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.
While each DAMWON member deserves a shoutout for their victory over DRX, the biggest difference-maker for the team was none other than Nuguri. He was the huge teamfight monster the team needed to close out the games confidently. Read more on his and DWG's performance here:
Not a single champ sits at over 92% so far, showcasing a better, more balanced game. However, there are a few champs with an incredibly high presence that have an abysmal win rate, Syndra and Renekton. Read about them here:
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.
Former ahq eSports jungler, Mountain, spoke with us about what it was like coming to Worlds as a coach for the first time as well as how the PCS is different from the LMS and what it needs to improve. Read the interview 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
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.
Unicorns Of Love and the LCL made history this year, and after their elimination, we spoke with Unicorns Of Love coach, Sheepy, about the team's time at Worlds, being a mad scientist, and his relationships with past pros. Watch and read the interview here:
The eight teams have all now qualified, and with the knockout draw, they've finally found their place in the bracket that will map out their knockout stage, determining their path to the title. See the bracket here:
Just like in Group B on Day 6 of Worlds, two teams were eliminated after the second game of the day, with the other two qualifying for the knockout stage. Check out the final qualifications here:
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.
In a post-match interview with Inven Global's Lara Lunardi, Fnatic's Jungler Oskar "Selfmade" Boderek talked about the current jungle meta, his first Worlds experience, and more.
The seventh day of the 2020 League of Legends World Championship Group stage has brought us laughter, sadness, but mostly, really great memes. Find them all here and let us know what we missed:
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.
Group B is now decided, sending DWG and JDG onward. Rogue had a promising start to their Worlds run but came up short in the second round-robin. Read what jungler Inspired has to say about their experience here:
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.
