League of Legends World Championships

The Riot League of Legends World Championship is an annual forming e-sports tournament of Riot Games - organized - the game developers of League of Legends. League of Legends is a computer game from the MOBA genre, competing in two teams, each consisting of five players against each other.

The tournament was first held in 2011 as part of the DreamHack in Sweden, with a total prize money of just under U.S. $ 100,000 was paid. It was attended by eight teams from three continents who previously qualified through regional preliminaries.

For the second edition of the tournament prize money increased to 2 million U.S. $, which is The International ( in Dota 2) temporarily replaced as highly doped e-sports tournament of all time. Venue was Los Angeles, where 8,000 spectators at the finale were present. At peak times, also pursued more than one million viewers watched the event via live stream.

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Season 1 World Championship

• Date: 18th - 20th June 2011
• Venue: DreamHack Sweden, Jonkoping
• Total prize money: $ 99,500
• Participants: 8 (3 × North America, Europe 3 ×, 1 × Singapore, 1 × Philippines)

Season 2 World Championship

With the second edition of the tournament was accompanied by a significant increase in the total prize money and an expansion from eight to twelve teams. In addition to European, North American and Southeast Asian teams this time were also teams from China and South Korea doing that (especially in South Korea StarCraft ) are world leaders in other e - sports disciplines.

Tournament winner and therefore recipient of the prize money of one million U.S. dollars was somewhat surprising the team of Taipei Assassins, the only previously played one tournament outside of Asia. As favorites were in advance rather Moscow Five, who had won the European qualification and worth 100,000 U.S. dollars ESL Intel Extreme Masters (Season VI) and Azubu Frost as a winner of the doped with approximately U.S. $ 130,000 South Korean OGN tournament Azubu The Champions Summer. The defending champion from last year, Fnatic, failed as Placed Fourth European team in qualifying.

During the last quarter-finals, there were technical problems, so that the decision could take place until a week later than originally planned.

• Date: 4th - 13th October 2012
• Venue: United States Los Angeles
• Total prize money: $ 2,000,000
• Participants: 12 (3 x North America, Europe 3 ×, 2 × South Korea, 2 × China, Southeast Asia 1 ×, 1 × Taiwan / Hong Kong / Macau)

Season 3 World Championship

For the third edition of the tournament participants was increased to 14. The prize money was virtually unchanged at $ 2,050,000.

Once again, the reigning titleholder could not qualify, but succeeded Season 1 winner Fnatic (now with three positions altered lineup compared to 2011 ) the qualifications and later the semi-finals.

The finale was the sold-out Staples Center (otherwise venue for NBA basketball games) discharged. There, the South Korean team SK Telecom T1 defeated the Chinese team Royal Club Huang to clear 3-0.

• Date: September 16, October 4, 2013
• Venue: United States Staples Center, Los Angeles
• Total prize money: $ 2,050,000
• Participants: 14 (3 x North America, Europe 3 ×, 3 × South Korea, 2 × China, Southeast Asia 1 ×, 1 × Taiwan / Hong Kong / Macau, 1 × International Wildcard)