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2019 LCS Season
The 2019 LCS season was the seventh season of the ''League of Legends'' Championship Series (LCS), a professional esports league for the video game ''League of Legends''. The season was divided into two splits: Spring and Summer. The Spring Split began on January 26 and culminated with the playoff finals on April 13, 2019. The Summer Split began on June 1 and culminated with the Spring Split finals on August 25, 2019. Team Liquid won the spring split playoffs, qualifying them for the 2019 Mid-Season Invitational. Team Liquid also won the summer split playoffs, directly qualifying them for the 2019 World Championship. Cloud9 and Clutch Gaming also qualified for the 2019 World Championship via Championship Points and winning the Regional Finals, respectively. Spring The Spring Split regular season began on January 26 and ended on March 24, 2019. The regular season followed a standard double round-robin format, where each team faced every other team twice. The top six teams fr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
League Of Legends Championship Series
The League Championship Series (LCS) was the top level of professional ''League of Legends'' in the United States and Canada. The esports Sports league, league was run by Riot Games and had anywhere from eight to 10 teams. Each annual season of competition was divided into two splits, spring and summer, which concluded with a double-elimination tournament between the top teams. At the end of the season, the winner, runners-up and third-place team of the summer playoffs qualified for the annual League of Legends World Championship, ''League of Legends'' World Championship. Established in 2013, the league was initially split into two regions: the European League of Legends Championship Series (EU LCS) and the North American League of Legends Championship Series (NA LCS). The NA LCS featured eight teams, which were determined via a promotion and relegation system. In 2015, the league expanded to ten teams. In 2018, the NA LCS shifted to a franchise system with ten permanent teams, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Rift Herald
''Polygon'' is an American entertainment website created by Vox Media covering video games, movies, television, and other popular culture. At its October 2012 launch as Vox Media's third property, ''Polygon'' sought to distinguish itself by focusing on the stories of the people behind video games and long-form magazine-style feature articles. The site was built over the course of ten months by eight co-founding editors which included the editors-in-chief of the gaming sites ''Joystiq'', ''Kotaku'' and '' The Escapist''. Vox Media produced a documentary series on the founding of the site. In May 2025, ''Polygon'' was sold to Valnet. History Vox Media (2012–2025) The gaming blog ''Polygon'' was launched on October 24, 2012, as Vox Media's third property. The site grew from technology blog ''The Verge'', which was launched a year earlier as an outgrowth of sports blog network ''SB Nation'' before Vox Media was formed. Vox Media's chief executive officer, Jim Bankoff, app ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Winning Percentage
In sports, a winning percentage or Copeland score is the fraction of games or matches a team or individual has won. The statistic is commonly used in standings or rankings to compare teams or individuals. It is defined as wins divided by the total number of matches played (i.e. wins plus draws plus losses). A draw counts as a win. : \text = Discussion For example, if a team's season record is 30 wins and 20 losses, the winning percentage would be 60% or 0.600: : 60\% = \cdot100\% If a team's season record is 30–15–5 (i.e. it has won thirty games, lost fifteen and tied five times), and if the five tie games are counted as 2 wins, then the team has an adjusted record of 32 wins, resulting in a 65% or winning percentage for the fifty total games from: : 65\% = \cdot100\% In North America, winning percentages are expressed as decimal values to three decimal places. It is the same value, but without the last step of multiplying by 100% in the formula above. Furthermore, t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Team SoloMid League Of Legends Division
The ''League of Legends'' division of Team SoloMid, TSM was a gaming team based in Los Angeles, California, that competed in the League of Legends Championship Series, League Championship Series (LCS), the top-level professional league for video game ''League of Legends'' in the United States and Canada, from 2013 to 2023. The organization sold their LCS franchise slot in 2023. Established in 2011, the ''League of Legends'' division was the founding division of Team SoloMid. The team formed from a group of players that represented the community of the online ''League of Legends'' blog SoloMid.net, which was founded by brothers Dan Dinh and Andy "Reginald" Dinh. TSM was one of the founding members of the LCS and won the 2013 NA LCS season#Spring, inaugural NA LCS championship. They won five more LCS titles from 2014 to 2017, including three consecutive titles: 2016 NA LCS season#Summer, Summer 2016, 2017 NA LCS season#Spring, Spring 2017, and 2017 NA LCS season#Summer, Summer 2017 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
OpTic Gaming
OpTic Gaming is an American professional eSports, esports and entertainment organization headquartered in Frisco, Texas. The organization currently operates a ''Call of Duty'' team in the Call of Duty League, OpTic Texas, and a Halo (franchise), ''Halo'' team. They previously competed in ''Counter-Strike: Global Offensive'', ''Gears of War 4'', ''PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds'', ''Fortnite Battle Royale'', ''Dota 2'', ''League of Legends'', ''Valorant'', ''Apex Legends, Overwatch, and Rocket League''. The organization is currently owned by Hector "H3CZ" Rodriguez. History OpTic Gaming was established in 2006 by OpTic "KR3W" and OpTic Enigma as a ''Call of Duty 2'' (Xbox 360) competitive team that specialized mainly in Search and Destroy and Team Deathmatch. In 2008, the group of friends would eventually grow older and the team began to dissipate. With OpTic Enigma then long gone, OpTic KR3W stepped down to hand over the team to long-time member Hector "H3CZ" Rodriguez. The team ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Golden Guardians
