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2019 Mid-Season Invitational
The 2019 Mid-Season Invitational was the fifth Mid-Season Invitational (MSI), a Riot Games-organised tournament for ''League of Legends'', the multiplayer online battle arena video game. The tournament was the culmination of the 2019 Spring Split, the first part of season 9 of the game's competitive scene. Each of the 13 premier League of Legends leagues sent a team to represent them; Europe ( LEC), South Korea (LCK) and China ( LPL) had their teams automatically admitted into the main event whereas the other 10 leagues competed among each other in the Play-in Stage, with the top three teams advancing to join the main event Group Stage. "Bring Home The Glory" was the tournament's theme song, put together by Sara Skinner. The tournament was hosted in Vietnam and Taiwan from 1 to 19 May 2019. Matches of the play-in were held in the VCS Studio in Ho Chi Minh City, matches of the group stage were held in the Vietnam National Convention Center in Hanoi, and playoffs took place i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
League Of Legends
''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 Mod (video games), custom map for Warcraft III: Reign of Chaos, ''Warcraft III'', Riot's founders sought to develop a stand-alone game in the same genre. Since its release in October 2009, ''League'' has been free-to-play and is monetized through Freemium, purchasable character customization. The game is available for Microsoft Windows and macOS. In the game, two teams of five players battle in player-versus-player combat, each team occupying and defending their half of the map. Each of the ten players controls a character, known as a "champion", with unique abilities and differing styles of play. During a match, champions become more powerful by collecting experience points, earning gold, and purchasing Item (game terminology), items to defeat the opposing team. In ''League' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Professional League Of Legends Competition
''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 latest major tournament was the 2022 League of Legends World Championship. Tournaments ''League of Legends'' is one of the largest esports with various annual tournaments taking place worldwide. In terms of esports professional gaming as of June 2016, ''League of Legends'' has had $29,203,916 USD in prize money, 4,083 Players, and 1,718 tournaments, compared to ''Dota 2's'' US$64,397,286 of prize money, 1,495 players, and 613 tournaments. World Championship Seasons 1–3 The Season 1 World Championship was held at DreamHack in Sweden in June 2011 and had US$100,000 in prizes. The European team Fnatic defeated teams from Europe, the US, and Sout ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Isurus Gaming
Isurus, formerly known as Isurus Gaming, is an Argentinian professional esports organization with teams competing in '' Counter-Strike: Global Offensive'' and ''League of Legends''. Its ''League of Legends'' team is the first champion of the Liga Latinoamérica (LLA), winning both its inaugural opening cup and closing cup in 2019. These two championships qualified Isurus for the 2019 Mid-Season Invitational and the 2019 World Championship respectively. ''Counter-Strike: Global Offensive'' History Isurus Gaming's first ''CS:GO'' team was created on 15 August 2012 and consisted of Valhalla, Rew4z, mvk, Nyogen, Otto and Andromeda, all of whom joined from the organization's previous ''CS: Source'' roster. Since then Isurus has exclusively signed Argentinian players, with the exception of Uruguayan maxujas who currently plays as one of the team's entry fraggers. Isurus' ''CS:GO'' team competes in Brazil's CLUTCH Circuit, as well as other regional and international tournament ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
DetonatioN FocusMe
DetonatioN FocusMe (DFM) is a Japanese esports organization with professional teams competing across several titles. It was established as a ''Counter-Strike Online'' team named DetonatioN Gaming (DNG) in July 2012. "DetonatioN FocusMe" was originally the name of the organization's ''League of Legends'' division, which began as an amateur team named "FocusMe". It also had a sister team ''DetonatioN Rabbit Five'' until 2015, when Riot Games applied the rule "one organization – one team" in every top league. DetonatioN FocusMe competes in the ''League of Legends'' Japan League (LJL), the country's top-level league for the game. The team qualified for the ''League of Legends'' World Championship in 2018, 2019, 2021, and 2022. During the 2021 World Championship, DetonatioN FocusMe placed first in their play-in group and automatically qualified for the group stage of the main event. This marked the first time an LJL team had advanced to the main event of an international tourname ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vega Squadron
Vega Squadron is a Russian professional esports organization based in Moscow. It was originally formed as a ''StarCraft II'' team on 10 July 2012. Currently, the organization has players competing in '' Counter-Strike: Global Offensive'', '' Dota 2'', ''FIFA'', and ''League of Legends''. Vega Squadron's CS:GO team has participated in multiple majors, and its ''League of Legends'' team competes in the League of Legends Continental League (LCL), the highest level of professional ''League of Legends'' in the Commonwealth of Independent States. ''League of Legends'' History Vega Squadron entered the professional ''League of Legends'' scene on 15 December 2015 with its acquisition of the roster of Carpe Diem. The team's first main roster consisted of top laner Alexandr "NoNholy" Ovchinnikov, jungler Nikolay "Zanzarah" Akatov, mid laner Evgeniy "Drobovik123" Belousov, bot laner Igor "Tauren" Titov, and support Roman "Wildheart" Maximchyuk. The majority of the roster remained ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Phong Vũ Buffalo
Saigon Buffalo is a Vietnamese professional ''League of Legends'' team competing in the Vietnam Championship Series (VCS). The team has been crowned VCS champions twice, and qualified for the World Championship in 2017, 2018, and 2022, as well as the Mid-Season Invitational in 2019 and 2022. History On 18 May 2018, Young Generation rebranded to Phong Vũ Buffalo after agreeing to a sponsorship deal with Phong Vũ, a major computer company in Vietnam. The team dominated in its first split in the VCS, losing only one series to EVOS Esports and one to GIGABYTE Marines, ending with a series record of 12 wins and 2 losses in the 2018 VCS Summer Split. This placement secured them a spot in finals of the VCS 2018 Summer Playoffs, where they defeated Cube Adonis 3–1 and qualified for the 2018 World Championship. Because of EVOS Esports' placement at the 2018 Mid-Season Invitational, Vietnam was given a spot in the main event at the 2018 League of Legends World Championship, allow ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Flash Wolves
