On September 30, Riot Games officially announced the League of Legends tournament for the Asia -Pacific region as League of Legends Championship Pacific. This will be one of the five largest tournaments of professional League of Legends, besides LCK (Korea), LPL (China), LEC (Europe, Middle East, North Africa) and the tournament of the Americas region (Americas).
At the same time, the Publisher of League of Legends also shared that PCS, VCS and LJL tournaments will still be the ecosystem of the Asia -Pacific region. However, these tournaments will play the role of finding competitive teams to attend LCP in the next seasons, through promotion and relegation mechanisms.
Riot Games announced in the official article: “By creating the gap between LCP and domestic tournaments, we want to highlight talents, facilitate the ambitions of teams and players across the region. In the future, we set the goal of providing more widely access to the LCP by expanding the ecosystem beyond existing tournaments, maintaining the diversity and dynamism of the tournament.”
According to previous updates, the LCP tournament is expected to have 8 teams, 4 partners representatives and 4 guest representatives. In particular, 4 partners are fixed teams and 4 guests will have to compete with other teams from the lower divisions. However, currently the competitions in the first season of the LCP have not been announced by Riot Games but must wait for the next notice from the publisher.
