Professional E-sports Competitions of LoL

Taipei Assassin won League of Legends Season 2 World Champions,

which was held by WCG.

    There are some professional e-sports (電子競技) leagues in the world. For instance, GPL , LNL , OGN , LCS , NACL are known and a little famous in Taiwan, while WCG is the highest class of these e-sports events.

1.GPL (Garena Premier League)

    GPL is an e-sports league for Asian professional LoL teams. It divides Asia into five regions: Taiwan/Hong Kong/Macau, Vietnam, Singapore/Malaysia, Thailand, Philippines. The teams must prove themselves to be the best among their regions to qualify to compete with teams from other regions and fight for the championship.

2.LNL (League of Legends Nova League)

    Garena company established LNL for the teams in Taiwan, Hong Kong and Macau to compete for accessing to GPL.

3.OGN (OnGameNet)

    OGN is a Korean TV company which organized the largest series of LoL tournaments in Korea. In addition, OGN has also held leagues for many popular games like Star Craft (星海爭霸), Sudden Attack, Kart Rider (跑跑卡丁車), and so on.

4.LCS (League of Legends Championship Series)

    LCS is held by Riot, a company which developed and operates LoL. However, it is for North American and European professional teams.

5.NACL (North American Challenger League)

    NACL is a long-term league and held during the off season. Furthermore, the purpose is to let the high-end teams which are potential to access to LCS compete with others.

6.WCG (World Cyber Games)

    WCG is the first e-sports platform where players can contact with others by competing. Since it has been founded for 13 years, it held tournaments for many games, and players from 70 countries have matched via WCG.

GPL 2013 Final was held in Taipei Arena on August 29th this year,

and this was the first time that e-sports competitions

were held in such a large occasion like Taipei Arena.