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Riot and LVP have announced some changes to how qualifying works for the UK League of Legends tournament Forge of Champions.
As with the Spring Forge of Champions, the Summer 2019 competition will once again include a £10,000 prize pool and give teams the chance to qualify for the UK League Championship (UKLC, the latest of which was won by Fnatic Rising last weekend).
But this time, the qualification format for Forge of Champions is changing.
There are now four qualification slots available, two of which have been taken: Bulldog Esports (for being Insomnia Masters i65 runners-up – Nox weren’t eligible despite winning) and ChampionClub (University of Exeter, for winning the NSE Summer League).
“It is our hope that by partnering with local grassroots competition, we can help unify the fragmented local player base and provide multiple clear routes for teams to make the climb to semi-professional competition.”
LVP UK
The other two slots will be taken by the Belong Arena Clash SU19 champion and the Arena.GG online qualifier winner. The latter is also changing from a best-of-one to a best-of-three format ‘to help ensure that teams competing online aren’t punished too harshly for a bad game’, according to organisers LVP.
The final four teams will join the nine UKLC sides for the Forge of Champions. Then, the four amateur teams will take part in the promotion tournament with the bottom two UKLC sides, fighting for a place in the next UKLC.
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LVP said: “Previously, all four qualifying teams were decided through two online open tournaments held in the same fortnight, which limited the pool of players available to play.
“In addition, it is our hope that by partnering with local grassroots competition, we can help unify the fragmented local player base and provide multiple clear routes for teams to make the climb to semi-professional competition.”
There’s more info on scheduling and rules in this announcement post on the UKLC/LVP website.
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Dom is an award-winning writer and finalist of the Esports Journalist of the Year 2023 award. He graduated from Bournemouth University with a 2:1 degree in Multi-Media Journalism in 2007.
As a long-time gamer having first picked up the NES controller in the late ’80s, he has written for a range of publications including GamesTM, Nintendo Official Magazine, industry publication MCV and others. He worked as head of content for the British Esports Federation up until February 2021, when he stepped back to work full-time on Esports News UK and offer esports consultancy and freelance services. Note: Dom still produces the British Esports newsletter on a freelance basis, so our coverage of British Esports is always kept simple – usually just covering the occasional press release – because of this conflict of interest.
