League of Legends (LoL) has unveiled the Nova Collection, a French esports competitors for ladies and different marginalised genders.
Providing a €10,000 (~£8,700) money prize, the circuit’s inaugural version, Nova Collection: Prélude, will happen from November Eighth till December sixth.
“We have now at all times been right here. On the Rift. In each match. In each battle. Generally in silence… however at all times decided,” emphasised the announcement video from October twenty second.
“We have now skilled defeat. We have now grown hungry for victory. Carrying our groups. Shining within the shadows. Right this moment, it’s time to write our personal historical past. A brand new period is starting and it belongs to us.”
The launch of the Nova Collection comes amidst the first-ever League of Legends Sport Changers (LGC) break up, a devoted LoL aggressive ecosystem for ladies akin to VALORANT’s profitable Sport Changers venture.
Following rumours arising in January, LoL developer Riot Video games formally launched the brand new EMEA league in June. Its inaugural break up, LGC 2025 Rising, is about to conclude on October thirty first with the Grand Ultimate between Eterna and G2 HEL.
Nova Collection Format & Schedule
The Nova Collection: Prélude will kick off with two qualifiers, happening from November Eighth-Ninth and from November Fifteenth-Sixteenth, respectively.
Every qualifier will see 32 European groups battle for a spot on the principal occasion. Individuals should first survive a seven-round Swiss Stage, that includes best-of-one (BO1) matches.
The highest 4 Swiss Stage groups will qualify for the Playoffs, which supply two principal occasion seeds per qualifier. All Playoffs matches will probably be best-of-threes (BO3s).
The principle competitors will start on November twenty third, taking the 4 certified groups right into a single-elimination bracket. The Semifinals will as soon as once more be performed as BO3s to find out the 2 finalists.
On December sixth, the Nova Collection will crown its first champion by way of a best-of-five (BO5) LAN Grand Ultimate in Paris. Extra particulars for groups might be discovered on the match’s official web site.
