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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.
This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 8 January 2025. Multiplayer online battle arena video game 2020 video game League of Legends: Wild Rift Developer(s) Riot Games Publisher(s) Riot Games Director(s) Andrei "Meddler" van Roon Composer(s) Brendon Williams Series League of Legends Engine Unity Platform(s) Android, iOS, iPadOS Release October ...
Rift Legends: League of Legends Challengers Korea 2nd (semi-professional) South Korea: Seoul 2015 2020 10 LCK Promotion LCK Challengers League Oceanic Pro League (OPL) 1st (professional) Oceania: Sydney 2015 2020 8 Worlds 1P: League of Legends Circuit Oceania: League of Legends Master Series: 1st (professional) Taiwan/Hong Kong/Macau: Taipei ...
League of Legends esports is the professional competition of the multiplayer online battle arena video game League of Legends. It is developed and published by Riot Games and was first released in 2009. Professional tournaments began in 2011 with the Season 1 World Championship at DreamHack in Jönköping, Sweden.
The inaugural season of the LCS commenced on February 7, 2013, coinciding with the third season of professional play in League of Legends. As such, it was designated as "Season 3". It was split two regional leagues: the European League of Legends Championship Series (EU LCS) and the North American League of Legends Championship Series (NA LCS ...
[a] Riot Games, the game's developer, created the league in 2019. This followed an announcement by Garena – the game's distributor in Taiwan, Hong Kong, Macau, and Southeast Asia – that it planned to merge the League of Legends Master Series (LMS) and League of Legends SEA Tour (LST) into a single tournament jointly run with Riot Games.
In 2019 the league rebranded from the "Europe League Championship Series" (EU LCS) to the "League of Legends European Championship" (LEC) and began franchising. [17] Following the example of North America's LCS , which franchised a year prior, the LEC selected ten permanent franchise partners, replacing the previous promotion and relegation format.