2024 LEC season

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2024 LEC season
League LEC
Sport League of Legends
Duration
  • 13 Jan – 18 Feb (Winter)
  • 9 Mar – 14 Apr (Spring)
  • 8 Jun – 28 Jul (Summer)
  • 10 Aug – 1 Sep (Finals)
Number of teams10
Winter
Champions G2 Esports
  Runners-up MAD Lions KOI
Spring
Champions G2 Esports
  Runners-up Fnatic
Summer
Champions G2 Esports
  Runners-up Fnatic
LEC seasons
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The 2024 LEC season is the 12th season of the League of Legends EMEA Championship (LEC), a professional esports league for the MOBA PC game League of Legends . The season is divided into three splits, Winter, Spring, and Summer, and will culminate with the LEC Season Finals.

Contents

Three team changes occurred leading up to the 2024 season, with Astralis selling their LEC franchise slot to Karmine Corp, KOI effectively rebranding to Rogue, and Excel Esports rebranding to GIANTX.

League changes

Format and eligibility

In contrast to previous season, the LEC merged the group and playoff stages into one double-elimination tournament playoff for the 2024 season. It will maintain the same number of best-of-three and best-of-five series as the previous year. Additionally, teams that can face can face each other in the upper bracket of the playoffs will not face each other in the lower bracket, aside from the lower bracket final. The league also put increased emphasis on the Summer Split, with winner of the Summer Finals automatically qualifying for the 2024 World Championship and giving both the second- and third-place finishers in the Summer Split Playoffs a spot in the LEC Season Finals as well. Additionally, any ties in Championship Points heading into the LEC Season Finals are broken by which team earned the higher number of Championship Points in Summer. [1] [2]

The league increased the time in between the Winter and Spring splits and Spring and the Mid-Season Invitational by one week. The break between Summer split and the LEC Season Finals will be shortened by one week. [1]

The LEC also increased the minimum age requirement to compete from 17 to 18. Riot said the reason for the age limit increase was to "enable teams and the LEC to explore additional revenue opportunities." [3]

Teams

Several team changes occurred heading into the 2024 season. In October 2023, La Ligue Française team Karmine Corp purchased the LEC franchise slot of Astralis. [4] The following month, KOI ended their partnership with Infinite Reality, splitting their esports assets. With the split, Infinite Reality retained the LEC franchise position and reverted their branding back to Rogue. [5] OverActive Media, owner of MAD Lions, would then buy KOI (as well as Movistar Riders) in January 2024, rebranding their League team to MAD Lions KOI. [6] In December 2023, Excel Esports and Giants Gaming merged. As a result, LEC franchise Excel Esports rebranded to GIANTX. [7]

Winter

The Winter Split regular season began on 13 January 2024. All matches took place at the Riot Games Arena in Berlin, Germany. The split concluded with the Winter Split Final on 18 February. [8]

Regular season

PosTeamPldWLPCTQualification
1 G2 Esports 972.778Advance to playoffs
2Team BDS972.778
3 SK Gaming 954.556
4 MAD Lions KOI 954.556
5 Fnatic 954.556
6 Team Vitality 945.444
7Team Heretics945.444
8 GIANTX 945.444
9 Rogue 927.222
10 Karmine Corp 927.222
Source: LoL Esports

Playoffs

Upper quarterfinalsUpper semifinalsUpper finalFinal
1G2 Esports2
8GIANTX0
1G2 Esports2
5Fnatic1
4MAD Lions KOI0
5Fnatic2
1G2 Esports3
2Team BDS0
2Team BDS2
7Team Heretics0
2Team BDS2
6Team Vitality0
3SK Gaming0
6Team Vitality21G2 Esports3
4MAD Lions KOI1
Lower round 1Lower quarterfinalsLower semifinalsLower final
5Fnatic2
3SK Gaming23SK Gaming12Team BDS2
7Team Heretics15Fnatic24MAD Lions KOI3
4MAD Lions KOI3
6Team Vitality0
4MAD Lions KOI24MAD Lions KOI2
8GIANTX0

Source: LoL Esports

Awards

AwardPlayerTeam
Finals MVPBrokenBlade G2 Esports
Team of the Split
BrokenBlade
Yike
Caps
Hans Sama
Mikyx

Spring

The Spring Split regular will begin on 9 March 2024. The split will conclude with the Spring Split Final on 14 April. [9]

