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Riot is bringing in-person League of Legends and Valorant tournaments to Iceland

The Verge

Image: Riot Games. Riot Games plans to host two big esports tournaments in Reykjavik, Iceland, the studio announced on Monday. Not all competition has been online, though: Riot hosted last year’s League of Legends World Championship in person in Shanghai with strict safety protocols.

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League of Legends’ world championships will take place in Iceland

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via Getty Images. The League of Legends World Championship, the concluding tournament that brings together the best teams from across the world, will take place in Reykjavík, Iceland at the Laugardalshöll indoor sporting arena. Alongside the reveal of the host city, Riot also detailed a schedule for the tournament.

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League of Legends’ 2022 world championship will be a multi-city affair

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Steve Russell/Toronto Star via Getty Images. The 2021 edition of Worlds just wrapped up earlier this month in Reykjavík, Iceland, after originally being planned for Shenzen, China. ( One of the biggest esports events in the world will be spread across four North American cities next year.

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League of Legends’ world championships moved from China to Europe

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via Getty Images. This will be the second major League of Legends tournament to take place in Europe this year, following May’s Mid-Season Invitational hosted in Reykjavik, Iceland. Photo by David Lee/Riot Games/Riot Games Inc. The move happens just weeks before the competition is set to begin.

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Gulf states using COVID-19 contact tracing apps as mass surveillance tools, report says

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Photo by Thomas Trutschel/Photothek via Getty Images. The show involved a host randomly video calling phone numbers of Bahraini individuals using government-collected data to check if they were adhering to social distancing guidelines and offering monetary rewards to those that were.

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44.01 secures $5M to turn billions of tons of carbon dioxide to stone

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Image Credits: 44.01. ” Other mineralization efforts have broken ground on the concept, so to speak, such as a basalt-injection scheme up in Iceland, so it isn’t without precedent. Oman may be the starting point, but Hasan hinted that another location would host the first commercial operations.

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