For the first time in almost four weeks, the NA LCS appears to make some kind of sense again. These two teams also happen to open up this weekend’s play in the NA LCS with the first game of the week on Saturday. ScheduleSaturday, August 4Team Liquid vs 100 Thieves, 5 p.m. ETCounter Logic Gaming vs Echo Fox, 7 p.m. ETOpTic Gaming vs FlyQuest, 8 p.m.

We’re just passed the halfway point in the Summer Split, and that means Worlds is just around the corner. Thankfully, League of Legends’ biggest tournament now feels just a little bit closer as Riot has finally announced the city locations for the 2018 World Championship. While the fact that the tournament would be held in South Korea was announced back in February of 2018, there hasn’t been another announcement about the event, until now. In separate post, released alongside the announcement, R

Former World Champion and long time NA LCS ADC Chae “Piglet” Gwang-jin will return to the league as the new starting ADC for Clutch Gaming, the team announced on Twitter Friday afternoon. In January of 2018, Chae was traded to Clutch Gaming and joined their Academy roster. Chae will be taking over for ADC Apollo Price, who will presumably be moved to the Academy roster. Joining Chae on the starting roster will also be Academy League teammates, Galen “Moon” Holgate in the jungle and Philippe “Vul

Instead, there are four teams tied at first place with a not great record of 6-4 and three teams tied for fifth at an even 5-5. ScheduleSaturday, July 28TSM vs Cloud9, 5 p.m. ETCounter Logic Gaming vs OpTic Gaming, 6 p.m. ETGolden Guardians vs Team Liquid, 8 p.m. ETClutch Gaming vs 100 Thieves, 9 p.m.

The NA LCS trade deadline has arrived and current first place team, Echo Fox, has made a few blockbuster moves under the wire. According to a press release from Echo Fox, the team will be adding a new member while shaking up its starting roster and releasing one player. Longtime NA LCS ADC and Echo Fox starter Johnny “Altec” Ru, has been released as a part of Echo Fox’s trade deals, while current NA LCS Academy ADC Lawrence “Lost” Hui will move up to the starting roster. Joining Hui in the botto

And while his time in the Academy League has proven tumultuous at best so far, one thing that has been unequivocally great was his time on the NA LCS analyst desk in week five. Speaking of counter-balances, Hartman’s MVP vote was secretly one of the most interesting analyst desk moments of the season. It’s this kind of insight that brings up another positive of having Hartman on the desk: a pro perspective. Either way, it would be great to see him make a transition over to the analyst desk full-

After four weeks of North America LCS action we have finally arrived at that all-important stage in the Summer Split. The first place team, technically Counter Logic Gaming, has a record of 5-3, but they are tied with three other teams. Counter Logic Gaming on Sunday. ETTSM vs OpTic Gaming, 7 p.m. ETGolden Guardians vs Counter Logic Gaming, 8 p.m.

After a week away on international break, thanks to the Rift Rivals tournament, the NA LCS is back to it’s regularly scheduled competitions as we head into week four of the 2018 Summer Split. All eyes will likely be on 100 Thieves this week as they are set to debut their new line up with Andy “AnDa” Hoang in jungle in their match against TSM. While Echo Fox have that chance, facing off against Counter Logic Gaming and TSM, Team Liquid will be facing OpTic Gaming and FlyQuest, so there won’t be q

The season 8 meta in League of Legends has been tumultuous to say the least. “The first thing you have to do is find out which champions is strongest, then you have to figure out who counters the strongest champions,” Rau said. Now in this meta, we’re falling back on eighth, ninth or tenth champions.” And that’s exactly where Rau can shine. This time, it was Rekkles, who simply wasn’t comfortable playing the meta, after spending so long playing only marksmen champions. “I feel like we put a Band

Rift Rivals is back for the South and Central America leagues as the Latin American North League, Latin America South League and the Brazilian League all face off against one another. For this Rift Rivals tournament, the participating teams qualified by finishing in the top two of their region’s Spring Split. The Rift Rivals 2018 LLN/CLS/CBLOL tournament will be hosted in Sao Paulo, Brasil at the CBLOL studios and will be broadcast on the CBLOL Twitch Channel as well as on lolesports.com. e-Spor

ETGIGABYTE Marines vs ROX, 7 a.m. ETBeykentUni YouthCREW vs Vikings Gaming, 8 a.m. ETEVOS Esports vs Gambit eSports, 10 a.m. ETThursday, July 5Gambit eSports vs Bahçeşehir SuperMassive, 6 a.m. ETRoyal Bandits vs GIGABYTE Marines, 7 a.m.

