The 2019 League of Legends World Championship was an esports tournament for the multiplayer online battle arena video game League of Legends. It was the ninth iteration of the League of Legends World Championship, an annual international tournament organized by the game's developer, Riot Games. It was held from October 2, 2019, to November 10, 2019, in Berlin, Madrid and Paris. Twenty four teams from 13 regions qualified for the tournament based on their placement in regional circuits such as those in China, Europe, North America, South Korea and Taiwan/Hong Kong/Macau with twelve of those teams having to reach the main event via a play-in stage.

"Phoenix" was the tournament's theme song, put together by Chrissy Costanza and Cailin Russo, while Blanke, Carpenter Brut, and 1788-L produced their own remix versions of "Phoenix". A virtual rap group named "True Damage" was unveiled by Riot Games during the ceremony, with Soyeon from (G)I-dle, Duckwrth, Thutmose, Keke Palmer and Becky G representing the group as its human counterpart and in the live performance of their debut song, "Giants", in the finals.

Qualified teams Based on the results of the Mid-Season Invitational and the World Championship in the year prior, with the 2018 MSI victory of Royal Never Give Up and 2018 Worlds victory of Invictus Gaming, the third seed team from China (LPL) will start in the group stage, replacing the third seed team from South Korea (LCK) that will now instead begin in the play-in stage. Due to the merger of Latin America North's and Latin America South's professional leagues into a single league (LLA) and the results of the 2019 Mid-Season Invitational, Vietnam (VCS) will have a direct spot in the group stage for the summer champions and an additional spot in the play-in stage for the summer runner-up, the same format used in 2017 Worlds. The summer champions of Taiwan/Hong Kong/Macau (LMS) have also been dropped to pool #2.

Region League Path Team ID Pool Starting in the main event's group stage China LPL Summer Champion FunPlus Phoenix FPX 1 Most Championship Points Royal Never Give Up RNG 2 Regional Finals Winner Invictus Gaming IG Europe LEC Summer Champion G2 Esports G2 1 Regional Finals Winner Fnatic FNC 2 North America LCS Summer Champion Team Liquid TL 1 Most Championship Points Cloud9 C9 2 South Korea LCK Summer Champion SK Telecom T1 SKT 1 Most Championship Points Griffin GRF 2 TW/HK/MO LMS Summer Champion J Team JT 2 Most Championship Points ahq e-Sports Club AHQ 2 Vietnam VCS Summer Champion GAM Esports GAM 2 Starting in the play-in stage Europe LEC Regional Finals Runner-up Splyce SPY 1 North America LCS Regional Finals Winner Clutch Gaming CG South Korea LCK Damwon Gaming DWG TW/HK/MO LMS Hong Kong Attitude HKA Vietnam VCS Summer Runner-up Lowkey Esports LK 2 CIS LCL Summer Champion Unicorns of Love UOL Latin America LLA Isurus Gaming ISG Turkey TCL Royal Youth RYL Brazil CBLOL Flamengo eSports FLA 3 Japan LJL DetonatioN FocusMe DFM Oceania OPL Mammoth MMM Southeast Asia LST MEGA Esports MG

Venues Berlin, Madrid, Paris were the three cities chosen to host the competition. Berlin, Germany Madrid, Spain Paris, FrancePlay-in StageMain Group StageQuarterfinals & SemifinalsFinalsLEC StudioVerti Music HallPalacio VistalegreAccorHotels ArenaCapacity: 174Capacity: 2,250Capacity: 15,000Capacity: 20,300

Play-in stage Venue: LEC Studio, Berlin, Germany.

Groups The group stage took place from 2 to 5 October, with matches beginning at 13:00 CEST (UTC+02:00) for the first leg and 12:00 for the second. Twelve teams were drawn into four groups of three, with each group playing a double round-robin format and all matches contested as best-of-one. When teams finished with identical win–loss and head-to-head records, a tiebreaker match was held to determine first or second place. The top two teams from each group advanced to the second round, while the third-place team was eliminated.

Group A

Group B

Group C

Group D

Knockouts Eight teams are drawn randomly into a single-elimination match, with first-place teams of each group facing second-place teams of another group. All matches are best-of-five. The first-place team chooses the side for all odd-numbered games, while the second-place team chooses the side of even-numbered games. The winner advances to the main event group stage as pool #3.

Group stage The group stage was held at the Verti Music Hall in Berlin from 12 to 20 October. Sixteen teams were drawn into four groups of four, with teams from the same region not permitted to be placed in the same group. The stage was played in a double round-robin format, with all matches contested as best-of-one. In cases where teams finished with identical win–loss and head-to-head records, a tiebreaker match was held to determine first or second place. The top two teams from each group advanced to the knockout stage, while the bottom two were eliminated.

Group A

Group B

Group C

Group D

Knockout stage The knockout stage featured eight teams drawn into a single-elimination bracket. All matches were contested as best-of-five series. Each first-place team from the group stage was matched against a second-place team from a different group. The first-place team selected the side for all odd-numbered games, while the second-place team chose the side for even-numbered games. Teams that had advanced from the same group were placed on opposite sides of the bracket, ensuring that they could not meet until the final.

Quarterfinals

Semifinals

Final

Ranking

Team ranking

(*) Not include tie-break games.

PlaceRegionTeamPS1PS2GSQFSFFinalsPrize (%)Prize (USD)1st LPLFunPlus Phoenix*4–23–13–13–037.5%$834,3752nd LEC G2 Esports*5–13–13–10–313.5%$300,3753rd–4th LCKSK Telecom T15–13–11–37%$155,750 LPLInvictus Gaming4–23–11–35th–8th LCK Damwon Gaming4–03–1 5–1 1–34%$89,000 LCKGriffin*5–11–3 LEC Splyce*3–13–2 4–21–3 LEC Fnatic4–21–39th–12th LMSJ Team3–32.25%$50,062.50 LPLRoyal Never Give Up3–3 LCSTeam Liquid3–3 LCSCloud92–413th–16th VCS GAM Esports1–51.25%$27,812.50 LMSahq e-Sports Club0–6 LMSHong Kong Attitude3–13–10–6 LCSClutch Gaming*2–23–00–617th–20th LCLUnicorns of Love*2–22–30.75%$16,687.50 VCSLowkey Esports2–21–3 LLAIsurus Gaming2–21–3 TCLRoyal Youth*1–30–321st–24th OPL Mammoth*2–20.5%$11,125 CBLOLFlamengo eSports*1–3 LJL DetonatioN FocusMe 1–3 LST MEGA Esports1–3PlaceRegionTeamPS1PS2GSQFSFFinalsPrize (%)Prize (USD)

Notes

References

External links 2019 World Championship Rules