League of Legends, or LoL for short, is a new style of game being coined as MOBA or “Multiplayer Online Battle Arena” created by Riot Games.  League of Legends welcomes the newest players through in depth tutorials, the ability to create practice games VS. bots, and then jumping into online matches VS. players around your own level.

As you may already know, the League of Legends development team includes Steve “Guinsoo” Feak, the original creator of DotA Allstars, and Steve “Pendragon” Mescon who started DotA-Allstars.com, and has worked closely with the DotA community for the past five years.

The League of Legends Division is officially spinning up June 27th, 2010.  With numbers competing for the #1 spot in TAW for overall players in a division, the command staff is being put in place and trained up. The North American Battalion staff includes CO 1LT_Cruber, XO 2LT_Truehunt, and SO 2LT_DepictionX.  The enlisted side of the house includes SSG_TwofistedGrunt as the head drill instructor and SSG Kruknos as the 1st Platoon leader. The European Battalion is headed up by 1LT_manraynor, SO 2LT MacBeth with SGT_JtheLegend watching over the enlisted troops.

Credit goes to LTC_Laggyfish and MAJ_Metawera who have worked tirelessly in the Vanguard Division getting this group ready!
“Our goal when building League of Legends was to evolve DotA beyond the limitations of the Warcraft III Engine and give players a new experience with entirely new content while capturing the familiar feel in an entirely new and expanded game. New features include:

•    Automated matchmaking, to make finding a good game easy
•    The ability to reconnect to games if you have disconnected
•    Completely new and original playable champions
•    Client-server network model with no host advantage
•    Advanced stat tracking
•    Built-in surrender functionality
•    In-game interface and controls designed for this style of play
•    Account-level progression, adding out-of-game strategic depth and customization, known as the summoner system
•    Regular updates with many more features to come!
•    An improved mini-map that shows your Champions pathing
•    Multiple maps, (Summoner's Rift, Summoner's Rift: Winter, Twisted Treeline, The Proving Grounds)
•    Features that make teaching the game to your friends easier, (game tutorial, bots, suggested items)”.

Riot games will be releasing competitive play soon with season 1 of their ranked play ladder system.