TSM

TSM may refer to:

Entertainment

Games

League of Legends Championship Series

The League of Legends Championship Series (LCS), formerly known as the Riot Championship Series, is the name of two professional League of Legends eSports leagues run by Riot Games. Twenty teams compete in two separate competitions in North America and Europe, with ten teams per continent. Each annual season of play is divided into two splits, spring and summer, both consisting of nine weeks of round-robin tournament play, which then conclude with play-off tournaments between the top six teams from each region. At the end of the season, the highest placing three teams in each league qualify for the annual League of Legends World Championship.

The LCS represents the highest level of League of Legends play in Europe and North America. The LCS has a promotion and relegation system; the bottom teams in the LCS from each split compete with the top teams from the Challenger Series (CS) to compete for spots in the next split of the LCS. The Challenger Series in each continent is composed of six teams: three teams which failed to advance in the previous promotion tournament, one team from the previous CS split, and the top two teams from ranked ladder play in the respective public League of Legends online game server.

Team SoloMid

Team SoloMid (TSM or simply SoloMid) is an electronic sports organization based in the United States. It was founded in September 2009 by brothers and League of Legends players Andy "Reginald" Dinh and Daniel "Dan Dinh" Dinh who had previously started the SoloMid.net gaming community website. TSM currently fields players in League of Legends, Hearthstone: Heroes of Warcraft, Call of Duty, Super Smash Bros., and Counter-Strike: Global Offensive. In 2015 the organization previously had a Counter-Strike: Global Offensive based in Denmark. TSM League of Legends is considered one of the top teams in North America, having won three splits of the North American League of Legends Championship Series (LCS) and appearing in the League of Legends World Championship every year since its inception in 2011.

History

Team Solomid was originally founded in September 2009 as a League of Legends community website and playing guide resource. In 2011 the organization began fielding at team in professional LoL competitions. In 2013 Reginald retired from playing, opting to run the business full-time.

LCS

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Science, mathematics, and computing

Game

A game is structured form of play, usually undertaken for enjoyment and sometimes used as an educational tool. Games are distinct from work, which is usually carried out for remuneration, and from art, which is more often an expression of aesthetic or ideological elements. However, the distinction is not clear-cut, and many games are also considered to be work (such as professional players of spectator sports or games) or art (such as jigsaw puzzles or games involving an artistic layout such as Mahjong, solitaire, or some video games).

Key components of games are goals, rules, challenge, and interaction. Games generally involve mental or physical stimulation, and often both. Many games help develop practical skills, serve as a form of exercise, or otherwise perform an educational, simulational, or psychological role.

Attested as early as 2600 BC, games are a universal part of human experience and present in all cultures. The Royal Game of Ur, Senet, and Mancala are some of the oldest known games.