Riot Games will open North American League of Legends Champion's Queue for global teams during Worlds 2022
Riot Games have officially announced that their famous Champions Queue in League of Legends' will be open to all Worlds 2022 participants during their stay in North America for the tournament. It is a unique and solo queue-style experience with restricted access and monetary prizes to be won by the participants.
The current qualified playerbase for it consists of every member of each LCS organization and their academy affiliates, many masters to challenger tier collegiate players, and a few pre-approved former League of Legends professional players.
As per the recent announcement, the queue is set to allow over a hundred qualified international players to join the ranks.
In this video from Bwipo's stream, he talks about why he doesn't enjoy Champions Queue. To summarise, his opinion is that he has limited time to practice outside of scrims, which he considers as the best form of practice.
Since many players who join the queue are competing for money, Bwipo claimed he feels the need to practice champions that he knows he can't play against at a competitive level, which he considers unfair to them.
This sentiment is not shared by many League of Legends' pro players, but those from the LCS are known to be notorious for not playing many Champions Queue games. There was a point in the Spring Split where TSM had four members on the roster with less than 10 games in the mode, with some not having played even one.
It will be interesting to see just how interested the players will be in this iteration of Champions Queue. It begs the question, will pro players have the time and motivation to grind after long scrim blocks?
With a massive influx from the top international teams, it seems that the new allowance with the queue will take
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