League of Legends: Season 3 World Championship
| 2013 | |
| File:Season 3 World Championship logo.png | |
| Tournament information | |
|---|---|
| Location | United States |
| Dates | September 15–October 4 |
| Administrator | Riot Games |
Tournament format(s) | 10 team round-robin group stage 8 team single-elimination bracket |
| Venue(s) | 3 (in 1 host city) |
| Teams | 14 |
| Purse | $2,050,000 |
| Final positions | |
| Champions | SK Telecom T1 |
| Runner-up | Royal Club |
| Tournament statistics | |
| Matches played | 63 |
The Season 3 World Championship was an esports tournament for the multiplayer online battle arena video game League of Legends. It was the third iteration of the League of Legends World Championship held by Riot Games, and the last iteration not to be formally titled after the year it took place. SK Telecom T1 defeated Royal Club 3–0 in the finals and took their first championship.
Teams
- 14 teams participate
- Four teams receive direct entry into Quarter-finals through top 4 of All-Star Shanghai 2013.
- Seed #1 from China, South Korea, North America, and Taiwan/Hong Kong/Macau[1]
| Region | Path | Team | ID |
|---|---|---|---|
| Starting in the Playoff stage | |||
| China | China Regional Finals Winner | China Royal Club | RYL |
| North America | NA LCS Summer Champion | United States Cloud9 | C9 |
| South Korea | The Champion Most Circuit Points #1 | South Korea NaJin Black Sword | NJS |
| TW/HK/MO | TW/HK/MO Regional Finals Winner | Taiwan Gamania Bears | GAB |
| Starting in the Group stage | |||
| China | China Regional Finals Runner-up | China Oh My God | OMG |
| Europe | EU LCS Summer Champion | Europe Fnatic | FNC |
| EU LCS Summer Runner-up | Europe Lemondogs | LD | |
| EU LCS Summer 3rd Place | Russia Gambit Gaming | GMB | |
| North America | NA LCS Summer Runner-up | United States Team SoloMid | TSM |
| NA LCS Summer 3rd Place | United States Team Vulcun | VUL | |
| South Korea | The Champion Most Circuit Points #2 | South Korea Samsung Ozone | SSO |
| Korea Regional Finals Winner | South Korea SK Telecom T1 K | SKT | |
| Southeast Asia | SEA Regional Finals Winner | Philippines Mineski | MSK |
| CIS►Wildcard | Regional CIS Championship ►IWCT Winner |
Lithuania GamingGear.EU | GG |
Venues
Culver City and Los Angeles were selected as the host cities for the World Championship.[2]
| File:Flag of the United States.svg United States | ||
|---|---|---|
| Culver City, California | Los Angeles, California | |
| Group Stage and Quarterfinals | Semifinals | Finals |
| Culver Sound Studios | Galen Center | Staples Center |
| Capacity: 1,500 | Capacity: 10,258 | Capacity: 20,000 |
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File:Staples Center 2012.jpg |
Group stage
- Ten teams are drawn into two groups with five teams in each group based on their seeding. Teams of the same region cannot be placed in the same group (excepted seed #3 of Europe is Gambit Gaming).
- Double round robin, all matches are best-of-one.
- If teams have the same win–loss record and head-to-head record, a tiebreaker match is played for second place.
- Top two teams of each group will advance to Playoff stage. Bottom three teams are eliminated.
- Group A
| Pos | Team | Pld | W | L | PCT | Qualification |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Oh My God | 8 | 7 | 1 | .875 | Advance to knockouts |
| 2 | SK Telecom T1 K | 8 | 7 | 1 | .875 | |
| 3 | Lemondogs | 8 | 3 | 5 | .375 | |
| 4 | Team SoloMid | 8 | 2 | 6 | .250 | |
| 5 | GamingGear.eu | 8 | 1 | 7 | .125 |
- Group B
| Pos | Team | Pld | W | L | PCT | Qualification |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Fnatic | 8 | 7 | 1 | .875 | Advance to knockouts |
| 2 | Gambit Gaming | 9 | 6 | 3 | .667 | |
| 3 | Samsung Ozone | 9 | 5 | 4 | .556 | |
| 4 | Team Vulcan | 8 | 3 | 5 | .375 | |
| 5 | Team Mineski | 8 | 0 | 8 | .000 |
Playoff stage
- Eight teams are drawn into a single elimination bracket.
