Tag Archives: Riot Games

October 9, 2026

League of Legends

Worlds 2026 Countdown: Liquid and LYON Arrive, ZUIAN Misses Out on Visa Issues

All News, League of Legends Mark Terrence

With the group stage of the League of Legends World Championship drawing closer, the final pieces of the 2026 puzzle are falling into place. A few developments from the past week show how much can shift before a single Worlds match is played. Liquid and LYON head west with momentum... read more

September 18, 2026

League of Legends

Riot Bans 296,416 Accounts for Rank Manipulation in League of Legends and VALORANT – Vanguard Anti-Boost Goes Live Across Both Games as Hardware Checks Accelerate

All News, League of Legends, Valorant Mark Terrence

Riot Games has put a number on its war against boosting: 296,416 accounts across League of Legends and VALORANT have had ranks revoked, been suspended or been banned outright for rank manipulation since late 2025. The figure comes from a new developer post on Vanguard Anti-Boost, the detection system that... read more

September 17, 2026

Valorant

VALORANT Champions 2026 Shanghai: Groups, Opening Matches and Storylines One Week Before the $2.25M Season Finale

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The final international event of the VALORANT season is a week away. Champions 2026 runs from September 24 to October 18 in Shanghai, splitting its time between the Jing’an Sports Center for the group stage and the Mercedes-Benz Arena for the playoffs. Sixteen teams are chasing a $2,250,000 prize pool,... read more

September 9, 2026

Valorant

VCT 2027 Open Qualifiers Start in November: Riot Opens Four Kickoff Slots per Region and a Path to Champions for Non-Partner Teams

All News, Valorant Mark Terrence

Riot Games has confirmed that the Open Qualifiers for the 2027 season of the Valorant Champions Tour will begin in November 2026 – and with them comes the most significant structural change to the circuit since the partnership era started in 2023. From next season on, teams outside the partnered... read more

September 7, 2026

Valorant

Champions Shanghai Draw: Group D Throws Karmine Corp, Nongshim and NRG Together While G2 Meet Paper Rex Again

All News, Valorant Mark Terrence

Hours after 100 Thieves lifted the Americas Stage 2 trophy in São Paulo, Riot pulled the balls for Valorant Champions 2026. The draw show on Sunday sorted the 16 qualified teams into four groups and fixed the opening matches, and for anyone following the Valorant betting scene it delivered the... read more

September 4, 2026

League of Legends

Riot Opens Tier 2 to the World: WSCI 2026 Brings 16 Academy-Level Teams to One Bracket

September 4, 2026 All News, League of Legends Mark Terrence

For years, the second tier of competitive League of Legends has been a collection of sealed rooms. Challengers leagues in Europe, the Americas, Korea, China and APAC each produced their own champions, and those champions almost never met. Riot Games and TJ Sports are changing that this month with the... read more

August 20, 2026

League of Legends

LoL Patch 26.17 Nerfs Vayne Top and Xerath — Why Pro Markets Should Wait Out the August 26 Reset

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Riot Games has laid out the balance package for Patch 26.17, and it goes live on August 26, 2026. On paper it is a tuning patch rather than a system overhaul, but two of the nerfs land on champions that have quietly been shaping competitive drafts, which makes the fortnight... read more

August 17, 2026

League of Legends

Caps Becomes the First Western Hall of Legends Inductee — What It Signals for LEC Betting

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Riot Games has confirmed Rasmus "Caps" Winther as the third inductee into the League of Legends Hall of Legends, following Faker in 2024 and Uzi in 2025. The G2 Esports mid laner is the first Western player to receive the honour, and the timing was not entirely of Riot's choosing:... read more

August 9, 2026

League of Legends

LoL Patch 26.16 Ends the Mage Bot Lane Era: What Changes for Pro Play and the Odds

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Riot Games is about to redraw the most closely watched patch of turf in competitive League of Legends: the bot lane. Patch 26.16, due on August 12, 2026, ships a package of marksman buffs and support-economy nerfs built to send the mage bot lane experiment back toward mid. How mages... read more

August 5, 2026

League of Legends

Riot Reins In LoL’s Mage Bot Meta: Patch 26.16 Buffs ADCs and Punishes Support Roaming

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Riot Games is stepping into one of the most disruptive strategic shifts League of Legends has seen this season. After months of AP mages pushing traditional marksmen out of the bot lane, the balance team has confirmed that Patch 26.16 will hand ADCs a package of buffs while making support... read more

June 15, 2022

Valorant

Riot Games chooses partners for new Valorant leagues

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It is known that Riot Games wants to completely reorganize the Valorant League system for 2023. Currently, the application phase is underway. The game developer is collecting potential partners for the 2023 leagues in the first round. According to our experience, almost all of the major eSports clans want to... read more

May 20, 2022

Valorant

Riot Games announces Masters venues for the VCT

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Where and when will the second and third Masters of the Valorant Champions Tour 2022 take place? In the past weeks there was a lot of speculation in the scene. Riot Games has now let the cat out of the bag. It was already clear that both tournaments will be... read more

May 2, 2022

Tournaments & Events

Riot Games plans weekly Valorant tournaments in 2023

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Valorant is probably the strongest growing eSport discipline at the moment. A look at the bookmakers' betting offers alone shows that Valorant can now keep up with all known eSports disciplines. The numbers of the bookmakers also prove that Valorant is also very popular with the betting community, not only... read more

April 25, 2022

League of Legends

New sponsorship deals in South America

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Looking at the global eSports scene, it quickly becomes clear that Brazil is one of the most important eSports destinations. In the past few days, this has once again become clear through two high sponsorship deals. We have summarized the information about the partnerships in the news. FURIA cooperates with... read more

April 18, 2022

League of Legends

Nimo TV with surprising global withdrawal

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#NimoTV has earned a very good reputation in the #eSports scene over the past few years. Numerous important games were streamed via Nimo TV. But this is now probably finally over. Completely surprisingly, it was announced that Nimo TV will cease its global activities. The news was a shock not... read more

March 7, 2022

Ignite Tournaments on the verge of a breakthrough?

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Ignite Tournaments is probably one of the most ambitious e-sports companies on the market. The company is dedicated to mobile e-gaming to take tournaments to a new level. Company with new capital of 10 million US dollars The eSports organizer has just closed two rounds of funding. A total of... read more

February 22, 2022

Valorant

IEM Katowice 2022 – G2 Grabs The Last Playoff Spot

All News, Valorant Mathias

One of the biggest CS: GO events, #IEMKatowice, started on February 15th and will end on the 27th of the same month. On that night, the two best teams in the tournament will clash against each other in the grand finals in pursuit of adding the prestigious “IEM Katowice Champions”... read more