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Riot Games. Riot Games, Inc. is an American video game developer, publisher, and esports tournament organizer based in Los Angeles, California. It was founded in September 2006 by Brandon Beck and Marc Merrill to develop League of Legends and went on to develop several spin-off games and the unrelated first-person shooter game Valorant.
Valorant is a free-to-play first-person tactical hero shooter developed and published by Riot Games. [3] The game's development started in 2014 and was teased under the codename Project A in October 2019. A closed beta period began with limited access on April 7, 2020, followed by a release on June 2, 2020.
March 1, 2013. Genre (s) MOBA. Mode (s) Multiplayer. League of Legends ( LoL ), commonly referred to as League, is a 2009 multiplayer online battle arena video game developed and published by Riot Games. Inspired by Defense of the Ancients, a custom map for Warcraft III, Riot's founders sought to develop a stand-alone game in the same genre.
Esports. Employer. Riot Games. David Turley, better known as Phreak, is an American former League of Legends esports commentator for Riot Games. He has one of the longest careers of an esports commentator in the North American League of Legends Championship Series and has cast in several of the largest major international tournaments.
Multiplayer. Teamfight Tactics ( TFT) is an auto battler game developed and published by Riot Games. The game is a spinoff of League of Legends and is based on Dota Auto Chess, where players compete online against seven other opponents by building a team to be the last one standing. The game released as a League of Legends game mode for Windows ...
The Valorant Champions Tour ( VCT) is a global competitive esports tournament series for the video game Valorant organised by Riot Games, the game's developers. The series runs multiple events throughout each season, culminating in Valorant Champions, the top-level event of the tour. The VCT was announced in 2020, with its inaugural season ...
Tier 1 leagues. As of 2024, there are 8 professional leagues for League of Legends around the world. For the Mid-Season Invitational with 12 spots: The LCK, LPL, LEC and LCS are allocated 2 spots each. The PCS, VCS, CBLOL and LLA are allocated 1 spot each. For the World Championship with 20 spots:
League of Legends esports is the professional competition of the multiplayer online battle arena video game League of Legends. It is developed and published by Riot Games and was first released in 2009. Professional tournaments began in 2011 with the Season 1 World Championship at DreamHack in Jönköping, Sweden.