League War 10: The Road So Far...

 League War has been a favorite event of Heroes Rising for nearly two years, ever since the inaugural running in October of 2019. In that instance, 24 teams competed in four different divisions. League War 9 saw ten divisions and more than double the number of original teams. Each season of league wars brings new challenges, alliances, and rivals rise to the occasion of fighting for gold.

Some things remain relatively the same. There are many league names that continue to grace the scoreboards, but not everything is the same. The Avengers, Colony51, and Legacy of Spawn fought in Division One of the inaugural event, but as time went on, these leagues gained members, lost members, and fell out of the top division. LW9 saw WMD: Black Order hold on to the top position for multiple league wars while being challenged by three individual 5th Precinct leagues.

Over the course of the league war events, many players have collected awards that they are proud of.

This was a favorite memory earned by Sadist (#10862, player Ray Randell). 

As you can see, over the league war seasons, the medals have changed, as have some of the rules as the developers try to find a balanced means of play. Different methods of calculating league averages, for example. As the field of play grows, with twenty characters currently over level 400, it seems as though the bottom divisions have become the new top. Instead of leveling to compete in the highest echelon, players are doing their best to build strong toons to dominate the lowest. The prizes offered in the lowest division aren't as powerful or plentiful, but a Gold is still a gold.

As the potential levels continue to grow higher and higher, the most current format used shows a huge gap between some leagues as they fight in a division.

Street Fighter #17707

"I started total 51 vengeance though I don't take the credit for the league wars victorys because we were an all star team every other member had ran a league at one time or another

actualy in lw1 i put that league together and we only won silver ray wiped the floor with us after that area 51 took charge of putting the league together we had far more success just wanted to say all of rays teams are brutal all the respect to their leagues they will go down as a legendary l as will the avengers and area 51 and advengers 51" -- James Brent Cameron

and Kairo the Great #13936

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 League wars have brought out some interesting events in the game and off. There has been one cannon story that took place during League Wars: Haunted Heroes. There have been shenanigans played by participants on various levels. For instance, some teams have altered all their avatars to the same generic image while changing their names in attempts to confuse their opponents.