2024 League of Legends World Championship
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The 2024 League of Legends World Championship is an upcoming esports tournament for the multiplayer online battle arena video game League of Legends. It is the fourteenth iteration of the League of Legends World Championship, an annual international tournament organised by the game's developer, Riot Games. The tournament will be held from 25 September to 2 November in Berlin, Paris, and London. It will be the fifth time Europe has hosted the tournament, having held the event in 2011, 2015, 2019, and 2021.[note 1] Twenty teams will qualify based on placement within their regional leagues and results gained in the 2024 Mid-Season Invitational (MSI).[1]
| 2024 | |
| Tournament information | |
|---|---|
| Sport | League of Legends |
| Location | Germany France England |
| Dates | 25 September–2 November |
| Administrator | Riot Games |
Tournament format(s) | 12 team GSL-style double-elimination bracket play-in stage 16 team swiss stage 8 team single-elimination bracket from quarterfinals onward |
| Venue(s) | |
| Teams | 20 |
The League of Legends Champions Korea (LCK) and League of Legends Pro League (LPL) will have three directly qualified teams to the Swiss stage, while the League of Legends EMEA Championship (LEC) and League Championship Series (LCS) will have two directly qualified teams. The 2024 Mid-Season Invitational champion, Gen.G, earned automatic qualification to the Swiss stage[note 2], also counting as the additional seed for the LCK. The LPL, as the runner-up region, also earned an additional spot. Four teams from the play-in stage will also qualify to the Swiss stage.[1][4]
Eight teams qualifed for the play-in stage: The top two teams of the Pacific Championship Series (PCS) 2024 Summer playoffs, the top two teams of the Vietnam Championship Series (VCS) 2024 Summer playoffs, the third place teams in the LCS Championship and LEC Season Finals, the Campeonato Brasileiro de League of Legends (CBLOL) 2024 Split 2 champion, and the Liga Latinoamérica (LLA) 2024 Closing Split champion.
This will be the final World Championship where teams from the PCS and VCS qualify for the tournament individually, as they will merge (alongside the LJL and LCO) to form a new Asia-Pacific league in 2025. Additionally, there are plans to merge the LCS, CBLOL and LLA into an Americas league with separate North and South Conferences that same year.[5]
The following tables show qualified teams and their respective qualification paths:[6]
| Region | League | Seed | Pool | Team | Qualification Path |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Started from Swiss Stage | |||||
| South Korea | LCK | 1 | Hanwha Life Esports | Summer Champion | |
| 2 | Gen.G[note 3] | Championship Points | |||
| 3 | Dplus KIA | Regional Finals Winner | |||
| 4 | T1 | Regional Finals Runner-Up | |||
| China | LPL | 1 | Bilibili Gaming | Summer Champion | |
| 2 | Top Esports | Championship Points | |||
| 3 | LNG Esports | Regional Finals Winner | |||
| 4 | Weibo Gaming | Regional Finals Runner-Up | |||
| EMEA | LEC | 1 | G2 Esports[note 4] | Season Finals Champion | |
| 2 | Fnatic | Season Finals Runner-Up | |||
| North America | LCS | 1 | FlyQuest | Championship Winner | |
| 2 | Team Liquid | Championship Runner-Up | |||
| Started from Play-In Stage | |||||
| Asia-Pacific | PCS | 1 | 1 | PSG Talon | Summer Champion |
| 2 | 2 | SoftBank Hawks[note 5] | Summer Runner-Up | ||
| Vietnam | VCS | 1 | 1 | GAM Esports | Summer Champion |
| 2 | 2 | Vikings Esports | Summer Runner-Up | ||
| EMEA | LEC | 3 | 1 | MAD Lions KOI[note 4] | Season Finals 3rd Place |
| North America | LCS | 3 | 1 | 100 Thieves | Championship 3rd Place |
| Brazil | CBLOL | 1 | 2 | PaiN Gaming | Split 2 Champion |
| Latin America | LLA | 1 | 2 | Movistar R7 | Closing Champion |
Berlin, Paris, and London were chosen to host the competition. The O2 Arena was announced as the finals venue during the 2023 League of Legends World Championship Final in Seoul, South Korea.[7][8] The Riot Games Arena, and the Adidas Arena were announced as the venues for the play-in/Swiss stage and the quarterfinals/semifinals on 5 January 2024, respectively.[1]
| Berlin, Germany | Paris, France | London, England |
|---|---|---|
| Play-in Stage and Group Swiss Stage | Quarterfinals and Semifinals | Final |
| Riot Games Arena | Adidas Arena | The O2 Arena |
| Capacity: 210 | Capacity: 9,000 | Capacity: 20,000 |
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Groups
- Date: 25–29 September
- 8 teams were put into a double-elimination bracket. No two teams from the same region could be placed in the same half of the bracket.
- All matches are best-of-three.
| Opening Matches | Winner's Match | Advance to Swiss stage | |||||||||||
| Match 1 | |||||||||||||
| MAD Lions KOI | |||||||||||||
| Match 7 | |||||||||||||
| Vikings Esports | |||||||||||||
| W1 | |||||||||||||
| Match 2 | Q1 | ||||||||||||
| W2 | |||||||||||||
| PSG Talon | |||||||||||||
| PaiN Gaming | |||||||||||||
| Match 3 | |||||||||||||
| GAM Esports | |||||||||||||
| Match 8 | |||||||||||||
| SoftBank Hawks | |||||||||||||
| W3 | |||||||||||||
| Match 4 | Q2 | ||||||||||||
| W4 | |||||||||||||
| 100 Thieves | |||||||||||||
| Movistar R7 | |||||||||||||
| Elimination Matches | Decider Matches | Advance to Swiss stage | |||||||||||
| Match 9 | |||||||||||||
| Match 5 | L8 | ||||||||||||
| Q3 | |||||||||||||
| L1 | W5 | ||||||||||||
| L2 | |||||||||||||
| Match 10 | |||||||||||||
| Match 6 | L7 | ||||||||||||
| Q4 | |||||||||||||
| L3 | W6 | ||||||||||||
| L4 | |||||||||||||
- The 2021 edition was held in Reykjavík, Iceland, with all games of the tournament being held at the Laugardalshöll. No fans were in attendance due to the COVID-19 pandemic in Iceland.
- This qualification was activated when Gen.G qualified for the 2024 LCK Summer playoffs.
- Gen.G automatically qualified for the tournament by winning the 2024 Mid-Season Invitational (MSI) and qualifying for the 2024 LCK Summer Playoffs.
- G2 Esports automatically qualified for the tournament by winning the 2024 LEC Summer Split. As such, their slot for being the 2024 LEC Season Finals Champion was instead given to the third-place team in LEC 2024 Season Finals.
- The team's official name is Fukuoka SoftBank Hawks Gaming, the esports division of Japanese baseball team Fukuoka SoftBank Hawks. SoftBank Hawks qualified for the PCS Summer Playoffs by winning the LJL 2024 Summer Split.
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