League of Legends has been growing ever since it release its BETA in early 2009. The community of MOBA players who started playing DOTA and were looking for any kind of chance at playing in Tournaments or even be considered an e-Sport.
Almost Immediatly after the release of League of Legends It was announced that It would be a title at the 2010 World Cyber Games Grand Final at Los Angeles.
Team Counter Logic Gaming ended up Winning the WCG 2010 Grand Finals taking down EpikGamer.
Then came the announcement of the 100k Season 1 Championships held by Riot Gaming themselves and held in Jönköping, Sweden, this obviously got the attention of other e-Sports and tournament directors as League of Legends was then picked up by ESL, starting the GO4LOL series, which followed the GO4SC2 touraments which came before it, this gave Teams like CLG, TSM, RS, and before uNR was even officially formed a chance to practice against other top teams In a competitive environment.
Finally came the End to Season 1 Seeing all North American favorites like CLG and TSM and EG return to compete for all the glory and League of Legends top prize the Season 1 Champions. There were also two South East Asia teams, Team Pacific and XAN, these teams were the first to be Knocked out and we were left with only North America vs Europe. European team Includes AAA, game!de, FnaticMSI.
After all was said and done It was an all Europe Final and as FnaticMSI played vs AAA for in the Grand Final, eventually FnaticMSI came out on top as the Season 1 League Of Legends Champions.
A few short weeks after the Season 1 Championship concluded there was a Twitter post by MLG a top e-Sports tournament circuit, that MLG was interested in picking up League of Legends for MLG Raleigh, and most likly the entire season.
Finally e-Sports will have a game to represent the MOBA community on a massive scale, and who knows what this will do to spark even more advertisment for future League of Legends tournaments!
Dorian
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