Chime placed 1st in the 2019 Scouting Grounds, and has now been signed by Golden Guardians to play as their Academy Support. Keith will take his place back as the Academy AD Carry for the Summer. Read more on the story here:
Riot Games has been teasing details about the rework of Volibear for some time, and on the night of Friday, May 8, the League of Legends community got a full look at everything new about The Thunder's Roar.
Right after signing former TSM Jungler, Dardoch, Dignitas finalizes their 10 man roster with former FlyQuest Top Laner, V1per. Dignitas has not announced whether he or Lourlo will be starting for their LCS squad yet, but they have a plan to determine that. Read more on the transfer here:
League of Legends continues to be one of the most popular games over 10 years of its service, there are more than 130 Champions currently released. With each Champion having their own unique appeal, m
Evil Geniuses announced a return back to their roots, revising the crest to "pay homage to the org's history and look ahead to the future." Additionally, Evil Geniuses is also announcing a partnership with LG UltraGear, one of LG's newest gaming monitors. Read more on their brand update here:
Riot Games declared that there are 25 teams that submitted an LOI (Letter of Intent) for the 2021 League of Legends Champions Korea (LCK) franchise league. While the ten LCK teams and eight Challenger
Team Liquid made a few changes to both their LCS and Academy squads this off-season, sending former Academy Bot Laner Tactical to the LCS squad to replace the winningest LCS player of all time, Doublelift. Listen to Tactical's experience and plans for the future here:
On the afternoon of Wednesday, May 13th, FlyQuest released their Academy Support, JayJ, who had played with the org in both their Academy and LCS squads over the past two and a half years. Learn more about his move here:
TSM released former AD Carry, Kobbe, who signed with Misfits Gaming to start for the team in the Summer 2020 League of Legends European Championship. With the transfer, Misfits also announces former AD Carry Bvoy's departure from the team. Read more on the story here.
Despite overwhelming global support for the Polish AD Carry, Łukasz "Puki Style" Zygmunciak, in this week's freshest esports Twitter movement, LDLC and Bora "YellOwStaR" Kim claim the European Masters Championship. Though each game was a battle, they won the series with a clean 3-0 sweep and are your Spring 2020 Champions. All three games saw LDLC on Blue Side and K1ck on Red, and each were incredibly close. While LDLC had solid control for Game 1, K1ck actually had a strong advantage up through the mid game in both Games 2 and 3. In each of the last two games, K1ck secured the first three drakes, but failed to execute in each teamfight around the final drake to secure their Soul. With each lost fight, LDLC was able to claim additional resources to eventually take both games and, consequen
Riot Games has recently been under fire for not taking proper care of their solo queue environment. Even Voyboy made a video earlier this week, and now Riot has responded. Here's their plan to improve the playerbase.
The rumored exhibition tournament between the LCK and LPL teams are to be held. It will be an event that Riot Korea plans and holds. As the Mid-Season Invitational (MSI) had been canceled due to the
Sam "Kobe" Hartman-Kenzler walks through various stories from his past that helped lead him to his current passion, casting esports. Listen to Kobe's story, how he navigated hardship and worked through the early days of casting. Hear him talk about the pain during the death of his idol this Spring, but his resilience. And hear how his connection to the community drives him.
Leena Xu, President of esports organization TSM, faces controversy after screenshots from the team's Discord were used in a video by Duncan "Thorin" Shields. In one screenshot, Xu claims to have attempted to approach many players from Europe on behalf of TSM, and that the players she approached were under contract at the time of her reaching out. Inven Global has confirmed with a source close to the situation that organizations across the globe often go unpunished for the ways in which they circumnavigate certain rules when seeking to sign a player.
Huni has been dropped from Dignitas in Riot Games' Global Contract Database meaning he is no longer with the team. Grig was also dropped from the database last week. See what this means for both Dignitas and the players, Huni and Grig, here:
In collaboration with Riot Games, FACEIT returns in 2020 to host the Scouting Grounds Circuit, the group of qualifying tournamentsto determine which teams take part in NA Scouting Grounds at the end of the year. Read more on the FACEIT NASG Circuit format here:
In order to uphold competitive integrity, Riot Games has implemented a stream delay in their broadcasts. However, in Game 1 of the LCL Finals between Unicorns of Love and RoX, one of the streams didn't have a full three minute delay, and was instead casted live in English. That game had to be remade by request of the losing team. Read more on the story here:
After a rocky early start to his career followed by him leaving the LCS and taking a break for a couple years, Rami "Inori" Charagh returned to professional League of Legends, winning his first split
The 2020 League of Legends Mid-Season Invitational has been canceled due to the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic. On the 23rd, Riot Games announced that the Mid-Season Invitational (MSI) will not be
On April 23rd (KST), Riot Korea announced the All-LCK Teams and the regular season MVP for the 2020 League of Legends Champions Korea (LCK) Spring Split. The All-LCK First Team was DAMWON Gaming Jang