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[UPDATED 6/29] [OFFICIAL] 100 Thieves benches Meteos, releases Stunt, Contractz and Poome to start in LCS

▲ Image Source: Riot Games After the Week 3 League of Legends Championship Series Summer Split games, 100 Thieves Jungler,William "Meteos" Hartman, tweeted out that he was being benched from the...

Evil Geniuses Kumo: "I've had this in me, I'm just now starting to show it."

▲ Image Source: Riot Games Evil Geniuses started off their return to the League of Legends Championship Series hovering around the bottom of the standings last Spring Split, giving CLG thier first...

TSM Biofrost: "I think CLG and 100 Thieves swapped spots this split."

▲ Photo by Oshin Tudayan for Riot Games Week 3 of the 2020 League of Legends Championship Series Summer Split was TSM's first 2-0 week after 1-1 splits in weeks 1 and 2. TSM started out week 3 with a...

SK Gaming Crownshot: "Individual performance is the number one factor in good teams"

good enough to take games off teams, and it probably helped us in the summer. We saw what style works for us.” Photo by Michal Konkol for Riot Games Following that realization, SK tweaked their...

T1 Faker: "We have kind of a bad tradition of not doing well in the summer. We’re doing our best to stop that tradition."

Mordekaiser. Faker did well on Azir again. How do you like the new LCK intro of you as Azir? Faker: I’m satisfied that Riot made it look so cool. I think it would be interesting if they make other...

FLY Solo led Top Laners in LCS/LEC Summer Split week 2 with 58.75 points

" Shoura earned him 4/3/27 KDA and a fantasy best in the top lane of 58.75 points. JG — Lucas "Santorin" Tao Kilmer Larsen — FlyQuest (LCS) ▲ Photo by Oshin Tudayan for Riot Games Santorin had 90% kill...

Riot Games launches a COVID-19 charity fundraiser, with unique League skins and more

stay safe and function normally. With weekly cases rising again, on June 25th, Riot announced a special campaign to help support COVID-19 relief efforts. Riot Games has created special League of Legends...

[UPDATED 6/25] Nexus Blitz has returned, with a beautiful new Ionian themed map

and tweaks across its various releases to the PBE and public server, but despite fewer physical tweaks, this may be the most drastic. Riot has not yet announced when Nexus Blitz will be playable, but...

Aptly named, Nukeduck was a huge BOOM in LEC/LCS Week 2 Fantasy

: Riot Games BOOM— Spica — TSM (LCS) Mingyi "Spica"Lu had a rough Week 1 of the LCS, but made up for it (at least score wise) in Week 2. Spica played Lee Sin in both of his games, one being incredibly...

[Register Today!] IGEC 2020 is now an AI empowered virtual networking event

today! Past IGEC 2020 Panels 1. Esports in quarantine: how to survive the new norm 2. Health and Wellness in Esports 3. Women in Esports 4. Riot's New Esports Titles 5. Oversaturated Content Market in...

Final applicants for LCK franchising announced - Griffin does not apply

Riot Games announced that there were 21 companies that applied for the 2021 League of Legends Champions Korea (LCK) franchising. Among the companies that submitted an LOI, Griffin, NRG Esports, and...

Immortals parts ways with head coach, Zaboutine, and GM, Keaton

▲ Image Source: Riot Games Late Wednesday, June 24th, Immortals announced they'd released head coach, Thomas "Zaboutine" Si-Hassen, and GM, Keaton Cryer. The duo started with Immortals last Fall, and...

VALORANT ranked mode is finally live

▲ Image Source: Riot Games Three weeks after the game's official launch, VALORANT's ranked mode went live. While in Closed Beta, VALORANT had a ranked mode that was unavailable when the game launched...

Pokémon Unite is basically League of Legends with Pikachu

, and focus on objectives. Tencent holds a stake in almost every major competitive mobile video game out there, including Arena of Valor and now, as announced by Riot Games, Wild Rift. As of right now...

LoL 10.13 patch notes: Pool Party skins, 200 years, and RIP Yuumi

▲ Source: Riot Games On the 24th (KST), the 10.13 patch was finally implemented to League of Legends. Summer’s officially here, so with the introduction to the Pool Party skins, many balance changes...

Upcoming VALORANT pro, ardiis, reportedly has name cleared by Riot Games, not found to be cheating or match fixing

▲ Sova art by Suke, principal artist for Riot Games Last week, Ardis "ardiis"Svarenieks was accused of purchasing a cheat and attempting to match fix in VALORANT after an incredible run through...

Esports Weekly Ep. 4 - Sexism in VALORANT, ardiis' accusation, and football vs League of Legends

There have been countless stories posted to social media recounting the horrific experiences women have had while playing Riot Games' newest title, VALORANT, a competitive, team-based, tactical...

You can now formally surrender in VALORANT thanks to Patch 1.02

▲ Image provided by Riot Games As the esports industry continued to be rocked by accusations of sexual assault and sexism, VALORANT devs revealed patch 1.02 -- a small but mighty patch. Other than...

[UPDATED 6/22] Streaming community reacts to Mixer shutdown, joining Facebook Gaming

Octavian "Kripparian" Morosan, former Hearthstone pro Jan "Faramir" Engelmann, former League of Legends pro William "Scarra" Li and Riot Games casterIsaac "Azael" Cummings Bentley was the boon the...

[UPDATED 6/22] Microsoft shuts down Mixer, Ninja and Shroud become free agents

run, Shroud almost immediately tweeted out "IM BACK!" with his Twitch linked below. Ninja also updated his status on Twitch, listing himself as a streamer for VALORANT and Fortnite. Since Riot Games...