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League of Legends Statistics including Win Rate, Ban Rate, Play Rate, Kills, Deaths by Champions and the roles they play. The 2019 Season World Championship (Worlds 2019) is the conclusion of the 2019 League of Legends esports season. The tournament is held in Europe, with finals in Paris. Overview Format. 24 teams are invited: Show.
In Berkeley, there are a lot of reasons your neighbors might be screaming at 5 a.m. Maybe they’re having a party that’s gotten way out of hand, or maybe they’ve just received an email that their 9 a.m. class is canceled. Or, consider this: They could be nerds who stayed up late to watch the League of Legends World Championship.
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- The 2020 World Championship is the crowning event of League of Legends esports for the year. The tournament welcomes 22 teams from all regions of the game in a months-long race for the Summoner’s Cup. This year’s world championship will be held exclusively in Shanghai, China to reduce travel throughout the tournament and control the show environment under the coronavirus pandemic.
Around 7 a.m. Oct. 31, DAMWON Gaming took down Suning 3-1 to become the 2020 League of Legends world champions. After beating out 21 other teams in the monthlong tournament, DAMWON became the first Korean team to lift the Summoner’s Cup since 2017.
Of the 6,000 fans who watched the final battle in Shanghai’s Pudong Soccer Stadium, many hoped that Suning, of China’s League of Legends Pro League, would take an underdog victory in the team’s home country.
The first three games (including Suning’s win in Game 2) were extremely close, but DAMWON firmly shattered the home crowd’s dreams by the fourth and final game of the series, completely shutting out Suning in a 27-minute stomp. DAMWON jungler Kim “Canyon” Geon-bu, who was awarded MVP of the series, looked especially dominant, handily building early leads for his laners to snowball the team to victory.
“In an interview during Worlds, I had said that my goal was to win the championship and to get the finals MVP,” Kim said in a post-match interview, translated by Inven Global. “Now that I really got it, it’s unbelievable and I feel amazing.”
DAMWON’s journey to the championship was nothing short of incredible. The team has become the best in the world in an extremely short period of time, signaling a new rise of Korean strength with its aggressive, adaptable play style.
DAMWON is a young team by any standard; it qualified to compete in League of Legends Champions Korea (LCK), the highest-level Korean regional league, in spring 2019.
“Last year, DAMWON was full of rookie players that played around their mechanics. But this year, with Coach (Yang “Daeny” Dae-in’s) feedback, the players gained a lot of understanding of the game and absorbed it really well,” said Lee “Zefa” Jae-min, DAMWON’s head coach. “That’s why they were able to win Worlds.”
Bot laner Jang “Ghost” Yong-jun, who was once a notoriously weak player in the Korean competitive scene, had never been to Worlds before 2020.
“A message to the other (pro) players who are having a tough time: They can just look up to me and think, ‘This kind of guy can also win Worlds,’ so I hope they can cheer up, never give up and accomplish the goals they have,” Jang said in a press conference after the match.
Suning, with a second-place finish, came out of the tournament with achievements of its own. The team was constantly underestimated, with many predicting that Suning would fall in the first round of the knockout stage. Yet, the team proved to be fierce competition.
The series has been hailed as the most exciting finals in the last four years, breaking the streak of 3-0 series that began in 2017. Suning top laner Chen “Bin” Ze-Bin also wrote his way into history with the first-ever pentakill in a finals series, wiping out all five of DAMWON’s players on Fiora in Game 2.
Like everything else in 2020, the tournament was marked by the effects of COVID-19. Players spent 14 days self-isolating in a government-run converted hotel, reminiscent of the famous NBA bubble.
But even under unusual circumstances, nothing can take the shine away from DAMWON’s crowning achievement.
“The message that I want to say to the players is, you guys are the best players in the world,” Lee said.
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The League of Legends World Championship countdown is officially on, and the groups for this year's tournament held in Europe have been drawn.
The play-in round, which begins in Berlin on Oct. 2, was determined before matters turned to the main event, where the favorites to hoist the Summoner's Cup learned their fates.
The top four teams from the play-in stage will advance to the main event, with the only caveat being that teams from the same region cannot be drawn in the same group. This means some play-in teams are already locked into where they will end up in the main event depending on who advances from the opening stage of the tournament.
Here are the official groups for both the play-in round and the main-event group stage:
Play-ins
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Group A
Clutch Gaming
Unicorns of Love
MAMMOTH
Group B
Splyce
Isurus Gaming
Detonation FocusMe
Group C
Hong Kong Attitude
Lowkey Esports
MEGA
Group D
Damwon Gaming
Royal Youth
Flamengo Esports
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Group A
G2 Esports
Griffin
Cloud9
TBD
Group B
FunPlus Phoenix
J Team
GAM Esports
TBD
Group C
SK Telecom T1
Fnatic
Royal Never Give Up
TBD
Group D
Team Liquid
ahq eSports
Invictus Gaming
TBD
Now, let's get to the winners and losers of today's group draw.
Winner: Splyce
They might be rebranding after this worlds is over, but maybe OverActive Media should keep the Splyce name depending on how deep the team gets this tournament. While I think Splyce is just alongside Clutch Gaming as the No. 2 team in the play-in stage, the European underdog might have had the best day during the group draw.
