League of Legends: Season 3 World Championship
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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
| Region | Path | Team | ID |
|---|---|---|---|
| Starting in the Playoff stage | |||
| China | China Regional Finals Winner | Royal Club | RYL |
| North America | NA LCS Summer Champion | Cloud9 | C9 |
| South Korea | The Champion Most Circuit Points #1 | NaJin Black Sword | NJS |
| TW/HK/MO | TW/HK/MO Regional Finals Winner | Gamania Bears | GAB |
| Starting in the Group stage | |||
| China | China Regional Finals Runner-up | Oh My God | OMG |
| Europe | EU LCS Summer Champion | Fnatic | FNC |
| EU LCS Summer Runner-up | Lemondogs | LD | |
| EU LCS Summer 3rd Place | Gambit Gaming | GMB | |
| North America | NA LCS Summer Runner-up | Team SoloMid | TSM |
| NA LCS Summer 3rd Place | Team Vulcun | VUL | |
| South Korea | The Champion Most Circuit Points #2 | Samsung Ozone | SSO |
| Korea Regional Finals Winner | SK Telecom T1 K | SKT | |
| Southeast Asia | SEA Regional Finals Winner | Mineski | MSK |
| CIS►Wildcard | Regional CIS Championship ►IWCT Winner | GamingGear.EU | GG |
Venues
Culver City and Los Angeles were selected as the host cities for the World Championship.
| United States | ||
|---|---|---|
| Culver City | Los Angeles | |
| Group Stage and Quarterfinals | Semifinals | Finals |
| Culver Sound Studios | Galen Center | Staples Center |
| Capacity: 1,500 | Capacity: 10,258 | Capacity: 20,000 |
| Culver CityLos Angeles |
Group stage
The group stage featured ten teams, which were drawn into two groups of five according to their seeding. Teams from the same region could not be placed in the same group, with the exception of Europe’s third seed, Gambit Gaming. The competition was played in a double round-robin format, with all matches contested as best-of-one. When teams finished with identical win–loss and head-to-head records, a tiebreaker match was held to determine second place. The top two teams from each group advanced to the playoff stage, while the bottom three were 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
The playoff stage consisted of eight teams drawn into a single-elimination bracket. The quarterfinals were played as best-of-three series, while both the semifinals and the final were contested as best-of-five. The auto-qualified team was matched against an opponent from the group stage, and teams that had advanced from the same group were placed on opposite sides of the bracket, ensuring that they could not meet until the final.
| Quarterfinals | Semifinals | Final | |||||||||||
| AQ | Gamania Bears | 0 | |||||||||||
| A1 | SK Telecom T1 K | 2 | |||||||||||
| SK Telecom T1 K | 3 | ||||||||||||
| NaJin Black Sword | 2 | ||||||||||||
| AQ | NaJin Black Sword | 2 | |||||||||||
| B2 | Gambit Gaming | 1 | |||||||||||
| SK Telecom T1 K | 3 | ||||||||||||
| Royal Club | 0 | ||||||||||||
| AQ | Royal Club | 2 | |||||||||||
| A1 | Oh My God | 0 | |||||||||||
| Royal Club | 3 | ||||||||||||
| Fnatic | 1 | ||||||||||||
| AQ | Cloud9 | 1 | |||||||||||
| B1 | Fnatic | 2 | |||||||||||
Source: ( 2014-10-07 at the Wayback Machine)
Final standings
Team ranking
| Place | Team | Prize money |
|---|---|---|
| 1st | SK Telecom T1 K | $1,000,000 |
| 2nd | Royal Club | $250,000 |
| 3rd–4th | Fnatic | $150,000 |
| NaJin Black Sword | ||
| 5–8th | Cloud9 | $75,000 |
| Gamania Bears | ||
| Gambit Gaming | ||
| Oh My God | ||
| 9–10th | Lemondogs | $45,000 |
| Samsung Ozone | ||
| 11–12th | Team SoloMid | $30,000 |
| Team Vulcun | ||
| 13–14th | GamingGear.EU | $25,000 |
| 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.
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.
External links
- ( 2014-11-07 at the Wayback Machine)