Regular season

PosTeamPldWLPCTQualification
1 Fnatic 963.667Advance to playoffs
2 Team Vitality 963.667
3 G2 Esports 963.667
4Team Heretics963.667
5Team BDS954.556
6 GIANTX 945.444
7 MAD Lions KOI 945.444
8 SK Gaming 1046.400
9 Rogue 1037.300
10 Karmine Corp 927.222
Source: LoL Esports

Playoffs

Upper quarterfinalsUpper semifinalsUpper finalFinal
1Fnatic2
6GIANTX0
1Fnatic0
3G2 Esports2
3G2 Esports2
7MAD Lions KOI0
3G2 Esports3
5Team BDS1
2Team Vitality2
8SK Gaming1
2Team Vitality1
5Team BDS2
4Team Heretics0
5Team BDS23G2 Esports3
1Fnatic1
Lower round 1Lower quarterfinalsLower semifinalsLower final
1Fnatic2
4Team Heretics24Team Heretics15Team BDS2
8SK Gaming11Fnatic31Fnatic3
2Team Vitality1
2Team Vitality2
6GIANTX17MAD Lions KOI0
7MAD Lions KOI2

Source: LoL Esports

Awards

AwardPlayerTeam
Finals MVP Caps G2 Esports
Team of the Split
BrokenBlade
Razork Fnatic
CapsG2 Esports
IceTeam BDS
JunFnatic

Summer

The summer split will begin on 8 June, with the regular season ending on 30 June. After a one week break to allow for the League of Legends tournament at the 2024 Esports World Cup in Saudi Arabia, the playoffs will run from 12 to 28 July. [10]

Regular season

PosTeamPldWLPCTQualification
1 SK Gaming 981.889Advance to playoffs
2Team BDS981.889
3 G2 Esports 972.778
4 Fnatic 963.667
5 Karmine Corp 945.444
6Team Heretics936.333
7 GIANTX 936.333
8 MAD Lions KOI 1147.364
9 Team Vitality 1028.200
10 Rogue 1028.200
Source: LoL Esports

Playoffs

Upper quarterfinalsUpper semifinalsUpper finalFinal
1SK Gaming2
6Team Heretics0
1SK Gaming0
4Fnatic2
4Fnatic2
7GIANTX1
4Fnatic3
3G2 Esports2
2Team BDS2
8MAD Lions KOI1
2Team BDS0
3G2 Esports2
3G2 Esports2
5Karmine Corp04Fnatic0
3G2 Esports3
Lower round 1Lower quarterfinalsLower semifinalsLower final
1SK Gaming1
5Karmine Corp25Karmine Corp23G2 Esports3
8MAD Lions KOI05Karmine Corp22Team BDS1
2Team BDS3
2Team BDS2
6Team Heretics17GIANTX1
7GIANTX2

Source: LoL Esports

Awards

AwardPlayerTeam
Finals MVP Caps G2 Esports

Season Finals

Qualification

A total of six teams will qualify for the Season Finals. The winner of each split, as well as the second- and third-placed teams from the Summer Split are automatically qualified, while the remaining teams are determined based on Championship Points. Teams are awarded Championship Points at the end of each split based on their performance, and seeding in the Season Finals is determined by a combination of Championship Points and Summer Playoffs placement. [2]

PosTeamWinSprSumTotalQualification
1 G2 Esports [lower-alpha 1] 120145180445Upper bracket semifinals
2 Fnatic 60120150330
3Team BDS8095120295
4 MAD Lions KOI 1005545200
5 SK Gaming 453565145Lower bracket quarterfinals
6 GIANTX 303565130
7Team Heretics305545130
8 Team Vitality 45700115
9 Karmine Corp 009090
10 Rogue 0000
Source: LoL Esports
Notes:
  1. ↑ Automatically qualified as the winner of the Winter, Spring and Summer Splits.

Bracket

Upper semifinalsUpper finalFinal
1G2 Esports2
4MAD Lions KOI3
4MAD Lions KOI
2Fnatic
2Fnatic3
3Team BDS0
Lower quarterfinalsLower semifinalsLower final
1G2 Esports3
6GIANTX0
1G2 Esports31G2 Esports
3Team BDS2
3Team BDS3
5SK Gaming0

Source: LoL Esports

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