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League of Legends (LoL), commonly referred to as League, is a 2009 multiplayer online battle arena video game developed and published by Riot Games. Inspired by Defense of the Ancients , a custom map for Warcraft III , Riot's founders sought to develop a stand-alone game in the same genre.
Riot Games, Inc. is an American video game developer, publisher, and esports tournament organizer based in Los Angeles, California.It was founded in September 2006 by Brandon Beck and Marc Merrill to develop League of Legends and went on to develop several spin-off games and the unrelated first-person shooter game Valorant.
Quizlet was founded in October 2005 by Andrew Sutherland, who at the time was a 15-year old student, [2] and released to the public in January 2007. [3] Quizlet's primary products include digital flash cards , matching games , practice electronic assessments , and live quizzes.
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 ...
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 ...
It was followed by two spiritual successors, League of Legends (2009) and Heroes of Newerth (2010), as well by a standalone sequel, Dota 2 (2013), and numerous other games in the genre, such as Smite (2014) and Heroes of the Storm (2015). [5] [6] By the early 2010s, the genre had become a big part of the esports category.
2 3 League of Legends EMEA Championship: LEC Europe, the Middle East and Africa: English: Berlin: 2013 10 1 2 3 League of Legends Championship of The Americas: LTA Americas: English, Spanish, Brazilian Portuguese: Los Angeles, São Paulo: 2025 16 1 2: 3 League of Legends Championship Pacific: LCP Asia-Pacific
Taipei Assassins, the champions of season 2. After Season 1, Riot announced that US$ 5,000,000 would be paid out over Season 2. Of this $5 million, $2 million went to Riot's partners including the IGN Pro League and other major esports associations. Another $2 million went to Riot's Season 2 qualifiers and championship.