Detailed management plans for the 2021 League of Legends World Championship in Iceland have been unveiled. Riot Games, which develops and services League of Legends (LoL), has revealed the specific operation of the League of Legends World Championship, which will be held from October 5 to November 6 at the Roigardals Indoor Sports Stadium A Hall in Iceland.
As announced earlier this month, the 2021 LoL World Championship will kick off with a play-in-stage match on October 5th at Iceland's Roegardals Indoor Sports Stadium Hall A.
The LoL Championship is an annual international competition where the world's best teams compete to win the summoner's cup and the honor of the world champion. More than 800 players and more than 100 professional league of legend e-sports teams competed to qualify for the World Championship in the League of Legends league held around the world, with 22 teams participating in the World Championship.
◆ Adjust the play-in method
The World Championship was originally planned to be held in 24 teams, but it was reduced to 22 teams as VCS (Vietnam) failed to play playoffs with the summer regular league due to the re-proliferation of COVID-19. The VCS team, which is unable to compete due to unavoidable circumstances, will receive all the prize money normally, just as they normally participated in the World Championship.
As 22 teams, not 24 teams, participated as before, the way the play-in stage progress changed. Instead of 12 teams, 10 teams will advance to the play-in stage of the World Championship.
◆ Introduction of a temporary rental system.
Like the 2020 World Championship, the World Championship preemptively adjusted the detailed rules of the tournament, considering the inevitable problems that may arise due to COVID-19. Riot Games operates a temporary rental system during the World Championship.
The system allows players registered in the World Championship roster to play as substitutes in the same local league who secured a visa in advance but failed to advance to the World Championship when they are unable to move abroad due to unavoidable reasons.
All lease requests must be approved by the organizer of the competition, and are valid only if the system cannot be used strategically and the team and players cannot find a way to overcome the situation.
The world championship will be held in stage ◆3.
The World Championship is divided into three stages. Four teams will be selected from the play-in stage, where 10 teams participate, and eight teams will compete in the knock-out stage through the group stage where 12 teams went straight. The knockout stage, consisting of the quarterfinals, semifinals, and finals, will be held in a best-of-five tournament, and the losing team will wrap up the World Championship schedule. This will determine the world's best LoL team in 2021.
The five-day play-in stage, which runs from October 5 to 9, will divide 10 teams into two groups. LNG e-sports and Hanwha Life e-sports, the fourth seed of LPL (China) and LCK (Korea), Cloud Nine (C9), the third seed of LCS (North America), and Beyond Gaming (BYG), the second seed of PCS (Southeast Asia), will be grouped into two teams. Teams from six regions, representing one team each -CBLOL Red Caniz Kalunga, LCL (Independent Nations Union) Unicorns of Love, LJL (Japan) Detonation Focus Me, LLA (Latin America) Infitini, LCO (Oceania) Peace, and TCL (Turkey) Galatarai Group A-Sports.
The play-in stage, consisting of five teams in the group, will determine the ranking by playing one game each with all other teams in their respective groups. The top teams in each group automatically advance to the group stage, while the third and fourth teams in each group will play the best-of-five matches, while the winning teams will face the second-place teams in different groups for the last two qualifications. Through this, four teams will be decided to advance to the group stage. The four teams that advanced after all the play-in stages are assigned to the randomly determined group stage group, and at this time, they cannot be assigned to groups that include teams in the same region.
The group stage, which runs for two weeks from October 11th to 13th and October 15th to 18th, is divided into three tiers. LPL, LCK, LEC (Europe), PCS' No. 1 seed Edward Gaming (EDG), Damwon Kia (DK), Mad Lions (MAD), and PSG Talon (PSG) were assigned to the first tier. Fun Plus Phoenix (FPX), Gen.G (GEN), Fnatic (FNC) and 100 Sives (100T) were assigned to the second tier, while Royal Never Give Up (RNG), T1, Log (RGE) and Team Liquid (TL) were assigned to the third tier.
The teams are distributed into four group stage groups according to the lottery results. One team will be selected for each group, and teams in the same region cannot be assigned to the same group. The group draw ceremony will be broadcast live from 9 p.m. Korean time on September 22nd.
The top 4 teams in the play-in stage will join the 12 teams that advanced to the group stage. The 16 teams will be divided into 4 groups of 4 teams, and all other teams in their respective groups will play 2 games, and the teams that ranked 1st and 2nd in each group will advance to the knockout stage.
The quarterfinals will be held from the 22nd to the 28th, and 안전놀이터추천 the semifinals will be held for two days on the 30th and 31st. The long-awaited final will be held on November 6, and the knockout stage will be held in the best-of-five single-elimination manner. The match table will be decided through a lottery on the stage after the end of the last game on the last day of the group stage.