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- On October 2nd , Be a Part of Riot History at WCG!
- A Trophy for Victorious Summoners
- Gamebattles Opens Paid Ladders for League of Legends
- A New Champion Approaches: Sona, the Maven of the Strings
- Pirate Weekend Sale: 50% Off Gangplank, Spooky Gangplank, 20% Off Bilgewater Katarina
- A Sneak Peek at What's Coming...
- Vote LoL for Free Champion Weekend - LoL Leads GDC Finalists
- New Issue of the Journal of Justice Available Now!
- WCG North American Champions: Counter Logic
- Victory! in the LAN of Legends
| On October 2nd , Be a Part of Riot History at WCG! Posted: 20 Sep 2010 09:13 AM PDT Summoners, In less than two weeks, League of Legends will be featured at the WCG Grand Finals in Los Angeles at the LA Convention Center! From September 30th through October 2nd, four teams will represent their respective regions of the world while fighting for $10,000 USD and the pride of being crowned the first League of Legends World Champion. On October 2nd, the championship matches will be decided in front of an audience of thousands and streamed live starting at 2PM PST on the League of Legends website. The four teams are: Counter Logic Gaming – North American Champions representing USA & Canada SK Gaming – European Champions representing Germany & Switzerland ChinaHero – East Asia Champions representing China Another Story – S.E. Asian Champions representing Singapore Of course, if you need more incentive to come by, we've got you covered. You can meet up with literal busloads of Riot devs and get brand new goodies never before seen by convention crowds! We'll be giving away four thousand tee shirts! If you meet someone on the Riot team you'll get a Riot Singed skin, which means it will also be available for purchase for the weekend in our online store! Is that not enough? For the first time ever, Riot will have merchandise on sale, before they are available in our new online merch store. Get a sneak peek at new swag before everyone on the internet, brag as you please. Maybe you're an artist and have some fan art to show us? Put it in our Fan Art Gallery! We'll have an entire wall dedicated to your drawings, paintings, anything you want to bring in, so make something lovely and you can win a signed poster or other cool stuff! If cosplaying is your forte, come decked out on Sunday for some special goodies and admiration from Rioterz. Wanna grab the mic and let your rhymes flow? Think it's tricky to rock a rhyme? Time to practice in front of mirrors, just in case a freestyle nerdcore rap battle erupts where the winners get swag. Just in case. While all of this is exciting, what could be more thrilling than… a Riot Grudge Match? Go to our forums and vote for your favorite Riot developers to go head to head on the Fields of Justice before your very eyes. Attend on Thursday and Friday and you might be conscripted to join their side in this fight of the ages. Basically, the WCG Grand Finals are the place to be. Cheer for your home region, meet Rioterz, get our newest and finest merch, and participate in the Riot community event of the year! Tickets are only $10 a day or $25 for a 4 day pass. Need more information on where to stay or how to get to the event? Check out our event guide or coordinate a group on the forums.   |
| A Trophy for Victorious Summoners Posted: 20 Sep 2010 09:13 AM PDT Each day you battle for glory and spoils. Some of you have already taken it to the next level and are competing in online and LAN tournaments. For those that emerge unscathed from these grand battles, we present a trophy befitting of any victor: Champion Ryze. Trophy Ryze will be presented to all members of the winning teams for all past and future events. This includes not only the finalists of the upcoming WCG Grand Finals, but for these events as well:
Want to get in on the events? Visit our tournament page for more information on all League of Legends events. Want to run your own tournament? Contact our tournament staff. Who knows, Riot Games may even attend your event. The next event that Trophy Ryze will be awarded at will be the WCG Grand Finals, which takes place on September 30th - October 2nd. If you can, come out to meet the Riot staff at the WCG Grand Finals at the Los Angeles Convention Center (same place as E3). There will be a lot of us there on Saturday, 10/2 and we'll have a booth. If you can't make it in person, we'll have coverage of the event here on Leagueoflegends.com See you on the battlefield.   |
