League of Legends Season 3 NA qualifying brackets today
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While this is still technically “preseason" for the League of Legends Championship Series, the North American qualifiers really do feel like the start of the festivities as a mix of pro and ranked “amateur" teams compete for the final slots in the North American division. The broadcast begins at 7 PM GMT / 2 PM Eastern with FeaR v. Meat Playground, and you can watch streams on Riot’s Twitch channel. Full broadcast information is available on Reddit.
As we close in on the League of Legends offline qualifiers this weekend, Riot have released a detailed explanation of the competition format for the third season of the League of Legends Championship Series. Featuring extensive regular season play, miseason relegation, an All-Star break, and finally a World Championship, League of Legends has taken its biggest step yet to organizing and codifying itself along the lines of a traditional sport.
The League of Legends preseason gets serious today as ranked teams across Europe and North America compete for the chance at a spot in League of Legends Season 3. The Europeans qualifiers are already wrapping up, and the North American games are just getting started at time of writing.
We already knew a lot of 
Recognising the simplicity in the role of junglers and the low payoff their work recieves, Riot are looking at a way of keeping them useful long into the endgame of League of Legends. Upping mob difficulty and gold drops as well as new support items are just some of the changes being considered for the new season.
Riot VP of eSports Dustin Beck had a 
