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Bandle City and Zaun matches tomorrow: Summoners from those factions can sign up here.
Next Saturday’s matchup is Piltover vs. Zaun. Sign up here.
Next Sunday’s matchup is Bandle City vs. Demacia. Sign up here.

If you’re asking “What’s Factions?” — click here for a quick intro.

Champion lists for each faction: Faction Rosters

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We will be holding some shoutcasted Featured Matches on Saturday, April 26, beginning at 12:30 p.m. Pacific (3:30 Eastern). These Featured Matches are worth twice the base point value of an ordinary Factions match. The winner of this best-of-three set will have a random chance to unlock a new Champion for their roster.

Today, Piltover will face off against Demacia, as part of the Hextech Revolution storyline. This is a fairly friendly matchup, especially now that Demacia has begun to compromise on the pyrikhos issue.

Here is the schedule, with start times and lineups. Slots listed as OPEN will be filled from the audience.

Each team has slots for Summoners of particular ranks. Rank is defined as the higher of S3 and S4 solo queue SR rank. We use end-of-season rank. Rank slots can be “underfilled”, but never exceeded: for example, you can put a Gold in a Plat or Diamond slot, but you can’t put a Diamond in a Gold slot.

Join the Factions chat to cheer on your favored faction:

And if you haven’t already, you can sign up for one of the four factions participating in the current storyline.

Match I

Starts at: 12:30 p.m. Pacific — 1:30 Mountain — 2:30 Central — 3:30 Eastern

Match One will be a “low-tier” matchup of Silver and Bronze Summoners.

For Demacia

• Silver: Kaenne
• Silver: Holmes
• Silver: Rivened
• Bronze: InsaneDestroyer2
• Bronze: MiM Goldenhawk

For Piltover

• Silver: Sgt Porkchop
• Silver: The Weiter
• Silver: Hninja
• Bronze: Mixizm
• Bronze: StoveIsOn

Match II

Starts at: 1:30 p.m. Pacific — 2:30 Mountain — 3:30 Central — 4:30 Eastern

This will be a “high-tier” match, with a Diamond-Plat-Gold-Gold-Gold configuration.

For Piltover

• Diamond: Nhan
• Platinum: FuzzyTigerGuy
• Gold: SilverRayn
• Gold: Akanoth
• Gold: Lazurial

For Demacia

• Diamond: Riot NurseFlan
• Platinum: Role
• Gold: Sorioku
• Gold: Yoyii
• Gold: Veloce Visrin

Match III

Starts at: 2:30 p.m. Pacific — 3:30 Mountain — 4:30 Central — 5:30 Eastern

This will be a “mid-tier” match, with a Plat-Gold-Gold-Gold-Silver configuration.

For Piltover

• Platinum: LordClifton
• Gold: SilverRayn
• Gold: Akanoth
• Gold: Lazurial
• Silver: SgtPorkchop (Subs: The Weiter, Hninja)

For Demacia

• Platinum: Smackasaurus
• Gold: 501st Big Mike
• Gold: Yoyii
• Gold: MiM Goldenhawk
• Silver: Kaenne

Rules

This is an abbreviated version of the tournament rules.

Points. These matches have twice the base value of normal matches.

Disconnects. Normally, we remake Factions matches if there’s a d/c. This is problematic in a scheduled tournament. As a result, we handle it this way: each team has 5 minutes of pause time. Once that’s used up, the game plays on. Please check your connection before the match: if you d/c, you will likely throw the match for your faction.

Start times. Matches will begin no earlier than the posted times. If there are gaps still on the teams at the posted time, we’ll go to subs. 5 minutes after posted start time, we’ll open it up to the audience. A team with gaps on its roster at 15 minutes past start time forfeits.

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