Summary

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  • Twelfth day in 15-day league stage (every Tues & Weds, with bonus day on 30 July)

  • Season finals planned to be held 7-8 August in Jonkoping, Sweden

  • Twelve esports teams from Nordic countries, UK and Ireland

  • 18:00 BST: Riddle Esports v Godsent

  • 19:00 BST: MNM Gaming v Tricked Esport

  • 20:00 BST: Fnatic Rising v Dusty

  • 21:00 BST: Munster Rugby Gaming v Barrage Esports

  1. All you need to know about the Northern League of Legends Championshippublished at 16:01 British Summer Time 22 July 2020

    What is it?

    The Northern League of Legends Championship (NLC) is a new competitive ecosystem for the Nordic countries, plus UK and Ireland. It sees 12 initially selected teams compete for 1m Swedish Krona (roughly £87,000) and the right to be named NLC champion. The competition is designed to "breed the stars of tomorrow".

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    How does it work?

    The competition starts with a seven-week round-robin league, taking place every Tuesday and Wednesday from Tuesday 16 June until Wednesday 29 July, with a bonus day on Thursday 30 July.

    The 12 teams are split into two divisions of six, and there are four fixtures each night, with teams competing in double best of one round-robin games.

    After the league stage, the top four teams in each division will be seeded into a double elimination bracket while the fifth place will be eliminated but maintain their NLC status for next season. The sixth place in each division will need to compete in the relegation series, against teams from the Telia Masters (the top two sides from the national leagues qualify for this), to maintain their place in the NLC.

    Who is competing?

    FNATIC Rising and BT Excel are permanent members in the NLC due to their status in League of Legends European Championship.

    BT Excel are joined by Riddle Esports, Nordavind, Team Singularity, Ence and Godsent in Group A while FNATIC Rising have Munster Rugby Gaming, Dusty, Tricked Esport, MNM Gaming and Barrage Esports in their group.

    Still want to know more? Check out our Northern League of Legends Championship guide

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  2. Northern League Standingspublished at 16:01 British Summer Time 22 July 2020

    After Tuesday's games (W-L)

    Group A

    1. BT Excel (6-2)
    2. Nordavind (5-3)
    3. Riddle (4-3)
    4. Ence (4-4)
    5. Godsent (3-4)
    6. Singularity (1-7)

    Group B

    1. Fnatic Rising (7-0)
    2. Tricked (5-2)
    3. Munster (4-3)
    4. Dusty (3-4)
    5. Barrage (1-6)
    6. MnM Gaming (1-6)

    Wednesday: Riddle v Godsent, MnM v Tricked, Fnatic v Dusty, Munster v Barrage.

  3. Legends European Championshippublished at 16:00 British Summer Time 22 July 2020

    Latest standings (W-L) Top six qualify for play-offs:

    1. MAD Lions (9-2)
    2. Rogue (9-2)
    3. Fnatic (6-5)
    4. Origen (6-5)
    5. SK Gaming (6-5)
    6. G2 Esports (5-6)
    7. Misfits (5-6)
    8. Vitality (4-7)
    9. Excel (4-7)
    10. FC Schalke (1-10)

    This week:

    24 July:SK v Excel, Vitality v Origen, G2 v Schalke, Misfits v Rogue, Fnatic v MAD.25 July:Vitality v Excel, Misfits v Schalke, G2 v Rogue, MAD v SK, Fnatic v Origen.

  4. UK League: Plenty to play for in final weekpublished at 16:00 British Summer Time 22 July 2020

    The UK League is poised for an exciting finish to the group stages after the last round of games further blurred the already murky play-offs picture.

    NVision’s win over Enclave and Demise’s demolition of MnM – their fourth win in a row – left four teams with 7-5 records taking the third to sixth positions in the standings, with only the top four making the play-offs.

    NVision’s toplaner Efan admitted the team had gone back to basics to try and book a play-offs berth. “All our losses have come from us trying to do something, so if we play a standard game plan or use our cohesion as a team, we can take it home,” he said.

    Demise’s team manager Ceejay Shaw has been tweaking the line-up to get Demise out of a slow start. “As soon as we brought in [bot laner] ProxeYY we had players with a connection together,” he said. “Also bringing in Beeley – he was amazing today – we had all the parts, we just had to put them all together.”

    At the end of the night, leaders Munster had to regroup hastily to avoid handing Bulldog Esports their first win of the campaign, proving that nothing is certain in the UKL.

  5. UK League Championshippublished at 16:00 British Summer Time 22 July 2020

    Standings (W-L)

    Munster Rugby (9-3)

    London Esports (8-4)

    Demise (7-5)

    Enclave (7-5)

    MnM Gaming (7-5)

    NVision (7-5)

    Barrage (3-9)

    Bulldog (0-12)

  6. League of Legends explained by the expertspublished at 10:37 British Summer Time 20 July 2020

    League of Legends experts Dan 'Aux' Harrison, Georgia 'Troubleinc' Paraskevopoulou and Jake 'Hiprain' Matthews explain the world's most popular esport in its most simple terms.

    Media caption,

    League of Legends: Aux, Hiprain & Troubleinc simply explain game

  7. How can I watch the Northern League of Legends Championship?published at 10:37 British Summer Time 20 July 2020

    All times are BST and subject to change

    BBC Sport will have live coverage from every day of the Northern League of Legends Championship.

    Coverage will be available live on BBC iPlayer and the BBC Sport website and app and available to catch up till the end of 2020.

    Full coverage details:

    League stage, day 12 - Wednesday 22 July, 18:00-22:00

    League stage, day 13 - Tuesday 28 July, 18:00-22:00

    League stage, day 14 - Wednesday 29 July, 18:00-22:00

    League stage, day 15 -Thursday 30 July, 18:00-22:00

    Knockout stages - times and dates tbc

    In addition, BBC Sport and iPlayer will also have coverage of the League of Legends, UK League Championship with live coverage having started on 14 June and concluding with the final on Monday 3 August.

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