Games League of Legends

League of Legends

League of Legends is an action RTS/MOBA-game developed and published by Riot Games. Featuring arena styled 5v5 matches in the "Fields of Justice", focusing on teamplay, countering the opponent as well as good tactics.We are eager to see teams step up to show what they are made of.

Competition Entry

There will be a total of 8 team slots for The Gathering 2012 tournament. These slots will be allocated as follows:

4 slots will be invited by the Game:crew board
4 slots will be available through a "BYOC" qualification for the attendees of The Gathering

Invites

The Gathering 2012 is proud to present this year's invites to our League of Legends tournament. These lucky teams have been directly invited to the main tournament at The Gathering 2012:

Lions eSport
Team BX3
Loud Eskimos
MaseTV

Invited teams will be announced here soon.

BYOC Qualifier (Bring your own computer)

This qualifier will be played on the players' own computers during the first day of The Gathering 2012. Up to 64 teams will get the opportunity to fight their way into the main tournament for Leauge of Legends. The BYOC qualifier starts at 20:00 on Wednesday the 4th of April, with the last opportunity to sign up for the qualifier at 19:00 the same day.

The BYOC-qualifier will be played in a 'best of one' format, Group play and double elimination. We wish every player good luck, and hope that anyone that plays League of Legends signs up!

Remember to join the irc channel #tg.lol on quakenet! (Click here if you don't have an irc client)

Main Tournament

The main tournament will be played on computers that have been rigged up in the e-sports arena by the
gamecrew. This last and final part of the tournament will run from Thursday through Saturday.

The main tournament will be played in a 'best of three' format, group play and single elimination. The first place out of the groups will go straight to the semi finals, place 2 and 3 will go to the quarter finals, last place will be eliminated.

There will be a total of 8 teams in the main tournament, and these teams will be split into 2 groups. The invited players get the first and second seed. The BYOC-qualifiers are then given the third and fourth seed. You will find more about the tournament structure in the rule set:

Players and teams must check-in for the main tournament:

Upon arrival for The Gathering 2012, players and teams must check-in and confirm their arrival at the Game:Desk.
Players and Team Managers must fill out a form with contact and bank account information at the Game:Desk – it is the players' and teams own responsibility to make sure this information is given to The Gathering's Administration and that the provided information is correct. Providing faulty information may result in the loss of prizes.

Please have all bank details, including international codes and transfer information ready when you come to check in.
Make sure that you meet up for your matches at least 30 minutes prior to any scheduled match time.

** If you have any technical problems please do the following:

1. Electricity disconnects: Contact Security and then tell the Game Desk.

2. Network disconnects: Tell Secutiry and then tell the Game Desk.

If it affects one of your matches, the game will be delayed. However, if you do not tell us in time (20 minutes maximum), then a walkover will be declared, and you will automatically lose your match.

Main tournament prizes:
Total: 70 000 NOK
1st – 40 000 NOK
2nd – 20 000 NOK
3rd – 10 000 NOK