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Get ready for Rift Rivals

Riot·5/23/2017, 4:59:31 PM·5 votes·150,230 views

How will your region stack up against its fiercest adversaries? It’s time to settle the score at our brand new cross-regional event: Rift Rivals.

What is Rift Rivals?

Rift Rivals will be held across the world during July 3-9. The event will pit regional rivals against each other in grudge matches for glory and bragging rights.  

Five tournaments will pit teams from all 13 regions with their closest rivals and re-open old wounds as they face their nemesis on the Rift. Each tournament will vary in numbers of invited teams, venues, and format - but every event will pair one region against each other, so you won’t see any games between teams from the same region (no Telecom Wars or the Battle of European mascots).

Teams were selected for Rift Rivals based on the most recently completed split (Spring or Split 1) rankings and will be seeded accordingly for the start of the event. For example, Europe’s G2 Esports will be seeded as EU #1 at the start of Rift Rivals: NA vs. EU. Read on for more details about format at each of the tournaments.

What are the rivalries? Formats?

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Updated - North America vs. Europe

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City: Berlin, Germany

Venue: EU LCS Studio

Dates: July 5-8

Teams:

North America (NA LCS)

  • TSM
  • Cloud9
  • Phoenix1

Europe (EU LCS)

  • G2 Esports
  • Unicorns of Love
  • Fnatic

Latin America North vs. Brazil vs. Latin America South

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City: Santiago, Chile

Venue: CLS Studio

Dates: July 5-8

Teams:

Latin America North (LLN)

  • Lyon Gaming
  • Just Toys Havoks

Brazil (CBLOL)

  • Keyd Stars
  • RED Canids

Latin America South (CLS)

  • Isurus Gaming
  • Furious Gaming

Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) vs. Turkey

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City: Moscow, Russian Federation

Venue: LCL Studio

Dates: July 6-9

Teams:

CIS (LCL)

  • Virtus.pro
  • Vaevictis Esports
  • M19
  • Vega Squadron

Turkey (TCL)

  • SuperMassive eSports
  • Oyunfor.CREW
  • 1907 Fenerbahçe Espor
  • Team AURORA

Southeast Asia vs. Oceania vs. Japan

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City: Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam

Dates: July 3-6

Teams:

Southeast Asia (GPL)

  • GIGABYTE Marines
  • Ascension Gaming
  • Mineski

Oceania (OPL)

  • Dire Wolves
  • Legacy
  • Sin Gaming

Japan (LJL)

  • Detonation Gaming
  • Rampage
  • Unsold Stuff Gaming

Korea vs. LMS vs. China

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City: Kaohsiung

Venue: Kaohsiung Exhibition Center

Dates: July 6-9

Teams:

Korea (LCK)

  • SK Telecom T1
  • Samsung Galaxy
  • KT Rolster
  • MVP

LMS (LMS)

  • Flash Wolves
  • ahq e-Sports Club
  • J Team
  • Machi

China (LPL)

  • Team WE
  • Royal Never Give Up
  • Edward Gaming
  • OMG

How do I watch?

Below are the languages that the broadcast will be available in for each of the events. All of the Rift Rivals events will be available on Lolesports.

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Latin America North vs. Brazil vs. Latin America South

  • Portuguese
  • Spanish

North America vs. Europe

  • English
  • Polish
  • Spanish
  • Hungarian
  • Serbian
  • French
  • German
  • Italian

We’re working with European broadcast partners to get the EU vs. NA event in more languages, we’ll confirm the languages and how to tune-in on EU Lolesports closer to the event.

CIS vs. Turkey

  • Russian
  • Turkish

Southeast Asia vs. Oceania vs. Japan

  • English
  • Japanese
  • Vietnamese
  • Thai
  • Indonesian

Korea vs. LMS vs. China

  • Traditional Chinese
  • Simplified Chinese
  • Korean
  • English
  • Vietnamese
  • Thai
  • Indonesian

Where can I learn more about Rift Rivals?

