2019 League of Legends Rift Rivals

The 2019 League of Legends Rift Rivals was the third Rift Rivals – a series of cross-regional League of Legends tournaments organised by Riot Games. The tournament was held on 27–29 June 2019 in Los Angeles for the North America and Europe region,^[1] and 4–7 July 2019 in Seoul for China, South Korea, Taiwan/Hong Kong/Macau and Vietnam region.^[2] The Taiwan/Hong Kong/Macau region and Vietnam region sent their top two teams for Spring season to Rift Rivals 2019 respectively.^[2]

Rift Rivals 2019

Tournament information
Sport	League of Legends
Location	Los Angeles Seoul
Date	LCS/LEC 27–29 June 2019 LCK/LPL/LMS-VCS 4–7 July 2019
Administrator	Riot Games
Host(s)	Riot Games
Venue(s)	LCS Studio Jangchung Arena
Participants	Top 3 teams of Spring Split from LCS and LEC Top 4 teams of Spring Split from LCK, LPL and LMS-VCS
Final positions
Champions	Europe (LEC) South Korea (LCK)
1st runner-up	North America (LCS) China (LPL)
2nd runner-up	Taiwan/Hong Kong/Macau-Vietnam (LMS-VCS)
← Rift Rivals 2018

Riot Games had discontinued the Rift Rivals event for play-in region this year.^[3][4]

Format

LCS/LEC

• Participants: Top three teams from each region
• Group Stage
  • Single Round Robin best of one
• Finals
  • Best of five relay race

^[1]

LCK/LPL/LMS-VCS

• Participants: Top four teams from each region
  • LMS-VCS is treated as a single region, each region sends their top two teams for the tournament
• Group Stage
  • Best of one
  • Each win will attribute to the team's home region
  • Top region advances to the finals
• Semifinals
  • Best of five
  • Each region decides their order for competing
  • Winner will advance to the finals
• Finals
  • Best of five
  • Each region decides their order for competing

^[2]

Blue Rift (LCS/LEC)

The 2019 Rift Rival between North America (LCS) - Europe (LEC) featured the top three teams from each region's Spring Split. This event took place in Los Angeles.

• Start date: 27 June 2019
• End date: 29 June 2019
• Patch: 9.12

Participant teams

LCS	LEC
Team Liquid	G2 Esports
Team SoloMid	Origen
Cloud9	Fnatic

Group Stage^[5]

Rank	LCS			Rank	LEC
1	Team Liquid	2	1	1	G2 Esports	2	1
2	Team SoloMid	1	2	1	Origen	2	1
3	Cloud9	0	3	1	Fnatic	2	1

Finals^[6]

LCS	1	3	LEC
Cloud9	0	1	Fnatic
Team SoloMid	0	1	Origen
Team Liquid	1	0	G2 Esports
Team SoloMid	0	1	Fnatic

Red Rift (LCK/LPL/LMS-VCS)

Stage at Jangchung Arena for the 2019 Rift Rivals

The 2019 Rift Rival between South Korea (LCK) - China (LPL) - Taiwan/Hong Kong/Macau-Vietnam (LMS-VCS) featured the top four Spring Split teams from each region, except for LMS-VCS which featured the top two Spring Split teams from each region. This event took place in Seoul.

• Start date: 4 July 2019
• End date: 7 July 2019
• Patch: 9.13 (Mordekaiser and Qiyana disabled)

Participant teams

Seed	LCK	LPL	LMS-VCS
1	SK Telecom T1	Invictus Gaming	Flash Wolves
2	Griffin	JD Gaming	MAD Team
3	KING-ZONE DragonX	FunPlus Phoenix	Dashing Buffalo
4	DAMWON Gaming	Top Esports	EVOS Esports

Group Stage^[7][8]

Seed	LCK			LPL			LMS-VCS
1	SK Telecom	1	1	Invictus Gaming	2	0	Flash Wolves	0	2
2	Griffin	2	0	JD Gaming	1	1	MAD Team	0	2
3	KING-ZONE DragonX	2	0	FunPlus Phoenix	1	1	Dashing Buffalo	0	2
4	DAMWON Gaming	2	0	Top Esports	1	1	EVOS Esports	0	2

	Semifinal					Final
						1	LCK	3
	2	LMS-VCS	0				LPL	1
	3	LPL	3

Semifinals^[9]

Game	LPL	3	0	LMS-VCS
1	JD Gaming	1	0	Flash Wolves
2	Top Esports	1	0	MAD Team
3	FunPlus Phoenix	1	0	Dashing Buffalo

Finals^[10]

Game	LCK	3	1	LPL
1	KING-ZONE DragonX	1	0	Invictus Gaming
2	SK Telecom T1	1	0	Top Esports
3	Griffin	0	1	FunPlus Phoenix
4	DAMWON Gaming	1	0	JD Gaming