- Quarterfinals matches are best-of-three, Semifinals and Final match are best-of-five.
- The auto-qualified team is drawn against the team from Group stage.
- Teams from same group will be on opposite sides of the bracket, meaning they cannot play each other until the Finals.
| Quarterfinals | Semifinals | Final | |||||||||||
| AQ | Taiwan Gamania Bears | 0 | |||||||||||
| A1 | South Korea SK Telecom T1 K | 2 | |||||||||||
| South Korea SK Telecom T1 K | 3 | ||||||||||||
| South Korea NaJin Black Sword | 2 | ||||||||||||
| AQ | South Korea NaJin Black Sword | 2 | |||||||||||
| B2 | File:Flag of Russia.svg Gambit Gaming | 1 | |||||||||||
| South Korea SK Telecom T1 K | 3 | ||||||||||||
| File:Flag of the People's Republic of China.svg Royal Club | 0 | ||||||||||||
| AQ | File:Flag of the People's Republic of China.svg Royal Club | 2 | |||||||||||
| A1 | File:Flag of the People's Republic of China.svg Oh My God | 0 | |||||||||||
| File:Flag of the People's Republic of China.svg Royal Club | 3 | ||||||||||||
| File:Flag of Europe.svg Fnatic | 1 | ||||||||||||
| AQ | File:Flag of the United States.svg Cloud9 | 1 | |||||||||||
| B1 | File:Flag of Europe.svg Fnatic | 2 | |||||||||||
Source: LoL Esports (Archived 2014-10-07 at the Wayback Machine)
Final standings
Team Ranking
| Place | Team | Prize money[3] |
|---|---|---|
| 1st | South Korea SK Telecom T1 K | $1,000,000 |
| 2nd | China Royal Club | $250,000 |
| 3rd–4th | Europe Fnatic | $150,000 |
| South Korea NaJin Black Sword | ||
| 5–8th | United States Cloud9 | $75,000 |
| Taiwan Gamania Bears | ||
| Russia Gambit Gaming | ||
| China Oh My God | ||
| 9–10th | Europe Lemondogs | $45,000 |
| South Korea Samsung Ozone | ||
| 11–12th | United States Team SoloMid | $30,000 |
| United States Team Vulcun | ||
| 13–14th | Lithuania GamingGear.EU | $25,000 |
| Philippines Mineski |
Viewership and attendance
The 2013 World Championship final was watched over Twitch by over 32 million people, with a peak of 8.5 million concurrent views, a large increase from the 2012 finals of 8.2 million viewers, with 1.1 millions peak concurrent ones. The numbers shattered the previous records for any eSports event. These numbers were much higher than those of other competitor eSports events for Dota 2 and Starcraft 2, the former of which only reached one million concurrent viewers.[4] Riot's 8.5 million concurrent viewers is on a par with the "more than 8 million" people that watched Felix Baumgartner's jump from the edge of space. Exact figures for streaming events are difficult to ascertain, but All Things D reports that Baumgartner's jump was "web video's biggest event ever." League of Legends is by far the biggest entity in the pro-gaming sector, regularly outstripping the stream viewer numbers of its major competitors, including Valve's Dota 2 and Blizzard's StarCraft II. In context, Valve's flagship Dota 2 tournament — The International 3 — took place two months before the League of Legends Season 3 World Championship finals and reached one million concurrent viewers.
References
- ↑ Although TW/HK/MO All-stars team in All-star Event also represented for Southeast Asia region (both regions are organized by Garena), but Playoff spot was decided for team of TW/HK/MO Regional Winner without competition in GPL because of the championship of Taipei Assassins in last year.
- ↑ Pitcher, Jenna (September 2, 2013). "League Of Legends finals a sell out at Staples Center, North American regionals conclude". Polygon. Retrieved November 22, 2023.
- ↑ "S3 World Championship Telah Dimulai!" (in Indonesian). Garena. Retrieved December 21, 2015.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: unrecognized language (link) - ↑ "'League of Legends' eSports finals watched by 32 million people". 19 November 2013.
External links
- Information
- Season Three World Championship Official Rules (Archived 2014-11-07 at the Wayback Machine)
