Author: MatthiasT

The third title was for him. But the fourth was for his teammates. And for the 6,400,000 fans in Korea and around the world making the 2023 League of Legends Worlds Championship the most popular esports tournament of all time. On Sunday night, in Seoul, Lee “Faker” Sang-hyeok’s teammates completed this esport’s greatest storyline, dropping only one game in an all-Chinese knockout stage and finally breaking the Korean Finals curse to lift the Summoner’s Cup.You can hardly describe this year as turbulent and uncertain for T1. After all, they went almost flawless in Spring before falling to Gen.G in the…

It’s almost like everything went according to plan. In a weekend that crowned G2 Esports and Karmine Corp the top of their respective supreme European competitions, although there was no shortage of excitement, a lot of League of Legends esports fans probably had their fantasy right.In fact, what we witnessed was a pure expression of what we call club DNA. This kind of force, sometimes mystical, rarely explainable, scarcely believable, but which somehow always imposes itself on the destiny of organizations. Great clubs just seem incapable of dying. Esports and traditional sports enthusiasts alike can think of teams that always…

A surprising Summer Split is about to enter its second phase in France, with the regular season ending just last week. Although the overall level still hasn’t returned to its 2022 splendor, the league isn’t short of exciting narratives. The second to last team from the Spring split finished first and is the strongest favorite for title contention. The Spring champions finished second to last and will imminently disband. All this while a fan favorite roster rose to prominence from rank 8 to runner-up. Find out what to expect from the six LFL organizations that made it to playoffs before…

As the LCK enters the second leg of its double round-robin regular season and the LEC kicks off its Groups stage, a feeling prevails among many of the viewers of both leagues: boredom. To what do we owe this impression? Should Riot do something about it? Can they?Viewership against the currentLet us first get our facts right. Figures provided by Esports Charts tend to confirm a global mood on social media claiming that games get increasingly boring and that people are tuning out. The 2023 LCK Summer Split has so far gathered an average of 180,832 viewers, whereas 234,198 were…

This past Tuesday, May 24th, the KeSPA (Korean e-Sports Association) officially announced the League of Legends roster that will represent South Korea in this year’s Asian Games.Team Korea’s roster will feature Choi “Zeus” Woo-je (T1) on the toplane, Seo “Kanavi” Jin-hyeok (JDG) as the jungler, Lee “Faker” Sang-hyeok (T1) and Jeong “Chovy” Ji-hoon (GEN) as midlaners, Park “Ruler” Jae-hyeok (JDG) in the ad carry position and Ryu “Keria” Min-seok (T1) as the support. This fine team will be coached by former T1 and Damwon manager Kim “kkOma” Jeong-gyun. He will be the one having to make the tough decision as…

With a draw that forced the LCS and LEC to compete against the LCK and LPL, the West went 2-18 in its head-to-head versus Korea and China in a completely one-sided affair. Most of these defeats bore the same pattern, thus revealing how far the West lags behind League’s two best nations.Major regions, major gapsThe former MSI format gave way to Western delusions. The LEC and LCS champions generally managed to distillate enough copium against so-called minor regions teams to come up against the Chinese or Korean top seed with positive narratives at the later stages of the tournament. Of…

As we are patiently waiting for the LEC Spring Groups to begin, Europe’s regional leagues have just crowned their champions while the rebranded EMEA Masters waits around the corner, starting on April 4. The LFL, whose teams have won half of the ten EU Masters titles and which have sent no less than three teams to the last edition’s semi-finals, appear to be the favored European Regional League (ERL) to win EMEA Masters Spring 2023. So, who are the three French entries to the competition and what should we expect from them?Team Aegis (Third Seed, Play-In Tournament)Unquestionably the best team…

Riot Games just unveiled their 163rd champion’s story, role, and abilities, scheduling his release on the live servers for patch 13.6, on March 22. Meet Milio, the Gentle Flame! Let’s see where his lore puts him in the grand scheme of the League of Legends universe.A new child in the playgroundMilio, who already hit the Rift on the Public Beta Environment on March 7, is the first champion coming from the region of Ixtal since Qiyana’s release in June 2019; echoing the League of Legends dev team’s will to give new champions to regions, designs and playstyles that have not…

In France, a brand-new women’s competition and some pioneering all-woman teams were announced by regulators and franchises on Thursday, seemingly settling the debate on the merits of their existence and finally putting words into action.League esports’ new hypeRiot France and Webedia – the most famous French digital entertainment group which serves as a coregulator of France’s three professional and semi-professional top leagues (LFL, LFL Div2, and Mastercard Nexus Tour) – took advantage of the LFL’s mid-split on-stage event to make landmark announcements in favor of more women’s inclusion in the League of Legends esports scene at a national level. They…

The 2023 LFL season premiered Wednesday, January 18 as an opening act for the first week of the LEC Winter split, giving LoL esports fans a taste of what’s to come on the European scene, and delivering the first ranking of one, if not the most stacked European Regional League. And as the dust has settled, it’s time to draw our first conclusions based on those two first days of competition. Knowing that, of course, behind those juicy conclusions lies a hidden guide to watching this split of La Ligue Française.1 – Solary finally is a true title contenderAll aboard…