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• The LCS (North America & Europe) has expanded! Each split will now feature 10 teams!
  
• A brand new point circuit, to give more importance on performing well all season long.
  
• Automatic relegation to the 10th place team, relegation series for 8-9, automatic qualification for first and second, and playoff series for 3-6. The seventh place team goes home and does nothing.
  
  
• Large, sweeping roster changes!
  
• Cloud9 remains the exception, who retains their entire roster and looks stronger than ever.
  
• CLG remains as underwhelming as always, poaching Dig's Scarra and ZionSpartin, and replacing their jungler with former XDG player, Xmithie
  
• TSM, the John Cena of E-Sports, has replaced Amazing with a very un-tested Santorin, who led TSM to a defeat by a very recent Challenger-turned-LCS team, Unicorns of Love.
  
• Curse Gaming has been re-branded Team Liquid, and gotten sweet new jackets. Liquid picks up Season 3 World Champion, Piglet to replace Cop.
  
• Curse Academy has been re-branded Team Gravity (Without sweet jackets). This team is composed mostly of former LCS rejects, lead by Cop and Saint Vicious.
  
• LMQ has lost most of its roster and been re-branded Team Impulse. XaioWeiXaio, the only surviving member of LMQ is joined by three relative unknown players and Season 3 World Champion Impact
  
• Evil Genius has been re-branded Team Winterfox (With a very sweet logo). The team is officially now 100% Korean players after dumping the inconsistent Innox.
  
• Dignitas has lost its start player and best hair NA, Imaqtpie, as well as having top-laner ZionSpartin and Coach Scarra poached by CLG. Replacing the two players are two Koreans, one of which is a former Samsung Blue substitute.
  
• Team Coast who never can seem to keep a gimmick, has built a team around EU players Jessiz and Impaler, with former LCS scrubs Sheep, Mash, and Cris filling the roster out
  
• Team8 who is actually the only legitimate armature team from the expansion tournament to make it into the LCS, fields four rookie players and Oddone's ugly little brother, Maplestreet
  
  
• Copenhagen Wolves replace only one member of their old roster, fielding midlaner SorenXD as Cowtard moves to sub.
  
• Alliance has been re-branded Elements without any relation to the mediocre CLG player. The biggest news is the pickup of FNatic's Rekkles as their new ADC
  
• FNatic has been rebuilt after all players except YellowStar leave the team, fielding two unknown Korean players and poaching H2k's Febiven.
  
• Gambit Gaming has only two remaining members of the original roster, Diamond & EdWard, plus last season's addition NiQ but the two new players on the roster helped carry Gambit to a win at IEM Cologne recently.
  
• [bGiants! [/b] is a team of amateurs from Spain, of which I've never heard of nor seen play. It's EU, they'll somehow end up beating the top 3 teams a couple times.
  
• H2k Gaming were team of amateurs in the Challenger Scene who looked very strong, until their midlaner was poached by Fnatic. They've replaced him with Ryu, who seemingly grows weaker the further away from Faker he is.
  
• Supa Hot Crew XD has unfortunately been re-branded MeetYourMakers and has replaced their jungler with former SKT T1 player H0R0 who does alright regardless of proximity to Faker.
  
• SK Gaming, although now housing two giant racist shitheads Forg1ven (New to the team) and Svenskeren, look to be one of the strongest teams this season. I feel bad for Nrated and literal Werewolf Freddie for having to live with them.
  
• Roccat and here's the punchline: Roccat fields yet another former toxic player Nukeduck, but the team remains exciting to watch because of their bizarre, out of meta picks.
  
• Unicorns of Love, the spiritual successors to Dignitas, will probably break our hearts over and over, but as a recently promoted Challenger team, they managed to absolutely stomp TSM with a jungle Twisted Fate.
  
• The saddest swap of all, Deman and Joe have left the EU LCS announce team.
  

• New format! The season has been extended, giving us more games. All games will now be played in a Best of 3 format, and there will be 5 games a week.
  
• OGN has been re-branded as the LCK and moved closer under Riot's umbrella. All games will be broadcast free, and on-demand through Riot's official Twitch.tv channel.
  
