League of LegendsWorld Championship
| 2022 |
| League of Legends |
| September 29–November 5 |
| Riot Games |
| 12 team single round-robin play-in stage 16 team double round-robin group stage 8 team single-elimination bracket |
4 (in 4 host cities)
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| 24 |
← 2021 2023 → |
The 2022 League of Legends World Championship is an ongoing esports tournament for the multiplayer online battle arena video game League of Legends. It is the twelfth iteration of the League of Legends World Championship, an annual international tournament organized by the game's developer, Riot Games. The tournament will be held from September 29 to November 5 in Mexico and United States.[1] Twenty-four teams from 11 regions qualified for the tournament based on their placement in regional circuits such as those in China, Europe, North America, South Korea, Taiwan/Hong Kong/Macau/Southeast Asia and Vietnam, with twelve of those teams having to reach the main event via a play-in stage.[2]
On August 29, Riot Games announced and revealed the new Summoner's Cup that will be awarded to the winner of the finals.[3] "Star Walkin'" was announced as the tournament's theme song, put together by Lil Nas X.[4]
Qualified teams and rosters[edit]
Qualified teams[edit]
China (LPL) and South Korea (LCK) received an additional spot, totaling up to four representatives each for their respective region.
Due to the ongoing Russian invasion of Ukraine, CIS (LCL) will not be able to send their representative this year, their slot will be given to the Europe (LEC) due to their strong performance over the past two years, making the LEC having four representatives for the region.[5]
Top 4 regions in 2022 Mid-Season Invitational (LPL, LCK, LEC, LCS) are seeded to pool 1 in the main event's group stage for the summer champion.
| China | LPL | Summer Champion | JDG | 1 | |
| Most Championship Points | TES | 2 | |||
| Regional Finals Winner | EDG | 3 | |||
| South Korea | LCK | Summer Champion | GEN | 1 | |
| Most Championship Points | T1 | 2 | |||
| Regional Finals Winner | DK | 3 | |||
| Europe | LEC | Summer Champion | RGE | 1 | |
| Summer Runner-Up | G2 | 2 | |||
| North America | LCS | Championship Champion | C9 | 1 | |
| Championship Runner-Up | 100 | 3 | |||
| TW/HK/MO/SEA | PCS | Summer Champion | CFO | 2 | |
| Vietnam | VCS | Summer Champion | GAM | 3 | |
| China | LPL | Regional Finals Runner-Up | RNG | 1 | |
| South Korea | LCK | Regional Finals Runner-Up | DRX | 1 | |
| Europe | LEC | Summer Third Place | FNC | 1 | |
| Summer Fourth Place | MAD | 2 | |||
| North America | LCS | Championship Third Place | EG | 2 | |
| TW/HK/MO/SEA | PCS | Summer Runner-Up | BYG | 1 | |
| Vietnam | VCS | Summer Runner-Up | SGB | 2 | |
| Brazil | CBLOL | Split 2 Champion | LLL | 3 | |
| Japan | LJL | Summer Champion | DFM | 2 | |
| Latin America | LLA | Closing Champion | ISG | 3 | |
| Oceania | LCO | Split 2 Champion | CHF | 3 | |
| Turkey | TCL | Summer Champion | IW | 3 |
Rosters[edit]
Player did not play any games.
