Riot Games has made Kick an official broadcast partner, joining Twitch and YouTube for League of Legends esports. The deal also covers Valorant and Teamfight Tactics. It started with MSI 2026 in Daejeon, South Korea, and it's the first time Kick has carried Riot's own broadcasts rather than just hosting fan co-streams around them.
Kick streamers now get access to Riot's creator and partner programs across League, Valorant, TFT, and Wild Rift. Drops are coming to the platform too, so viewers watching on Kick get the same in-stream rewards as viewers on Twitch or YouTube.
The deal targets three regions specifically: LATAM, MENA, and Europe. China and Korea run their own separate broadcast arrangements with Riot, so they're not part of this. Riot's 2024 League World Final drew a peak of 50 million concurrent viewers, still the largest audience any esports event has recorded.
The Gambling Restriction Still in Place
Kick was founded by the team behind Stake, and casino streaming remains one of the platform's biggest content categories. That existing rule hasn't changed with this deal: Team Vitality is sponsored by Stake, but during League competition their jerseys display French retailer E.Leclerc instead, since Riot doesn't allow gambling sponsor logos on competing teams' kits.
What Riot hasn't clarified yet is whether that restriction extends to how Kick's own casino streamers cover Riot events through co-streams, since that's a different situation than a sponsored team's jersey.