The Flash Wolves ( zh, t=閃電狼, p=Shǎndiàn Láng) are a Taiwanese esports organization with players competing in ''Arena of Valor'', ''Hearthstone'', and ''League of Legends: Wild Rift''. They formerly had teams competing in ''League of Legends'', ''Overwatch (video game), Overwatch'', ''Special Force II'', ''StarCraft II'', and ''World of Tanks''. The Flash Wolves' ''League of Legends'' team was created after the draft in the Taiwan eSports League Draft Season. It competed in the League of Legends Masters Series, ''League of Legends'' Masters Series (LMS)—the top league in Taiwan, Hong Kong and Macau—and was one of the best teams in the region. The team reached the quarterfinals of the League of Legends World Championship, World Championship for the first time in 2015 League of Legends World Championship, 2015. ''League of Legends'' History 2013 The Flash Wolves were originally established under the name yoe IRONMEN on 15 April 2013, after the draft season of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2017 Mid-Season Invitational
The 2017 Mid-Season Invitational was the third annual Mid-Season Invitational (MSI) - a tournament for the MOBA video game ''League of Legends'' was hosted by Riot Games. The tournament was held from April 28 to May 21, 2017, in Brazil. This was the first time MSI had been extended. Each of 13 premier League of Legends leagues had a team that won the Spring Split represent them; Europe (EU LCS), South Korea (LCK), and China ( LPL) had their teams automatically admitted into the main event whereas the other 10 leagues competed among each other in a "Play-in Stage" with the top 3 teams advancing to join the main event. SK Telecom T1 from South Korea defended successfully their championship in last year after defeating G2 Esports from Europe 3–1 at the final. Qualified teams and roster Qualified team Based on the result of the MSI and World Championship in 2 years before (2015–2016), 3 teams from Europe (EU LCS), South Korea (LCK), and China (LPL) are started in Main Group ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Liga Latinoamérica
The Liga Latinoamérica (LLA; ) is the top level of professional ''League of Legends'' in Latin America ( excluding Brazil). The esports league is run by Riot Games Latin America. Each annual competitive season is divided into opening and closing seasons, which conclude with a playoff tournament between the top four teams. Plans for the league were first announced in May 2018 by Riot Games, which stated that it would merge Latin America's two regional leagues, the ''Liga Latinoamérica Norte'' (''LLN'', North Latin America League) and ''Copa Latinoamérica Sur'' (''CLS'', South Latin America Cup)'','' into a single competition. Format Each opening and closing season consists of a group stage and a playoff stage. In the group stage, teams compete for points in a triple round robin spread over two phases. The top four teams from the group stage advance to the playoff stage, which uses a "King of the Hill" single elimination bracket. During the 2019 season, there were no phases i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Taiwan
Taiwan, officially the Republic of China (ROC), is a country in East Asia, at the junction of the East and South China Seas in the northwestern Pacific Ocean, with the People's Republic of China (PRC) to the northwest, Japan to the northeast, and the Philippines to the south. The territories controlled by the ROC consist of 168 islands, with a combined area of . The main island of Taiwan, also known as ''Formosa'', has an area of , with mountain ranges dominating the eastern two-thirds and plains in the western third, where its highly urbanised population is concentrated. The capital, Taipei, forms along with New Taipei City and Keelung the largest metropolitan area of Taiwan. Other major cities include Taoyuan, Taichung, Tainan, and Kaohsiung. With around 23.9 million inhabitants, Taiwan is among the most densely populated countries in the world. Taiwan has been settled for at least 25,000 years. Ancestors of Taiwanese indigenous peoples settled the isla ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vietnam
Vietnam or Viet Nam ( vi, Việt Nam, ), officially the Socialist Republic of Vietnam,., group="n" is a country in Southeast Asia, at the eastern edge of mainland Southeast Asia, with an area of and population of 96 million, making it the world's sixteenth-most populous country. Vietnam borders China to the north, and Laos and Cambodia to the west. It shares maritime borders with Thailand through the Gulf of Thailand, and the Philippines, Indonesia, and Malaysia through the South China Sea. Its capital is Hanoi and its largest city is Ho Chi Minh City (commonly known as Saigon). Vietnam was inhabited by the Paleolithic age, with states established in the first millennium BC on the Red River Delta in modern-day northern Vietnam. The Han dynasty annexed Northern and Central Vietnam under Chinese rule from 111 BC, until the first dynasty emerged in 939. Successive monarchical dynasties absorbed Chinese influences through Confucianism and Buddhism, and expanded ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
League Of Legends Pro League
The ''League of Legends'' Pro League (LPL) is the top-level professional league for ''League of Legends'' in China. The first season of the LPL was the 2013 Spring season. The top three finishers of the playoff tournament receive automatic bids to the ''League of Legends'' World Championship. Playoffs are an eight team single elimination with each step a best-of-five series. The total prize pool is ¥2,350,000. In 2014 Riot Games began providing an English language broadcast. The format is modeled after the ''League of Legends'' Champions Korea format in South Korea. In September 2015 it was announced that Riot Games was in negotiations with Tencent to take over operations of the league. In 2019, Riot Games and Tencent created joint venture, TJ Sports, to focus on all ''League of Legends'' esports business in China, including tournament organizing, talent management, and venues. Format For the 2015 spring season the LPL adopted a best-of-two series. Teams compete in a double r ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