(Bai Jiahao) | (Seo Jin-hyeok) | (Zeng Qi) | (Wang Jie) | (Lou Yunfeng) | (Yoon Sung-young) | |
(Chang Xiao) | (Chen Long) | |||||
(Huang Renxing) | (Gao Tianliang) | (Zhuo Ding) | (Yu Wenbo) | (Ling Xu) | (Luo Sheng) | |
(Yu Zihan) | (Zhou Taijie) | |||||
(Li Xuanjun) | (Zhao Lijie) | (Lee Ye-chan) | (Park Do-hyeon) | (Tian Ye) | (Yang Jisong) | |
(Yu Chun-Chia) | ||||||
(Chen Chen) | (Yan Yangwei) | (Li Yuanhao) | (Chen Wei) | (Shi Senming) | (Zhu Kai) | |
(Liu Wenkang) | (Wong Pak Kan) | |||||
(Choi Hyeon-joon) | (Han Wang-ho) | (Jeong Ji-hoon) | (Park Jae-hyuk) | (Son Si-woo) | (Go Dong-bin) | |
(Ko Yeong-jae) | (Won Sang-yeon) | |||||
(Choi Woo-je) | (Mun Hyeon-jun) | (Lee Sang-hyeok) | (Lee Min-hyeong) | (Ryu Min-seok) | (Bae Sung-woong) | |
(Kim Tae-gi) | (Kim Ji-hwan) | |||||
(Jang Ha-gwon) | (Kim Geon-bu) | (Heo Su) | (Seo Dae-gil) | (Kim Hyeong-gyu) | (Yang Dae-in) | |
(Noh Tae-yoon) | (Lee Jae-min) | |||||
(Hwang Seong-hoon) | (Hong Chang-hyeon) | (Kim Geon-woo) | (Kim Hyeok-gyu) | (Cho Geon-hee) | (Kim Sang-soo) | |
(Lee Ju-han) | (Lee Jae-ha) | |||||
(Andrei Pascu) | (Kim Geun-seong) | (Emil Larsson) | (Markos Stamkopoulos) | (Adrian Trybus) | (Simon Payne) | |
(Sergen Çelik) | (Marcin Jankowski) | (Rasmus Winther) | (Victor Lirola Tortosa) | (Raphaël Crabbé) | ||
(Martin Hansen) | (Iván Martín Díaz) | (Marek Brázda) | (Elias Lipp) | (Zdravets Iliev Galabov) | (Jakob Mehdi) | |
(Rúben Barbosa) | ||||||
(İrfan Berk Tükek) | (Javier Prades Batalla) | (Yasin Dinçer) | (William Nieminen) | (Norman Kaiser) | (James MacCormack) | |
(Christophe van Oudheusden) | ||||||
(Ibrahim Allami) | (Robert Huang) | (Nicolaj Jensen) | (Kim Min-cheol) | (Jesper Svenningsen) | ||
(Tristan Stidam) | ||||||
(Kim Chan-ho) | (Can Çelik) | (Felix Braun) | (Ian Victor Huang) | (Choi Jae-hyun) | (Bok Han-gyu) | |
(Aleš Kněžínek) | ||||||
(Jeong Eon-yeong) | (Kacper Słoma) | (Joseph Joon Pyun) | (Muhammed Hasan Şentürk) | (Philippe Laflamme) | (Han Earl) | |
(Kyle Sakamaki) | (Gabriel Peixoto) | |||||
(Hsu Shih-Chieh) | (Huang Chu-Xuan) | (Chen Hsiao-Hsien) | (Sung Ya-Lun) | (Lin Chih-Chiang) | (Chen Chen-Chi) | |
(Chao Ying-Shun) | ||||||
(Wu Liang-Te) | (Huang Tzu-Wei) | (Lu Po-Wei) | (Tsou Wei-Yang) | (Chu Wu Hsin-Jung) | (Lien Hsiu-Chi) | |
(Liao Li-Kai) | (Wu Ssu-Yu) | (Liu Sheng-Wei) | ||||
(Trần Duy Sang) | (Đỗ Duy Khánh) | (Đặng Thanh Phê) | (Mai Hoàng Sơn) | (Trần Đức Hiếu) | (Phan Huy Phong) | |
(Tô Minh Khoa) | ||||||
(Lâm Huỳnh Gia Huy) | (Trần Văn Chính) | (Bùi Văn Minh Hải) | (Nguyễn Văn Huy) | (Đinh Anh Tài) | (Nguyễn Văn Trọng) | |
(Trần Tiến Thịnh) | ||||||
(Leonardo Souza) | (Park Jong-hoon) | (Thiago Sartori) | (Diego Amaral) | (Denilson Oliveira Gonçalves) | (Gabriel Barbosa) | |
(Shunsuke Murase) | (Moon Geon-yeong) | (Lee Chan-ju) | (Yuta Sugiura) | (Lee Ji-yoong) | (Kyohei Yoshida) | |
(Kazuta Suzuki) | ||||||
(Kang Geon-mo) | (Jesús Loya Trujillo) | (Édgar Bracamontes Munguía) | (Omar André Gavotto) | (Son Ho-gyeong) | (Markus Leuemberger) | |
(Luis Bonilla Rodriguez) | (Nuno Rema) | |||||
(Kim Ji-hoon) | (Park Mi-reu) | (James Shute) | (Quin Korebrits) | (Ryan Gregory Richardson) | (Leo Romer) | |
(Soner Kaya) | (Hakan Mert Çakmak) | (Tolga Ölmez) | (Anıl Işık) | (Berk Badur) | (Melih Akgün) |
Venues[edit]
Mexico City, New York City, Atlanta and San Francisco were the four cities chosen to host the tournament.[7] Toronto formerly had been chosen to host the semifinals, but later Riot Games decided to host in Atlanta due to COVID-19 impacting the viability of securing multi-entry visas from Canada to the United States within necessary timelines.[8]
| Play-in Stage | Group Stage & Quarterfinals | Semifinals | Finals |
| Arena Esports Stadium | Hulu Theater | State Farm Arena | Chase Center |
| Capacity: 100 | Capacity: 5,600 | Capacity: 21,000 | Capacity: 18,060 |
Play-in stage[edit]
Play-in groups[edit]
- Date and time: September 29 – October 2.
