Riot Reveals Competitive League of Legends Broadcast Schedule for 2023

The organizers of esports production in the League of Legends, and part-time MOBA developers represented by Riot Games, revealed new details regarding the 2023 competitive season. In particular, they talked about the new format and dates for broadcasting competitive leagues.

With the growth of the League of Legends esports ecosystem, Riot is implementing several changes and streaming formats for the esports component of the game. According to the LoL developers, this will lead to the following:

• Fewer concurrent broadcasts
• Schedule according to the wishes of the audience
• New opportunities for format expansion and content freshness
• Updated league and game schedule for the 2023 season

When making changes to the process of broadcasting esports events, Riot also relied on their other discipline - Valorant. The team shooter will also start a new season soon, and so Riot wants to give viewers the opportunity to watch matches, and not choose which matches to watch.

All the machinations led to an updated broadcast format. Riot League of Legends reveals airtimes for 5 leagues: LCS, LEC, CBLOL, LPL and LCK

League of Legends Broadcast Schedule Updates in 2023

• LCS - Thursday and Friday starting at 12:00 PM PT.
• LEC - Saturday, Sunday and Monday starting at 06:00 PM CET.
• CBLoL - Saturday and Sunday from 01:00 PM BRT.
• LPL - Monday through Friday starting at 5pm CST and Saturday and Sunday starting at 03:00pm CST.

The main League of Riot, the South Korean LCK, bothered to mention separately. There, the second match of the week will start at 07:00 PM KST, while the weekend games will start at 03:00 PM KST with the second match at 05:30 PM KST.

Riot hopes that the new esports streaming system will allow them to create more flexible streaming formats and increase cross-regional storytelling with more accessible options for co-streamers. The company notes that while the changes will be of a test nature.