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League of Legends logo League of Legends is a multiplayer online battle arena video game developed and published by Riot Games. Announced in October 2008, it was released for Microsoft Windows in Europe and North America as a free-to-play title on October 27, 2009, after six months of beta testing. The game has since been ported to macOS and localized for markets worldwide; by 2012 it was the ...
Professional League competition began in 2012 in the form of a three-day competition known as the Campeonato Brasileiro de League of Legends (lit. Brazilian Championship of League of Legends), with the winner qualifying for the World Championship's International Wild Card Tournament (and later the standard Worlds play-in stage) after the 2013 ...
Fans, experts and creators of the League of Legends detail the game's rise from free demo to global esports titan. [322] Uncle Art: Lucy Lowe The story of the man behind some of the most memorable gaming music of the '80s and '90s -- Starglider, Carrier Command, Beneath a Steel Sky, After Burner and more: Dave Lowe. [323] Cannon Arm and the ...
Jinx is a character in Riot Games' League of Legends media franchise. The character was introduced as a playable champion in the October 2013 update for the 2009 video game of the same name, which was complemented by the animated music video "Get Jinxed" to commemorate her official debut.
Summoner's Rift is the flagship game mode of League of Legends and the most prominent in professional-level play. [8] [9] [10] The mode has a ranked competitive ladder; a matchmaking system determines a player's skill level and generates a starting rank from which they can climb. There are ten tiers; the least skilled are Iron, Bronze, and ...
First Stand is an annual League of Legends international tournament hosted by Riot Games at the conclusion of the first of three splits of the game's professional esports scene. It is the third international tournament under the new split structure and competitive calendar by Riot Games since 2025.
The League of Legends World Championship (commonly abbreviated as Worlds) is the annual professional League of Legends world championship tournament hosted by Riot Games and is the culmination of each season. Teams compete for the champion title, the 44-pound (20-kilogram) Summoner's Cup, and a multi-million-dollar championship prize.
Exact figures for streaming events are difficult to ascertain, but All Things D reports that Baumgartner's jump was "web video's biggest event ever." League of Legends is by far the biggest entity in the pro-gaming sector, regularly outstripping the stream viewer numbers of its major competitors, including Valve's Dota 2 and Blizzard's ...