League of Legends - Weekly Recap [July 2nd - July 8th]

Greetings again summoners, welcome to another weekly edition of the League of Legends Report here at Gamebreaker.TV, bringing you all the latest in community news and what’s happening in the competitive  scene.

This week has been a very exciting week with a lot of action so without further ado lets jump right in to the results:

We start off this coverage with the weekly series of King of the Hill hosted by in2LOL where two top-tier European teams will battle it out every Monday for a shot at €500 in a best-of-five battle royale with the winners having an opportunity to defend their title the following week (a maximum of five times). This week we have the title-defenders FnaticRC go up against the Russian titans, Moscow 5.

If you’re interested in watching these games here are the links to the Video Replays:

• Game 1
• Game 2
• Game 3
• Game 4

With the conclusion of both the second IPL5 Online Qualifiers for both Europe and North America, the folks over at IPL will be hosting a different sort of qualifiers for the San Francisco Showdown, their special event which will be held in August where teams will participate in a $40,000 prize pool! Here are the week’s results:

Miss out on these games? Here are some link’s to the video game replays:

• mTw.NA vs. Team Faded – Game 1
• mTw.NA vs. Team Faded – Game 2
• Ordinance Gaming vs. Orbit Gaming – Game 1
• Ordinance Gaming vs. Orbit Gaming – Game 2
• Ordinance Gaming vs. Orbit Gaming – Game 3

Want to see how the tournament is stacking up so far? Be sure to check out the official bracket.

In other news, while the Online Qualifiers are on hold for the main IPL5 event in North America and Europe, over on the other side of the world things are heating up in Taiwan where we continue with Group C for the Taiwanese Qualifiers:

Here are some video game replays from the group stages:

• SSWIE vs. Tt Dragons – Group C
• Tt Dragosn vs. GTS – Group C

The CDiscount Cup #4 is an online tournament hosted by Team Millennium’s partner CDiscount on the European-West server. It will be in the form of an 8-man invitational featuring some of the best teams in Europe battling it out for a €1,000 prize pool. Here are the results:

Be sure to keep an eye on the bracket as the tournament progresses.

Now that the qualifiers are over, one of the biggest League of Legends events  this summer kicks off this week in a group stage over in Korea with the OGN: The Champions Summer 2012 where we’ll see some of Korea’s best teams play, as well as some other top-tier teams such as Team Dignitas, CLG.eu, Natus Vincere and CLG Prime.

To stave off any confusion, previous OGN: The Champions finalists, MiG Blaze and MiG Frost were sponsored by German media group ‘Azubu’ and have changed their names accordingly.

Group A

Be sure to follow the tournament bracket over at Leaguepedia. Unfortunately the video-replays are currently only on a pay on-demand service. Videos will usually be available after the tournament has been fully completed.

Two major events happened this week over at the 4Players Liga – the 4PL Play4Fame and the Corsair Vengeance Cup Weekly

The first set of the weekly qualifiers for the July 4PL Play4Fame started on Wednesday. Here are the results:

1st Place – Team MegaShock
2nd Place – Better Buff Nidalee

You can find the entire tournament bracket here.

The Corsair Vengeance Cup Weekly is a new format that was unveiled last week which would operate similar to its Play4Fame series in which there will be weekly qualifiers with a monthly tournament. Here are the results:

1st Place – Team Megashock
2nd place – Better Buff Nidalee
3rd Place – iPlay BRO
4th Place – Team Acer.PL

You can find the entire tournament bracket here.

The weekly open-signup tournaments over at Z33k.com continue again this week with a $250 RP Bundle up for grabs every week.

1st Place – team rage

2nd Place – 4Wide.Tetris

Think what you have what it takes to win? Have a group of friends you play with? You should try, we might meet on the fields of justice!

If you’re curious about the tournament bracket, click here.

The weekly Go4LoL on Sunday for North America, EU-West and EU-Nordic&East kicks off for this month with some exciting matchups, here are the results:

NORTH AMERICA

1st Place - Chuupers Troopers

2nd Place – Team Redundant

3rd Place – Don’t Gank Me Bro

4th Place – The Cheater Chans

You can find the entire bracket here.

EUROPE-WEST

1st Place – Team LDLC

2nd Place – Karnage eSports

3rd Place – 3pic Gaming

4th Place – OutOfControl EAS

You can see the entire bracket over at their main website.

EUROPE-NORDIC & EAST

1st Place – Meet Your Makers

2nd Place – Test Your Limits

3rd Place – Buzici vs Muzici

4th Place – From Below We Rise

The entire tournament tree can be seen here.

In other news, although it’s a bit late in its scheduling, Go4LoL hosts its Monthly Finals for the month of May this past week for all participating servers, here are the results:

North America – Orbit Gaming (formerly nFear)

EU-West – Team Megashock

EU-Nordic – Mad Boys

You can find the tournament brackets for North America, EU-West, and EU-Nordic in their respective links.

The Garena Premier League kicks off once again this weekend with exciting matches over at Asia, here are this week’s results:

Friday, 6th of July

Saturday, 7th of July

Sunday, 8th of July

Here are some video replays of the matches this week that were uploaded:

• SGS vs. KLH – 6th of July
• TPA vs. BKT – 6th of July
• MLE vs. SAJ – 7th of July
• BKT vs. SGS – 7th of July

COMMUNITY NEWS:

This section which was formerly known as ‘In Other News’ will now act as a portal to some of the news pieces that the League of Legends community has put forward into the media, as well as cover other pieces that players will take interest in.

•  Moscow Five owner Dima ‘ddd1ms‘ Smelyi was arrested by the FBI earlier this week in Netherlands on supposed counts of online theft which involved $205 million and 411,000 credit cards. Russian Source. English Translation.
• Absolute Legends drops their European lineup, releasing Cleaver, Puki Style, Veggie and SuperAZE. Cleaver,SuperAZE and Puki Style are set to join Team Acer.PL. Source
• Pro Gamer George ‘HotShotGG‘ Georgallidis explains why Korean teams will dominate in League of Legends in his Forbes interview. Source
• in2LOL.com interviews Alexey ’Alex Ich’ Ichetovkin of Moscow 5 after defeating FnaticRC in the in2LOL King of the Hill series. Source
• League of Legends’ 100th Champion ‘Jayce’ has been released onto the live servers. Patch Notes. GameBreaker.TV Article

That’s it for this week’s League of Legends report. Did you like it? Anything you’d like me to add onto it or change? Feel free to leave a comment below! You can also catch me on twitter @23Irrell .