With the League of Legends Championship Series begins developer Riot Games is a league for professional teams, a salary and prize money can earn. The league should start in early 2013.
Riot Games wants gamers the chance to give their hobby into a paid job. Therefore begins the League of Legends Championship Series, around its own moba game League of Legends. In the Championship Series competing teams from North America, Europe and Asia. The teams play weekly matches, which by Riot Games for free in hd streamed will be. The studio wants the members of the participating teams a salary. In addition, there is a prize pool that among the winning teams will be divided. “We had many players asking whether we are not what more attention could dedicate to League of Legends eSports. The League of Legends Championship Series is our answer to that question,” says Brandon Beck, ceo of Riot Games.
The Championship Series will be out in early 2013. For who wants to Riot Games, the participating teams to select. European teams can qualify during the European Season Two Regionals, which will be played during the GamesCom, the leading international trade fair from 16 to 19 August in Cologne. North American teams can selection force during the Season Two Regionals, at the end of August in Seattle fought. The Championship Series will be part of the League of Legends Season 3. In addition to the Championship Series is comprised of a Challenger Circuit, to which also non-professional teams can participate.
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