{"id":1779,"date":"2019-11-19T20:54:09","date_gmt":"2019-11-19T20:54:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ginx.tv\/riot-create-dutch-belgian-lol-leagues"},"modified":"2024-07-22T22:16:35","modified_gmt":"2024-07-22T22:16:35","slug":"riot-create-dutch-belgian-lol-leagues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ginx.tv\/en\/league-of-legends\/riot-create-dutch-belgian-lol-leagues","title":{"rendered":"Riot Games to create Dutch and Belgian LoL esports leagues"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Through the partnership with 4Entertainment, a gaming event and broadcasting company which currently oversees a collection of esports projects based in the Benelux region, Riot will split its top <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ginx.tv\/en\/league-of-legends\">League of Legends<\/a> competition in the Benelux region into two new leagues.<\/p>\n<p>While financial terms of the agreement were not disclosed, Luxembourg, Belgium, and the Netherlands are still planned to be considered one region, with <a href=\"https:\/\/belgianleague.lol\/\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Belgium<\/a> and the <a href=\"https:\/\/dutchleague.lol\/\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Netherlands<\/a> hosting their own leagues throughout 2020.<\/p>\n<div data-oembed-url=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/posts\/4entertainment_leagueoflegends-belgianleague-dutchleague-activity-6602466129359314944-c_BB\">\n<div class=\"iframely-embed\" style=\"max-width: 962px;\">\n<div class=\"iframely-responsive\" style=\"padding-bottom: 56.25%; padding-top: 120px;\"><iframe allow=\"autoplay; encrypted-media\" allowfullscreen=\"\" src=\"\/\/cdn.iframe.ly\/api\/iframe?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.linkedin.com%2Fposts%2F4entertainment_leagueoflegends-belgianleague-dutchleague-activity-6602466129359314944-c_BB&amp;key=c1d6fd555150b457f577d7801d51b45c&amp;v=1&amp;app=1\" style=\"border: 1px solid rgb(222, 222, 222); box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.06) 0px 1px 3px;\">4Entertainment on LinkedIn: &#8220;Yesterday was a milestone day for&#8230;<\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><script async=\"\" charset=\"utf-8\" src=\"\/\/cdn.iframe.ly\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/div>\n<p>Each league is slated to host six teams and will run a typical regular season format with a spring and summer Split and a &euro;25,000 prize pool throughout 2020 for each respective league. 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Each league will also be streamed live each league&rsquo;s respective Twitch channel, provided by Gamelux, and broadcast in its native languages &mdash; Dutch for the Dutch league, Flemish and French for the Belgian league.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>While Luxembourg still waits to receive its own league, players and teams will be able to apply for either competition, but must have their applications submitted by Wednesday, December 4, 2019.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Through the partnership with 4Entertainment, a gaming event and broadcasting company which currently oversees a collection of esports projects based in the Benelux region, Riot&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":543,"featured_media":1780,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1779","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-league-of-legends"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.9 - 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