Friday, October 4, 2019

Riot Expands College League of Legends

The Riot Scholastic Association of America, the group run by Riot Games to govern college e-sports based on its League of Legends title, is planning a big expansion of its college league, saying on Thursday that it will be expanding its League of Legends College Championship to a 32 school tournament. The Riot Scholastic Association of America said that last year, it had 354 schools participating in some way in the league, ranging from offering up practic facilities, to coaches, to offering scholarships. In addition to the expansion in number of teams playing in its tournament, Riot also said it is expanding the team size from six players to ten. Riot has been working to expand interest in e-sports within colleges.