LG TVs add'delete' option for Copilot Riot Games has confirmed that it's working on a huge update for the game. Signage for Riot Games, developer and publisher of video game League of Legends, is seen displayed as fans attend a viewing party for the League of Legends 2025 World Championship Finals at LoL Park, an e-sports venue in Seoul on November 9, 2025, as the LoL Worlds Championship finals between South Korea's T1 and KT takes place in Chengdu. Riot Games has confirmed that it's working on a massive update for after published a report saying that the company has plans to remake the game. Back in November, a Chinese esports insider also reported that a is in development and is coming as early as the second half of 2026. In a video announcement discussing Riot's plans for after 2026, executive producer Paul Belleza denied that the developer is working on like rumors have been suggesting, but he admitted that it is working on a big update that will arrive in 2027.

Biomechanical features have become important indicators for evaluating athletes' techniques. Traditionally, experts propose significant features and evaluate them using physics equations. However, the complexity of the human body and its movements makes it challenging to explicitly analyze the relationships between some features and athletes' final performance. With advancements in modern machine learning and statistics, data analytics methods have gained increasing importance in sports analytics. In this study, we leverage machine learning models to analyze expert-proposed biomechanical features from the finals of long jump competitions in the World Championships. The objectives of the analysis include identifying the most important features contributing to top-performing jumps and exploring the combined effects of these key features. Using quantile regression, we model the relationship between the biomechanical feature set and the target variable (effective distance), with a particular focus on elite-level jumps. To interpret the model, we apply SHapley Additive exPlanations (SHAP) alongside Partial Dependence Plots (PDPs) and Individual Conditional Expectation (ICE) plots. The findings reveal that, beyond the well-documented velocity-related features, specific technical aspects also play a pivotal role. For male athletes, the angle of the knee of the supporting leg before take-off is identified as a key factor for achieving top 10% performance in our dataset, with angles greater than 169°contributing significantly to jump performance. In contrast, for female athletes, the landing pose and approach step technique emerge as the most critical features influencing top 10% performances, alongside velocity. This study establishes a framework for analyzing the impact of various features on athletic performance, with a particular emphasis on top-performing events.

A huge event, with hundreds of participants, takeout pizza boxes stacked shoulder-high on carts, a jazz-rock band, a d.j., teams from about thirty high schools, robots by the dozen, and robot parts by the (probably) thousands spread out on tables in the cafeteria: it was the first day of the qualifiers for the all-city semifinals in the NYC FIRST Robotics Competition, at Francis Lewis High School, in Queens. On weekdays, about forty-four hundred students attend the school. In the rest of the building on this Saturday the hallways were empty. Michael Zigman, the C.E.O. of NYC FIRST, a nonprofit that provides STEM-education resources for students in public schools, stood in the gym, calculating in his head how many people were there. Zigman is a tall, kindly fifty-five-year-old Queens-born man who made money advising tech investors in the early two-thousands and then, in 2016, joined NYC FIRST.

These championships were the first time the technology, formally known as the Judging Support System, or JSS, had been used on every apparatus in a gymnastics competition--and its first use in a competition that could make or break an athlete's Olympic dreams. While the AI judging system did not replace human judges--rather, it was available to help judges review routines in case of an inquiry or a "blocked score"--it still marked a watershed moment for the sport that was years in the making. The International Gymnastics Federation (known as FIG, its initials in French) first used JSS to judge pommel horse, rings, and vault back at the 2019 World Championships before adding more events at different competitions each year. There are obvious upsides to using this kind of technology in competition. Human gymnastics judges must have an eye for quick, tiny movements: the point of a toe, the angle of a split (did she hit 180?), the slightest bend at the hip. AI could help take the guesswork out of the technicalities.

This year in the Japanese city of Yokohama the streets were paved with gold – in the form of giant Pokémon cards. From rare holographics on glass palisades to a Pikachu card the size of a small garden to tiled floors covered with common creatures, the city's interconnected malls paid tribute to the Pokémon trading card game, while the world's best players went head to head at the Pacifico convention centre at the annual world championships. Nine billion of these cards have been produced to date, 21% of those since 2021, sold in 76 countries and 13 different languages. They were so popular in 00s playgrounds that they were often banned from schools – a phenomenon that's repeating itself now, after the cards enjoyed a pandemic boost courtesy of bored kids and nostalgic millennials. YouTuber Logan Paul made headlines when he spent $5 million on a single card in July 2021.

Fox News Flash top sports headlines are here. Check out what's clicking on Foxnews.com. EC3 made his National Wrestling Alliance (NWA) debut at the company's 74th-anniversary show last year and a year later he defeated Tyrus for the Worlds Heavyweight Championship putting him on top of the historic promotion and ending the career of one of the most well-known performers in the business. Two months after capturing the title at the 75th-anniversary show, Thom Latimer used the "Lucky Seven Rule" to drop the NWA World Television Championship for a chance at EC3's title. The two will meet in a singles match at NWA Samhain later this month for the title. Better yet, EC3 gets to perform in front of his hometown fans in Cleveland, Ohio.

That popularity was evident both within and outside the venue as well: Long lines of spectators led up to the entrance, and the seats were packed when the games began. Fans cheered as the final two teams arrived in white Mercedes vans and crowded around barricades to gawk at influencers, players, Riot executives and popular Twitch streamers like Michael "Shroud" Grzesiek and Tarik Celik on a makeshift red carpet. Many of the streamers later set up in skyboxes above the venue to co-stream the games, providing unique running commentary over the game footage and further boosting viewership numbers. The singer Ashnikko also made an appearance, performing their song "Fire Again" onstage before the match began.

"Valorant," released in June 2020, is a first-person tactical shooter in which teams of five square off to be the first to win 13 rounds. Attacking teams need to plant a bomb in a designated site and stop opponents from defusing it. Defenders, by contrast, need to keep attackers away from the bomb sites or defuse the bomb once it has been planted. Also, both teams can win a round by killing all of their opponents.

What was the technology used? An automated phone questionnaire – using an artificial intelligence voice analysis system – graded officials as low, medium or high risk. No official refused to undergo the process, which measures the cognitive functions through the caller's responses to questions such as "Have you ever cheated in a boxing event?" According to the sports integrity expert and AIBA advisor Richard McLaren, the technology "bore no resemblance whatsoever" to a lie detector test and is used in military, diplomatic and insurance sectors by analysing the "cognitive functions of the brain through voice responses". "The investigators and analysts utilise the voice analytical tool to help screen officials," McLaren was quoted by The Guardian.

The annual "League of Legends" World Championship, commonly referred to as "Worlds," is well underway with live competitions in Reykjavik, Iceland, though players haven't had much time for tourism. Starting with a double round-robin tournament, qualifying professional teams from across the globe compete for a chance to win part of a prize pool of $2,225,000. So far, South Korean teams are knocking out the competition, leaving a single North American team competing for the finals. The tournament, which began Oct. 5, resumes Friday Oct. 22 and will culminate with the final on Nov. 6 to crown the world champions.