- Twelve teams are drawn into two groups with six teams in each group base on their seeding. Two teams from LEC cannot be placed in the same group.
- Single round robin, all matches are best-of-one.
- If teams have same win–loss record at the end of play-in groups, tie-breaker matches are played. A two-way tie is not broken by the results of the head-to-head game those teams played, however the team that won in the head-to-head gets side selection in the tiebreaker game.
- The top team automatically qualifies for the Main Event, while 2nd to 4th-place of each group advance to the play-in knockouts and 2nd-place receive a bye to match 2. The bottom two teams are eliminated.
Group A[edit]
| 1 | ~ | W | L | W | W | W | 4 | 1 | |||
| 2 | L | ~ | W | L | W | W | 3 | 2 | W | W | |
| 3 | W | L | ~ | W | L | W | 3 | 2 | L | ||
| 4 | L | W | L | ~ | W | W | 3 | 2 | L | ||
| 5 | L | L | W | L | ~ | W | 2 | 3 | |||
| 6 | L | L | L | L | L | ~ | 0 | 5 |
| Sep 29 | 1 | W | L | ||
| 2 | L | W | |||
| 3 | L | W | |||
| 4 | L | W | |||
| Sep 30 | 5 | W | L | ||
| 6 | W | L | |||
| 7 | W | L | |||
| 8 | W | L | |||
| Oct 1 | 9 | W | L | ||
| 10 | L | W | |||
| 11 | W | L | |||
| 12 | L | W | |||
| Oct 2 | 13 | L | W | ||
| 14 | W | L | |||
| 15 | W | L | |||
| TB1 |
| W | L | ||
| TB2 | L | W |
Evil Geniuses, LOUD and DetonatioN FocusMe were in a three-way-tie for second place at the end of the group stage. Because placement in the subsequent tiebreaker matches was determined by the combined game time of each team's wins, LOUD was awarded a bye to the second tiebreaker match for having the shortest total game time.
Group B[edit]
| 1 | ~ | W | W | W | W | W | 5 | 0 | |
| 2 | L | ~ | W | W | W | W | 4 | 1 | |
| 3 | L | L | ~ | W | W | W | 3 | 2 | |
| 4 | L | L | L | ~ | W | W | 2 | 3 | |
| 5 | L | L | L | L | ~ | W | 1 | 4 | |
| 6 | L | L | L | L | L | ~ | 0 | 5 |
| Sep 29 | 1 | L | W | ||
| 2 | W | L | |||
| 3 | W | L | |||
| 4 | W | L | |||
| Sep 30 | 5 | W | L | ||
| 6 | W | L | |||
| 7 | L | W | |||
| 8 | L | W | |||
| Oct 1 | 9 | W | L | ||
| 10 | W | L | |||
| 11 | W | L | |||
| 12 | L | W | |||
| Oct 2 | 13 | L | W | ||
| 14 | W | L | |||
| 15 | W | L |
Play-in knockouts[edit]
- Date and time: October 3–4.
- King of the hill format with two branch. The 3rd-place teams from the group stage facing 4th-place teams from the same group in match 1. Winner will play against the 2nd-place team from the other group in match 2.
- Single-elimination. All matches are best-of-five.
- The winners of the match 2 in each branch advances to the main event group stage.
