2019 LCK season

The 2019 LCK season was the eighth season of the League of Legends Champions Korea (LCK), a professional esports league for the MOBA PC game League of Legends.^[1]

League of Legends Champions Korea

2019
Tournament information
Location	South Korea
Administrator	Riot Games
Tournament format(s)	2 Splits (Spring and Summer)
Teams	10
Purse	₩ 350,000,000
Final positions
Champion	SK Telecom T1 (Spring and Summer)
Runner-up	Griffin (Spring and Summer)
← 2018 2020 →

Spring Split

SK Telecom T1 won the Spring Split.

Team standings

Pos	Team	SW	SL	SPCT	GW	GL	GPCT	Pts	Qualification
1	Griffin	15	3		31	8		23	Advance to Finals
2	SK Telecom T1	14	4		31	13		18	Advance to Playoffs Round 2
3	Kingzone DragonX	13	5		27	12		15	Advance to Playoffs Round 1
4	SANDBOX Gaming	13	5		28	16		12	Advance to Wild Card
5	DAMWON Gaming	11	7		25	17		8
6	Hanwha Life Esports	9	9		20	21		−1
7	Gen.G	5	13		16	28		−12
8	Afreeca Freecs	5	13		14	29		−15
9	KT Rolster	4	14		13	29		−16	Drop to promotion tournament
10	Jin Air Green Wings	1	17		3	35		−32

Source: ^{[citation needed]}

Playoffs

	Wild Card					Playoffs Round 1					Playoffs Round 2					Finals
																1	Griffin	0
											2	SK Telecom T1	3			2	SK Telecom T1	3
						3	Kingzone DragonX	3			3	Kingzone DragonX	0
	4	SANDBOX Gaming	1			5	DAMWON Gaming	0
	5	DAMWON Gaming	2

Summer Split

Team standings

Pos	Team	SW	SL	SPCT	GW	GL	GPCT	Pts	Qualification
1	Griffin	13	5		29	13		16	Advance to Finals
2	DAMWON Gaming	13	5		28	16		12	Advance to Playoffs Round 2
3	SANDBOX Gaming	12	6		27	18		9	Advance to Playoffs Round 1
4	SK Telecom T1	11	7		26	17		9	Advance to Wild Card
5	Afreeca Freecs	11	7		26	20		6
6	Gen.G	10	8		24	20		4
7	Kingzone DragonX	9	9		23	23		0
8	KT Rolster	6	12		16	28		−12
9	Hanwha Life Esports	5	13		15	27		−12	Drop to promotion tournament
10	Jin Air Green Wings	0	18		4	36		−32

Source: ^{[citation needed]}

Playoffs

	Wild Card					Playoffs Round 1					Playoffs Round 2					Finals
																1	Griffin	1
											2	DAMWON Gaming	0			4	SK Telecom T1	3
						3	SANDBOX Gaming	0			4	SK Telecom T1	3
	4	SK Telecom T1	2			4	SK Telecom T1	3
	5	Afreeca Freecs	1

Media

Streams

• twitch
• Facebook
• twitch
• AfreecaTV
• NaverTV
• Facebook
• Garena Live
• YouTube
• YouTube
• twitch
• twitch
• Huya
• OPENREC
• twitch

Broadcast Talent

• Korean
  • Jeon "Caster Jun" Yong Jun – Play-by-Play Caster
  • Seung "SEONG K" Seung Heon – Play-by-Play Caster
  • Lee "CloudTemplar" Hyun-woo – Color Caster
  • Kim Dong-jun – Color Caster
  • Kang "KangQui" Seung Hyun – Color Caster
• English
  • Max "Atlus" Anderson – Play-by-Play Caster
  • Chris "PapaSmithy" Smith – Color Caster
  • Brendan "Valdes" Valdes – Play-by-Play Caster
  • Nick "LS" De Cesare – Color Caster

Viewership Statistics

Spring

Peak Viewership
Total	28,014,116
Without Chinese Viewers	641,088
English Streams	227,915
Chinese Streams	27,532,576
Korean Streams	468,409
Twitch.TV Streams	243,544
YouTube Streams	223,603
Other
Avg Concurrent Viewers	2,878,118
Avg Concurrent Viewers (Excl. Chinese)	124,793
Total time watched	820,503,526

^{[2][better source needed]}

Summer

Peak Viewership
Total	766 770
Without Chinese Viewers	766 770
Twitch.TV Streams	366 440
Other
Total Time Watched	33 852 258 Hours
Avg Concurrent Viewers	117 136

^{[3][better source needed]}