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from 2017–2019. Rift Rivals was five concurrent tournaments where related regions would be pitted against each other. Teams who placed the best in the Spring Split (or other opening season) of the year were invited to a tournament against another region's top teams. In 2019 Rift Rivals, the event was narrowed to only the two largest tournaments: the LCS (NALCS) vs. the LEC (EULCS) for North America vs. Europe, and the LPL vs. LCK vs. LMS-VCS for South Korea / China / Taiwan / Vietnam. Due to the

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, 2020 Rift Rivals was canceled by Riot, as the originally scheduled timeslot in July 2020 was replaced by a delayed

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(MSI). Riot additionally announced it would "sunset" the tournaments.

Blue Rift

* Europe -

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(2017–2018) / LEC (2019) * North America -

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(2017–2018) / LCS (2019)LoL Clash Schedule
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Red Rift

*China ( LPL) * South Korea (

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) * Taiwan/Hong Kong/Macao ( LMS) (2017–2018) / Taiwan/Hong Kong/Macao-Vietnam (LMS- VCS) (2019)

Yellow Rift

* Brazil (BR) * Latin America North (LAN) * Latin America South (LAS)

Purple Rift

* Japan (JP) * Oceania (OCE) * Southeast Asia (SEA)

Green Rift

* Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) * Turkey (TR) * Vietnam (VN, since 2018)

References

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