Starting next year, Riot Games will be hosting a new professional gaming league built around its popular massively multiplayer online role-playing game (MMORPG) League of Legends.
The league will comprise of a regular season, followed by a championship featuring salaried teams from around the globe. The regular-season matches will be broadcasted live in high-definition (HD) on weekly basis, allowing the fans from world-over to catch every second of the exciting action.
If you are familiar with major league sports, you may not have any confusion in understanding the structure of the new league, which is pretty much the same as other organised sports.
Riot Games will be sending out invitations to the top eight teams from both North America and Europe, as well as the top teams from Asia. The teams will be seen competing for both regional and global dominance.
In a bid to make League of Legends a sustainable career option for professional players, the developer plans on offering salaries, prize pools as well as other compensation to the teams during the upcoming Championship Series.
The new series will also introduce a regular season as well as play-offs. There will be plenty of exhilarating action in store for the eSports fans as the League of Legends pros will square-off in a conventional format of organised sports, featuring a regular season with a handful of matches every week, which will lead to regional play-offs and eventually move to the climax, the World Championship. The top-three teams from the second season of League of Legends regionals for North America and Europe at the upcoming Gamescom and Pax Prime event will have their spots confirmed in the Championship Series that makes its debut next year.
Not wanting anyone to miss out on the Championship Series action, Riot Games will arrange for a live HD streaming of the matches. The best part about this broadcast is that it will be totally free.
Commenting on the professional gaming league built around League of Legends, the co-founder and CEO of Riot Games Brandon Beck said, “Talking to players around the world, they repeatedly asked if we could kick League of Legends eSports into higher gear. The new League of Legends Championship Series is our answer. Millions of fans tune in every time we support a major League of Legends tournament, so we’re broadening that support in an unprecedented way.”
League of Legends is an arena-based MMORPG game that will come off as real familiar to those who have played Defense of the Ancients (DotA). The player, referred to as the Summoner, chooses a character, called a champion, which he will manipulate to assist his/her team in asserting their dominance in the battlefield. The game was recently reported as being the most-played PC game in the European and North American region.
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