The videogame League of Legends It has one of the most prestigious competitive scenes in the global context of electronic sports (eSports). Its organizer, LOL Esports, confirmed this on Monday the venues of its two major annual events: the World Cup (known as Worlds) and Mid Season Invitational (MSI).
The brand new announcements have arrived accompanied by the start of the League of Legends 2023 season. A two-day event featuring players from leagues League of Legends Championship Series (LCS) composed of the United States and Canada; League of Legends European Championship (LEC); League of Legends Korea (LCK) Champions, Tencent League of Legends Pro League (LPL) from China; League of Legends Japanese League (LJL), CBLOL from Brasil; Latin American League (LLA), Pacific Championship Series (PCS) comprising the Southeast Asia and Oceania teams; Y Vietnam championship series (VCS).
All of the professional teams in each of these nine leagues have made their players available for this “Season Starter,” which is played in a best-of-three format.
One of the main peculiarities of the event is that cannot lock champions, that is, the participants have all the characters of the video game at their disposal. Obviously they cannot be repeated.
Each of the professional teams representing the winning team will be able to create a gesture with the game designers to be included in League of Legends.
The World Cup returns to South Korea, the birthplace of League of Legends
When it comes to the best League of Legends regions in the world, South Korea is the place to be. Esports originated in the Asian peninsula and is the birthplace of several world video game champions such as T1 (2013, 2015, 2016), Samsung White/Galaxy (2014), DAMWON (2020) and recently XRD extension (2022).
For this year’s edition, Worlds will change its format. It is expected that 22 teams can meet as usual in three stages of the competition: the play-ins, the Swiss system phase and the qualifiers.
But before the main event starts, there will be a new leaderboard tier: World Qualifying Serieswho will face the fourth-placed team from the LEC and the fourth-placed team from the LCS in a best-of-5 series. The winner of that matchup will secure their spot at Worlds.
The winner of the qualifying series and the other 21 qualified teams will travel to Korea to compete in the World Cup, with 8 of these teams starting in the play-in stage. These will be made up of 2 classified teams from the VCS and the PCS; one corresponding to ALL, CBLOL and LJL; and the winner of the Worlds Qualifying Series.
Then, the 14 qualifying teams will start in the group stage in free-for-all or Swiss system format along with the 4 qualifying teams from the LPL and LCK and the 3 teams from the LEC and LCS.
The play-ins consist of two four-team double-elimination brackets. The participants will compete in each group a best-of-three double-elimination bracket. The winner of one group will play a best-of-five series against the runners-up from the other group, for a place in the Swiss system stage.
As for the group stage, which will be played in the best of five rounds, in which teams with the same percentage of wins and losses will compete until they reach 3 wins or, failing that, 3 losses. .
The stage will start with random matches between teams from different regions. These teams will play a single best-of-1 match.
In the second round, the teams will be compared to others with the same track record of victories. This matchmaking mode will continue for a total of five rounds. Teams will advance to the knockout stage when they have 3 wins, or will be eliminated after 3 losses.
The series that can eliminate or advance a team will be the best of 3, with the rest being the best of 1.
“For this World Cup, we wanted to deliver more game in the series and more opportunities for interregional competition. We also wanted to make sure that every single World Cup game featured something important and minimize the number of knockout matches which have no impact on the outcome of the tournament for either team,” said LOL Esports.
And they added: “With a multiple-elimination format in the play-ins and stage of the Swiss system, teams will have the possibility, even at the start of the tournament, to return to the competition, even if they have had a bad start, and this it will allow us to continue to watch our favorite players compete.”
London will host the Mid-Season Invitational
On the other hand, the thirteen best teams in the world will face each other for the title of MSI champions. This tournament, which usually marks the middle of the competitive season, allows thousands of fans of the video game to see the potential of many teams that can be candidates for World Cup 2023.
For this year, MSI will be based in London, England for the first time and with the largest number of teams (13) so far. Also, will feature two double-elimination stages: the play-in stage and the group stage.
The pre-filter before the group stage will include eight teams: the two qualifiers from LEC, LCS and LPL, and the qualified team from LLA, CBLOL, PCS, VCS and LJL (11 teams in total) In 2023, second in the LCK will qualify directly to the group stage, since they were the champions of the 2022 World Cup.
These eight will be split into two groups of four to compete in a best-of-three double-elimination match. The winner of each group and the winner of one game, called Last chance qualificationbetween the runners-up of the two keys they will go to the key phase, where they will meet the five of the direct classification.
Already in the key stage, eight teams will face off in a best-of-five double elimination. The three play-in winners will be included hereas well as first teams from the LEC, LCS, LPL and LCK, and second team from the LCK.
Source: Clarin
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