Tag Archives: Challenger Series

Riot Games have announced that League of Legends’ North American Challenger Series is going to be adopting a best-of-three round-robin format, effective immediately. The Academy League is expected to take over in 2018, and so the NA CS is being prepared for the transition and responding to feedback from Challenger …

Gfinity have announced that the Elite Draft — and attached Elite Series — will not take place until a later date. The Draft was due to be held on Friday but has now been delayed indefinitely. London-based Gfinity have claimed the Draft is delayed due to an extension of the …

Gfinity has finally announced the first details of its Challenger and Elite Series after announcing the competition at the end of 2016.  We now know that there will be three games involved, with Counter-Strike: Global Offensive being the first one announced. The other two games will be announced in the …

We knew that EU LCS sister teams would not be able to play in the Challenger Series promotion tournament but new rules for Summer 2017 reveal they won’t be able to play at all.  Riot has announced that from the Summer Split sister teams to those in the EU LCS …

Riot Games has announced that NA LCS sister teams that qualify for the promotion tournament in the Challenger Series will not be allowed to play in it.  Over recent splits many teams have had one team in the LCS and one team in the Challenger Series. Some teams have seen …

North American organisation Counter Logic Gaming has announced that it plans to field a team in the North American Challenger Series in 2017.  This new team will sit alongside it’s championship winning LCS team, and most likely act in a similar way to those of Cloud9 and Team Liquid. New …