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Huma, a Challenger Series League of Legends team, has been banned from all Riot sanctioned leagues after failing to pay its players. A ruling from Riot reveals that Huma has been chronically late in paying its players the League-mandated Minimum Player Compensation” throughout the year. At the start of August …
Read More »EU LCS quarterfinal delayed due to technical issues
The quarterfinal of the EU LCS between H2K and Fnatic has been delayed to August 16th due to technical issues. The match was due to be played yesterday, August 14th, however once the teams took to the stage they discovered an issue with the sound coming from the PCs at …
Read More »Toxic League of Legends players also also make for toxic workers, Riot finds
Having examined 12 months worth of gameplay for every employee, League of Legends developer Riot discovered "a correlation between in-game and in-Riot toxicity". Writing for GoogleRe:work, the studio said: The Riot team hypothesised there’d be a correlation between highly toxic in-game play and workplace toxicity; if a Rioter received lots …
Read More »Riot finds difficult co-workers are also toxic League of Legends players
‘We actually received some essays from employees vowing to change their ways and become not just more considerate gamers but better people,’ studio reveals as outcome of warning troublesome employees
Read More »NA LCS Summer Split final heads to Canada
Riot has announced that the finals of the NA LCS Summer Split will be held in Toronto, Canada on August 27th and 28th. The Air Canada Centre will host the event that will see the top teams from the NA LCS Summer Split battle it out to become split champions, …
Read More »Riot bans three League of Legends teams
Riot has banned three teams from its League of Legends competitions and handed one team owner a permanent ban. Team Impulse, Renegades and Team Dragon Knights have all been banned from the LCS and must now sell their slots in the league. Both Renegades and Team Impulse competed in the …
Read More »Riot Games’ social systems lead designer departs
Jeffrey Lin led efforts to combat toxic player behaviour in League of Legends
Read More »Dignitas owner ODEE on his LCS Challenger Series plans: “it’s our slot right now”
In an interview with MCV, owner of Team Dignitas, Michael “ODEE” O’Dell, denied reports that he has sold the organisation’s spot in the NA LCS Challenger Series. “At the moment it [the Dignitas LoL team] is kind of up in the air,” said ODEE at the CEVO Gfinity Season 9 …
Read More »The Mid Season Invitational will impact regional seeding at the League of Legends World Championship
The upcoming League of Legends Mid Season Invitational tournament will, for the first time, have a significant impact on the World Championship later in the year. Any team that makes it out of the group stage at MSI will secure their region a top four seed at Worlds. This doesn’t …
Read More »Collegiate League of Legends to hit US TV network
Big Ten Network has announced the BTN Invitational: A University League of Legends Event, which will be broadcast on their network over in the States. The event will take place at PAX East on April 22nd, and will see Ohio State University face off against Michigan State University in a …
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