This is a good idea, it seems like they're trying to make LCS Proving Grounds more of an EU Masters type tournament which should be more hype. I assume teams like 100X and TSM's youth team will count for amateur teams as well, hopefully other orgs make their own youth teams as well
Yeah, we should've stuck with NA Grandmasters for the name though
You're god damn right.
Any chance you know whether any of these tournaments will be cast?
I imagine they all will!
A lot of them are presumably being handled by orgs that have already been doing a great job covering Amateur and my read of that announcement is that Proving Grounds will be covered by Riot and presumably some if not all of the Academy coverage will be as well.
So I don't have 100% confirmation, but I would say it's safe to say if you're looking for more NA League you'll have it.
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You say they "are being handled". Does this mean partnered tier 1/2 tournaments have been selected but not announced? When can we expect an announcement?
No idea.
A) I don't handle that part of the product at all.
B) I would assume since they listed application links within the announcement that stuff is still being built out.
C) So when announced? No idea sorry!
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