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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.
Esports. Employer. Riot Games. David Turley, better known as Phreak, is an American former League of Legends esports commentator for Riot Games. He has one of the longest careers of an esports commentator in the North American League of Legends Championship Series and has cast in several of the largest major international tournaments.
Website. geng .gg. Gen.G ( Korean: 젠지, also called Gen.G Esports ), previously known as KSV Esports, is a professional esports organization with headquarters in Santa Monica, Seoul, and Shanghai. According to Forbes, Gen.G is the eighth most valuable esports organization in the world as of May 2022, worth US$ 250 million.
Riot Games. 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.
In late 2009, Riot Games' debut title League of Legends was released. It was initially designed by Steve Feak, one of the original creators of DotA: Allstars, who went on to apply many of the mechanics and lessons he learned from the mod. [60] [61] Riot began to refer to the game's genre as a multiplayer online battle arena (MOBA). [62]
T1 (esports) T1 (previously known as SK Telecom T1 or SKT T1) is a South Korean esports organization operated by T1 Entertainment & Sports, a joint venture between SK Telecom and Comcast Spectacor. The team that would become SKT T1 was originally founded in 2002 by StarCraft player Lim "BoxeR" Yo-hwan under the name Team Orion, which was later ...
Valorant is a free-to-play first-person tactical hero shooter developed and published by Riot Games. [ 3] The game's development started in 2014 and was teased under the codename Project A in October 2019. A closed beta period began with limited access on April 7, 2020, followed by a release on June 2, 2020.
Tier 1 leagues. As of 2024, there are 8 professional leagues for League of Legends around the world. For the Mid-Season Invitational with 12 spots: The LCK, LPL, LEC and LCS are allocated 2 spots each. The PCS, VCS, CBLOL and LLA are allocated 1 spot each. For the World Championship with 20 spots: