League of Legends Summer League will be split into two stages running for a total of 6 weeks.
Stage 1 - League stage
During the league stage pairings will be decided using the Swiss system. In the first round teams will be paired randomly then in subsequent rounds teams will be paired to play a team with the same or similar number of games won. During the Swiss stage each team will play three Bo1 matches per week.
Stage 2 - Playoffs
The 4 teams with the most points in the Swiss stage will qualify for the Bo3 Semifinals with the winners advancing to Finals.
Rules Summary
All players must be current students of the same university.
All games are tournament draft on EUW server.
Teams must have at least 5 players. Teams may add/remove players from team between weeks.
If teams are more than 20 minutes late to the scheduled start time of a match they forfeit the match.
Check in deadline is 6:45pm. Teams who don't check in by then will not get games for that evening.
No skins are banned.
Proxy picks are allowed. Players may pick a placeholder champion if they don't own a champion they wish to pick for a teammate. If you are using a placeholder you need to make sure the other team is aware before allowing champion select to progress.
New/reworked champions are banned for 1 week.
Offensive Summoner and Team names are not allowed.
Verbal abuse is not allowed. In particular any use of racist, sexist, homophobic or any other discriminatory language will lead to a minimum 3 week suspension.
| Date | Tournament Stage |
| 16th July | Swiss |
| 23rd July | Swiss |
| 30th July | Swiss |
| 6th August | Swiss |
| 13th August | Semifinals |
| 20th August | Finals |
All matches take Tuesday evening with first game scheduled to start at 7.15pm.
