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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 ...
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.
European League of Legends Championship Series (2013–2018) League of Legends European Championship (2019–2022) Game: League of Legends: Founded: 2013: Owner(s) Riot Games: Commissioner: Artem Bykov: No. of teams: 10: Venue(s) Riot Games Arena, Berlin: Continent: Europe (2013–2022) Europe, Middle East and Africa (since 2023) Most recent ...
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 ...
The tournament officially launched in March 2012 and lasted until 2015, when The Champions was rebranded to League of Legends Champions Korea (LCK). Soon after, controversy sparked when League of Legends developer Riot Games declared that the broadcasting rights of the LCK would be split between OGN and its main competitor, SPOTV.
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 2024 LCS season was the 12th, and final, season of the League Championship Series (LCS), a North American professional esports league for the video game League of Legends. The season was divided into two splits: Spring and Summer. The Spring Split ran from January 20 to March 31, 2024.
All games of the tournament were hosted in the Shanghai Oriental Sports Center. The final was played on 10 May 2016 between Counter Logic Gaming, from the North American League of Legends Championship Series, and SK Telecom T1, from League of Legends Champions Korea, with SK Telecom T1 winning the championship 3–0.