The winner of this year’s U.S. League of Legends Championship Series tournament is officially out of the game’s 2015 World Championship. Counter-Logic Gaming (CLG) lost its first two games today, meaning they don’t have enough wins to go past the Worlds group stage. They’re playing their final pride match now.

A friendly reminder to all the League of Legends fans: part two of the 2015 World Championship group stage games starts tomorrow at 8:00 am EDT. I’ll be updating our explainer and covering tomorrow’s games as they play out. You can find instructions for how to watch—and read up on what’s happened so far—here. Read more

Riot Games is teaming up with Tribeca Games for a day-long conference about the art and design of League of Legends, and it sounds like a good time for any New York City-based League fans (such as yours truly). The event takes place on Friday, November 13th. You can read a detailed schedule and buy tickets here.

Today Riot revealed the full set of ranked rewards League of Legends players will receive at the end of the 2015 season. The most exciting bit of news is that the heartless mercenary champion Sivir will get this year’s victorious skin. I’m genuinely bummed that I can’t get that. Congrats to everyone who will!

Facebook was kind enough to remind me that the League of Legends World Championship is officially underway. You can watch the games as they’re played on Riot Games’ Twitch account. We’ll have a lot more to say about the games over the coming month. GL HF!

Now who’s afraid of the big bad wolf? I am. Riot published a short story on its website last night to fill out the backstory for the new League of Legends champion Kindred, and it confirms my earlier suspicions that they’re extremely creepy. Read it here; it’s a tad long, but well worth it. Read more

Riot just released a set of League of Legends Facebook stickers, which means you can mercilessly troll your friends with Teemo when you’re not even playing the game. NICE. Download them here. Read more

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