League of Legends Champions Korea

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League of Legends Champions Korea

sport League of Legends
abbreviation LCK
League foundation 2012
Teams 10
Country countries South Korea
Title holder SK Telecom T1
Record champions SK Telecom T1
(9 titles)
Qualification too League of Legends World Championship
↓ Challengers Korea

The League of Legends champions Korea ( LCK ; Korean 리그 오브 레전드 챔피언스 코리아 ) is a South Korean e-sports -Profiliga in League of Legends (LoL). This is a game from the MOBA genre in which two teams - each consisting of five players - compete against each other. The league consists of ten teams that compete against each other in two seasons (season split: spring and summer). The best teams qualify for the League of Legends World Championships . The LCK is administered and controlled by the game developer Riot Games and the South Korean association KeSPA .

From 2012 to 2013, the competition was called League of Legends Champions before some changes came in late 2014. Until 2016, OGN had exclusive rights to the broadcasts. Then these were shared with SPOTV. In 2019, Riot Games took over the broadcast rights.

The LCK is generally considered to be the best league in the world, as teams from the LCK won five world championship titles between 2013 and 2017. The reigning champion of the LCK is the record world champion SK Telecom T1 , who will compete as T1 from 2020.

Results

year Split 1. 2. 3. 4th qualified for the World Cup
Seed 1 Seed 2 Seed 3
2012 spring MiG Blaze MiG Frost Xenics Storm Team OP Apprentice frost Najin Sword -
summer Apprentice frost CLG Europe Najin Sword Apprentice Blaze
2013 winter Najin Sword Apprentice frost kt Rolster B Apprentice Blaze NaJin Black Sword Samsung Ozone
(MVP Ozone) 		SK Telecom T1 K
spring MVP Ozone CJ Entus Blaze SK Telecom T1 2 CJ Entus Frost
summer SK Telecom T1 K kt Rolster Bullets MVP Ozone CJ Entus Frost
2014 winter SK Telecom T1 K Samsung Galaxy Ozone kt Rolster Bullets Najin White Shield Samsung Galaxy Blue Samsung Galaxy White Najin White Shield
spring Samsung Galaxy Blue Najin White Shield Samsung Galaxy Ozone CJ Entus Blaze
summer kt Rolster Arrows Samsung Galaxy Blue Samsung Galaxy White SK Telecom T1 S.
2015 spring SK Telecom T1 GE Tigers CJ Entus Jin Air Green Wings SK Telecom T1 KOO Tigers kt Rolster
summer SK Telecom T1 kt Rolster KOO Tigers CJ Entus
2016 spring SK Telecom T1 ROX Tigers kt Rolster Jin Air Green Wings ROX Tigers SK Telecom T1 Samsung Galaxy
summer ROX Tigers kt Rolster SK Telecom T1 Samsung Galaxy
2017 spring SK Telecom T1 kt Rolster amsung Galaxy Team MVP Longzhu Gaming SK Telecom T1 Samsung Galaxy
summer Longzhu Gaming SK Telecom T1 kt Rolster Samsung Galaxy
2018 spring KING-ZONE DragonX Afreeca Freecs kt Rolster SK Telecom T1 kt Rolster Afreeca Freecs Gen.G Esports
summer kt Rolster Griffin Afreeca Freecs KING-ZONE DragonX
2019 spring SK Telecom T1 Griffin KING-ZONE DragonX DAMWON Gaming SK Telecom T1 Griffin DAMWON Gaming
summer SK Telecom T1 Griffin DAMWON Gaming SANDBOX gaming
2020 spring SK Telecom T1 Gen.G DragonX DAMWON Gaming
summer Gen.G Afreeca Freecs

Rules and framework

The League of Legends game has been numbered by seasons since 2011. 2011 was season 1, 2019 was season 9 and 2020 is season 10. At the end of a season, Riot pays out bonuses in the game, at the beginning of a new season there are changes to the game. This is generally true worldwide.

League phase

  • Ten teams take part.
  • The matches are played according to best of three , i.e. H. a maximum of three games. Whoever wins two games ( series ) has won the match.
  • The five best teams qualify for the playoffs.
    • The winner of the league phase is right in the final.
  • If there is a tie in the league phase:
    • Games won.
    • In the event of a tie, the direct encounters between the teams count.
    • If there is still a tie here, another match will be played.
  • The two worst teams play in a relegation tournament against the two best teams of the Challengers Korea (CK) for promotion and relegation

Playoff tournament phase

  • The first game (fifth against fourth in the league) is best of three
  • All other games are Best of Five
  • The Spring Season winner qualifies for the Mid-Season Invitational
  • The summer season winner is qualified for the world championship

Teams

The following ten teams will take part in the LCK in the Spring 2020 season:

  • Afreeca Freecs
  • APK Prince
  • DAMWON Gaming
  • DragonX
  • Gen.G
  • Griffin
  • Hanwha Life
  • KT Rolster
  • SANDBOX gaming
  • T1

transmission

Since spring 2019, Riot Games has been broadcasting the matches directly via the streaming platforms Twitch , afreecaTV , Facebook , and Naver TV . The encounters from Summoner's Inn will be broadcast in German on Twitch.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Stefanie Fogel: Riot Games to Independently Broadcast 'LoL' Champions Korea This Year. In: Variety . January 11, 2019, accessed December 1, 2019 .
  2. ^ SummonersInnLive. In: Twitch. Accessed December 1, 2019 .