LCK postponed due to Coronavirus

Perhaps what will come is when the Corona virus is raging in Korea, which means that the LCK tournament must be postponed indefinitely starting from March 6.

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A few minutes ago, Riot Games Korea officially announced the indefinite postponement of all tournaments in the country’s professional League system, including the LCK and Challengers Korea Springs Leagues (CK) Spring 2020.

LCK postponed due to Coronavirus

Specifically, the schedule of postponement will be started from March 6, 2020, which means that the teams will compete the final match of the group stage on March 5. The second leg will suspend competition for the latest updates of the disease situation.

Currently, South Korea is becoming the second largest disease outbreak area in the world after China. The complicated movement of the pandemic caused the LCK to start without an audience during the early stages of the season. And so far, the LCK has become the third largest tournament (after LPL and PCS) to announce the postponement of competition indefinitely.

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In case the problem does not improve, it is likely that the LCK will also consider the online competition plan similar to the way that the LPL tournament is about to deploy.

In addition to announcing the postponement of the competition, the LCK Organizing Committee also emphasized that this tournament has strictly complied with medical professional measures to prevent epidemics, and so far not recorded case in the tournament.

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LCK postponed due to Coronavirus

The Pacific Championship Series (PCS) is a professional esports league for League of Legends players competing in Taiwan, Hong Kong, Macau, and Southeast Asia (with the exception of Vietnam). Its creation was officially announced by Riot Games on 19 December 2019, after Garena, which ran the League of Legends Master Series (LMS) and League of Legends SEA Tour (LST), announced in September that it was planning to merge the two leagues. The PCS has ten teams: four from Taiwan, two from Hong Kong, and four from Southeast Asia.

LCK postponed due to Coronavirus

League of Legends Champions Korea (Korean: 리그 오브 레전드 챔피언스 코리아), commonly abbreviated as LCK, is the primary competition for League of Legends esports in South Korea. Contested by ten teams, the league runs two seasons per year and serves as a direct route to qualification for the annual League of Legends World Championship. The LCK is administered in cooperation between Riot Games and KeSPA.

LCK postponed due to Coronavirus

League of Legends Pro League (LPL) (simplified Chinese: 英雄联盟职业联赛; traditional Chinese: 英雄聯盟職業聯賽; pinyin: Yīngxióng Liánméng zhíyè liánsài) is the top level of professional League of Legends in China. The first season of the LPL was the 2013 Spring season. The top three finishers of the playoff tournament receive automatic bids to the League of Legends World Championship. Playoffs are an eight team single elimination with each step a best-of-five series. The total prize pool is ¥2,350,000. In 2014 Riot Games began providing an English language broadcast. The format is modeled after the League of Legends Champions Korea format in South Korea. In September 2015 it was announced that Riot Games was in negotiations with Tencent to take over operations of the league.

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