[NA] Champions Circuit an Amateur LCS Tournament
Hello everyone! Head of ChampionsCircuit here trying to pitch to you why you should join our LoL Tournament Community. I'm guessing if you've clicked into the link and read this far I have already piqued your interest, and you wish to know more.
Since this is a lengthy post I will break it down into sections for you:
Paragraphs 1 & 2: Explaining what ChampionsCircuit is, and giving insight to what we do
Paragraph 3: Open League, 5’s Teams wishing to join should look here.
Paragraphs 4 and 5: Solo League, Individual Players looking to join the community look here.
Paragraph 6: Shoutcasters/Streamers/Analysts/Content Creators wishing to be apart of the community look here.
Part 7: Useful Links
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Well, first of all, I'll explain the goal of ChampionsCircuit. We plan to provide up and coming players and teams a fun community to play in as well as having a competitive league that is similar to the LCS. Earlier this year we started up our qualifier and have made it through to begin our leagues this weekend, our highest league being the "Challenger League" featuring the top 10 teams from our qualifier. Among them are Mentality Gaming, ranked #5 on the challenger ladder last season, Project Ice (an old Super Nova affiliate) ranked #47 and many up and coming teams that have took these teams to the edge and some even beat them such as Syndicate, Aporia eSports, Blue Milk and the collegiate team from Texas Tech, The Red Raiders. These teams play in a double round robin exactly like the LCS on weekends, and the top 6 make it to playoffs while the bottom 3 are up for relegations.
In addition to our "Challenger League" we have our "Master League". These are the teams that battle over a chance to relegate the bottom 3 Challenger League teams. We format our Master league exactly like Worlds, 4 groups of 4, meaning 16 teams, where the top 2 in each group will come out and play in a bracket to determine top 3. Our Master League features many other teams that have a competitive background as well, even though it may be a bit easier than the Challenger League. Each season the bottom 2 teams in the Master League will have to play for their spots to stay in, and this is where many of you reading will come in.
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Our Open League is a league that anyone can join at any time. We format it exactly like the Ranked 5's ladder and to play you simply sign up your team, look for other captains in the Open League and ask them to play. Once the game is over you will send the game into us and we will score it, and adjust points on the ladder accordingly. The Top 8 have a chance of making it into the Master League at the end of the season. Over the course of the season, we will be hosting tournaments in the Open Leagues such as a single elimination 1-2 week tournament, but you are still free to find a game at any time and send it in.
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However if you don't have a team we are still more than accommodating. While you may want to sign-up on our Free Agency form if you are indeed looking for a team, solo players can come play in our Solo Open League Ladder as well. To play in these you can join in our community teamspeak or join our in-client chat "CCircuit" to find 10 players willing to play in a custom game on Summoners Rift. This works much like solo queue but in a more relaxed environment where you know everyone and everyone is much friendlier. It is also a place to test your skills vs a Diamond player and see if you really do have what it takes to get out of Silver! We also plan to host ARAM, 3v3, and non pre-made (Meaning there will be captains drafting teams or a randomly assigned team tournament) 5v5's on Summoners Rift.
If you stumble across this post and you aren't really a player, we offer a viewer experience as well with our Challenger League that you can chill and watch. Our admin team at ChampionsCircuit does power rankings and stats for the community so you can hop in and check out how any team you are cheering for is doing at any time.
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And as some of you may know, running a tournament isn't exactly easy. Anybody wanting to help get involved in the community is certainly wanted as we are looking to expand our staff. Currently we are running on a staff of 4, and have been asking players on teams to help with things such as power rankings and stepping up to be moderators on our teamspeak. We are looking for any up and coming shoutcasters, or maybe those that just want to try it. We are looking for streamers to help us run our stream on weekends. We are looking for content creators who want to do interviews with the players, work on power rankings/stats, create videos and write articles who want to be apart of our community. As we look to expand we will want more admins and moderators to help do things such as run social media, help new players get involved and most of all help players on game day while we are running our stream / working on getting games set up.
Useful Links