About me
Hey everyone welcome to my site RiftGrids! I've been an avid fan of league of legends as I grew up being a massive RTS fan (warcraft III and Starcraft) which naturally directed me to MOBAs and eventually, league! I love the pro scene and spent a ton of time just doing pro drafts with selfmade numbers or teams because simulating a tournament with players I cheered for (or against) was so much fun. Hence this (little at first) passion project was made. I hope everyone enjoys this site and please reach out if you ever want to talk or make a recommendation! My favourite player is Impact btw his my goat.
About riftgrids
riftgrids is a set of daily League of Legends games, and the biggest is the Worlds Simulator: take one of the nineteen teams at the 2026 World Championship, draft five real pros into it, and play the whole event out against the rest of the field. One run a day, the same pool and the same field for everyone, and a new one when the day turns over.
A lottery draws your place in the draft, and the draft is a snake: every team takes one pro for each role over five rounds, and the team that picks first in a round picks last in the next, except that round three runs the same way as round two, so the first seat does not run away with the draft. The best player left is not always the right one. A team that spends its early picks on stars can find the last role it needs has nobody left worth having.
Then the event plays out the way Riot ran it in 2026. Four teams start in the Play-In, double elimination, and only its winner goes on. The Swiss stage is sixteen teams: three wins takes you through, three losses sends you home. The eight who get through play a knockout, every series best of five.
How a run is judged
A run ends wherever your team goes out, and that is its result: out in the Play-In, out in the Swiss stage on its record, or as far as the knockout takes it, with lifting the trophy the furthest a run can go.
Every run finished today by a signed in player goes on the day's board, best finish first, under their account's name. The board is on the leaderboard's Daily tab, and it starts again from nothing when the day turns over.
Where the players come from
The pool is one real event: every team and every pro at the 2026 World Championship, as they were at that event. A player's card rates them on their lane (or the jungle), mechanics, teamfighting and macro, read from their numbers at the event, their season before it, and who they beat to get there.
Those ratings are this site's reading of the numbers, not a verdict anyone else has given, and the games a run plays are a simulation built on them. The Data page lists the real teams, their real results, and every player's numbers, with the source and the date each was fetched.
Questions
What is riftgrids?
Daily League of Legends games. The biggest is the Worlds Simulator: take one of the nineteen teams at the 2026 World Championship, draft five real pros into it, and play the whole event out against the rest of the field. The Grid and Connections are daily champion puzzles beside it.
Can I play more than once a day?
Today's run is one run: once it is finished, its result goes on the day's board and stays there. A practice run draws a fresh field off a random draw and can be played as often as you like, but it is not sent anywhere and appears on no board.
When does it change?
Once a day, at the same instant for everyone, whatever your own clock says at the time. Until it turns over, everybody drafts from the same pool against the same field, which is what makes one run worth comparing with another.
Did these games really happen?
The players and their numbers are real; the games are not. Every series in a run is simulated, so a run where your team beats the real champions says something about your draft and your plans, not about the event. The Data page has what actually happened.
Do I need an account?
Not to play. You can play without one, and your record stays in that one browser, but only signed in players appear on the leaderboard or have their progress saved. An account is an email address and a six-digit code, with no password to choose or to lose, and what it buys you is a place on the leaderboard under your own name, the streak and rarity bonuses, and a record saved on any device you sign in on. Make one the day you play and that round comes with it.
Something looks wrong.
Write to hello@riftgrids.com. A player on the wrong team, a number that does not match its source, a run that broke halfway: the same address reaches us for any of it, and for anything else.
Attribution
riftgrids was created under Riot Games' "Legal Jibber Jabber" policy using assets owned by Riot Games. Riot Games does not endorse or sponsor this project.
Every champion portrait is official League of Legends artwork, loaded from Data Dragon, Riot's own public asset CDN, at the size a screen draws it and for no purpose other than showing which champion a player is on.
Player data is from Leaguepedia and series results from Liquipedia, both licensed CC BY-SA 3.0. Early game leads, per game scoreboards and season tables are from gol.gg. The tables and cards are this site's arrangement of that data, averaged per game, and the ratings are its own reading of it. Player photos are via Liquipedia, and each names its photographer on the Data page.
That artwork, the champion names, and League of Legends itself belong to Riot Games, and every team's name and logo belongs to that team. riftgrids claims no rights in any of it and sells nothing.
If you hold rights in anything shown here and would rather it were not, write to hello@riftgrids.com and it will be removed. The same address reaches us for anything else: a wrong number, a broken run, a player on the wrong team.