Morello finally got diamond so Season 2 officially comes to an end!
•Eligible summoners will receive loading screen borders, profile banner trims, forum badges, and the Victorious Janna skin immediately
•Summoner Icons will be distributed over the next week
•Elo ratings have been compressed towards 1200 and system confidence in ratings has been reset.
•Placement matches must be completed before Elo will be visible again.
•Ranked stats have been cleared and archived under the "Season 2" option in the dropdown.
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PVP.net v1.70

•Crest of Honor - Honorable Opponent will now be displayed to the player and his teammates during champion select lobby and the loading screen
•Fixed a bug where a player's Ranked Solo rating would be displayed before all of his provisional matches had been finished.

League of Legends v1.0.0.150

Twisted Treeline has been remade!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3oLAZogcY0k

•New layout and reworked jungle that will push the pace of champion encounters.
•New altar control objective and boss, [...]

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We crank it to 11 with this weeks SoloMid NA Invitational which begins Saturday at 11AM PDT / 2PM EDT / 20:00 CEST

Back to back winner mMe.Ferus will try for a three-peat. While TSM, oRbit Gaming, Team Dynamic, 4Nothing, Chuuper's Troopers, Team4Not (making their Invitational debut) and Meat Playground will do their best stop them.

Brackets and Day 1 countdown timer are here and the stream will take over SoloMid.net when it goes live later today.

So hop on, watch and experience all the action cast by Wombat, [...]

Buffs to Syndra, nerfs to Rengar and a visual update to League's banana throwing unicorn are the highlights of this patch.

Beyond that there are some important fixes to Xin Zhao (perhaps paving the way for later buffs) and changes to spectator that will hopefully help tournaments and tournament play.

Kha'Zix, the Voidreaver
•Kha'Zix will be released at a later date, pending completion of testing on the PBE.

Rengar
•Savagery
◦Cooldown increased to 8/7.5/7/6.5/6 seconds from 6 seconds at all ranks

•Battle [...]

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This weekend SoloMid NA Invitational #10 kicks off with TSM, mMe.Ferus, Team Legion, UnderRated Gaming, Team Dynamic, Absolute Legends and Chuuper's Troopers competing for their share of a $2,000USD prize pool.

11AM PDT/2PM EDT/8PMCEST is the start time for both days. Check out the brackets page which has the countdown timer and scheduled start times for every match in Pacific/Eastern and Central European Summer Time.

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This weekend SoloMid NA Invitational #9 kicks off with TSM, Meat Playground, Orbit Gaming, Team Dynamic, Dirt Nap Gaming, mMe.Ferus and Under Rated Gaming competing for their share of a $2,000USD prize pool.

Check out the all new brackets page which has the countdown timer and scheduled start times for every match in Pacific/Eastern and Central European Time.

That's not the only new thing either. By popular demand Wombat will try to infuse the tournament with his unique brand of "awesome and awesomer" all [...]

PvP.net 1.67
•Players may now create up to 20 mastery pages, up from 10.

League of Legends v1.0.0.147 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YqI7N2R8tx4

Syndra, the Dark Sovereign
•Transcendent (Passive)
- Spells gain extra effects at max rank.
◦Dark Sphere: Deals bonus damage to champions
◦Force of Will: Increases slowing duration.
◦Scatter the Weak: Spell width increased.

•Dark Sphere
– Syndra conjures a Dark Sphere dealing magic damage. The sphere remains and can be manipulated by her other powers. [...]

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UPDATE: Grand Final Bo3 Set will be played Monday, September 10 @ 1pm PST / 4pm EST / 10pm CEST Sorry for the inconvenience. You can find a countdown timer on the brackets page.

A lot has happened since the last SoloMid Invitational. MLG Raleigh ended with a result that no one could have predicted. North America's top three teams are decided and preparing to go into the Season 2 Championship Playoffs. OGN The Champions: Spring has wrapped up in an exciting fashion.

Nine teams are competing in the eighth installment of the [...]

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Team SoloMid has proved through play they are the undisputed #1 League of Legends team in North America.

It has been a long season, and it's not over yet. There will be no three week vacations after this tournament win. The hard work and training will continue, so that they will be able to do their best at the Season 2 World Championships against the highest caliber pro teams in the world.

Thank you for your continued support of SoloMid.net and TSM.

Today is the fourth and final day of PAX Prime and the Season 2 North American Regional.

3rd Place Match 11AM PDT/2PM EDT/8PM CEST
CLG Prime will face Team Curse in the 3rd place match. The winner will be the third and final team to represent North America in the Season 2 World Playoffs and become Riot salaried players for the Season 3 Championship Series. They will also win $25,000USD. Whoever places 4th still gets $15,000USD which will help numb the loss a bit.

Grand Final 2:30PM PDT/5:30 PM EDT/23:30 CEST
Team SoloMid vs Team Dignitas is the [...]