{"id":270,"date":"2017-02-13T12:49:45","date_gmt":"2017-02-13T12:49:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/?p=270"},"modified":"2017-10-23T04:11:49","modified_gmt":"2017-10-23T04:11:49","slug":"riot-announces-lol-2017-international-esports-events-and-regions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/riot-announces-lol-2017-international-esports-events-and-regions\/","title":{"rendered":"Riot announces LoL 2017 international eSports events and regions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" data-src=\"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/wp-content\/smush-webp\/2017\/02\/league_of_legends_tipping_partnership.jpg.webp\" title=\"League of Legends 2017 eSports tournaments announced by Riot\" alt=\"Riot Games announces League of Legends 2017 eSports plans\" width=\"400\" height=\"205\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-240 lazyload\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/wp-content\/smush-webp\/2017\/02\/league_of_legends_tipping_partnership.jpg.webp 400w, https:\/\/esportbet.com\/wp-content\/smush-webp\/2017\/02\/league_of_legends_tipping_partnership-300x154.jpg.webp 300w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 400px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 400\/205;\" \/><\/p>\n<p>League of Legends is set for a bumper start to 2017, with Riot announcing plans for the upcoming League Of Legends Mid-Season Invitational, as well as the highly anticipated LoL World Championship.<\/p>\n<p>The Mid-Season Invitational will head to Brazil, kicking things off from April 28 and running until May 21. The structure will be different compared to past seasons, however.<\/p>\n<p>The 2016 Mid-Season Invitational feature six teams and an International Wild Card, with champions from Korea, China, North America and Europe battling it out.<\/p>\n<p>In 2017, Riot will get rid of the Wild Card system, and will instead turn to smaller leagues to fill the spot.<\/p>\n<p>That means a roster of thirteen teams will battle at the Mid-Season Invitational.<\/p>\n<p>There will also be a brand new tournament structure, with a six-team group stage complimented by a new play-in stage, which will determine each team&#8217;s seed.<\/p>\n<p>Teams from last year&#8217;s three best-performing regions have already been granted a place in the group stages. Other regions will need to find for a place.<\/p>\n<p>Here are the regions that will &#8212; alongside the five major leagues already intended to attend &#8212; be represented:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Japan (JPN)<\/li>\n<li>Brazil (BR)<\/li>\n<li>Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS)<\/li>\n<li>Latin America \u2013 North (LAN)<\/li>\n<li>Latin America \u2013 South (LAS)<\/li>\n<li>Oceania (OCE)<\/li>\n<li>Southeast Asia (SEA)<\/li>\n<li>Turkey (TUR)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>World Championship<\/h2>\n<p>China will be host of the World Championship for the first time ever.<\/p>\n<p>Kicking off from September 23 and running until November 4, it&#8217;s getting a slight restructuring with 24 teams competing, up from 16 in past years.<\/p>\n<p>There will be a knock-out play-in stage, which will determine group staging. Each representative from the regions will battle against third-seeeded teams from each region. Four teams from this group will then proceed to the group stage.<\/p>\n<p>The 2017 League of Legends World Championship in China will run from September 23 until November 4.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>League of Legends is set for a bumper start to 2017, with Riot announcing plans for the upcoming League Of&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ghostkit_customizer_options":"","ghostkit_custom_css":"","ghostkit_custom_js_head":"","ghostkit_custom_js_foot":"","ghostkit_typography":"","wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[63,4,64,24,61,65],"class_list":["post-270","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-br","tag-featured","tag-jp","tag-league-of-legends","tag-riot-games","tag-tr"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/270","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=270"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/270\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":274,"href":"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/270\/revisions\/274"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=270"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=270"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=270"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}