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Sorry for the confusion here! This is NA's first co-streaming program since Rift Rivals 2019. All regions have different policies for co-streaming so this announcement is coming to you from the NA esports team and applies to LCS broadcasts only.

They're playing on Patch 9.22 :)

Hey guys! I'm Riot Zephyr and I help on the Riot Report. Totally not Rivington's fault here and no leaks, just a mistake on our part when we handed Riv some notes. There's no new regional server leaked/announced. We just wanted to point viewers to the exciting event coming up in Saudi Arabia to celebrate Riot "gradually offering all Riot Games products and services in Arabic" (also stated in the 10th Anniversary Edition of Riot Pls). There will however be mobile regional servers specifically for the celebratory event. Sorry for any confusion!

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Those are always unfortunate situations. There are substitutes ready at the beginning of each event. It's difficult (and unfair) to ask a sub to stick around for hours during the tournament without guaranteeing they can play. The rules that Twitch, Riot, and the participants agree to state that a certain amount of a pause time can be given but ultimately the game can't be held on pause indefinitely, and starting that specific game over isn't always fair to those who have played it out so far. While we recognize a 4v5 isn't fair, the circumstances that lead to it are hard to prepare for and hard to solve when they do happen. In the two instances a 4v5 has happened, we've made sure that there's a solution for the game that immediately follows, but I think that's the best we're currently able to do given the nature of online tournaments + scheduled live broadcasts.

Howdy! I’m one of the leaders for the League Partner Program in NA.

Sadly I can’t provide you with an exact date for when the program will re-open. We’re just not sure yet because we’re evaluating a few things including how to better support content creators (not just streamers and YouTubers), as well as how to support creators from different game modes.

I know the program has been closed since November of last year, so apologies for the long wait.

That's fair feedback - the last couple events have lacked a bit of promotion and so I know a lot of the community was caught unaware or only found out after the fact.

We cannot change smash.gg because that's a Twitch-owned element of Twitch Rivals. All Twitch Rivals events are posted on that site.

As for plans on another fixed teams event - again it's something I'm definitely interested in pursuing but as of right now, there is no planned upcoming Twitch Rivals event outside of TwitchCon. I'd personally love for the next Summoner's Rift event to be a fixed team format but I'm not sure when that will be just yet.

Planning an event between two companies takes time and often isn't set in stone until shortly before the event is set to take place. That time period often isn't enough to allow teams to get to know one another and play together to practice/scrim.

One of the pieces of feedback we got from streamers in the first Twitch Rivals is that the scrim portion and getting to know each other in advance was the best part of having assigned teams. While we could create teams on the day of and let people build chemistry by playing (and that wouldn't take needing much time before the event, which is fair), we didn't want to remove one of the parts of that format that streamers said they liked most. That said it's totally possible to have teams set on the day of, which is an idea we can pitch to the streamers to get their feedback.

Haha thank you and hope you have a lovely weekend as well :)

Hi! I've been one of the Rioters working with Twitch on Twitch Rivals for both Summoner's Rift and TFT. We totally hear this feedback as well as the feedback from the streamers who have been participating in Twitch Rivals the last few times. Personally, I wish we could have alternated more between the "role robin" format and the fixed team format. What's been preventing us from doing this recently is simply time. I think to make the best fixed team format for Twitch Rivals, the teams and streamers need to be able to scrim and build up hype behind their team. We haven't been able to give them this and so the "role robin" format has been our default because of it. That said, we've definitely had quite a few "role robin"'s recently and please know the community and streamer feedback is heard and we'll do our best to try for another fixed team format soon.

I can't speak for Player Support nor am I in any position to speak about the status of anyone's account, so I'd defer to the post I linked by a Player Support member.

Hey everyone, I work with the League Partner Program (LPP) in NA and want to provide some clarity here. We’ve been experimenting with an escalated player reporting system for NA LPP for several months now. It enables NA League Partners to report players for questionable behavior via the same avenues that any other player would, but they can also escalate their reports to Player Support via a specific channel to get them potentially addressed more quickly.

LPP members do not have the power t...

10k BE for League Partner Program chromas in the BE Emporium :) https://na.leagueoflegends.com/en/news/community/community-spotlight/upcoming-changes-league-partner-chromas

Happy to play with you to celebrate if you want and if you’re on NA. :) congrats! My summoner is just “Zephyr”.

You should be getting them around Wednesday evening of this week. Thanks for coming by our event!

Hoping this link helps explain things a bit!

https://smash.gg/tournament/twitch-rivals-league-of-legends-role-robin-showdown/details

But basically you play with/against the other 29 players in your bracket to get the most wins possible. The player with the most wins from each role forms a finals team to play vs the other bracket’s finalists.

We didn’t have enough time to prep set teams and allow them to scrim, plus it was only a one day event, so we figured we’d try something new and different to allow for even more collaborations between streamers in a short time period.

If the community and streamers don’t like it, we’ll make adjustments and take the feedback to make a better event next time. :)

Side note: these are not the final brackets.

Totally understand that perspective. Given we only had two weeks to put the event together, there wasn’t a lot of time to allow for scrims or team building this time around unfortunately, so we’re taking the opportunity to try a different format given the restrictions.