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2021 College League of Legends Season

Rules Patch Notes

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Introduction

This document serves as a public record and quick reference to significant changes between the 2020 and 2021 seasons in the College Season rules, regional conference format, Teemo Cup format, and College Championship format The list will call out where changes were made, then give a brief description of what and/or why. This is a supplement to reading the rules; for the sake of brevity, we won’t list actual rule text or any minor changes (e.g. single-word changes, typo fixes, etc).

Rule Changes

Section 1. Competition Eligibility

1.1 School Association Two-year schools and junior colleges are now eligible for the College LoL Season. Added clarity around all types of eligible schools. 1.2.2 Enrollment Status Full-time students enrolled in two-year degree programs are now eligible for the College LoL Season. 1.1.1.1 School Administrator Recognition Clarifies that notification from a school official is required to affirm varsity status for the purpose of resolving multiple teams per school. 1.1.1.3 Tiebreaker Competition Edited for clarity. NEW 1.1.1.4 Tiebreaker Forfeit If a team refuses to schedule or participate in an eligibility tiebreaker match, College Season officials can rule that team as forfeiting. If teams mutually cannot agree on a tiebreaker schedule, then all involved teams forfeit. Tl;dr you have to figure this out, but refusing to figure it out means you lose. 1.1.3 Schools vs. Campuses We will consider every institution as a separate school by default - meaning they can register a unique LoL team, and their students cannot play for another’s school’s team - unless a school official notifies us in writing that they are campuses and should be treated as a unified school. Riot will no longer be making individual judgments to determine the difference between unified campuses and separate schools.

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Regional Conference Format

Conference Format & Schedule

1.2.1 Preseason seeding Teams will be ranked by the tier and division of their top 5 players’ Solo Queue ranks, not hidden MMR. Ties will be broken by individual player tiers, then by highest individual player rank counting LP if teams somehow have all five players in the same tiers as each other. NEW 1.2.3.2 Bye Deferral Teams can opt-out of receiving a regular season bye each round if they’d rather save it for later in the season (when matches are harder). If the highest-seeded team defers, it falls to the next-highest seeded team that didn’t defer, landing on the lowest-seeded team if everybody defers. 1.4.3 Regular Season Schedule Matches can no longer be played on Monday to allow for bye deferral and removing the need to rush (or potentially reseed) schedule.

College Championship Format

Various Sections “At large berths” now referred to as “Selected berths” “At large teams” now referred to as “Selected teams”