2017 League of Legends World Championship

League of Legends World Championship

2017
Tournament information
Location	China
Dates	September 23–November 4
Administrator	Riot Games
Tournament format(s)	12 team double round-robin Play-in Stage 16 team double round-robin Group Stage 8 team single-elimination bracket
Venue(s)	4 (in 4 host cities) Wuhan (Play-In Stage & Main Group Stage) Guangzhou (Quarterfinals) Shanghai (Semifinals) Beijing (Finals)
Teams	24
Purse	$4,596,591
Final positions
Champion	Samsung Galaxy (2nd title, 1st title after Galaxy White)
Runner-up	SK Telecom T1
MVP	Park "Ruler" Jae-hyuk (Samsung Galaxy)

The 2017 League of Legends World Championship was the seventh world championship for League of Legends, a video game developed by Riot Games. It was held from September 23 – November 4, 2017, in cities across China. Twenty four teams qualified for the tournament based on their placement in regional circuits such as those in North America, Europe, South Korea, and China, with twelve of those teams having to reach the group stage via a play-in round.

Samsung Galaxy secured their second championship win after defeating the three-time world champion SK Telecom T1, 3-0 in a best of five final series. They previously won the 2014 League of Legends World Championship. Park "Ruler" Jae-hyuk, the AD carry of Samsung, was named the MVP of the tournament for his outstanding performances.

Against the Current and Jay Chou collaborated with Riot Games to produce two exclusive songs titled "Legends Never Die" and "Heroes" respectively for the tournament, while Alan Walker also produced his own remix of "Legends Never Die".

The 2017 Worlds has been widely praised for its ceremonial performances, while receiving attention worldwide due to the high quality of the tournament, its multiple dramatic and emotional series, and SK Telecom T1's tributary moments. The finals gained a solid following of 60 million unique viewers, breaking 2016's viewer record. A donation of US$2 million was also raised through the sales of Worlds 2017 Championship Ashe skin, reaching out to different charities and receiving commendations.

Teams and qualifications

Based on the results of MSI and the World Championship in the previous two years, all teams from South Korea (LCK) were seeded directly into the group stage and Taiwan/Hong Kong/Macau (LMS) received an extra seed. With the ranking of the 2017 Mid Season Invitational, Southeast Asia (GPL) received a group stage seed for the summer champion team and one more slot in the play-in stage for the summer runner-up team.

Region	League	Path	Start in	Pool	Teams	ID
China	LPL	Summer Champion	Group stage	1	Edward Gaming	EDG
		Championship Points		2	Royal Never Give Up	RNG
		Regional Finals	Play-in stage	3	Team WE	WE
Europe	EU LCS	Summer Champion	Group stage	1	G2 Esports	G2
		Championship Points		2	Misfits Gaming	MSF
		Regional Finals	Play-in stage	3	Fnatic	FNC
North America	NA LCS	Summer Champion	Group stage	2	Team SoloMid	TSM
		Championship Points			Immortals	IMT
		Regional Finals	Play-in stage	3	Cloud9	C9
South Korea	LCK	Summer Champion	Group stage	1	Longzhu Gaming	LZ
		Championship Points		2	SK Telecom T1	SKT
		Regional Finals			Samsung Galaxy	SSG
Taiwan Hong Kong Macau	LMS	Summer Champion	Group stage	1	Flash Wolves	FW
		Championship Points		2	ahq e-Sports Club	AHQ
		Regional Finals	Play-in stage	3	Hong Kong Attitude	HKA
Vietnam ►Southeast Asia	VCS►GPL	Summer Champion	Group stage	2	GIGABYTE Marines	GAM
		Summer Runner-up	Play-in stage	4	Young Generation	YG
Brazil	CBLOL	Summer Champion			Team oNe Esports	ONE
CIS	LCL				Gambit Esports	GMB
Turkey	TCL				1907 Fenerbahçe eSports	FB
Japan	LJL			5	Rampage	RPG
Latin America North	LLN				Lyon Gaming	LYN
Latin America South	CLS				Kaos Latin Gamers	KLG
Oceania	OPL				Dire Wolves	DW

