{"id":20070,"date":"2022-05-10T01:17:43","date_gmt":"2022-05-10T05:17:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/?p=20070"},"modified":"2022-05-10T01:17:43","modified_gmt":"2022-05-10T05:17:43","slug":"2022-wild-rift-icons-global-championship-moved-to-singapore","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/2022-wild-rift-icons-global-championship-moved-to-singapore\/","title":{"rendered":"2022 Wild Rift Icons Global Championship moved to Singapore"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The 2022 <a href=\"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/riot-games-announce-lol-wild-rift-for-mobile-and-consoles\/\" title=\"Wild Rift news\">League of Legends: Wild Rift<\/a> Icons Global Championship, which commences on June 14, 2022, will be held in Suntec Convention and Exhibition Center in Singapore, as revealed by Riot Games. This is a familiar place for Wild Rift supporters and will feature the strongest teams from around the world.\u2028\u2028<\/p>\n<p>Icons was intended to take place in Madrid, Spain; however, Riot Games decided to relocate the tournament to Singapore due to lingering complications as a result of the COVID pandemic, including visa application delays and re-entry restrictions for several regional teams. Riot say the switch will guarantee that teams not only have the opportunity of attending the tournament, but also have a phenomenal first Icons experience.\u2028\u2028<\/p>\n<p>In a press release, Riot Games said: \u2028\u201cDue to the global pandemic complicating visa application timelines and re-entry dates for many regional teams, Riot Games made the decision to move the competition to Singapore.\u201d\u2028\u2028<\/p>\n<p>Riot&#8217;s Global Head of Esports, Leo Faria, spoke about the first Wild Rift Icons Global Championship moving to Singapore and what it promises to be to the esports community.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are incredibly excited to announce that our very first Wild Rift Icons Global Championship will be coming to Singapore this summer,\u201d Faria stated. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cIcons will be the climax of our Wild Rift esports season, showcasing the best in mobile esports from around the world!\u201d \u2028\u2028<\/p>\n<p>This year&#8217;s competition will feature 24 teams, with eight from the regional championships and 16 from the play-in round. All of which will be vying for the championship title and the grand prize of $2 million.<\/p>\n<p>\u2028\u2028As stated earlier the Wild Rift Championship is scheduled for June 14 to July 9, 2022. The schedule is as follows:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Play-ins: June 14-18\u2028<\/li>\n<li>Groups: June 21-25\u2028<\/li>\n<li>Quarterfinals: July 1-2<\/li>\n<li>Semifinals: July 5-6\u2028<\/li>\n<li>Finals: July 9\u2028\u2028<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>More details on the tournament\u2019s format will be revealed in the coming weeks.\u2028\u2028<\/p>\n<h2>About League of Legends: Wild Rift<\/h2>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/league-of-legends\/\" title=\"LoL betting sites\">\u2028League of Legends<\/a>: Wild Rift is a game developed by Riot Games. It is a multiplayer online battle mobile game for both iOS and Android. The free-to-play game is a refined version of League of Legends for the PC.\u2028\u2028 <\/p>\n<p>Tencent, a company that also publishes video games, asked Riot Games to develop League of Legends into a mobile game after officially acquiring them in 2015. Riot, on the other hand, declined, claiming that the game could never be recreated on a smartphone.<\/p>\n<p>Tencent then developed a mobile MOBA, Honor of Kings &#8211; international adaptation known as Arena of Valor. Tencent&#8217;s partnership with Riot Games was reportedly affected by the aforesaid games, and the two companies&#8217; relationship was further affected when Tencent utilized prominent League of Legends players to endorse Arena of Valor as well as its esports leagues.\u2028\u2028<\/p>\n<p>After a complaint was issued by Riot Games, a restriction for marketing Arena of Valor for two months was published. Also, an appeal was made for a review of all marketing strategies by Riot Games, and a prohibition of the use of select celebrity gamers. \u2028\u2028Having gone through this hurdle, Riot Games saw the possibility of transforming games to mobile. Hence, they created a mobile title &#8211; League of Legends: Wild Rift.<\/p>\n<p>\u2028<a href=\"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/news\/\" class=\"contentLinkBtn\">More esports news<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The 2022 Wild Rift Icons Global Championship has been moved from Madrid to Singapore due to travel restrictions in Spain.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25,"featured_media":8387,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ghostkit_customizer_options":"","ghostkit_custom_css":"","ghostkit_custom_js_head":"","ghostkit_custom_js_foot":"","ghostkit_typography":"","wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[4,24,61,2017,805,2016],"class_list":["post-20070","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-featured","tag-league-of-legends","tag-riot-games","tag-singapore","tag-wild-rift","tag-wild-rift-icons-global-championship"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20070"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/25"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20070"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20070\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20071,"href":"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20070\/revisions\/20071"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8387"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20070"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20070"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20070"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}