Greetings, summoners!

Another week means it’s time for some more great offers on a few skins for some of your favorite champions of the League. From Tuesday, February 7th, through Friday, February 10th, the Cryocore Brand, Golden Alistar, and Perseus Pantheon skins will be available for 50% off !

• Cryocore Brand (regularly 975 RP) will be only 487 RP!
• Golden Alistar (regularly 390 RP) will be only 195 RP!
• Perseus Pantheon (regularly 975 RP) will be only 487 RP!

After Friday, February 10th, these fantastic skins will be returning to their regular prices—so be sure to act now before it’s too late. Click on the Skins tab in the Store to take advantage of these fantastic deals.

Welcome to the EU edition of Power Rankings, presented by Average Gatsby. I’ve made a number of tweaks based on the feedback we received from the first North American issue.

Navigating the EU competitive scene is tough to say the least. Most teams are run by organizations rather than players, so a team with circuit points may have a completely different line up now than when they won the circuit points. Teams change roster or organizations seemingly on a weekly basis. Europe has had fewer opportunities to gain circuit points in the preseason than North America. Finally, top European teams compete against each other constantly, no matter how large or small the prize pool is.

As a result, I’ll be adding in some teams that have not qualified for any circuit points but have achieved stand-out performances in tournaments and Prized Events where other circuit teams have participated. However, as always, live event performance at Challenger Circuit events are weighted higher than any online event. After all, online events alone will not get a team to the Season Two Championship.

The next stop on our League of Legends World Tour brings us to Europe, where we’ll be making a stop in the Mediterranean country of Spain.

To a foreigner, Spain might conjure images of picturesque beaches, delicious tapas and red-caped matadors. Well, luckily for vacation planning, you will be pleased to know that Spain does in fact have all of these things. One thing you might not realize, however, is that Spain also boasts a flourishing gaming community filled with passionate and dedicated online gamers.

While gamers in Spain were initially unfamiliar with games in the MOBA genre, gravitating instead toward FPS and MMORPG titles, the arrival of League of Legends in November 2009 began to change this dynamic. Driven by the passion of its members, the League of Legends community in Spain has been growing at an amazing rate, primarily through summoners recommending the game to their friends and showing off their skills at the many gaming social occasions throughout the country.

Although they generally prefer to do their everyday game playing from home, this doesn’t mean that the summoners of Spain don’t have an extremely social gaming community. Spain is home to more LAN parties than any other country in Europe, with over 50 public events taking place each year. Some of these LAN parties, such as Euskal Encounter and Campus Party, have years of history and feature not only tournaments, but also numerous fan contests and activities. There is even a bar in Barcelona that hosts each and every major League of Legends tournament live stream, enticing hundreds of summoners to watch their favorite pros do battle with one another on the Fields of Justice.

A volatile new presence has exploded into the League of Legends! And along with this turbulent new champion, we’ve got an intimidating new look for Poppy, the Iron Ambassador.