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Dot Esports’ official Worlds 2021 power rankings 

After a year of blood, sweat, and tears, the 2021 World Championship is almost here. The 22 best League of Legends teams across the globe have worked themselves to the bone during the Summer Split, and their efforts have allowed them to rise above the rest of the competition in their respective regions to reach the biggest League event of the year. Everything they’ve built has culminated into this one tournament. This is where legends are made and legacies are forged. From formidable powerhouses to tantalizing underdogs, next month should

T1’s Teddy backs to his fountain in a solo queue game and brings enemy Warwick along for the ride

Worlds 2021 is on the horizon. The most anticipated tournament in the League of Legends calendar starts next Tuesday, Oct. 5, and will be held in Reykjavík, Iceland. So it’s no surprise that most pros have already gathered on the island in Northern Europe and are grinding EUW solo queue in their spare time. T1 AD carry Teddy, for example, recently had one of his games spectated live by LEC caster Caedrel. The Brit has been watching pros from around the world climbing their way up the European ladder. As

Netflix makes first game studio acquisition with Oxenfree developer Night School Studio

With its plans to expand further into game streaming, Netflix has officially acquired its first development studio in Night School Studio.  Night School is best known for developing 2016’s supernatural mystery indie darling Oxenfree, along with Mr. Robot:1.51exfiltrati0n and Afterparty. The team is working on Oxenfree II: Lost Signals and it’s excited about what working in-house with Netflix can open up in terms of future projects.  Specifically, studio co-founder Sean Krankel thinks this deal will allow Night School to continue focusing on telling the stories and creating the games that

All pro League players featured in ‘Burn It All Down’ Worlds song

The latest League of Legends‘ World Championship song, “Burn It All Down,” was released on Sept. 28 and is already proving a tremendous success in its community. The song, produced by Riot Games and North American band PVRIS, feature several League pros who have participated in Worlds during their career. Unlike the last three Worlds songs, Riot will not release any supplemental material by one of League‘s pop bands, K/DA and True Damage, alongside the official music video. The majority of the players highlighted in “Burn It All Down” qualified

Riot premieres Worlds 2021 official song ‘Burn It All Down’

Earlier today, Riot Games revealed the official song and supplementary music video for this year’s League of Legends World Championship.  The song is titled “Burn it All Down” and features lead vocals from pop music group PVRIS. The track itself is built on a heavy techno inspiration with a punching bassline and up-tempo melody throughout its three-and-a-half-minute runtime.  [embedded content] As is tradition with the annual Worlds song, the music video for “Burn it All Down” features countless animated League of Legends pros who have all been to the World

The top 10 players at Worlds 2021

Each year, hundreds of professional League of Legends players compete in a dozen leagues across the world. And since the game’s professional scene is splintered into these regional leagues, it makes it difficult for the best players from their respective regions to compete with each other on a consistent basis.  At the World Championship, though, the strongest players from each corner of the globe congregate, treating fans to memorable moments and “instant classic” games. Perhaps it’s the rarity of matches played between some of League’s biggest stars that makes Worlds

5 Things We Want in League of Legends Patch 11.20

League of LegendsPhoto Courtesy of Riot GamesLeague of Legends Patch 11.20 is scheduled to go live on Wednesday, Oct. 6. With no official patch preview available yet, upcoming changes to the game have been teased on the PBE. Now that Riot Games has finalized the patch that the League of Legends World Championship will be played on, the future of the game looks to likely become more loose as preseason draws closer and closer.With that being said, these are five things we want in League of Legends Patch 11.20.Early tuning

Riot reveals details around League’s next ADC, hints at new support and Void-based jungler in latest Champion Roadmap

It might feel like the past year has gone by quite quickly, but Riot Games is moving even quicker. The developers released a new Champion Roadmap today, unveiling more details about League of Legends’ next bottom lane marksman champion and giving out some hints for the next support and Void-based jungler headed our way next year. Using a ton of electricity puns along the way, lead champion producer Ryan “Reav3” Mireles talked about the next AD carry “who has been charging up and is rearing to finally get on the

Climbing back: How a superstar-packed Cloud9 can defy expectations at Worlds 2021

In the span of just four months, Cloud9 went from one of the top League of Legends teams in the world to one of the international scene’s shakiest. After winning the North American Spring Split title in convincing fashion in May, the team was a shoe-in to be a top-four team at the Mid-Season Invitational. Since that point, though, Cloud9 have fallen off a proverbial cliff.  Of course, they didn’t fall as hard this year as they did in 2020 when they went from winning the LCS in the spring