The League System

One of the most recent genres of game to enter into the competitive esports scene is the MOBA. MOBA stands for Multiplayer Online Battle Arena, and League of Legends is the most recognized name in the MOBA genre.

League of Legends has several maps on which to play; The Twisted Treeline, The Howling Abyss, and finally Summoner’s Rift.  Summoner’s Rift is a five vs five team based map, where the objective of the game is to destroy the enemy nexus by systematically destroying the towers in the three different lanes to expose the nexus to damage. For a more in depth guide on The Summoner’s Rift and League of Legends as a whole follow this link the League of Legends official website.
http://na.leagueoflegends.com/learn/new_user_guide

http://na.leagueoflegends.com/learn/maps/summoners-rift

There are several further types of play past the maps however, players on Summoner’s Rift have the option of playing Normal and Ranked games. Ranked games involve banning champions and picking them in a strategic manner and requires a player to be level 30 and have 16 champions before be eligible to play.

Ranked play is different from normal not only in picks and bans but ranked play is recorded by the game and you accrue points based on their system based on your wins and losses. When first entering into ranked play the player must go through their placement matches to be placed into the Ladder system. In this system there are six tiers; Bronze, Silver, Gold, Platinum, Diamond and Challenger.

In each tier leading to Challenger there are Five divisions to progress though before being able to promote into the next tier. To pass through a division a player must accrue 100 league points (LP) to enter into a best of three promotion series. Once in division one of their tier and with 100 LP a player enters into a best of five series to enter into division five of the next tier up.