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Riot is laying off 32 staffers.

Riot Games’ Marc Merrill announced the layoffs, and spokesperson Joe Hixson shared the number affected with The Verge. The layoffs are focused on the League of Legends team.

“While team effectiveness is more important than team size, the League team will eventually be even larger than it is today as we develop the next phase of League,” Merrill says. Riot announced cuts affecting more than 500 people in January.

A screenshot of some of Marc Merrill’s post about the layoffs.
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Screenshot by Jay Peters / The Verge
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