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Riot Games showed off its new League of Legends TCG (trading card game), Project K, at its recent Teamfight Tactics TFT Macao Open 2024 tournament.
Project K was playable for the first time in Macao, with fans and personalities trying out the upcoming card game. It’s due to launch in China in early 2025, with a global release to follow.
Featuring art from across Runeterra, the game is designed to provide a strategic competitive experience, and is playable in 1v1, 2v2, and 1v1v1v1 formats. Riot Games’ Dave Guskin also revealed the LoL TCG ruleset on X here.
At the TFT Macao Open, a limited edition Arcane-themed set was also available for sale, which will be open for pre-orders in 2025.
Streamers including Imaqtpie, Scarra and Disguised Toast (who also owns esports org Disguised) competed at the TFT event, with the latter two battling each other in the League of Legends TCG.
Disguised Toast also reached top 128 in the TFT tournament, and UK player Intensify also took part.
The three-day Teamfight Tactics Macao Open 2024 also crowned its new champion: Shiquz from China.
Shiquz took home the one-of-a-kind ‘Tactician’s Belt’ trophy and $100,000.
The TFT Macao Open was the second year of the annual 512-competitor open bracket global LAN tournament with a $300,000 prize pool.
During the event, Teamfight Tactics (TFT) also celebrated its growth over five years, with 300+ million players globally across the franchise including TFT (PC), TFT Mobile, Fight for the Golden Spatula, and Golden Spatula in Southeast Asia. TFT was first announced in 2019.
On the final day, TFT presented The 2025 Roadmap Reveal with a tease of what’s coming for players:
- Three Set Revivals: Starting with Fates: Festivals of Beasts in January 2025
- Set 14: Fight for control of Cyber City and team up in March 2025
- Revamped Double Up: Custom lobbies and more for Spring 2025
- Set 15: Anime-style fighting tournament arriving in July 2025
- PvE: A new PvE experience is planned for Summer 2025
- Set 16: Return to Runeterra in Winter 2025
The TFT Macao Open took place at the Venetian Macao and featured an exclusive Teamfight Tactics: Into the Arcane experience on site.
Chengran Chai, Executive Producer of Project K, said:
“As we look forward to launching Project K in China early next year and other regions later in 2025, events like TFT’s Macao Open are inspiring to show the passion of player communities and the high-level strategy of competitive players.”
Chengran Chai, Project K, Riot Games
Peter Whalen, Game Director of Teamfight Tactics, commented: “It is always a fantastic experience to see the TFT community come together at these Open events. Once again, we were blown away by the skill on the stage, the passion of the fans, and all the people coming together around this game.
“We’re so excited for the next year of TFT and we look forward to continuing to deliver new experiences that exceed player expectations.”
Michael Sherman, Global Head of Esports for TFT and 2XKO, added: “Watching a large field of competitors narrow into one Champion over three days never gets old.
“With two TFT Opens under our belts now, we’re really happy with what these events bring to the TFT competitive calendar and are confident that they will continue to be an important part of TFT esports going forward. We can’t wait to see you all again for the TFT Paris Open in 2025.”
There’s more from Riot on the TFT 2025 roadmap here:
There’s also more on Project K here:
TFT’s largest annual community and competitive event will be heading to Paris in December 2025 with the TFT Paris Open.
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.