• Korea has imploded! Mass pilgrimage of roughly half of last seasons players, including all players from both Samsung Blue & White leaving the Korean region.
  
• Organizations have all been merged into a singular team. Organizations may have up to 10 players total, and can switch players in between each game in a Best of 3 set.
  
  
• SKT T1 has taken most of T1 S's roster, with Faker. They regularly swap between Faker and Easyhoon between sets, generally when one or the other loses lane after blind picking Xareth mid.
  
• Naijin emFire has two sets of AD/Support players that are sometimes swapped around. The team is still composed mostly of Naijin players from last season.
  
• CJ Entus is still a very stubborn team that sticks to their players. They've lost Flame to China, but their starting roster is still the CJ players you'd expect to see (Shy, Ambition, Coco, Space, Madlife) with some random subs.
  
• Samsung fields the biggest surprise, picks up four unknown rookies from Solo Queue + the substitute support from SKT last season and created a very explosive, fun to watch team of newcomers. Not a single member of the old Samsung team remains
  
• Incredible Miracle are still the gate-keepers of last place. They have fans I guess. Don't expect them to top 7th.
  
• Jin Air Green Wings retain much of their core roster, and will probably remain in the middle of the pack but show signs of strength. They're about as Curse Gaming as Korea gets.
  
• KT Rolster a mishmash of the KT Organization without their star players.
  
• GE Tigers is a new team, but features a whole lot NaiJin Black Sword members. Their bottom lane of PraY and GorillA look to be one of the stronger bottom lanes in Korea. They have no jackets and all wear neat matching sweaters.
  

• Now sponsored by Riot Games. The region will no longer be largely shrouded in mystery, and will appear on Riot's Twitch.TV channel with a new English casting team.
  
• The scene has exploded, with almost every team fielding on average 3 Korean veterans who have left their region to come to a more profitable, easier region in China.
  
• The Format remains similar to the past, which isn't entirely relevant since it was so hard to see them play in the first place. New visibility + Korean Allstars making their pilgrimage makes this arguably the most exciting region to watch.
  
• The entire Samsung Organization last year from World's (Blue and White) have moved to China and been split into as many Chinese teams as they could fit in.
  
• Apparently China loves the New York Yankees and multiple teams have plastered the logo on their jersey for no discernible reason.
  
• All information on the LPL was taken directly from LiquidLegends.
  
  
• EdWard Gaming, back to back champions of the Chinese LPL have picking up Samsung's Pawn and Deft who will join last year's impressive Chinese top laner Koro1
  
• OMG remains the only top-four Chinese team without a single Korean player, but not without roster changes. UZI the Chinese All-Star ADC will be joining the team (With rumors of his disdain for playing with Koreans during season 4 worlds)
  
• Supa Hot Starhorn Royal Club, two-time runners up at World's will be replacing Uzi with a lateral move in Namei (Who was considered at the same level as Imp, Deft, and Uzi) joining InSec, Cola, Corn, and Zero.
  
• LGD-Gaming will be fielding Acorn & Imp, while keeping pretty boy Flame as their substitute top laner. They will be joining three Chinese players who didn't make it to World's last year
  
• Invictus Gaming are a name that pops up often, competing in many tournaments. They've picked up Save and KaKao as their starters, with Rookie as their substitute mid-laner.
  
• Master3 which is apparently the shady sister team to World Elite who were told to rebrand but still have a similar logo and jersey. They field Looper and Dade, two All-Stars from Samsung last year at World's.
  
• Team King who will be a bottom tier Chinese team notable only for wearing New York Yankee uniforms.
  
• Snake will be fielding two relatively unknown Korean players, Beast and Ella.
  
• World Elite will be starting Samsung Blue's former jungler Spirit as well as retaining Ninja, former Prime member and Styz, who is coming off a 6 month ban.
  
• Energy Pacemaker will probably be a bottom 4 Chinese team with a funny name.
  
• GT Club will probably be a bottom 4 Chinese team with very colorful uniforms.
  
• Vici gaming will probably be the stand-out team this year, fielding MVP Samsung White players Dandy and Mata, Samsung Blue's former support Heart as a substitute, as well as former LMQ's Vasilii. With the two best players from last year's World Championships, it will be an upset not to see this team in the top 3.