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An international league of competition — it’s something that hasn’t really been achieved in professional sports. Yes, we do have annual or quadrennial tournaments where we crown world champions, but they require national sports organizations to select their own representatives that compete in the Olympics and other international tourneys. Instead, I’m
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North America (NA) doesn’t exactly have a great track record when it comes to international “League of Legends,” even though the game was and continues to be developed here in California. No NA team has ever won a major international tournament that included more than two different regions, and since
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Week 1 of the Group Stage at the League of Legends 2017 World Championships wrapped up Sunday morning. There have been a total of 24 games played over four days, with each team having played three total games. Here are the top storylines of the tournament going into Week 2.
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After the Play-ins concluded, the League of Legends Season 7 World Championships have moved on to the main Group stage. In my opinion, this is the most exciting portion of the tournament. Similar to the first few days of March Madness or the group stage of the World Cup, we
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Currently, in League of Legends, teams don’t represent cities or countries, but regions — groups of people based on proximity that play on the same set of servers together. For the Season 7 League of Legends World Championships, regions individually selected the teams that represent them on the international stage.
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In sports, we have this term, “Cinderella team.” It refers to a situation in which an underdog severely exceeds what anyone would reasonably expect of them. As these teams don’t come around often, we remember them by this prestigious title after they have made deep runs in the tournament. We
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This year, League of Legends is getting a true world championship. In the past, most teams competing at the League of Legends World Championships were from the five major regions: North America, Europe, Korea, China and the League of Legends Master Series (Taiwan, Hong Kong and Macau). There were usually
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