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First Stand
The First Stand Tournament (FST, also simply as First Stand) is an annual ''League of Legends'' international tournament hosted by Riot Games at the conclusion of the first of three splits of the game's professional esports scene. It is the third international tournament under the new split structure and competitive calendar by Riot Games since 2025. History 2025 On 11 June 2024, Riot Games announced the creation of a new split structure and competitive calendar for the ''League of Legends'' esports scene, including a three-split calendar similar to that of the ''League of Legends'' EMEA Championship (LEC) to be applied to all major regions and the creation of a new international tournament to conclude the first split. During the media day for the 2024 League of Legends World Championship Final at The O2 Arena in London, United Kingdom on 1 November 2024, Riot Games announced that the new international tournament would be named "First Stand Tournament" (FST), with the ina ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
League Of Legends
''League of Legends'' (''LoL'', commonly referred to as ''League'', is a multiplayer online battle arena video game developed and published by Riot Games. Inspired by ''Defense of the Ancients'', a Mod (video games), custom map for ''Warcraft III: Reign of Chaos, Warcraft III'', Riot's founders sought to develop a stand-alone game in the same genre. Since its release in October 2009, ''League'' has been free-to-play and is monetized through Freemium, purchasable character customization. The game is available for Windows and macOS. In the game, two teams of five players battle in player-versus-player combat, each team occupying and defending their half of the map. Each of the ten players controls a character, known as a "champion", with unique abilities and differing styles of play. During a match, champions become more powerful by collecting experience points, earning gold, and purchasing Item (game terminology), items to defeat the opposing team. In ''League''s main mode, Su ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Latin America
Latin America is the cultural region of the Americas where Romance languages are predominantly spoken, primarily Spanish language, Spanish and Portuguese language, Portuguese. Latin America is defined according to cultural identity, not geography, and as such it includes countries in both North and South America. Most countries south of the United States tend to be included: Mexico and the countries of Central America, South America and the Caribbean. Commonly, it refers to Hispanic America plus Brazil. Related terms are the narrower Hispanic America, which exclusively refers to Spanish-speaking nations, and the broader Ibero-America, which includes all Iberic countries in the Americas and occasionally European countries like Spain, Portugal and Andorra. Despite being in the same geographical region, English- and Dutch language, Dutch-speaking countries and territories are excluded (Suriname, Guyana, the Falkland Islands, Jamaica, Trinidad and Tobago, Belize, etc.), and French- ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2027 First Stand Tournament
7 (seven) is the natural number following 6 and preceding 8. It is the only prime number preceding a cube. As an early prime number in the series of positive integers, the number seven has symbolic associations in religion, mythology, superstition and philosophy. The seven classical planets resulted in seven being the number of days in a week. 7 is often considered lucky in Western culture and is often seen as highly symbolic. Evolution of the Arabic digit For early Brahmi numerals, 7 was written more or less in one stroke as a curve that looks like an uppercase vertically inverted (ᒉ). The western Arab peoples' main contribution was to make the longer line diagonal rather than straight, though they showed some tendencies to making the digit more rectilinear. The eastern Arab peoples developed the digit from a form that looked something like 6 to one that looked like an uppercase V. Both modern Arab forms influenced the European form, a two-stroke form consisting of a ho ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2026 First Stand Tournament
The 2026 First Stand Tournament will be the second First Stand Tournament (FST) – a ''League of Legends'' tournament organized by publisher Riot Games at the conclusion of the first split in the current competitive calendar of the game's professional esports scene. The tournament will be held in Brazil. It will be the second international ''League of Legends'' competition to be hosted in Latin America after the 2017 Mid-Season Invitational, which was also held in Brazil. Hanwha Life Esports of the ''League of Legends'' Champions Korea (LCK) are the defending champions. Qualification Five teams from each of the five major professional regions, namely the ''League of Legends'' Champions Korea (LCK), ''League of Legends'' Pro League (LPL), ''League of Legends'' EMEA Championship (LEC), ''League of Legends'' Championship of The Americas (LTA), and the ''League of Legends'' Championship Pacific (LCP), will qualify through winning their respective splits. Venue Brazil ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2025 First Stand Tournament
The 2025 First Stand Tournament was the inaugural First Stand Tournament (FST) – a ''League of Legends'' tournament organized by publisher Riot Games at the conclusion of the first of three splits in the current competitive calendar of the game's professional esports scene. The inaugural tournament was held in South Korea from 10 to 16 March 2025. Hanwha Life Esports of the ''League of Legends'' Champions Korea (LCK) won the tournament by defeating ''League of Legends'' EMEA Championship (LEC) representatives Karmine Corp with a score 3-1 in the final, marking the organization's first international title. Qualification Five teams from each of the five major professional regions, namely the ''League of Legends'' Champions Korea (LCK), ''League of Legends'' Pro League (LPL), ''League of Legends'' EMEA Championship (LEC), ''League of Legends'' Championship of The Americas (LTA), and the ''League of Legends'' Championship Pacific (LCP), qualified through winning their re ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dexerto
