{"id":215,"date":"2016-02-17T13:17:53","date_gmt":"2016-02-17T13:17:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gamegnome.com\/esports\/?p=215"},"modified":"2016-02-17T13:17:53","modified_gmt":"2016-02-17T13:17:53","slug":"league-world-championship-to-be-held-in-four-u-s-cities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gamegnome.com\/esports\/2016\/02\/17\/league-world-championship-to-be-held-in-four-u-s-cities\/","title":{"rendered":"League World Championship to be held in four U.S. cities"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Riot Games is bringing the League of Legends World Championship to North America this year, the organization has announced, and Shanghai will host the Mid-Season Invitational.<\/p>\n<p>The 2016 Championship will begin with a Group Stage in San Francisco, followed by the Quarterfinals in Chicago and Semifinals at New York City&#8217;s Madison Square Gardens. The Finals will be held in Los Angeles at the Staples Center \u2014 the same venue where the Season 3 World Championship Finals were held in 2013.<\/p>\n<p>The event, which is set to run Sept. 29-Oct. 29, will bring together the top 16 teams from around the world, based on their results in regional championships throughout the year. Last year, Korea&#8217;s SK Telecom T1 took home the Summoner&#8217;s Cup, the ultimate grand prize in professional League of Legends.<\/p>\n<p>Riot simultaneously announced Tuesday that the 2016 Mid-Season Invitational will be held at the Shanghai Oriental Sports Center on May 4-15. The MSI&#8217;s Group Stage has been expanded to a double round-robin format taking place over five days, with twice as many games as in 2015. The semifinals and Finals will be best-of-five series.<\/p>\n<p>Teams invited to the MSI will include the Spring Split winners from NA and EU League Championship Series, the Tencent League Pro League, League Champions Korea and League Master Series.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Riot Games is bringing the League of Legends World Championship to North America this year, the organization has announced, and Shanghai will host the Mid-Season Invitational. The 2016 Championship will begin with a Group Stage in San Francisco, followed by the Quarterfinals in Chicago and Semifinals at New York City&#8217;s Madison Square Gardens. The Finals &hellip; <\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link btn\" href=\"https:\/\/gamegnome.com\/esports\/2016\/02\/17\/league-world-championship-to-be-held-in-four-u-s-cities\/\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-215","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-esports-news","item-wrap"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gamegnome.com\/esports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gamegnome.com\/esports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gamegnome.com\/esports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gamegnome.com\/esports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gamegnome.com\/esports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=215"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gamegnome.com\/esports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":216,"href":"https:\/\/gamegnome.com\/esports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215\/revisions\/216"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gamegnome.com\/esports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=215"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gamegnome.com\/esports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=215"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gamegnome.com\/esports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=215"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}