Stay tuned to Lolesports for more the information about the event including the full match schedule and ticket information.

87 Comments

Internal Error5/23/2017, 5:12:28 PM31 votes

NA>EU

Yordle Xayah5/23/2017, 5:20:30 PM24 votes

Geez... you're gonna BURN OUT these guys. I'm all up for more FNATIC but... G2, WE, FW, SKT, GAM and TSM just played a full season plus MSI and you're telling me they gotta hop into this thing without any rest for Summer?

Vhan87655/23/2017, 6:20:45 PM18 votes

Sounds like an event worth of another free/1 IP icon to me. [slayer-jinx-catface]

My Facial Hair5/23/2017, 5:23:37 PM8 votes

Riot trying to nerf SKT

Omusinga5/24/2017, 12:03:09 AM5 votes

Not to be THAT GUY, but the circled part of the map in Vietnam is Hanoi, not Ho Chi Minh City (Saigon), which is farther south. But hey I'm just a triggered Dignitas fanboy who hates Ezreal mains :)))

Final Fantasy 75/23/2017, 10:12:14 PM5 votes

Spoiler: SKT sweeps the whole thing.

Thresh Outta Fux5/23/2017, 5:23:57 PM4 votes

Why should I care about the pro scene? I thought this was going to be something cool, like a faction vs faction event. [zombie-brand-mindblown] Boring. Next.

R7 Factor5/23/2017, 8:46:32 PM4 votes

It should be NA vs EU vs China to see which region is #2 tbh

TrollFan015/23/2017, 9:24:42 PM3 votes

The Battle of Atlantic is back! ON STEROIDS! :D

Tolkmit5/23/2017, 5:57:02 PM3 votes

I seriously wonder who Riot has making these decisions. Every time they take a step forward, the next they take back. For NA & EU as example; They finally realize that Bo3>>>>Bo1, change up the spring and summer splits... but then not only do they fail to eliminate the Bo1's from MSI & Worlds, but they add more international events with Bo1's.

Wonder if teams have the option to skip events like these. NA teams were already using IEM for tryouts or just skipping them entirely, because they'd rather have the time off than put effort into something that doesn't help them at Worlds... why would they want to bother with this? These games will have less impact on what the teams actually care about than the normal summer split matches before & after them. Seems like a high chance of all-star type cheese & troll matches.

Dark Matter5/23/2017, 6:06:01 PM3 votes

It'd be real Rift Rivals if it was China vs Korea vs Japan

coeurloyal5/23/2017, 7:08:10 PM3 votes

I'm going to laugh when C9/P1 and UoL/FNC outperform TSM and G2 due to fatigue/patch changes (assuming this isn't played on MSI patch?).

Super Jagganath5/23/2017, 10:52:26 PM3 votes

Amazing!!! finally more international brawls happening! And guys.... please... just let them do their work...

Flash Ward5/24/2017, 12:36:45 AM3 votes

Long as TSM is not the only team representing NA then this should be great! Sorry for salty TSM fans, but they look like shiiiit compared to other NA teams at international events!

Furyocean5/23/2017, 10:04:49 PM2 votes

Everybody keeps talking about getting burned out and all the teams playing in these events would be playing games locally anyway. This is an opportunity for teams to get more international practice in to up the competition on an international scale for those teams that are already performing well competitively.

Arturx5/24/2017, 12:07:38 AM2 votes

Is it just me or are some of these rivalries a bit made up, like I get NA vs EU and like LPL vs LCK. But like when did LJL and GPL become rivals or like LCL and TCL. Also is it just me or arent the LMS and GPL more rivals than any of the ones in their respective groups. IDK, some of these groups look a bit odd to me...

Morrogondor5/24/2017, 1:16:37 AM2 votes

It will only makes Eastern region stronger..... while Western region teams bring each other down to another level...But it's a start.

4mplifi3d5/23/2017, 11:14:51 PM2 votes

Rift Rivals? You mean the World vs Korea?