The League of Legends European Championship is considering plenty of format changes forward of the 2023 season, together with lowering the variety of best-of-ones every staff performs every cut up and different aggressive tweaks.
The change, which might not be enacted till the aggressive 2023 League calendar begins in January subsequent yr, would see fewer one-shot games performed.
The potential format shift—which has not but been rubber-stamped—was put to a panel of “varied” LEC staff homeowners earlier this week, based on Europe’s head of esports Maximilian Peter Schmidt. The League boss, who spoke to French publication L’Équipe on Sept. 15, mentioned the choices had been put to a vote.
While a transfer away from best-of-ones in the common season could be one in every of the headlining tweaks, Dot Esports understands plenty of different changes had been mentioned at the assembly. Not all have been publicized, as of as we speak.
Whether the transfer to scale back best-of-ones means fewer games general or a shift to extra best-of-threes or fives stays unclear.
It appears probably some type of format change is coming although, with the LEC helmsman bullish on “offering the finest product” for followers and the League groups.
“We at all times must ask ourselves what we will do finest for our accomplice groups, their staffs, and the gamers,” Schmidt instructed L’Équipe. “Then we’ve to discover a steadiness. Do we wish to change the format? What will it appear like if we do?”
As above, none of those changes have been formally endorsed but.
Right now, the LEC follows a inflexible format construction: European League groups play 18 matches throughout the course of two months for Spring earlier than breaking for a six-team playoffs format. The winner earns the proper to characterize the area at the Mid-Season Invitational. The same Summer cut up is performed out quickly after, with 18 common season games (all best-of-ones) and one other six-team finals bracket.
Riot Games Europe has, in the previous, trialed different codecs like LEC—then the EU LCS—competing in best-of-threes and best-of-twos in the common season. Neither lasted past a number of splits throughout assessments.
The LEC has performed Bo1s throughout every League cut up since 2018.
The league franchised the following yr, rebranded to the League of Legends European Championship, and carried over the 18-match common season format fashion.