Branch B2-A3-A4[edit]
| Match 1 | Match 2 | ||||||||
| B2 | 3 | ||||||||
| A4 | 1 | ||||||||
| A3 | 1 | ||||||||
| A4 | 3 |
- Date: October 3
| LLL | 1 | |
| DFM | 3 |
| 1 | W | L | ||
| 2 | W | L | ||
| 3 | L | W | ||
| 4 | L | W | ||
| 5 | x | - | - | x |
- Date: October 4
| RNG | 3 | |
| DFM | 1 |
| 1 | L | W | ||
| 2 | W | L | ||
| 3 | W | L | ||
| 4 | L | W | ||
| 5 | x | - | - | x |
Branch A2-B3-B4[edit]
| Match 1 | Match 2 | ||||||||
| A2 | 3 | ||||||||
| B3 | 0 | ||||||||
| B3 | 3 | ||||||||
| B4 | 1 |
- Date: October 3
| MAD | 3 | |
| SGB | 1 |
| 1 | W | L | ||
| 2 | L | W | ||
| 3 | L | W | ||
| 4 | L | W | ||
| 5 | x | - | - | x |
- Date: October 4
| EG | 3 | |
| MAD | 0 |
| 1 | W | L | ||
| 2 | L | W | ||
| 3 | W | L | ||
| 4 | x | - | - | x |
| 5 | x | - | - | x |
Group stage[edit]
- Date and time: October 7–16
- Sixteen teams are drawn into four groups with four teams in each group based on their seeding. Teams of the same region cannot be placed in the same group.
- In the scenario where both the LEC 3rd (FNC) and 4th seeded (MAD) teams advance to the Group Stage, the 4th seeded team will not be subject to the rule preventing a Group from having more than one team from the same region in it.[9]
- In the scenario where either LEC team is eliminated from the competition during the Play-In Stage, the rule will remain in place.
- Double round robin, all matches are best-of-one.
- If teams have the same win–loss record and head-to-head record, tiebreaker matches are played for first or second place. If more than 2 teams, tiebreaker placement is based on the combined times of teams' victorious games.
- Top two teams will advance to Knockout Stage. Bottom two teams are eliminated.
Group A[edit]
| 1 | 1–0 | 0–1 | 1–0 | 2 | 1 | ||
| 1 | 0–1 | 1–0 | 1–0 | 2 | 1 | ||
| 1 | 1–0 | 0–1 | 1–0 | 2 | 1 | ||
| 4 | 0–1 | 0–1 | 0–1 | 0 | 3 |
| Oct 7 | 1 | L | W | ||
| 2 | W | L | |||
| Oct 8 | 3 | W | L | ||
| 4 | W | L | |||
| Oct 9 | 5 | W | L | ||
| 6 | L | W | |||
| Oct 13 | 7 | ||||
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Group B[edit]
| 1 | 1–0 | 1-0 | 1–0 | 3 | 0 | ||
| 2 | 0–1 | 1–0 | 1–0 | 2 | 1 | ||
| 3 | 0-1 | 0–1 | 1–0 | 1 | 2 | ||
| 4 | 0–1 | 0–1 | 0–1 | 0 | 3 |
| Oct 7 | 1 | L | W | ||
| 2 | W | L | |||
| Oct 8 | 3 | L | W | ||
| 4 | L | W | |||
| Oct 10 | 5 | W | L | ||
| 6 | W | L | |||
| Oct 14 | 7 | ||||
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Group C[edit]
| 1 | 1–0 | 1–0 | 1–0 | 3 | 0 | ||
| 2 | 0–1 | 1–0 | 1–0 | 2 | 1 | ||
| 3 | 0–1 | 0–1 | 1–0 | 1 | 2 | ||
| 4 | 0–1 | 0–1 | 0–1 | 0 | 3 |
| Oct 8 | 1 | W | L | ||
| 2 | W | L | |||
| Oct 9 | 3 | L | W | ||
| 4 | W | L | |||
| Oct 10 | 5 | W | L | ||
| 6 | L | W | |||
| Oct 15 | 7 | ||||
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Group D[edit]
| 1 | 1–0 | 1–0 | 1–0 | 3 | 0 | ||
| 2 | 0–1 | 1–0 | 1–0 | 2 | 1 | ||
| 3 | 0–1 | 0–1 | 1–0 | 1 | 2 | ||
| 4 | 0–1 | 0–1 | 0–1 | 0 | 3 |
| Oct 7 | 1 | W | L | ||
| 2 | L | W | |||
| Oct 9 | 3 | L | W | ||
| 4 | W | L | |||
| Oct 10 | 5 | L | W | ||
| 6 | W | L | |||
| Oct 16 | 7 | ||||
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Knockout stage[edit]
- Date and time: October 20 – November 5
- Eight teams from Group stage are drawn into a single elimination bracket.
