League of Legends Circuit Oceania

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League of Legends Circuit Oceania
FormerlyOceanic Pro League
GameLeague of Legends
Founded2021 (2021)
Owner(s)ESL Australia
Guinevere Capital
No. of teams8
CountriesOceania
Official websitehttps://lco.gg/

The League of Legends Circuit Oceania (LCO) is the top-level of professional League of Legends competition in Oceania,[a] founded in 2021 and organized by ESL Australia and Guinevere Capital, replaced the Oceanic Pro League (OPL) that was hosted by Riot Games Oceania from 2015 to 2020.[1][2][3] There are eight teams in the league. The winners of LCO Split 1 qualified for the Mid-Season Invitational (MSI), while the winners of Split 2 qualified for the World Championship.

Format[]

Regular season[]

  • Eight teams participate.
  • Double round-robin, best-of-one.
  • Top five teams advance to playoffs.

Playoffs[]

  • Five teams participate
  • Double elimination bracket.
    • The 1st-place team from regular season receives a bye to begin in the second round of winners' bracket.
    • The 2nd and 3rd-place teams begin in the first round of the winners' bracket.
    • The 4th and 5h-place teams begin in the first round of the losers' bracket.

The winner of the each split will represent Oceania at the Mid-Season Invitational and World Championship respectively.

Broadcast Team[]

ID Name Role
Elfishguy Australia Jordan Mays Play-by-Play Caster
Skimmy United Kingdom Andre Allchin
Juves Australia Brandon Defina Color Caster
Rusty Australia Zack Pye

Teams[]

Teams Roster
Top Jungle Mid Bot Support
Chiefs Esports Club Australia Lived Australia Swathe Australia Kisee Australia Mboma Australia Dragku
Dire Wolves Australia Claire Australia Kevy/Only New Zealand Shok Australia gunkrab New Zealand Cupcake
Gravitas Australia Nobody/Safa Australia Azus Australia SKyose/Rizza Australia Piglet Australia Thomas Shen
Legacy Esports Australia Winterer Australia Sybol Australia Incursio Australia styled New Zealand emelg
MAMMOTH Australia Nectaar Australia Buggy Australia Wayy Australia Shyfrit Australia Shinki
ORDER Australia Maximize Australia Vengeance Australia Chungy Australia Puma Australia Beats
PEACE China Apii Australia Babip Australia Halo Hong Kong Violet Australia Aladoric
Pentanet.GG Australia BioPanther Australia Pabu Australia Chazz Australia Praedyth New Zealand Decoy

Result[]

Year Split Champion Runner-up Third-place Fourth-place
2021 1 Pentanet.GG PEACE Chiefs Esports Club Dire Wolves
2 PEACE Pentanet.GG Dire Wolves ORDER

Notes[]

  1. ^ Most domestic players of Oceanic countries are from either Australia or New Zealand.

References[]

  1. ^ Byers, Preston (18 December 2020). "ESL, Guinevere Capital to operate new 8-team Oceanic League of Legends league". Dot Esports. Retrieved 19 February 2021.
  2. ^ "LEAGUE OF LEGENDS CIRCUIT OCEANIA LAUNCHES THIS FEBRUARY". about.eslgaming.com. 5 February 2021. Retrieved 19 February 2021.
  3. ^ "ESL Australia's Twitter".

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