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
Today, Riot announced K/DA's influence would be extended further. K/DA will be coming to League of Legends, Teamfight Tactics, Legends of Runeterra, and League of Legends: Wild Rift in select regions on October 29, 2020. In addition, Seraphine — a social media persona created by Riot Games — will also be joining K/DA and become a playable champion in commemoration of K/DA's upcoming debut EP, ALL OUT.
After finishing 4-2 in Group C of the 2020 League of Legends World Championship, Fnatic has qualified for the knockout stage for its fourth Worlds in a row. Fnatic has only missed Worlds in 2012 and 2016, and since its last four qualifications starting in 2017 has only lost 2 of its last 15 games in week 2 the World Championship group stage.
TSM has been eliminated from Group C at the 2020 League of Legends World Championship. The #1 seed from the League of Legends Championship Series failed to win a game against Fnatic, Gen.G and LGD in the first round robin of the group, and after falling to 0-4 in a second loss to Fnatic, TSM was mathematically eliminated from moving on to the knockout stage.
UPDATE 10/9: With PSG Talon securing their first win of the group stage over JD Gaming, DAMWON Gaming has locked in first seed heading to the knockout phase, and JDG secure second. JDG's loss puts them at 3-2, so they can no longer tie DWG who sit at 5-0. The two still have their rematch as the last game of the group stage remaining.
Senna support will probably not be seen again, and rightfully so, but the methodology behind the pick was sound in context, and any questioning of G2's competitive integrity on the Worlds stage in favor of sabotaging Team Liquid is an immature conflation of the reasoning behind the result at best and a baseless accusation at worst.
While the win took longer than expected given the starting pace, Suning's win secured the 1st seed in Group A heading into the knockout stage. G2 Esports will enter the knockout stage as the 2nd seed. Team Liquid and Machi Esports were eliminated, finishing in 3rd and 4th, respectively.
Let's take a look at three players at Worlds 2020 who have exceeded our expectations throughout the first half of the group stage.
Head Coach Tsai "GreenTea" Shang-Ching, substitute mid laner Hsieh "Apex" Chia-Wei and three members of ahq's starting roster — jungler Hsiao "Kongyue" Jen-Tso, AD carry Tsou "Wako" Wei-Yang, and support Wang "Ysera" Tsung-Chih — have parted ways with the elite Pacific Championship Series squad.
FNC's Top Laner Gabriël "Bwipo" Rau talked to Inven Global after their stage debut about today's match, scrim results, and his signature Volibear play style.
Before the start of the 2020 League of Legends World Chamionship, LoLVVV.com gave us a look at the players who had reached Challenger tier on China's super server, which only includes players who are at least Diamond 1 on a standard League of Legends regional server. The Worlds 2020 group stage starts in less than a day, so let's take a look at every competitor at the event who has reached Challenger on the super server before the next round of games begins.
The group stage for the 2020 League of Legends World Championship begins Saturday, Oct. 3. The sixteen teams will be halved before the playoffs begin Oct. 15 and today, the Inven Global team gathered
It is clear that MAD Lions did not play its best League of Legends coming into Worlds 2020, but now that the team has been eliminated, there are certain trends that became clearly exacerbated problems throughout the play-in. Let's take a look at where MAD Lions fell short at Worlds 2020.
Since today is the first day of the skins going live on the PBE, expect Little Devil Fizz, Pumpkin Prince Amumu, and Bewitching Elise to be released on October 14.
As the 2nd seed from Taiwan's Pacific Championship Series, PSG Talon will be randomly selected as the team to round out any group except Group A, which already contains PCS 1st seed Machi Esports. PSG Talon is the first team to escape from the play-in at Worlds 2020.
After the second day of the play-in, MAD Lions support Norman "Kaiser" Kaiser spoke to Inven Global's Parkes Ousley to reflect on his first LEC season and give his thoughts on MAD's chances of qualifying for the main event in Worlds 2020.
On Friday, September 24, Riot Games released its first Champion Roadmap update for League of Legends since June. The update also included more visuals and information on the upcoming Dr. Mundo VGU.
UPDATE 9/25: In addition to River and Tank, AD carry Wong "Unified" Chun Kit is also currently off the PSG Talon starting roster due to visa delays. Unified will be eligible to play on September 27th, but River and Tank are still in quarantine and will not be eligible to play in the Worlds 2020 play-in. PSG Talon went 2-0 in its first day of the play-in against Rainbow7 and LGD Gaming. Chen "Dee" Chun-Dee, a substitute on Machi Esports, is starting in Unified's place until he is eligible to compete.
MAD Lions headed onto Summoner's Rift with an objectively better composition than TL, but the LCS side's signature champions ended up being a larger factor.