It’s time, once again, for North America and Europe to face off in League of Legends as Riot’s annual Rift Rivals tournament returns for its second year. Meanwhile, on the EU side, two of the three teams are making their second consecutive trip to the international tournament. The teams competing at the tournament earned their spot by placing top three during the either the NA LCS Spring Split or the EU LCS Spring Split. Rift Rivals 2018 NA vs EU will be hosted at Riot’s LCS Arena in Los Angeles

Riot’s second annual Rift Rivals tournament is almost here again and over in Asia, that means it’s once again time for the Korea’s LCK, China’s LPL and Southeast Asia’s LMS leagues to face off against each other once again. During last year’s tournament, the LPL shocked the world by easily taking down the LCK in the finals and claiming the title of Rift Rivals champions. And with the Chinese team, Royal Never Give Up, taking home first place at the Mid-Season Invitational, Korea’s top teams are

Just hours after 100 Thieves win in the NA LCS over OpTic Gaming, the team’s starting jungler William “Meteos” Hartman, has been traded to FlyQuest, according to Hartman’s Twitter. Late on Sunday night Hartman said in a now-deleted tweet, “just got word that my contract was traded to FlyQuest and that FlyQuest does not have an available starting position. Because Đỗ is an imported player, either top laner Kim “Ssumday” Chan-ho or Yoo “Ryu” Sang-wook — who are also both imported players — is goin

Week three’s match ups seem tailor made for Summer Split standings so far. If there’s one match that could be the standout from the slate of games though, it’s Team Liquid vs Echo Fox. So far, the Echo Fox top laner has played four roles in five games, and support is all he is missing. Just like every week, all of this week’s NA LCS matches will be shown live on the Riot Games Twitch channel, YouTube channel and lolesports.com. ScheduleSaturday, June 30Cloud9 vs TSM, 5 p.m. ESTTeam Liquid vs Ech

While Samsung Galaxy may not be the name of the team anymore, the personalized championship skins for last year’s Worlds winners have finally been revealed, or at least, their recalls have been. The skins — which will be for Gnar, Jarvan IV, Ezreal, Taliyah, Xayah and Rakan — are a little tough to see in the video but seem to bring in the traditional light blue and white of Samsung, while incorporating a little bit of black and navy blue. The skins’ recall animations almost all include the Samsu

More specifically, you probably noticed teams putting strange players and champions in the mid lane, and letting them take smite, while the jungler took exhaust. While the name may give you a couple of hints as to what it might entail, we’re here to lay out exactly what funneling is and why teams are using it. The BasicsThe point of a funnel comp is exactly what it sounds like: funnel as much of your teams gold as possible onto one hyper-carry champion and let them carry you through the mid game

The first week of the 2018 NA LCS Summer Split has come to a close and everyone is gearing up for week two. As for results, last week was pretty shocking for the NA LCS in 2018 in that no result was particularly surprising. This week’s NA LCS action features a few good match ups and should let us know exactly which teams can survive, no matter what the meta. You can watch all the matches from week two of the 2018 Summer Split on the Riot Game’s Twitch and YouTube channels, as well as on lolespor

While that last one is a little more complicated, the meta is explainable, even if it doesn’t seem that way. So let’s take a few minutes and go through a couple important questions about what exactly happened to the NA LCS meta in the 2018 Summer Split. So, teams have all but abandoned the crit marksmen in favor of casters or mages. What was the point of the ADC item rework if it just took them out of the meta completely? While leagues like Korea’s LCK have managed to implement the picks success

As part of its ongoing goal to grow the European region, Riot has added three new leagues to the European Regional Leagues: the Baltic National Esports League, Benelux Premier League and LGC Greece. These three new leagues represent regions of Europe that didn’t previously have their own leagues, but will now tie directly into Riot’s larger European infrastructure. Each of these three leagues has been created with the help of Riot as a well as a partner from those regions. These three new league