''Dexerto'' is a video game and entertainment news website operated by Dexerto Limited. Founded in 2015 and headquartered in London, the site originally focused on esports but later shifted towards tabloid-style coverage of video games and internet culture, with a particularly strong focus on internet personalities. History ''Dexerto'' was founded on 19 March 2015 by Joshua Nino, Chris Marsh, Mike Kent, and Nicolas Hulsmans to cover esports. It originally launched as two websites, one in English and the other in French. A Spanish website was also launched. The coverage of the website subsequently shifted. A 2022 ''Business Insider'' article described its coverage as "evolv ngto chronicle broader online culture, with a flair for drama in the gaming space and beyond", with a particular focus on drama and controversies involving internet personalities, who attract broader interest than esports, while continuing to cover esports to some degree. Esports analyst Rod Breslau d ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
League Of Legends Championship Pacific
The ''League of Legends'' Championship Pacific (LCP) is a professional esports league for ''League of Legends'' teams competing in the Asia-Pacific region. Riot Games, the game's developer, and tournament organizer Carry International created the league on 29 September 2024. This followed an announcement in June by Riot in which they planned to form a single tournament to replace the Pacific Championship Series (PCS) and Vietnam Championship Series (VCS) as a tier-one league. Both leagues, alongside the ''League of Legends'' Japan League (LJL), which was integrated into the PCS for the 2024 season, became tier-two leagues. The LCP utilizes a hybrid franchise and promotion and relegation model, similar to the Valorant Champions Tour (VCT) in Riot's tactical shooter ''Valorant''. Four teams are "partners" in the league and can't be relegated, while another four are "guest teams" that can be relegated to the PCS, VCS, LJL or other sub-regional leagues based on their location. T ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
League Of Legends Championship Of The Americas
The ''League of Legends'' Championship of The Americas, also known as the League of The Americas (LTA), is the top level of professional ''League of Legends'' in the Americas, which includes the United States, Canada, Latin America and the Caribbean. The esports league is run by Riot Games and has sixteen teams split into two conferences, North and South. Each annual season of competition is divided into three splits, with playoff competition between the top teams. At the end of each split, the best teams qualify for the three international tournaments – The winner of the first split qualifies for the First Stand Tournament, the winners of each conference in the second split qualify for the Mid Season Invitational, and the top three teams in the third split playoffs (known as the Americas Regional Championship) qualify for the annual ''League of Legends'' World Championship. The league was initially announced in June 2024 as a merger between the then three regional leagues ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
League Of Legends Pro League
The ''League of Legends'' Pro League (LPL) is the top-level professional league for ''League of Legends'' in China. The first season of the LPL was the 2013 Spring season. The top three finishers of the playoff tournament receive automatic bids to the League of Legends World Championship, ''League of Legends'' World Championship. Playoffs are an eight team single elimination with each step a best-of-five series. The total prize pool is ¥2,350,000. In 2014 Riot Games began providing an English language broadcast. The format is modeled after the League of Legends Champions Korea, ''League of Legends'' Champions Korea format in South Korea. In September 2015 it was announced that Riot Games was in negotiations with Tencent to take over operations of the league. In 2019, Riot Games and Tencent created joint venture, TJ Sports, to focus on all ''League of Legends'' esports business in China, including tournament organizing, talent management, and venues. Format For the 2015 spring s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2019 Mid-Season Invitational
The 2019 Mid-Season Invitational was the fifth Mid-Season Invitational (MSI), a Riot Games-organised tournament for ''League of Legends'', the multiplayer online battle arena video game. The tournament was the culmination of the 2019 Spring Split, the first part of season 9 of the game's competitive scene. Each of the 13 premier League of Legends leagues sent a team to represent them; Europe ( LEC), South Korea ( LCK) and China ( LPL) had their teams automatically admitted into the main event whereas the other 10 leagues competed among each other in the Play-in Stage, with the top three teams advancing to join the main event Group Stage. "Bring Home The Glory" was the tournament's theme song, put together by Sara Skinner. The tournament was hosted in Vietnam and Taiwan from 1 to 19 May 2019. Matches of the play-in were held in the VCS Studio in Ho Chi Minh City, matches of the group stage were held in the Vietnam National Convention Center in Hanoi, and playoffs took place in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Taiwan
Taiwan, officially the Republic of China (ROC), is a country in East Asia. The main geography of Taiwan, island of Taiwan, also known as ''Formosa'', lies between the East China Sea, East and South China Seas in the northwestern Pacific Ocean, with the China, People's Republic of China (PRC) to the northwest, Japan to the northeast, and the Philippines to the south. It has an area of , with mountain ranges dominating the eastern two-thirds and plains in the western third, where its Urbanization by country, highly urbanized population is concentrated. The combined Free area of the Republic of China, territories under ROC control consist of list of islands of Taiwan, 168 islands in total covering . The Taipei–Keelung metropolitan area, largest metropolitan area is formed by Taipei (the capital), New Taipei City, and Keelung. With around 23.9 million inhabitants, Taiwan is among the List of countries and dependencies by population density, most densely populated countries. Tai ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
