January 12 - 18
Patch Notes
Patch 5.1 General DiscussionEsports
Riot discloses LCS format and World's qualifier changes.Riot announces the Mid Season Invitational.
SBENU Champions Spring
GE Tigers 2 – 0 Samsung
KT 0 – 2 SKT T1
CJ 2 – 1 Najin
Samsung 0 – 2 IM
GE Tigers 2 – 1 Jin Air
Tencent LoL Pro League
WE 0 – 2 IG
Snake 2 – 0 GT
EP 0 – 2 LGD
EDG 2 – 0 King
SHRC 2 – 0 M3
WE 0 – 2 Snake
IG 2 – 0 GT
OMG 2 – 0 VG
M3 2 – 0 King
OMG 2 – 0 EP
SHRC 0 – 2 LGD
EDG 2 – 0 VG
League of Legends Master Series
MC 0 – 1 yoe.FW
HKES 1 – 0 MC
ahq 0 – 1 HKES
TPA 1 – 0 MC
MC 0 – 1 DLY
DLY 0 – 1 TPA
Log S 1 – 0 MSE
HKES 0 – 1 TPA
Signings
Alex Ich joins Team 8 as a substitute player.Alex Ich joins Challenger team Brawl.
Former Starcraft pro player Horang2 joins the Samsung LoL team as a coach.
Chinese star support player Fzzf retires.
Former Alliance coach Leviathan joins Gambit Gaming as a coach.
CLG picks up a challenger team.
Teamliquid announces their LoL academy team.
Former KT Bullets Mid laner, Ryu, joins H2k-Gaming.
Cloud 9 announces their Challenger team.
Fnatic reveals their 2015 EU LCS Spring roster.
Team Fusion reveals their new Support Trance and Top laner Chunkyfresh.
sOAZ joins team Origen.
News
Riot's LPL English stream won't show every game live.IEM Taipei teams are revealed.
LPL announces the starting lineups for Spring 2015.
EU LCS starts January 22nd. NA LCS follows on January 24th.
Japanese LoL League (LJL) starts January 24th.
Community Articles
Ansibled discusses Riot's mismanagement of the LPL English stream.oo_Wonderful_oo and Fusilero give a preview of the current LPL Season (2/2). Check out Part 1 first!
Razleplasm gives a primer on Team King, new blood in the LPL.
LPL Winner interviews
Week 1 Day 1
Invictus Gaming vs. World EliteSnake vs. Gamtee.
Energy Pacemaker vs. LGD Gaming
Week 1 Day 2
Star Horn Royal Club vs. Master3Snake vs. World Elite
Week 1 Day 3
Master3 vs. Team KingLGD Gaming vs. Star Horn Royal Club.
OGN Winner interviews
Week 1 Day 3
KT Rolster vs. Najin e-mfireSK Telecom vs. CJ Entus
Other
A LPL interview with players from LGD, VG and iGKane, from the Chinese team EP, speaks about their way into the LPL
L.ACE, the Chinese KeSPA, hosts conference to communicate better with players. Included is a bonus interview with Vasili.
DailyEsports interviews OGN announcer Eun-Jung Cho.
Awesome
SuicideMARE simulates the NA LCS, using LiquidLegends community rankings.SuicideMARE presents desktop wallpapers for OGN fans.
The LiquidLegends community predicts the EU LCS Spring split final standings.
The LiquidLegends community predicts the NA LCS Spring split final standings.
This week, our LiquidLegends Off-Topic Adventurers further explore the catacombs of Fellsmark and find blessed blades, thunder-wielding foes, and muttering mages along the way.