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Garena All-Star 2nd (SEA Qualifier) Southeast Asia various 2016 2017 6 Represent for SEA at All-Star NiceGameTV League of Legends Battle 2nd (mixed) South Korea: Seoul 2012 2014 16+12: Garena Talk Talk League 2nd (amateur) Taiwan/Hong Kong/Macau: Online 2013 8: Tencent Games Arena Hero of Cities 3rd (amateur cup) China: Taicang: 2011 2017
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Garena was established by Forrest Li in Singapore in 2009. [8] In 2010, Riot Games awarded the publishing rights of League of Legends (LoL) to Garena, for the game’s first launch in Southeast Asia. [9] In November 2011, Garena announced its publishing rights for the team-based shooter game, Firefall, in Southeast Asia and Taiwan. [10]
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.
By 2014, Garena was valued at US$ 1 billion by The World Startup Report and was ranked as the largest internet company in Singapore by The Economist. [ 12 ] [ 13 ] In March 2015, the Ontario Teachers' Pension Plan (OTPP), one of the largest pension funds in the world, invested in Garena, increasing the value of the company to over US$2.5 billion.
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.
Garena announced on 25 September 2019 that it intended to merge the LMS and LST into a single league, the details of which would be released near the end of the year. [5] On 19 December, Riot Games announced the name of the new league, the Pacific Championship Series (PCS), [6] [7] [8] and a list of nine of the ten teams that would compete in it.
[a] Riot Games, the game's developer, and tournament organizer Carry International created the league on 29 September 2024. This followed an announcement in June by Riot in which they planned to form a single tournament to replace the Pacific Championship Series (PCS) and Vietnam Championship Series (VCS) as a tier-one league.