The Golden Guardians (GG) were an American esports organization owned by the Golden State Warriors. The organization was one of four that joined the ''League of Legends'' Championship Series (LCS) in 2018 after the league began franchising, the others being 100 Thieves, Clutch Gaming and OpTic Gaming. On December 18, 2019, the Golden Guardians announced their expansion into the professional scenes of ''Apex Legends'', '' Teamfight Tactics'' and ''World of Warcraft''. '' Super Smash Bros. Melee'' player Zain "Zain" Naghmi and ''Teamfight Tactics'' player David "DogDog" Caero were signed by the Golden Guardians on February 6, 2020. On April 2, 2021, the organization announced the signings of ''Super Smash Bros. Melee'' player Edgard "n0ne" L. Sheleby, inactive player and streamer Kevin "PPMD" Nanney and commentator Kris "Toph" Aldenderfer. On March 29, 2023, Zain announced his departure from the Golden Guardians; the following day, the organization announced the signings of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Echo Fox
Echo Fox was an American esports organization. It was founded on December 18, 2015, by retired basketball player Rick Fox, who created Echo Fox after he purchased the NA LCS spot of Gravity Gaming. The organization had expanded into various games with teams competing in titles such as '' Gears of War'', ''Call of Duty'', '' CS:GO'', '' Dragon Ball FighterZ'', '' Injustice 2,'' '' Madden NFL 19'', ''Mortal Kombat'', '' Super Smash Bros.'', and '' Street Fighter V''. Echo Fox had several fighting game players with championship titles and are a well known organization in the professional scene. History On December 18, 2015 Rick Fox and his business partners, Amit Raizada and Khalid Jones, entered the professional esports scene with their acquisition of the NA LCS spot of Gravity Gaming, creating a new team named Echo Fox. According to Raizada, he and Jones "both offered up $1 million each to get the new team off the ground" while Fox "never put in any of his own money in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
FlyQuest
FlyQuest is a professional esports organization based in the United States that was founded on January 6, 2017. It is owned by the ''Viola family'', owners of the Florida Panthers. FlyQuest was originally founded after the acquisition of the ''League of Legends'' roster of Cloud9 Challenger, which was the sister team of the Cloud9 organization. Cloud9 Challenger qualified for the North American League Championship Series in August 2016, alongside the main Cloud9 roster. LCS rules forbid an organization from owning multiple teams in the same league, so the team was sold to Milwaukee Bucks co-owner Wesley Edens and Fortress Investment Group and rebranded to FlyQuest, with the team roster unchanged. Tricia Sugita was appointed as CEO in 2020, while Ryan Edens would move to a president position. She left the team on 13 June 2022, later becoming the Chief Marketing Officer for Cloud9. Micheal Choi was appointed as the new CEO. In September 2022, the Viola family, owners of the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Counter Logic Gaming
Counter Logic Gaming (CLG) was an American esports organization headquartered in Los Angeles, California. It was founded in April 2010 by George "HotshotGG" Georgallidis and Alexander "Vodoo" Beutel as a ''League of Legends'' team, and branched out into other games. CLG fielded the oldest ''League of Legends'' team active at the time, having competed in every split of the North American League of Legends Championship Series, ''League of Legends'' Championship Series (NA LCS) since it began in Spring 2013. CLG won two NA LCS splits, the 2015 Summer NA LCS and 2016 Spring NA LCS. The team also attended the Season 2 World Championship, 2012, 2015 League of Legends World Championship, 2015 and 2016 League of Legends World Championship, 2016 League of Legends World Championship, ''League of Legends'' World Championships, and was eliminated in the group stage on each occasion. The organization also fielded ''Smite (video game), Smite'', ''Counter-Strike: Global Offensive'' (CS:GO), ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
100 Thieves
100 Thieves, LLC (abbreviated 100T) is an American lifestyle brand and Esports, gaming organization based in Los Angeles, California, founded in 2017 by Nadeshot, Matthew "Nadeshot" Haag. The organization competes in several video games, including ''Apex Legends'', ''Call of Duty'', ''Call of Duty: Warzone (2022 video game), Call of Duty: Warzone,'' ''League of Legends, Marvel Rivals, Street Fighter,'' Teamfight Tactics, ''Teamfight Tactics'', and ''Valorant''. They currently operate four franchise teams, which compete in the League of Legends Championship of The Americas, ''League of Legends'' Championship of The Americas (LTA), Valorant Champions Tour, ''Valorant'' Champions Tour (VCT), Apex Legends Global Series, ''Apex Legends'' Global Series (ALGS) and the Call of Duty League (CDL) (branded as Los Angeles Thieves); their LTA team is currently a "provisional guest partner" in the North Conference. History 100 Thieves was founded in 2017 by Nadeshot, Matthew "Nadeshot" Ha ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Esports Observer
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Chaifetz Arena
Chaifetz Arena ( ), is a 10,600 seat multi-purpose arena in St. Louis, Missouri, located on the Saint Louis University campus. The arena began construction on August 28, 2006, and opened on April 10, 2008. In February 2007, Chicago-based businessman Richard Chaifetz, CEO of ComPsych Corporation and 1975 graduate of SLU, made a $12 million donation to the university, which named the arena in his honor. Since the 2008–09 season, it has been the home of the Saint Louis University men's and women's basketball teams. Additionally, the attached Chaifetz Pavilion includes a two-court basketball and volleyball practice facility that also serves as an 800-seat venue that is the home for the university's volleyball teams. The arena, known as "the Jewel of Midtown," includes a three-story athletic office. Former VCU coach Shaka Smart called Chaifetz Arena the toughest venue to play in the Atlantic 10 Conference. Men's basketball record at Chaifetz Arena Events The first event held ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
