
The “Best in the West” will move on to face the LCK Summer Split champions DAMWON Gaming for a chance to reach the finals.
The organization is one of many to tap into the electric energy of tyler1's personality, but the first team to pen an official signing of the North American streamer.
Top Esports has performed the first reverse sweep at the League of Legends World Championship.
K/DA’s EP “ALL OUT” will feature five tracks, to be released on November 6th, available on Spotify.
In the second quarterfinals of the 2020 League World Championship, Suning wiped out JDG in a dominant 3-1 series. Off the backs of some incredible Jhin play from huanfeng and a bunch of Bin's GP barrels, Suning advances to the semifinals. Read about the series here:
According to sources and multiple reports by Turkish esports media, the former top laner for SuperMassive, Armut, is being signed by LEC team, MAD Lions. Read more about the signing here:
Riot Games hotfixed a bug affecting an in-game item, Umbral Glaive, yesterday and applied the hotfix to the patch being played at the 2020 League of Legends World Championship. Less than twenty-four hours later, Riot Games' Mark "RiotScruffy" Yetter previewed some upcoming changes to Jinx, Annie, Ashe, Brand, and Nasus that will go live on Patch 10.22, which is set to drop on October 28th.
In a press release leading up to Worlds, Riot announced that they'd attempt to host guests for the big title match, and later in the tournament, they confirmed that they'd invite just over 6,000 guests to attend the grand finale.
Mirroring the LCK Summer Finals, DAMWON Gaming swept DRX 3-0 in the 2020 League of Legends World Championship quarterfinals.
