Less than a week after being eliminated from the League of Legends World Championship, Trần “Optimus” Văn Cường has parted ways with the Gigabyte Marines.

Between talk of teams and matches at the League of Legends World Championship, proposed format changes in North America and Europe have dominated community discussion in the West.

If it had been evident from champion select that Gigabyte Marines had something special in mind, it was obvious from the first 90 seconds of their debut League of Legends World Championship match against Fnatic that its particularities lay early rather than late.

With the groups confirmed for the League of Legends World Championship, Riot Games released Friday the schedule for the first week of group stage play.

The League of Legends World Championship groups have been finalized after the conclusion of the play-in stage.

The group draw for the League of Legends World Championship took place Tuesday morning, and worlds groups have been decided for the play-in and group stages.

The race to qualify for this year’s League of Legends World Championship has come to a close.

Seventeen teams from all regions of professional League of Legends have qualified across both the play-in and group stages so far of the League of Legends World Championship.

A last-minute change to the structure of the Garena Pro League has led 11 Southeast Asian League of Legends teams to petition the GPL and Riot Games, according to a report from ESPN.

SK Telecom T1 head coach Choi “cCarter” Byung-hoon had some high praise for the Gigabyte Marines, the Southeast Asian representatives for the Mid-Season Invitational.