Leagues

LEAGUE FORMAT

The TG League was developed with the player in mind. We offer everything you need to get started with teamplay – and you will have an experience unlike any other League around. We’re even going to deck you out in an official TG League team jersey included in the cost!

ABOUT TG LEAGUE

Training Grounds League is designed for League of Legends and Valorant players who want to experience a high-quality competitive environment and receive coaching from our certified TG coaches. This 10 week series will take you through a mini-pro experience, starting with a week-long tryout, a draft and team placement, scheduled weekly practices/matches, playoffs, and of course an awesome prize pool.

COACHING

Even the best athletes in the world have coaches – just ask Serena Williams. You and your team will be coached by TG’s industry-leading coaches, guiding you through structured team practice, informative VOD review sessions, and a focus on individual improvement. Unlike solo queue, where your teammates are always random, you will work with the same group of players week by week.

COHORT

You will initially be assigned to a group of 10 players, and you will spend your last day of tryouts playing scrimmage matches. Your coach will do a final check to ensure that your cohort team is as evenly skilled as possible, at which point you will be locked into your team of 5 for the remainder of the season. Within this group, you will scrimmage your cohort team, other teams within the league on practice days, and prepare you for your weekly matches.

PRO INSIGHT

You and your teammates will have access to the software at Insights.gg where you’ll be able to view advanced analytics about your matches and practices to learn what you did well, and what you need to work on. Insights.gg will also allow your coach to go back and review your POV demo and provide voiceover commentary, screen drawing, and text comments so you can review things on your own time.

C9 LCS & C9 VAL PROS

TG League will be introducing a new feature this season – we will be working with our C9 pro players to provide drop-in streaming commentary on our weekly stream.

PRACTICE

Team practices will consist of scrimmages and situational drills within your cohort. Your coach will educate you on situations that you will face in-game and allow you to repeat them multiple times a session to get your execution down. You will spend much of your practice time playing against the other team in your cohort and sometimes you’ll scrimmage against other teams within TG League. Expect regular feedback from your coach to improve as an individual and as a team, while scouting out the competition for your upcoming matches.

REGULAR SEASON & PLAYOFFS

Regular season will consist of 5 weeks of play where you will face off against a team from another cohort. You will play 3 matches once a week on either Thursday or Friday from 4:30 PM – 7:30 PM PST against the same team. You score a point for each individual game win that adds to your season total. After the regular season, the top team from each pool will move on straight to the second week of playoffs and the remaining teams will battle it out in a final qualifier over 3 days of play.

CUSTOM C9TG LEAGUE JERSEY

Every player will be decked out like the pros in their custom C9TG League jersey complete with your team name, IGN name, and position played at no extra cost. Made from the same materials and from the same manufacture as our pro players, you’ll be ready to hit game day like a real team.

TRAINING & QUALIFICATIONS

TG Coaches were hired from a huge pool of applicants, and had to pass through a rigorous hiring process. This included background checks and multiple interviews to determine both how they think about, and teach, their game. Over the past two years and after thousands of reviews, TG coaches average a 4.8/5 rating by the players they coach.

POSITIVE COACHING ALLIANCE

All of our TG League coaches are Positive Coaching Alliance certified through their “Developing The Triple-Impact Competitor” course. PCA believes that all youth can benefit from a positive, inclusive sports culture that develops social and emotional skills, molds character, and prepares them for competition and life. In more than two decades of work, PCA expanded from a small local nonprofit to a strong, nationwide organization that provides programming in all 50 states, reaching thousands of organizations around the country and positively impacting millions of youth athletes every year. PCA has now partnered with roughly 3,500 schools and youth sports organizations nationwide to deliver more than 20,000 live group workshops, reaching over 20 million youth

TEACHING & MENTORSHIP

All of our coaches have a teacher mindset and are dedicated to making your practice space a top-tier learning environment. Your coach will provide you with many growth opportunities, and when you finish training with us, you will have learned the importance of critical thinking and self-evaluation. These skills will allow you to improve at a much more rapid pace than your peers.

Join the League Waitlist

During the regular season, you will have one practice day and one match day. Your match day will be assigned on either Thursday or Friday and will be determined by the end of tryouts. Both playoff weeks, you’ll be expected to play on Tuesday/Thursday/Friday if you continue to progress deeper into the postseason.

REGISTRATION AND PRE-SELECTION

*Your registration payment acts as a placeholder for your spot in TG League but is not a guarantee that you will be admitted. To account for fairness we will be capped on participation due to the following factors: Coaching availability, fairness of competition, removal of smurf accounts and bad actors. Anyone removed from the pre-selection phase (before tryouts) will be issued a refund in full, immediately.

• February 14th at Midnight PST – League registration closes
• February 15th at Midnight PST – League pool will be determined
• February 16th at Midnight PST – All necessary refunds will be processed (it may take a number of days for the refund to be processed and passed back into your account)

REGULAR SEASON