
It also indicates the player's current rank progress and warns the player if they’re still on provisional matches. The design consists of a high-level textual summary of Ranked, a visual image describing the tier/division system, and finally a tier carousel of cards that players can navigate to see the different rewards. My main project for this internship was implementing a user interface that provides introductory information about the Ranked game mode and lists corresponding end of season rewards for each tier. My team focuses on providing a high quality competitive experience for LoL players. This summer, I worked as a software engineer intern on the LoL Competitive team.

I study games and computer science at the University of Southern California, pursuing a master’s degree.

Thanks to all our interns for their hard work and excellent projects this summer! League of Legends Wei Zhang Intern stories are sorted into categories - the first post (this one) includes all blurbs for League of Legends, TFT, & VALORANT, and the second post focuses on General Game Tech & Tooling/Infrastructure. There were so many interns excited to contribute to this article that this year we’ll be doing a 2-part series.

We’re doing a follow-up this year, but with additional sections to reflect our new games. Last year we published an article by some of our interns, giving readers a glimpse at the projects technical interns get to work on. The Riot internship program helps technical players drive their professional growth by embedding them on tech teams and having them contribute to impactful, exciting technology projects.
