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This holiday season we put together a list of some of the best and worst festive designs that I have found throughout the year, in games that I have invested a decent amount of time. We are analyzing League of Legends, Overwatch, SMITE, Apex Legends and skin-billionaire Fortnite.
The premiere North American LoL Esports competition returns with the 2020 LCS Spring Split on January 25th, and 12 days prior, IMT will host fans of all ages at Button Mash in Echo Park to commemorate its first split participation in two full seasons.
All-Star 2019 was the last LoL esports event I attended this year, and it was by far the most fun. Here's what I got to do in Las Vegas!
The LCS is changing their schedule for 2020, the first time since they switched to "Bo1" two years ago. They will emphasize Academy games, adding them in the midst of LCS, and there will be games from Fri-Mon. Read more on how the new schedule will look here:
Clearlove joined EDG upon its inception at the beginning of 2014, and now, he will be trusted to lead it.
Dignitas announced that Matthew "Akaadian" Higginbotham will be joining the Academy team in the jungle position.
CoreJJ joined Lara Lunardi at ASE2019 to share his initial thoughts on the event, Team Liquid's performance at the 2019 League of Legends World Championship, and TL's new Jungler Mads "Broxah" Brock-Pedersen.
Despite "dead game" memes plaguing League of Legends all year, the LCS and most of professional League is on an upswing. According to a recent study, Riot is the third most popular sport in all of the US. Read more here:
Team Dignitas announced earlier this afternoon that the mid laner Tanner "Damonte" Damonte re-signed with the team, being part of the Academy roster.
The Global E-Sports Federation has been established in hopes to bring together the esports industry and traditional Olympic sports values, with the largest gaming company and multinational conglomerate Tencent.
SK Gaming has finalized their League of Legends roster for the 2020 season of the LEC. The team has signed the jungler Kim “Trick” Gang-yun and the support player Dino “Limit” Tot to replace Oskar “Selfmade” Boderek and and Han “Dreams” Min-kook.
The year of 2019 was the year of Bruno "Goku" Miyaguchi. The mid laner of eSports advanced to the League of Legends Worlds Championship, being the team’s piece de resistance. Nominated to represent Brazil at All-Star 2019, Goku stopped by to talk about his year in lol esports.
Earlier today, Flash Wolves announced that they will not be competing in the Pacific Championship Series, having no League of Legends team for the year of 2020.
Doinb just represented China all across the globe, winning the second Worlds title in a row for the region, and then he flew to Las Vegas to represent them again at All Stars. Now he has become an LPL resident, and is the first import to gain residency in China.
Riot Forge has been busy, announcing Ruined King earlier and now another new game, Conv/rgence - an Ekko related League of Legends story. The game will be developed by Double Stallion Games. Read more about them and Conv/rgence here:
Last week, Riot announced Riot Forge, and now they announce Ruined King, the first game to be born from their new publishing platform. They partnered with Airship Syndicate for the creation. Read more about it here:
At the 2019 All-Star event, we caught up with Hafu for a brief chat about her competitive nature, and her transition to Teamfight Tactics.
According to a Bloomberg report shared by G2 Esports themselves, co-founder of the Alibaba Group and owner of the Brooklyn Nets, Joe Tsai, has invested $10 million in G2 Esports. Read more on the story here:
Han ‘Peanut’ Wang-ho is set to leave the LCK after five years of career, joins LGD Gaming in the Chinese region, LPL. Before starting his new adventure, Peanut shared thoughts on All-Star 2019 and his expectations for the year of 2020.
