This Week in eSports: Group A&B results, Changes for 2015 Challenger series, and more!

With the conclusion of the 2014 World Championship groups A and B earlier today, we're back with another edition of This week in eSports!

Other News:

• [NA/EU Challenger Series] Riot has announced a slew of considered changes to the upcoming 2015 Challenger Series. Here's the full post a a TL;DR of the possible changes/issues below: 

• "DDoS attacks have been an issue this season. As such, we’re focused on enhancing our existing technical support for Challenger teams to make sure that the only thing that decides a match is skill.

• "We are currently discussing multiple format changes for 2015 including a round-robin style season similar to the LCS that will allow the best teams to rise to the top."

• "We are considering a new rule around auto-promotion and auto-relegation, which would mean the LCS 10th place team would automatically go to Challenger and Challenger Series champion would automatically move into the LCS after each split."

• "We are giving Challenger Series its own day of the week and updating ownership rules to restrict ownership to two teams - one in Challenger and one in the LCS."

• [2015 Season Expansion Tournament] In addition to the Challenger information above, Riot has also released a slew of information regarding the expansion tournament coming up within the next couple months. The TL;DR is found below: 

• "The Expansion Tournament will take place from November 15 - December 21, featuring 13 teams drawn from the Promotion Tournament, Challenger Series playoffs, and Ranked 5s ladder. The top two teams to emerge from the tournament in NA and EU will secure an LCS spot in their region." 

• "The ladder lock date for Ranked 5s teams entering the Expansion Tournament will be at 11:59 AM PST on November 2nd, 2014 for NA and 23:59 CEST on November 9th, 2014 for EU." 

• "Both the NA and EU tournaments will feature two rounds of online competition, followed by an additional three rounds of competition which will be broadcast live from ESL’s studios in Burbank for the NA Expansion games and in Cologne for the EU Expansion games." 

• "To prioritize in-game competition over acquisition gamesmanship, owners with a stake in one or more teams already playing in the Expansion Tournament are restricted from obtaining a stake in another Expansion Tournament team without divesting their previous stakes." 

• "Players who played in the most recent split for a professional team that compete in the Expansion Team and gain entry into the LCS cannot be acquired by another LCS organization until the completion of the 4th regular season week in their respective regions."

• [NA/EU LCS] Another new set of rules emerged for the 2015 Season this week including that coaches will officially be recognized by the LCS and subject to the same rules and regulations. For a full rundown of the new rule - check out the lolesports post.