2022 League of Legends World Championship

2022 League of LegendsWorld Championship

Tournament information
Game	League of Legends
Location	Mexico United States
Dates	September 29–November 5
Administrator	Riot Games
Tournament format(s)	12 team single round-robin play-in stage 16 team double round-robin group stage 8 team single-elimination bracket
Venue(s)	4 (in 4 host cities) Mexico City (play-ins) New York (groups, quarterfinals) Atlanta (semifinals) San Francisco (finals)
Teams	24
Final positions
Champion	DRX
Runner-up	T1
Tournament statistics
Attendance	18,000 (Finals) [1]
MVP	Hwang "Kingen" Seong-hoon (DRX)
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The 2022 League of Legends World Championship was an esports tournament for the multiplayer online battle arena video game League of Legends . It was the twelfth iteration of the League of Legends World Championship, an annual international tournament organized by the game's developer, Riot Games. The tournament was held from September 29 to November 5 in Mexico and the United States. ^[2] 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. ^[3]

On August 29, Riot Games announced and revealed the new Summoner's Cup that would be awarded to the winner of the finals. ^[4] "Star Walkin'" was announced as the tournament's theme song, performed by Lil Nas X. ^[5]

DRX won the tournament after defeating T1 3–2 in a close final series. ^[6] This was the first international title won by DRX, as well as the first by a play-in team. DRX's advance to the finals was widely described by commentators as a Cinderella run. DRX was considered an underdog team, having barely qualified for the tournament as South Korea's final seed, and having been pitted against a number of tournament favorites, including defending world champions Edward Gaming. ^{[7] [8] [9]}

This is the last edition of Worlds to feature a round-robin play-in stage and group stage before switching to a GSL-style double-elimination bracket for the play-in stage and a Swiss stage main stage for the next edition of the tournament.

Qualified teams and rosters

Qualified teams

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. ^[10]

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.

Region	League	Qualification Path	Team	ID	Pool
Started from Group Stage
China	LPL	Summer Champion	JD Gaming [11]	JDG	1
		Most Championship Points	Top Esports [12]	TES	2
		Regional Finals Winner	Edward Gaming [13]	EDG	3
South Korea	LCK	Summer Champion	Gen.G [14]	GEN	1
		Most Championship Points	T1 [15]	T1	2
		Regional Finals Winner	DWG KIA [16]	DK	3
Europe	LEC	Summer Champion	Rogue [17]	RGE	1
		Summer Runner-Up	G2 Esports [18]	G2	2
North America	LCS	Championship Champion	Cloud9 [19]	C9	1
		Championship Runner-Up	100 Thieves [20]	100	3
TW/HK/MO/SEA	PCS	Summer Champion	CTBC Flying Oyster [21]	CFO	2
Vietnam	VCS	Summer Champion	GAM Esports [22]	GAM	3
Started from Play-in Stage
China	LPL	Regional Finals Runner-Up	Royal Never Give Up [23]	RNG	1
South Korea	LCK	Regional Finals Runner-Up	DRX [24]	DRX	1
Europe	LEC	Summer Third Place	Fnatic [25]	FNC	1
		Summer Fourth Place	MAD Lions [26]	MAD	2
North America	LCS	Championship Third Place	Evil Geniuses [27]	EG	2
TW/HK/MO/SEA	PCS	Summer Runner-Up	Beyond Gaming [28]	BYG	1
Vietnam	VCS	Summer Runner-Up	Saigon Buffalo [29]	SGB	2
Brazil	CBLOL	Split 2 Champion	LOUD [30]	LLL	3
Japan	LJL	Summer Champion	DetonatioN FocusMe [31]	DFM	2
Latin America	LLA	Closing Champion	Isurus [32]	ISG	3
Oceania	LCO	Split 2 Champion	Chiefs Esports Club [33]	CHF	3
Turkey	TCL	Summer Champion	Istanbul Wildcats [34]	IW	3

Venues

Mexico City, New York City, Atlanta and San Francisco were the four cities chosen to host the tournament. ^[35] 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. ^[36]

Mexico City, Mexico	United States
	New York City	Atlanta	San Francisco
Play-in Stage	Group Stage and Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Finals
Arena Esports Stadium	Hulu Theater	State Farm Arena	Chase Center
Capacity: 100	Capacity: 5,600	Capacity: 21,000	Capacity: 18,060
Mexico City	New York City Atlanta San Francisco

Play-in stage

Play-in groups

• Date and time: September 29 – October 2.
• Twelve teams were drawn into two groups with six teams in each group based on their seeding. Two teams from the LEC could not be placed in the same group.
• Single round robin, all matches were best-of-one.
• If teams had the same win–loss record, tie-breaker matches were played. A two-way tie was not broken by the results of the head-to-head game those teams played, however the team that won in the head-to-head received side selection in the tiebreaker game.
• The top team automatically qualified for the main event, while second to fourth-placed teams of each group advanced to the play-in knockouts, and the second-placed team received a bye to match 2. The bottom two teams were eliminated.

