2019 League of Legends World Championship

League of Legends
World Championship

2019
Tournament information
Sport	League of Legends
Location	France Germany Spain
Dates	October 2–November 10
Administrator	Riot Games
Tournament format(s)	12 team double round-robin play-in stage 16 team double round-robin group stage 8 team single-elimination bracket
Venue(s)	4 (in 3 host cities) LEC Studio (Berlin, Play-in stage) Verti Music Hall (Berlin, Main group stage) Palacio Vistalegre (Madrid, Quarterfinals & Semifinals) AccorHotels Arena (Paris, Finals)
Teams	24
Final positions
Champion	FunPlus Phoenix
Runner-up	G2 Esports
Tournament statistics
Attendance	Peak viewership: 43.982.055
MVP	Gao "Tian" Tianliang (FunPlus Phoenix)

The 2019 League of Legends World Championship was an esports tournament for the multiplayer online battle arena video game League of Legends. It was the ninth iteration of the League of Legends World Championship, an annual international tournament organized by the game's developer, Riot Games. It was held from October 2, 2019, to November 10, 2019, in Berlin, Madrid and Paris. Twenty four teams from 13 regions qualified for the tournament based on their placement in regional circuits such as those in China, Europe, North America, South Korea and Taiwan/Hong Kong/Macau with twelve of those teams having to reach the main event via a play-in stage.

"Phoenix" was the tournament's theme song, put together by Chrissy Costanza and Cailin Russo, while Blanke, Carpenter Brut, and 1788-L produced their own remix versions of "Phoenix". A virtual rap group named "True Damage" was unveiled by Riot Games during the ceremony, with Soyeon from (G)I-dle, Duckwrth, Thutmose, Keke Palmer and Becky G representing the group as its human counterpart and in the live performance of their debut song, "Giants", in the finals.

Qualified teams

Based on the results of the Mid-Season Invitational and the World Championship in the year prior, with the 2018 MSI victory of Royal Never Give Up and 2018 Worlds victory of Invictus Gaming, the third seed team from China (LPL) will start in the group stage, replacing the third seed team from South Korea (LCK) that will now instead begin in the play-in stage. Due to the merger of Latin America North's and Latin America South's professional leagues into a single league (LLA) and the results of the 2019 Mid-Season Invitational, Vietnam (VCS) will have a direct spot in the group stage for the summer champions and an additional spot in the play-in stage for the summer runner-up, the same format used in 2017 Worlds. The summer champions of Taiwan/Hong Kong/Macau (LMS) have also been dropped to pool #2.

Venues

Berlin, Madrid, Paris were the three cities chosen to host the competition.

Berlin, Germany		Madrid, Spain	Paris, France
Play-in Stage	Main Group Stage	Quarterfinals & Semifinals	Finals
LEC Studio	Verti Music Hall	Palacio Vistalegre	AccorHotels Arena
Capacity: 174	Capacity: 2,250	Capacity: 15,000	Capacity: 20,300
Berlin		Madrid	Paris

Play-in stage

• Venue: LEC Studio, Berlin, Germany.

Groups

• Date and time: October 2–5, began at 13:00 CEST (UTC+02:00) in the first leg and 12:00 in the second.
• Twelve teams are drawn into four groups, with three teams in each group.
• Double round robin, all matches are best-of-one.
• If teams have same win–loss record and head to head, they will play a tie-breaker match for first or second-place.
• The top two teams of each group advance to the second round. The third-place team is eliminated.

Knockouts

• Eight teams are drawn randomly into a single-elimination match, with first-place teams of each group facing second-place teams of another group.
• All matches are best-of-five.
• The first-place team chooses the side for all odd-numbered games, while the second-place team chooses the side of even-numbered games.
• The winner advances to the main event group stage as pool #3.

Source: Dot Esports

Group stage

• Venue: Verti Music Hall, Berlin, Germany
• Date: October 12–20.
• Sixteen teams are drawn into four groups with four teams in each group. Teams of the same region cannot be placed in the same group.
• Double round robin, all matches are best-of-one.
• If teams have the same win–loss record and head-to-head record, a tiebreaker match is played for first or second place.
• The top two teams of each group advance to the knockout stage. The bottom two teams are eliminated.

Knockout stage

• Eight teams are drawn into a single elimination bracket.
• All matches are best-of-five.
• The first-place team of each group is drawn against the second-place team of a different group.
• The first-place team chooses the side for all odd-numbered games, while the second-place team chooses the side of even-numbered games.
• Teams from same group will be on opposite sides of the bracket, meaning they cannot play each other until the Finals.

Quarterfinals

Semifinals

Final

Ranking

Team ranking

• (*) Not include tie-break games.

Regional ranking

• The win-ratio is determined by number of won games compared the number of games played.
• Bracket stage wins are prioritized.
• (*) Does not include tiebreaker games.