| Gamebattles Opens Paid Ladders for League of Legends Posted: 20 Sep 2010 09:13 AM PDT Summoners, GameBattles is opening their first paid ladder for League of Legends. The first place team could win up to $1500 and $250 Riot Points along with the newly released Champion Ryze! Additional prizes will be awarded up to the top 24 teams depending on the number of sign ups. You can find the full rules and regulations here. The cost is 10 GameBattles credits per player and the prizes for the ladder increase as more teams sign up. To register for the event, you need an account on the GameBattles site and at least 10 GameBattles credits. Additionally, you must be a US Citizen to participate. Event Details: Map: Summoner's Rift 5v5 Stages: Ladder (best of 1) >>> Double Elimination Playoffs (best of 3) Format: Draft Mode Event Dates: · Registration Opens - September 16th · Ladder Begins - September 27th · Roster Lock - October 15th, 11:59 PM ET · Registration Closes - October 15th, 11:59 PM ET · Ladder Ends - October 24th, 8:59 PM ET · Playoff Bracket Begins - October 25th The previous Gamebattles event had over 2000 teams sign up, so the action will be intense. If you are looking for more events to participate in, then head over to our tournaments page. See you on the battlefield.   |
| A New Champion Approaches: Sona, the Maven of the Strings Posted: 20 Sep 2010 09:12 AM PDT By: ByronicHero Community Manager Sona has no memory of her true parents. As an infant, she was found abandoned on the doorstep of an Ionian adoption house, nestled atop an ancient instrument in an exquisite case of unknown origins. She was an unusually well-behaved child, always quiet and content. Her caretakers were sure she would find a home quickly, but it soon became apparent that what they mistook for uncommon geniality was actually an inability to speak or to produce any sound whatsoever. Sona remained at the adoption house until her teens, watching in hopeless silence as prospective adopters passed her by. During this time, the caretakers sold her unusual instrument to anxious collectors, hoping to build her a trust. For a myriad of bizarre and unexpected reasons, however, it would be returned, or simply appear again outside the house. When a wealthy Demacian woman named Lestara Buvelle learned of the instrument, she immediately embarked to Ionia. When the caretakers showcased the instrument for her, she rose wordlessly and explored the house, stopping outside Sona's room. Without hesitation, Lestara adopted her and left a generous donation for the instrument. With Lestara's guidance, Sona discovered a deep connection with the instrument which Lestara called an "etwahl." In her hands, it played tones which stilled or quivered the hearts of those around her. Within months, she was headlining with the mysterious etwahl for sold-out audiences. She played as though plucking heartstrings, effortlessly manipulating the emotions of her listeners - all without a single written note. In secret, she discovered a potent and deadly use for her etwahl, using its vibrations to slice objects from a distance. She honed this discipline in private, mastering her gift. When she felt prepared, she went to the only place which could offer her a fitting recital: the League of Legends. "Her melody moves the soul, her silence sunders the body." -Jericho Swain, after attending her concert Abilities: Hymn of Valor: Sona plays the Hymn of Valor, granting nearby allied champions bonus Damage and Ability Power. Additionally, casting this ability sends out bolts of sound, dealing magic damage to the nearest two enemy champions or monsters. Aria of Perseverance: Sona plays the Aria of Perseverance, granting nearby allied champions bonus Armor and Magic Resist. Additionally, casting this ability sends out healing melodies, healing Sona and a nearby wounded ally. Song of Celerity: Sona plays the Song of Celerity, granting nearby allied champions bonus Movement Speed. Additionally, casting this ability energizes nearby allies with a burst of speed. Crescendo (Ultimate): Sona plays her ultimate chord, forcing enemy champions to dance, taking magic damage over time. Power Chord: After casting 3 spells, Sona's next attack deals bonus magic damage. Additionally, Sona's Auras persist for 3 seconds after deactivating and set off a 2 second global cooldown.   |
| Pirate Weekend Sale: 50% Off Gangplank, Spooky Gangplank, 20% Off Bilgewater Katarina Posted: 20 Sep 2010 09:12 AM PDT By: RiotLaura Marketing Manager Ahoy, Mateys! International Talk-Like-A-Pirate Day sets sail on September 19th, and we be having some sweet booty which all ye Buccaneers and Landlubbers alike can plunder! From Friday, September 17th through Monday, September 20th, champion Gangplank and the Spooky Gangplank skins will be 50% off. Our new swashbuckling lass, Bilgewater Katarina, will also be on sale for 20% off. As an extra bonus, if you missed out on the dashing and dangerous bounty hunter, Miss Fortune, you will also have another opportunity to acquire both Miss Fortune bundles. The Cowgirl Miss Fortune bundle deal has the Miss Fortune champion, plus the Cowgirl Miss Fortune skin for 50% off. The Miss Fortune Double Bundle has Miss Fortune with both her Cowgirl and Waterloo skins for 50% off. Gangplank (regularly 975 RP) will be only 487 RP! Spooky Gangplank skin (regularly 975 RP) will be only 487 RP! Bilgewater Katarina skin (regularly 975 RP) will be only 780 RP! Cowgirl Miss Fortune bundle (regularly 1950 RP) will be only 1462 RP! Miss Fortune Double bundle (regularly 2470 RP) will be only 1722 RP! We forgot to mention it when we released the skin, but Bilgewater Katarina was inspired by one of our very own community members! Please congratulate xChiZx for his hard work! After Monday, September 20th, these skins will return to their original prices, you can find all these bundles and more in the store!   |
