League of Legends Playoffs Called Off, Moved to "Secure Location" [Update] [League Of Legends]

The World Playoffs for League of Legends, which had been livestreaming just fine, have been called off after serious network problems plagued the latter stages of the competition.

After games were paused and disconnected all afternoon, developers Riot Games decided to play the remaining matches in the tournament at a “secured location” later this week.

Due to continued technical issues, the remaining games will be played at a secured location sometime later this week and streamed live.

— LoL eSports (@LoLeSports) October 7, 2012

That use of the term “secured location” is interesting, seeing as many in the LoL community believe the outages to be the result of outside interference like DDoS attacks, rather than simple network hiccups.

I’ve contacted Riot Games for comment on the delay and move, and will update if I hear back.

UPDATE – Riot’s Chris Heintz tells Kotaku:

We have no reason to believe there was any outside interference or foul play at this time.

Internet issues both local and upstream; our network guys are continuing to investigate root cause.

By secure we meant more stable – we’ll make announcements soon.