LoLVVV has been able to provide data on which players at on China's super server leading up to and during Worlds 2020, so let's take a look at which players still competing in the tournament are currently in Challenger before the start of the semifinals.
United States Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, known more commonly as AOC, is looking to start a Twitch stream of popular new party game Among Us as a way to incentivize voting amongst US citizens.
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.
Today, October 20, at 3:00pm PT, Sacha Baren Cohen will stream on Twitch for the first time. The creator and star of 'Borat' will be appearing on a stream with Benjamin "DrLupo" Lupo as the eponymous character from the 2006 mockumentary film.
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.
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
Caps was rightfully awarded Player of the Series, so let's break down his dominance against Gen.G and how he created the most influence of any individual on G2 Esports.
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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
Let's take a look at Fnatic and Top Esports' performances at Worlds 2020 thus far and break down the key factors in the upcoming quarterfinals match between the two teams.
In what was considered an upset by many, Suning Gaming took down JD Gaming in the League World Championship quarterfinals. This was Suning's first series victory against JDG in almost 800 days: See the press conference here:
Activision Blizzard has announced that Starcraft 2 will no longer receive any type of development updates. The title, which was once the flagship franchise of all of Blizzard Entertainment's games, is being put into Maintenance Mode.
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.
Mediatonic has added cosmetic options for players to Fall Guys: Ultimate Knockout before, but its most recent skin is the first of its kind. Fall Guys' newest skin for sale is a Sonic the Hedgehog skin, which hit the store on October 14th.
LoLVVV has been able to provide data on which players at on China's super server leading up to and during Worlds 2020, so let's take a look at which players still competing in the tournament are currently in Challenger before the start of the quarterfinals.
The Inven Global team has each chosen their Pick'Ems of who they predict will win each match, and we have aggregated each to create an average placement prediction. Each writer has the Finals as TES vs DWG, but their route to that title match, and the title winner, look a bit different throughout. See the average placement here:
Win-loss records don't tell the whole story, but it begs the question: Did North America really perform worse at Worlds 2020 than it did at Worlds 2019? Let's compare the results of each LCS seed at each event side-by-side for a closer look.
FACEIT, the world’s leading platform for competitive online gaming and international tournament organiser, is pleased to reveal the launch of its first Collegiate programs for Counter Strike: Global Offensive, League of Legends and VALORANT with a combined prizepool of $55k. The programs represent the further development of the FACEIT Collegiate Division which recently partnered with Ubisoft on the first collegiate esports league for Tom Clancy’s Rainbow Six® Siege