Group A

Pos	Team	Pld	W	L	PCT	Qualification
1	Fnatic	5	4	1	.800	Advance to group stage
2	Evil Geniuses	7	5	2	.714	Advance to play-in knockouts round 1
3	LOUD	6	3	3	.500	Advance to play-in knockouts round 2
4	DetonatioN FocusMe	6	3	3	.500
5	Beyond Gaming	5	2	3	.400
6	The Chiefs	5	0	5	.000

Source: LoL Esports
Rules for classification: 1) Winning percentage; 2) Tiebreaker match(es); 3) Total game victory time ^[a]

Group B

Pos	Team	Pld	W	L	PCT	Qualification
1	DRX	5	5	0	1.000	Advance to group stage
2	Royal Never Give Up	5	4	1	.800	Advance to play-in knockouts round 1
3	MAD Lions	5	3	2	.600	Advance to play-in knockouts round 2
4	Saigon Buffalo Esports	5	2	3	.400
5	Isurus	5	1	4	.200
6	DenizBank İstanbul Wildcats	5	0	5	.000

Source: LoL Esports
Rules for classification: 1) Winning percentage; 2) Tiebreaker match(es); 3) Total game victory time ^[a]

Play-in knockouts

• Date and time: October 3–4.
• King of the hill format with two branch. The third-placed teams from the group stage faced the fourth-placed teams from the same group in match 1. Winners then played against the second-placed teams from the other group in match 2.
• Single-elimination. All matches were best-of-five.
• The winners of the match 2 in each branch advanced to the main event group stage.

	Round 1					Round 2
						B2	Royal Never Give Up	3
	A3	LOUD	1			A4	DetonatioN FocusMe	1
	A4	DetonatioN FocusMe	3
						A2	Evil Geniuses	3
	B3	MAD Lions	3			B3	MAD Lions	0
	B4	Saigon Buffalo	1

Source: LoL Esports

Group stage

• Date and time: October 7–16
• Sixteen teams were drawn into four groups with four teams in each group based on their seeding. Teams of the same region could not be placed in the same group.
  • In the scenario where both the LEC 3rd and 4th seeded teams advanced to the group stage, the 4th seeded team would not be subject to the rule preventing a group from having more than one team from the same region in it. ^[37]
  • In the scenario where either LEC team was eliminated from the competition during the play-in stage, the rule would remain in place.
• Double round robin, all matches were best-of-one.
• If teams had the same win–loss record and head-to-head record, tiebreaker matches were played for first or second place. If more than two teams had the same record, tiebreaker placement was based on the combined times of teams' victorious games.
• Top two teams advanced to knockout stage. Bottom two teams were eliminated.

Group A

Pos	Team	Pld	W	L	PCT	Qualification
1	T1	6	5	1	.833	Advance to knockouts
2	Edward Gaming	6	4	2	.667
3	Fnatic	6	2	4	.333
4	Cloud9	6	1	5	.167

Source: LoL Esports
Rules for classification: 1) Winning percentage; 2) Tiebreaker match(es); 3) Total game victory time ^[a]

Group B

Pos	Team	Pld	W	L	PCT	Qualification
1	JD Gaming	7	6	1	.857	Advance to knockouts
2	DWG KIA	7	5	2	.714
3	Evil Geniuses	6	1	5	.167
4	G2 Esports	6	1	5	.167

Source: LoL Esports
Rules for classification: 1) Winning percentage; 2) Tiebreaker match(es); 3) Total game victory time ^[a]

Group C

Pos	Team	Pld	W	L	PCT	Qualification
1	DRX	7	5	2	.714	Advance to knockouts
2	Rogue	7	4	3	.571
3	Top Esports	6	3	3	.500
4	GAM Esports	6	1	5	.167

Source: LoL Esports
Rules for classification: 1) Winning percentage; 2) Tiebreaker match(es); 3) Total game victory time ^[a]

Group D

Pos	Team	Pld	W	L	PCT	Qualification
1	Gen.G	7	6	1	.857	Advance to knockouts
2	Royal Never Give Up	7	5	2	.714
3	100 Thieves	6	1	5	.167
4	CTBC Flying Oyster	6	1	5	.167

Source: LoL Esports
Rules for classification: 1) Winning percentage; 2) Tiebreaker match(es); 3) Total game victory time ^[a]

Knockout stage

• Date and time: October 20 – November 5
• Eight teams from group stage were drawn into a single elimination bracket.
• All matches were best-of-five.
• The first-placed team of each group was drawn against the second-placed team of a different group.
• The first-placed team chose the side for the first game. Loser of the previous game chose the side for the next game.
• Teams from the same group were on opposite sides of the bracket, meaning they could not play each other until the finals.