| A Sneak Peek at What's Coming... Posted: 20 Sep 2010 09:12 AM PDT Summoners! If you're looking for a bit of insider info on what's down the road in the world of Runeterra, we're here to give you a little taste of what's to come. If you picked up the November issue of PC Gamer, this will probably mostly be a recap for you. Now remember that these are just a bit of a sneak preview. Anything that you see here is subject to change, so take it all with that proverbial grain of salt. That being said, we hope that this gives you an even better idea of some of the awesomeness that's on the horizon in Valoran. Inside the Magma Chamber! If there's one thing that we've learned about Runeterrans, it's that they're huge cartography enthusiasts. We get more requests for maps than we do just about anything else in League of Legends. So, without further ado, allow me to give you a sneak peek at an upcoming Field of Justice that we're calling: The Magma Chamber. Deep within the obsidian mountain from which the Institute of War is sculpted lies the League's most intense Field of Justice to date – the Magma Chamber. Before the time of the League, the Chamber was the heart of a powerful, but now dormant, volcano. Ancient magma flows cut out a gigantic cavernous room that the League has reshaped for its own purposes. This battle arena was built specifically to address the increasing number of disputes between Demacia and Noxus. It is one of the largest Fields of Justice found anywhere on Valoran. To that end, teleporting platforms provide champions with the ability to rapidly relocate to strategic points in the arena. The magic-infused stone and cooled magma that dominates the structure of the arena will force champions to work together more closely in pushing toward the enemy's nexus. It will be harder for a champion to rely on their summoner to traverse hazards and obstacles. The League is preparing this Field of Justice to be the premier arena for its use; as such, a slew of new monsters and minions await champions in what will surely be their greatest challenge yet. A Shiny New Look Anybody who has ever dropped a penny into a glass of cola knows that things are just nicer when they're shiny. And that's why, here at Riot Games, we have a Team Shiny that's been hard at work making sure that you get the most out of your League of Legends aesthetics. Over the last few months, we've been working to integrate some new graphics technology into the League of Legends engine. This will allow us to have flashier spell and lighting effects, clearer looking terrain, and, well, just a better looking League of Legends experience in general. While there's still quite a bit of work to be done, Gragas and Mordekaiser wanted to drop in to give you a little taste of what you've got to look forward to if you ran into them on Summoner's Rift in the middle of winter. Runeterra World Tour If you've ever wondered life is like for the average resident of Valoran, but you've never gone window shopping in Bandle City or barhopping along the docks of Bilgewater, then you'll be pleased to know that we're here to give you the grand tour. If you're looking for a bit of local color, here's some environment art detailing some of our most prominent city-states. Whether you fancy yourself a ruthless Noxian General or an enlightened Ionian Scholar, it never hurts to have an idea of what you might see when you're have a look out the window. Here's a bit of geographical perspective. A Fond Farewell And remember, if that super important feature that you've been anticipating didn't make it onto this list, that doesn't mean that we aren't working on it. We have a whole lot of teams here at Riot developing a whole lot of different technology here at Riot. This is just the tip of the iceberg! There are a host of new features in development, and these just happened to be the ones we were ready to showcase at this time. If you're waiting on something big, stay tuned!   |