Their play-in group might be one of the toughest, but does that really matter? Regardless of how tough a play-in group is, a team from Europe should still make it to the main event. After that, Splyce have a 50/50, a coin flip, of landing in the two easiest groups, either Group B or Group D.
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If they land in Group B, they might be favored to make it out in second place. If it's Group D, they could match up well with the top team in Team Liquid and could catch a deflated reigning champion in Invictus Gaming.
Before Monday, I didn't expect to talk about Splyce being a potential quarterfinalist, but here we are. Every year there is a play-in team that gets a good roll, and this year it's Splyce.
Loser: Clutch Gaming
When one team cashes in with the group draw, another rolls skulls and crossbones.
In a different world, Clutch Gaming are the team that has the chance to get into Group B and make it to the quarterfinals, but alas, it was not meant to be. If everything goes to plan in the play-ins, then Clutch Gaming will join Group C, possibly the most stacked group in worlds history.
Clutch, the North American team that was never supposed to make it here, is probably rolling up into a group with the winningest franchise of all-time in SKT, last year's world finalists in Fnatic and last year's Mid-Season Invitational winners in RNG.
Clutch's chances of getting out of that group? Non-existent. On the positive end, though, Clutch have all the makings of a quick-paced spoiler with the knockout power to upend one of these legendary franchises. There's a strong possibility Clutch exit Group C with a 1-5 or 2-4 record, but those one or two victories might be the sweetest of the entire tournament.
Winner: FunPlus Phoenix
One of my hesitations with betting on FunPlus as a team was that they were going straight into the main event group stages with a starting five that doesn't have a single game of worlds experience between them. How do you rectify that? You give them a cupcake group devoid of any top challengers. This narrative might shift a bit of South Korea's Damwon Gaming becomes the fourth team drawn into the group (50/50 with Splyce if play-ins are chalk) but even then, FunPlus should make it to the knockout rounds in pretty good shape.
Truth be told, if Splyce rolls into Group B, then there's an argument that the entirety of Group B for the main event are winners. It would truly be the group of life, where FunPlus are expected to finish first and three teams that before the tournament were longshots to make the knockout rounds now all believe they're going to the quarterfinals. If Damwon gets in this group, though, then it should be a straightforward FunPlus and Damwon one-two finish (or vice versa).
Losers: Fnatic, SKT, RNG
Similar to how everyone who gets into Group B is a winner, everyone who is in Group C is a loser today.
Clutch might be drawing dead if they make it through play-ins, but it's mind-boggling to think that one of Fnatic, SKT and RNG won't be making it to the quarterfinals. All three teams would have been favored to make it to the knockout rounds if they were separated, but now at least one of these legendary squads will see their 2019 end prematurely. Coming into worlds, I wouldn't be surprised if the Group C trio thought they'd all be making deep runs in the tournament. They're now in a fight for their lives to even survive the group stage.
If SKT lose, then it's the first time they ever failed to make a final when qualifying for worlds. Huge failure.
If Fnatic lose, then Europe's most famous and popular team fails to make the quarterfinals in front of their home fans. Huge failure.
If RNG lose, then China's golden franchise that upgraded its roster to make up for last year's disappointment will do even worse than their meltdown in 2018. Huge failure.
One of these storylines is confirmed to be happening. How wild is that?
Winner: Team Liquid
This was one of the best preliminary groups the North American champs could ask for: ahq eSports are probably the weakest main event team at worlds, so Team Liquid should take care of business there. Invictus Gaming are a threat as the reigning world champs and will want revenge for Liquid starting their slump when they eliminated them from MSI earlier this year, but they were also one of the better options on the board.
Team Liquid have already shown they can beat iG, and this is a weaker iG than the team they faced in Taiwan all those months ago.
The fourth team could be the game-changer, however. If it's Splyce, then Liquid should prove to be the superior of the two similar teams and get out of the group in a breezy place. If it's Damwon, then Liquid will have more problems on their hands. Although I believe TL's bottom lane can definitely exploit Damwon's and withstand the South Korean team's monstrous solo lanes, I don't see Damwon being an easy out for any team in this tournament.
Either way, Team Liquid should make it out of this group. They're MSI finalists, four-time domestic champions and the best roster ever built in North America. If Yiliang 'Doublelift' Peng & Co. don't get out of this group after drawing ahq eSports and a struggling iG, then no matter how matter domestic titles they win, they'll never hear the end of it.
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Winner: The fans
Yes, this is cheesy.
Do I care? No.
These are great groups. Although Group B seems pretty soft currently, there is no way of knowing what GAM Esports are cooking up in their mad-scientist kitchen for this group. GAM always bring excitement, and the same can be said for FunPlus. If Damwon get in that group, then you might have the three most fun teams of the tournament excluding G2 Esports off in Group A.
Speaking of Group A, how isn't that going to be a barnburner? G2 are wacky and will have the pressure of being the best team in front of their home fans. Griffin have the ceiling of winning worlds without dropping a game but the floor of bombing out in the group stages. Cloud9, while the odd man out at first glance, are a good team with some of the best coaching at the tournament and the pedigree of turning impossible groups into memorable conquests.
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Group C, as we've already talked, about is going to be one for the ages. And Group D has the delicious Team Liquid and Invictus Gaming storyline where we might see these two giant organizations truly become heated rivals in front of our eyes.
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Let the fun begin.