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FACEIT is an esports platform founded in London in 2012. [1] The company has administered leagues for games such as Counter-Strike 2, League of Legends, Rocket League, Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six Siege, Dota 2 and Team Fortress 2.
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.
ESL Gaming GmbH (formerly known as Electronic Sports League) is a German esports organizer and production company that produces video game competitions worldwide. ESL was the world's largest esports company in 2015, [ 1 ] and the oldest that is still operational. [ 2 ]
Many matchmaking systems feature a ranking system that attempts to match players of roughly equal ability together. [2] One such example of this is Xbox Live's TrueSkill system. Games such as League of Legends use divisions and tiers for their matchmaking rating system. Each player competes in a variety of tiers : Iron, Bronze, Silver, Gold ...
The term skill-based matchmaking first appeared in a 2008 interview with game designer John Carmack in which he emphasized its importance in Quake Live (2010). Upon setting up an account with id Software , the game will ask the player for their skill level and judge accordingly depending on their performance from that point forward. [ 5 ]
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.
In April 2023, NRG acquired Counter Logic Gaming and its League Championship Series (LCS) slot, returning to the league for the first time since 2016. [ 11 ] In September 2023, NRG announced the dissolution of their Apex Legends team, citing lack of support from EA for competitive Apex as the reason.