| Vote LoL for Free Champion Weekend - LoL Leads GDC Finalists Posted: 20 Sep 2010 09:13 AM PDT Summoners! The first annual Game Developers Choice Online Awards are getting into full swing, and we here at Riot Games are pleased to announced that we are being considered for a number of awards. Of their eight award categories, League of Legends is being considered for five, including: Best Online Game Design, Best Online Visual Arts, Best Online Technology, Best New Online Game, and Best Live Game. In addition to these industry awards, however, GDC Online has also invited the players to vote on their favorite online title in the Choice Online Audience Award. And while we're extremely excited to have the opportunity to be recognized by our critics and peers, we're even more excited to see who you will choose as your favorite online game. Now, we'd be pretty ecstatic if you were to choose League of Legends for the Choice Online Audience Award. So ecstatic in fact, that we would call that cause for celebration. And we think that all of the champions of the League of Legends would probably want to celebrate with us. To that end, we've decided that if we win the GDC Online Choice Online Audience Award, we will be giving all of you a free four win IP boost and making all the champions of the League of Legends free to play for a weekend. If you're looking to spend a little quality time with somebody new, but aren't yet ready to commit, this is your golden opportunity to play the field - and pick up some free IP to boot! The poll closes on September 24th, with the winners being announced on the October 7th. This would make your free-to-play weekend starting October 9th! Here's how to vote:
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| New Issue of the Journal of Justice Available Now! Posted: 20 Sep 2010 09:12 AM PDT Summoners! If you're interested in an inside look at what all the movers and shakers from all across Valoran have been up to over the past two weeks, look no further than the Journal of Justice. The most intrepid journalists from all across the continent have been hard at work to bring you the latest scoop. From the highest towers of Demacia to the deepest dungeons of Noxus, the Journal of Justice has everything you need to keep yourself apprised of the goings on in the world of Runeterra. A new issue of the Journal of Justice is available in your PvP.net client now!   |
| WCG North American Champions: Counter Logic Posted: 20 Sep 2010 09:13 AM PDT Summoners, The North American Championship has been decided! Counter Logic Gaming emerges victorious after a furious two hour battle. After inheriting a one game advantage due to their status as upper bracket champions, Counter Logic Gaming defeated HawkshotGG 2-1 in a match that was viewed by tens of thousands and reached a peak at 17,000 concurrent viewers. The match up drew the largest online and live crowd of any event at the WCG USA National Final. If you missed the broadcast, then you can catch VODs on the WCG USA Site or here. In addition to winning $2,000 and a Samsung SSD prize package, Counter Logic will return to Los Angeles in less than three weeks to go against the regional champions of the world: China, Europe, and Southeast Asia. If you live in the LA area you can catch the action live at the LA Convention Center from September 30th through October 3rd. For more information about the event and ticket prices, check out the WCG website. Riot Games will be there everyday in full force with awesome giveaways and contests. I present your North America Champions: Sam "Kobe24" Hartman-Kenzler Cody "Elementz" Sigfusson Michael "Bigfatjiji" Tang George "HotshotGG" Georgallidis Steve "Chauster" Chau A big thanks to HawkshotGG (aka Epik Gaming), who put up an amazing battle and nearly took the title for themselves. For their efforts, they received $1,000 and a Samsung SSD Prize Package. We hope that these amazing players will return as contenders for future events. Rinoa and Dan Dinh have posted their recaps of the event, which will provide all the juicy details inside and outside of Universal Studios. Stay tuned for more coverage of the WCG Grand Finals!   |
| Victory! in the LAN of Legends Posted: 20 Sep 2010 09:13 AM PDT Summoners gathered their rigs and packed into rooms, scrabbling for scarce lengths of Ethernet cable as they rose to our challenge of hosting the LAN of Legends. The submissions were startling, Rioterz could feel the aura of victory and sense the caffeinated buzz that seemed to emanate from the very pictures themselves. Submissions were complete with impressively-stacked soda cans, grandiose buffets of snack foods and some costumes where quality came second to sheer enthusiasm, all in the spirit of LAN-kind. We've gathered the most fun, ridiculous and astonishing LAN pictures for your viewing pleasure. Look and be amazed! Creativity Is Key: Bergrimito is aware of team health Spartans Fury voids his security deposit AlleyCat991 scribbles for the win Wendigoh recycles Dressed To Kill: Omnomasaur has it all Ysterath wears it proud Svartfal has something for everyone Well that's… Unusual: Ashley keeps it classy Cyklias mourns, mysteriously Karaboo has a feast John... is shopping around. The Peregrine Office redefines Business Casual Location, Location, Location: Dugi5454 is ON A BUS EzyR appreciates sunlight Aerik relaxes in France I'm a Professional: AdventureGames hosts a LAN So Happy Together: Sheng throws a great party Each winning LAN host gets 1380 RP, and each fearless guest gets 650 RP for being a good sport. Go forth, infuse yourselves with caffeine and lay waste to the Fields of Justice once more, in style!   |
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