Both Cup and Case will be on display for all to see at this weekend’s final Worlds match at Shanghai Pudong Football (Soccer) Stadium.
The finals of the 2020 League of Legends World Championship between DAMWON Gaming and Suning is only a few days away, and before the culmination of six weeks of competition in Shanghai, both teams sat down with the media for the second half of Riot Games' pre-finals media day.
Now that DAMWON Gaming has solidified its position in the Worlds 2020 finals after defeating G2 Esports, let's see which of the two teams from the League of Legends Pro League is most likely to win the all-Chinese semifinal and proceed to the grand finals.
After both DAMWON Gaming and G2 Esports obliterated their respective opponents in the Worlds 2020 quarterfinals, their semifinals series was hotly debated about which team would show up better on the day to take the win. Most leaned towards the side of DWG, and while G2 stole away Game 2 to make it interesting, it was unable to find any other victories on the day, bringing the team's Worlds 2020 run to an end.
TSM has announced that long-time mid laner Søren "Bjergsen" Bjerg will be retiring from competitive League of Legends — as a player. Bjergsen, who is a part-owner of TSM, will be the Head
Let's break down Karsa's amazing performance in Top Esports' victory over Fnatic in the quarterfinals of Worlds 2020.
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.
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.
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.
The organization is one of many to tap into the electric energy of tyler1's personality, but the first team to pen an official signing of the North American streamer.
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:
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.
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:
