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LoL Esports will have a different look in the future, especially after changes had come with the MSI and World Championships over the last year.
Some rumors even indicated that a third international tournament was in the works. While Riot is confirming those changes are among their changes, they are also using this opportunity to implement a lot of other touch-ups.
Esports regions have been consolidated to five: Korea, China, EMEA, Americas, and APAC. Moreover, Riot has confirmed that these changes are part of their plans, along with implementing various other touch-ups.
Riot Turns Down Esports Regions to Five
Some of the other significant changes include Esports regions consolidated to five: Korea, China, and EMEA stayed the same, but LCS, CBLOL, and LLA merged into one as the Americas region, while VCS, PCS, LCO, and LJL formed the APAC (Asia Pacific) region.
So, there we go:
- Korea
- China
- EMEA
- Americas
- APAC
While Korea, China, and EMEA keep their existing structures, there will be significant changes in the Americas and APAC.
The Americas
It's mashing up the LCS, LLA, and CBLOL into the Americas and into two conferences, North and South America.
North Americas:
- Six LCS partners keep their slots.
- One LLA team was added while considering geographical location.
- One away team from promotion and relegation by way of native Tier II feature.
South Americas:
- Six CBLOL teams restore positions.
- One more LLA team added geographically.
- One guest team from promotion and relegation through the Tier 2 system.
They will take place within their respective conferences, from which the top teams will go through to compete in cross-conference play. The leading team from Split 1 will go on to qualify for a brand-new Global Tournament. First-place teams from across the eight groups will be eligible to participate in MSI.
Split 3 brings the all-important Americas Regional Championship, determining three spots – with at least one from each conference – for world qualification.
There will be a promotion-relegation play-off for tier 2 at the end of every season. The promoted guess team is then primed into the central league aspect.
APAC
APAC will unify Vietnam, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Macao, Japan, Oceania, and the rest of Southeast Asia and take both the PCS and VCS. The league will have eight teams, with the guest ones to be decided by the standings of PCS and VCS Summer 2024 Split Playoffs.
Promotion and relegation will be identical to the Americas.
New Split Structure
Riot is taking the number of splits back to the previously known three in all regions. Split 1 will get teams launching a new tournament on a global level, S2 is for MSI, and S3 is for the much expected Regional Championship and Worlds.
Three Global Competitions
The Global Tournament encloses thereon the whole with a renovated Global Tournament, MSI, and Worlds: with five, 10, and 17 teams, respectively, of which two are allotted an extra two slots for more substantial regions in their performance areas at MSI.
Details for the New Global Challenge:
Five squads Brave Draft in a one round-robin best-of-series six-day period. MSI and Worlds will remain relatively the same but squeeze into ten MSI teams instead of 12.
The number of teams at Worlds will be increased to 17; allow two extra teams from regions that rake in more money. Play-Ins will be a single best-of, producing 16 teams within the Main Event.
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