Quarterfinals

Semifinals

Final

B1

JD Gaming

3

C2

Rogue

0

JD Gaming

1

T1

3

A1

T1

3

D2

Royal Never Give Up

0

T1

2

DRX

3

D1

Gen.G

3

B2

DWG KIA

2

Gen.G

1

DRX

3

C1

DRX

3

A2

Edward Gaming

2

Source: LoL Esports

Ranking

Team ranking

Place	Team	PG	PK1	PK2	GS	QF	SF	Finals	Prize (%)	Prize (USD)
1st	DRX [b]	5–0	–	–	4–2	3–2	3–1	3–2	22%	$489,500
2nd	T1	–	–	–	5–1	3–0	3–1	2–3	15%	$333,750
3rd–4th	JD Gaming [b]	–	–	–	5–1	3–0	1–3		8%	$178,000
	Gen.G [b]	–	–	–	5–1	3–2	1–3
5th–8th	DWG KIA [b]	–	–	–	5–1	2–3			4.5%	$100,125
	Edward Gaming	–	–	–	4–2	2–3
	Royal Never Give Up [b]	4–1	–	3–1	5–1	0–3
	Rogue [b]	–	–	–	4–2	0–3
9th–10th	Top Esports	–	–	–	3–3				2.5%	$55,625
	Fnatic	4–1	–	–	2–4
11th–14th	Evil Geniuses [b]	3–2	–	3–0	1–5				2.375%	$52,843.75
	100 Thieves	–	–	–	1–5
	CTBC Flying Oyster	–	–	–	1–5
	G2 Esports	–	–	–	1–5
15th–16th	Cloud9	–	–	–	1–5				2.25%	$50,062.50
	GAM Esports	–	–	–	1–5
17th–18th	DetonatioN FocusMe [b]	3–2	3–1	1–3					1.75%	$38,937.50
	MAD Lions	3–2	3–1	0–3
19th–20th	LOUD [b]	3–2	1–3						1.5%	$33,375
	Saigon Buffalo	2–3	1–3
21st–22nd	Beyond Gaming	2–3							1%	$22,250
	Isurus	1–4
23rd–24th	Chiefs Esports Club	0–5							0.75%	$16,687.50
	Istanbul Wildcats	0–5
Place	Team	PG	PK1	PK2	GS	QF	SF	Finals	Prize (%)	Prize (USD)

Regional ranking

• 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.

Place	Region	League	Teams	Play-in Stage			Main Event
				Groups (5 games total)	K.O Match 1 (Best-of-five)	K.O Match 2 (Best-of-five)
							Group stage (6 games total)	Quarterfinals (Best-of-five)	Semifinals (Best-of-five)	Finals (Best-of-five)
1st	South Korea	LCK	3G+1P	1 team 5W-0L (100%)			4 teams [b] 19W-5L (79%)	4 teams [c] 6W-3L (67%)	3 teams [c] 3W-1L (75%)	2 teams [c]
2nd	China	LPL	3G+1P	1 team 4W-1L (80%)		1 team 3W-1L (75%)	4 teams [b] 18W-6L (75%)	3 teams 2W-6L (25%)	1 team 1W-3L (25%)
3rd	Europe	LEC	2G+2P	2 teams 7W-3L (70%)	1 team 3W-1L (75%)	1 team 0W-3L (0%)	3 teams [b] 7W-11L (38%)	1 team 0W-3L (0%)
4th	North America	LCS	2G+1P	1 team [b] 3W-2L (60%)		1 team 3W-0L (100%)	3 teams 3W-15L (16%)
5th	Vietnam	VCS	1G+1P	1 team 2W-3L (40%)	1 team 1W-3L (25%)		1 team 1W-5L (16%)
6th	TW/HK/MO/SEA	PCS	1G+1P	1 team 2W-3L (40%)			1 team 1W-5L (16%)
7th	Japan	LJL	1P	1 team [b] 3W-2L (60%)	1 team 3W-1L (75%)	1 team 1W-3L (25%)
8th	Brazil	CBLOL	1P	1 team [b] 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%)

Notes

1. The total amount of time it took a team to win their games against all other teams in the tiebreaker
2. Not including tie-break games.
3. Does not include games from "regional civil wars" (two teams from same region playing against each other)

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External links

• 2022 World Championship Rules v22.0