After the 2020 season, Team Liquid announced the departure of much of their coaching staff. Now they're announcing two new members to their staff, Spawn and Kold, with Yaltz moving up to head analyst. Check out their completed staff here:
Riot Games has launched their players straight into the pre-season with Patch 10.23. Not even two days have passed since the pre-season went live and Riot is already updating the game, launching a hotfix for items and champs. Read about the changes here:
On Thursday, November 11, Twitter user @step_nie published a statement via Medium, claiming Riot Games had created Seraphine in her likeness. Seraphine is the most recent League of Legends champion released by Riot in 2020, and is the first to have an entire online persona that lives through a Twitter account, @seradotwav.
“When I first started playing, I was just a depressed kid in Denmark. League of Legends was just an escape…” To many of us, video games — and League of Legends, specifically — are an escape. Whether it be simply just to unwind from work, a search for an adventure, a desire for a challenge, or to forget about the hardships and pain from everyday life. From the lowest
Korean Esports org, T1, just announced a project with kpop group, BTS, on their Twitter. Sporting the hashtag #T1xRUNBTS, the team tagged the group in a short 16-second video featuring sound waves, muffled music, voices, and a heartbeat monitor that concludes with a glitch into a T1 RUN BTS graphic. Read more on their announcement here:
Monday, November 2, Cloud9 officially announced that former pro player, Reignover, would take the helm as the team's head coach going into 2021. Reignover replaces former Cloud9 head coach, Reapered. Read more on the announcement here:
They were Worlds favorites from the very start, and they lived up to the hype. DAMWON Gaming blew through the entire World Championship, only losing three games from start to finish. See thier press conference here:
They defied the odds and ruined so many Pick'Ems game after game, series after series, but Suning Gaming finally met their match with the Worlds favorites, DAMWON Gaming, falling 1-3 in the Finals. Suning spoke with the press after the series, see the conference here:
After six years, the LPL and LCK have finally found themselves back in a Worlds Finals match against each other, and it marks the first best of five series between the two regions of the 2020 World Championship.
Suning Gaming has defeated the giants, Top Esports, who took them down in the LPL semifinals the last time they met. They won the rematch; they knocked out the Worlds favorites. Now they meet DAMWON in the Finals. Read the press conference here:
Despite being favored to make it to the Finals, and despite their past victory over Suning Gaming, Top Esports failed in their semifinals rematch and have been knocked out of the World Championship. T
Worlds always brings the best of the best players to one stage for the sake of entertaining the masses and crowning a king, and 2020 is no different, but SofM was far and away the most influential for a few reasons. Read about his importance here:
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:
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:
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.
A few weeks ago we announced the first official Riot Games-produced VALORANT tournament, First Strike. Now, here's how we'll go from two NA qualifiers to the top 8 teams battling for their share of the $100K prize pool, and the title as first First Strike champion. The competition will begin on October 26 with our first open, 128-team
After dominating performances over the past several international events, G2 Esports remains consistent, taking down Gen.G in a 3-0 sweep in the 2020 League of Legends World Championship quarterfinals. Here's what they have to say about the series and theiur next match against DAMWON:
To wrap up the 2020 League of Legends World Championship quarterfinals, G2 Esports swept Gen.G 3-0, advancing to the semis. After their series, Gen.G spoke with the press about their games and overall Worlds run. See the press conference here:
Top Esports came into the tournament as favorites alongside DAMWON Gaming but almost made an early exit in the quarterfinals when Fnatic got a 2-0 lead over them. TES turned it around though and later spoke with the press about how they won the series and what they expect for the rest of their Worlds run. See their press conference here:
Fnatic came within one game of taking down the LPL first seed and Worlds favorites, Top Esports, in a clean 3-0 sweep but were unable to close out the series