- All matches are best-of-five.
- The first-place team of each group is drawn against the second-place team of a different group.
- The first-place team chooses the side for the first games, loser of the previous game chooses the side for the next game.
- Teams from same group will be on opposite sides of the bracket, meaning they cannot play each other until the Finals.
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Quarter-finals[edit]
- The winner(s) will advance to the semi-finals.
Match 1[edit]
- Date: October 20
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Match 2[edit]
- Date: October 21
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Match 3[edit]
- Date: October 22
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Match 4[edit]
- Date: October 23
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Semi-finals[edit]
- The winner(s) advanced to the Finals.
Match 1[edit]
- Date: October 29
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Match 2[edit]
- Date: October 30
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Finals[edit]
- Date: November 5
- The members of the winning team will lift the Summoner's Cup, earning their title as the League of Legends 2022 World Champions.
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Ranking[edit]
Team ranking[edit]
- (*) Not include tie-break games.
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| 3rd–4th | |||||||||||
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| 9th–12th | |||||||||||
| 13th–16th | |||||||||||
| 17th–18th | LJL | 3–2 | 3–1 | 1–3 | |||||||
| LEC | 3–2 | 3–1 | 0–3 | ||||||||
| 19th–20th | CBLOL | 3–2 | 1–3 | ||||||||
| VCS | 2–3 | 1–3 | |||||||||
| 21st–22nd | PCS | 2–3 | |||||||||
| LLA | 1–4 | ||||||||||
| 23rd–24th | LCO | 0–5 | |||||||||
| TCL | 0–5 | ||||||||||
Regional ranking[edit]
- Regional ranking is the basis for Riot Games to decide number of slots and pools of each region at MSI and Worlds' events in the future.
- The win-ratio is determined by number of won games compared the number of games played.
- Bracket stage wins are prioritized.
- (*) Does not include tiebreaker games.
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| 7th | Japan | LJL | 1P | 1 team 3W-2L (60%) | 1 team 3W-1L (75%) | 1 team 1W-3L (25%) | ||||
| 8th | Brazil | CBLOL | 1P | 1 team 3W-2L (60%) | 1 team 1W-3L (25%) | |||||
| 9th | Latin America | LLA | 1P | 1 team 1W-4L (20%) | ||||||
| 10th-11th | Oceania | LCO | 1P | 1 team 0W-5L (0%) | ||||||
Turkey | TCL | 1P | 1 team 0W-5L (0%) |
References[edit]
- ^ "League of Legends Worlds 2022 Dates and Seeding". lolesports.com. Retrieved July 22, 2022.
- ^ "Riot announces dates and seeding for 2022 League of Legends World Championship". Dot Esports. July 21, 2022. Retrieved July 23, 2022.
- ^ "LoL Esports - LoL Esports, Tiffany & Co. Unveil New Summoner's Cup". lolesports.com. Retrieved September 1, 2022.
- ^ Esguerra, Tyler. "Lil Nas X teaming up with Riot for 2022 League Worlds theme, prestige K'Sante skin, and more". Dot Esports. Retrieved September 15, 2022.
- ^ "Riot Games announces League of Legends Worlds 2022 Dates and Seeding". Inven Global. July 21, 2022. Retrieved July 22, 2022.
- ^ Esguerra, Tyler (September 15, 2022). "EG could field Kaori for Worlds as Danny takes mental health break". Dot Esports. Retrieved September 29, 2022.
- ^ Esguerra, Tyler (July 21, 2022). "LOL Worlds 2022 | Dates, Schedule & Where It Be Held?". Dot Esports. Retrieved August 22, 2022.
- ^ "Atlanta's State Farm Arena Welcomes LoL Esports for the 2022 League of Legends World Championship". LoL Esports. June 30, 2022.
- ^ LoL Esports (September 9, 2022). "Competitive Operations Update: Worlds 2022 Group Draw" (Press release). LoL Esports Media Center.
Notes[edit]
- ^ Sakamaki is currently taking a break from competitive play as a result of mental health issues. It is currently unknown whether he will be available for Worlds.[6]
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