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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[1]
MVP	Gao "Tian" Tianliang (FunPlus Phoenix)
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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.^[2] 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".^[3][4] 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.^[5]

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.^[6] 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.^[7]

Region	League	Path	Team	ID	Pool
Starting in the main event's group stage
China	LPL	Summer Champion	FunPlus Phoenix	FPX	1
		Most Championship Points	Royal Never Give Up	RNG	2
		Regional Finals Winner	Invictus Gaming	IG
Europe	LEC	Summer Champion	G2 Esports	G2	1
		Regional Finals Winner	Fnatic	FNC	2
North America	LCS	Summer Champion	Team Liquid	TL	1
		Most Championship Points	Cloud9	C9	2
South Korea	LCK	Summer Champion	SK Telecom T1	SKT	1
		Most Championship Points	Griffin	GRF	2
TW/HK/MO	LMS	Summer Champion	J Team	JT	2
		Most Championship Points	ahq e-Sports Club	AHQ	2
Vietnam	VCS	Summer Champion	GAM Esports	GAM	2
Starting in the play-in stage
Europe	LEC	Regional Finals Runner-up	Splyce	SPY	1
North America	LCS	Regional Finals Winner	Clutch Gaming	CG
South Korea	LCK		Damwon Gaming	DWG
TW/HK/MO	LMS		Hong Kong Attitude	HKA
Vietnam	VCS	Summer Runner-up	Lowkey Esports	LK	2
CIS	LCL	Summer Champion	Unicorns of Love	UOL
Latin America	LLA		Isurus Gaming	ISG
Turkey	TCL		Royal Youth	RYL
Brazil	CBLOL		Flamengo eSports	FLA	3
Japan	LJL		DetonatioN FocusMe	DFM
Oceania	OPL		Mammoth	MMM
Southeast Asia	LST		MEGA Esports	MG

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

• Venue: LEC Studio, Berlin, Germany.^[2]

• 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.

• 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

• Venue: Verti Music Hall, Berlin, Germany^[2]
• 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.

• 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

October 26

A1

Griffin

1

November 2

D2

Invictus Gaming

3

D2

Invictus Gaming

1

October 26

B1

FunPlus Phoenix

3

B1

FunPlus Phoenix

3

November 10

C2

Fnatic

1

B1

FunPlus Phoenix

3

October 27

A2

G2 Esports

0

C1

SK Telecom T1

3

November 3

B2

Splyce

1

C1

SK Telecom T1

1

October 27

A2

G2 Esports

3

D1

Damwon Gaming

1

A2

G2 Esports

3

• (*) Not include tie-break games.

Place	Region	Team	PS1	PS2	GS	QF	SF	Finals	Prize (%)	Prize (USD)
1st	LPL	FunPlus Phoenix*			4–2	3–1	3–1	3–0	37.5%	$834,375
2nd	LEC	G2 Esports*			5–1	3–1	3–1	0–3	13.5%	$300,375
3rd–4th	LCK	SK Telecom T1			5–1	3–1	1–3		7%	$155,750
	LPL	Invictus Gaming			4–2	3–1	1–3
5th–8th	LCK	Damwon Gaming	4–0	3–1	5–1	1–3			4%	$89,000
	LCK	Griffin*			5–1	1–3
	LEC	Splyce*	3–1	3–2	4–2	1–3
	LEC	Fnatic			4–2	1–3
9th–12th	LMS	J Team			3–3				2.25%	$50,062.50
	LPL	Royal Never Give Up			3–3
	LCS	Team Liquid			3–3
	LCS	Cloud9			2–4
13th–16th	VCS	GAM Esports			1–5				1.25%	$27,812.50
	LMS	ahq e-Sports Club			0–6
	LMS	Hong Kong Attitude	3–1	3–1	0–6
	LCS	Clutch Gaming*	2–2	3–0	0–6
17th–20th	LCL	Unicorns of Love*	2–2	2–3					0.75%	$16,687.50
	VCS	Lowkey Esports	2–2	1–3
	LLA	Isurus Gaming	2–2	1–3
	TCL	Royal Youth*	1–3	0–3
21st–24th	OPL	Mammoth*	2–2						0.5%	$11,125
	CBLOL	Flamengo eSports*	1–3
	LJL	DetonatioN FocusMe	1–3
	LST	MEGA Esports	1–3
Place	Region	Team	PS1	PS2	GS	QF	SF	Finals	Prize (%)	Prize (USD)

• 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.

• 2019 World Championship Rules