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Riot Games, Inc. is an American video game developer, publisher, and esports tournament organizer based in Los Angeles.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.
League of Legends is one of the largest esports with various annual tournaments taking place worldwide. [1] In terms of esports professional gaming as of June 2016, League of Legends has had $29,203,916 USD in prize money, 4,083 Players, and 1,718 tournaments, compared to Dota 2's US$64,397,286 of prize money, 1,495 players, and 613 tournaments.
League of Legends is the world's largest esport, with an international competitive scene consisting of multiple regional leagues that culminate in an annual League of Legends World Championship. The 2019 event registered over 100 million unique viewers, peaking at a concurrent viewership of 44 million during the finals .
As of 2012, free-to-play MOBAs, such as League of Legends, Dota 2, Heroes of the Storm, and Smite had become among the most popular PC games. [28] The success in the genre has helped convince many video game publishers to copy the free-to-play MOBA model. [29] [30]
The 2025 LTA season is the inaugural season of the League of Legends Championship of The Americas (LTA), a Pan-American professional esports league for the video game League of Legends. The league launched with 16 teams, thirteen (13) of whom are franchised, two guest teams, and one provisional guest team, [a] all playing across three splits in ...
It was followed by two spiritual successors, League of Legends (2009) and Heroes of Newerth (2010), as well by a standalone sequel, Dota 2 (2013), and numerous other games in the genre, such as Smite (2014) and Heroes of the Storm (2015). [5] [6] By the early 2010s, the genre had become a big part of the esports category.
The league was officially formed on October 31, 2024, as the League of Legends Championship of The Americas, with the inaugural 16 teams in the league announced that same day. [ 19 ] 100 Thieves , initially planned to be a regular partnered team, also announced on October 31 that they sold their slot back to Riot Games.
The 2024 League of Legends World Championship Final was a League of Legends (LoL) esports series between Bilibili Gaming and T1 on 2 November 2024 at The O2 Arena in London, United Kingdom, marking the fourteenth final of a LoL World Championship and the final championship series to take place under the two-split competitive calendar as a new split structure and competitive calendar for the ...