League of Legends (LoL) is a free-to-play multiplayer online battle arena, real-time strategy game developed and published by Riot Games. Over 67 million people play League of Legends every month, with 27 million people playing each day, and over 7.5 million concurrently during peak hours.

League of Legends has an active and widespread competitive scene with leagues in North America, Europe, China, South Korea, Taiwan and South America (organised by Riot Games). These regional competitions culminate with the annual World Championship, which in 2013, had a grand prize of $1 million and attracted 32 million viewers online. The 2014 and 2015 tournaments each gave out one of the largest prize pools in eSports history, at US$2.3 million dollars.

Riot Games, runs an Oceania Pro League (OPL) between the top eight regional teams, with the winning team being eligible to compete in the International Wildcard Qualifier in Brazil for the World Championships. Competing against Japan, Turkey, South-East Asia, an Australian team has never made it to the World Championships, with the closest being last year where they were the runner up.

Fox Sports will be following the Oceania journey to the 2016 League of Legends World Championship.