After quite some time of neglecting our webpage, with the turn of the year, we've decided it was time to give our website a new look and a full update, with a lot more information about our work and who we are, and links to our most important projects.
We're still migrating some content from our old website, so information before 2020 may still be missing, but we'll be fixing that in the following days.
We hope you enjoy our new look!
Inygon is proud to announce its first official Portuguese Valorant competition: the Valorant Circuito de Elite, or VCE!
VCE will be a circuit of tournaments, open to all European teams, integrated with the Circuito Tormenta Valorant competitions, with a total of €20.000 prize pool. It will consist of three open qualifiers and a final event, spanning from June to November. Qualifiers will have 16 teams fighting their way into playoffs, with the best 8 teams of the season moving into the final stage.
While not being an exclusive Portuguese competition, VCE will indubitably be an important competition and step in the development of the local Valorant scene.
You can find more about Valorant Circuito de Elite at https://vce.gg/.
In another very important step towards the development of the esports scene in Portugal, Inygon has announced a partnership with SIC, one of the biggest media groups in Portugal! SIC began to take its first steps into the esports scene recently, with the brand ADVNCE, which is now the official media partner for the Portuguese League of League of Legends (LPLOL) 2021 season.
Through this partnership, we expect to create new content and opportunities for the LPLOL teams and players, increasing the reach and audience of the competition and accelerating the professionalization of the sport. The first two major steps will be to add the LPLOL live broadcast and VOD's to the ADVNCE channel and to create a weekly LPLOL TV show, with a summary of the competition and game highlights. Additional content will follow soon. Inygon channels will also be running the live stream as usual.
We're looking forward to watching the development of this partnership and its impact on the League of Legends community.
At Inygon, we've always placed a lot of importance on amateur competitions, as one of our main objectives is to promote esports as actual sports, which includes growing the player base to feed the upper competitive echelons, especially in an exporting region such as our own.
Last year, in partnership with GGTech, we remodelled the WGR LPLOL 2nd division into the Circuito Tormenta, providing our local players not only with a new second division, now called Liga Promessa (Promise League) but also with new tournaments that opened an opportunity for new aspiring players to prove themselves, and to either earn their place amongst the top or to be drafted into more competitive teams. This work is fundamental for the success of professional competitions, with many players having already walked this path into the more professional levels.
This year, we're not continuing the path of Circuito Tormenta while also adding new sports into it, namely Valorant and Wild Rift, Riot Games' new FPS and mobile games!
We hope that with this, we keep giving all our local players opportunities to further develop their skills, or to just have fun with their friends while playing their favourite games, while paving the way for a professional and competitive scenario in both Valorant and Wild Rift, and of course, League of Legends!
You can learn more about Circuito Tormenta at https://circuitotormenta.pt/!
Last year, we took a historic step with the broadcast of the LEC (League of Legends European Championship) in the Portuguese language, although with some limitations. This year, we're very proud to announce that we'll also be broadcasting the LEC in our native language, but this time, in its entirety!
No doubt, this was an important step for Inygon. Not only it was the broadcast of one of the most-watched esports competitions, but it was also an opportunity to tap a new audience in another country, namely Brazil, for which we brought new talent to our rosters, such as Leticia Motta and Nicolas Emerenciano. This time, with Leticia and Nicolas now heading to Valorant in Brazil, we'll also be bringing new talent, Pedro Prata and Ken Harusame, which will join our Portuguese casters, Guerreiro and Kevin, and also three other new faces: Alexandre, Rafael and Ana as the host!
Getting to work hand in hand with the LEC team also gives us an exciting opportunity to work with some of the most talented people in this industry and to learn from them. So, In addition to the talent roster update, we'll be bringing some new developments, as we did for WGR LPLOL, to improve the experience of our viewers.
The LEC will start on the 22nd of January and will be broadcasted at https://twitch.tv/InygonTV1. Stay tuned!