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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.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.
Greek Legends League 3rd (professional) Greece: Athens: 2019 8 Arabian League 3rd (professional) Middle East and North Africa: various 2020 8 LCK Challengers League 2nd (semi-professional) South Korea: Seoul: 2021 10 LCK Academy Series 2nd & 3rd (academy/amateur) South Korea: various 2022 No limit League of Legends Development League 2nd (academy)
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.
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.
The League of Legends Championship of The Americas (LTA), also known as the League of The Americas, is the top level of professional League of Legends in the Americas, which includes the United States, Canada, Latin America and the Caribbean. The esports league is run by Riot Games and has sixteen teams split into two conferences, North and ...
The League of Legends division of TSM was a gaming team based in Los Angeles, California, that competed in the League Championship Series (LCS), the top-level professional league for video game League of Legends in the United States and Canada, from 2013 to 2023. The organization sold their LCS franchise slot in 2023.
[57] [58] In the Season Two World Championship, Team SoloMid advanced to the quarterfinals, an accomplishment no other North American team achieved at that event. [58] TSM's fortunes fluctuated in the subsequent years, but in 2013, they became the inaugural North American League of Legends Championship Series (NA LCS) champions. They maintained ...