Rosters

Teams	Players					Coach
	Top	Jungle	Mid	ADC	Support
China (LPL)
EDward Gaming	Mouse Audi (DNP)	Clearlove7	Scout	iBoy	Meiko	NoFe
Royal Never Give Up	Letme	Mlxg Y1HAN (DNP)	Xiaohu	Uzi	Ming	FireFox
Team WE	957	Condi	xiye	Mystic	Ben Zero (DNP)	Homme
Europe (EU LCS)
G2 Esports	Expect	Trick	Perkz	Zven	mithy Hoang (DNP)	YoungBuck
Misfits Gaming	Alphari	Maxlore	PowerOfEvil	Hans Sama	IgNar Hiiva (DNP)	Daku
Fnatic	sOAZ	Broxah	Caps Special (DNP)	Rekkles	Jesiz	Dylan Falco
North America (NA LCS)
Team SoloMid	Hauntzer	Svenskeren	Bjergsen	Doublelift MrRallez (DNP)	Biofrost	Parth
Immortals	Flame	Xmithie AnDa (DNP)	Pobelter	Cody Sun	Olleh	SSONG
Cloud9	Impact Ray (DNP)	Contractz	Jensen	Sneaky	Smoothie	Reapered
South Korea (LCK)
Longzhu Gaming	Khan Rascal	Cuzz	Bdd	PraY	GorillA	Kim Jeong-soo
SK Telecom T1	Huni	Peanut Blank	Faker	Bang	Wolf	kkOma
Samsung Galaxy	CuVee	Ambition Haru	Crown	Ruler	CoreJJ	Edgar
Taiwan - Hong Kong - Macau (LMS)
Flash Wolves	MMD Cyo (DNP)	Karsa	Maple	Betty	SwordArT	Steak
ahq e-Sports Club	Ziv	Mountain	Westdoor Chawy	AN	Albis	GreenTea
Hong Kong Attitude	Riris	Godkwai Gemini	M1ssion	Unified	Kaiwing	Tabe
Vietnam►Southeast Asia (VCS►GPL)
GIGABYTE Marines	Archie	Levi	Optimus	Noway	Nevan Sya	Tinikun
Young Generation	Ren NhocTy	Venus	Naul	BigKoro	Palette	Koo
Brazil (CBLOL)
Team oNe Esports	VVvert	4LaN	Brucer Marf	Absolut	RedBert	Neki
Commonwealth of Independent States (LCL)
Turkey (TCL)
1907 Fenerbahçe	Thaldrin	Crash (R) WaenA (DNP)	Frozen	padden	Japone	Pades
Japan (LJL)
Rampage	Evi	Tussle TETE (DNP)	Ramune	YutoriMoyasi	Dara	34
Latin America North (LLN)
Lyon Gaming	Jirall	Oddie	Seiya	WhiteLotus MarioMe (DNP)	Genthix	Yeti
Latin America South (CLS)
Kaos Latin Gamers	MANTARRAYA	Tierwulf	Plugo	Fix Focho (DNP)	Slow	Pierre
Oceania (OPL)
Dire Wolves	Chippys	shernfire Rippii (DNP)	Phantiks	k1ng	Destiny	Sharp

Venues

Wuhan, Guangzhou, Shanghai, Beijing were the four cities chosen to host the competition.

Wuhan, Hubei	Guangzhou, Guangdong
Play-in Stage & Main Group Stage	Quarterfinals
Wuhan Gymnasium	Guangzhou Gymnasium
Capacity: 7,000	Capacity: 10,000
Sep 23 – Oct 15	Oct 19 – Oct 22
Wuhan Guangzhou Shanghai Beijing
Shanghai	Beijing
Semifinals	Finals
Shanghai Oriental Sports Center	Beijing National Stadium
Capacity: 18,200	Capacity: 91,000
Oct 28 – Oct 29	Nov 4

Play-in stage

Group A

#	Team		1	2	3		W	L	±
1	Team WE		—	2–0	2–0		4	0	4
2	Lyon Gaming		0–2	—	2–0		2	2	0
3	Gambit Esports		0–2	0–2	—		0	4	–4

Group B

#	Team		1	2	3		W	L	±
1	Cloud9		—	2–0	2–0		4	0	4
2	Team oNe Esports		0–2	—	2–1		2	3	–1
3	Dire Wolves		0–2	1–2	—		1	4	–3

Group C

#	Team		1	2	3		W	L	±
1	Fnatic		—	1–1	2–0		3	1	2
2	Young Generation		1–1	—	1–1		2	2	0
3	Kaos Latin Gamers		0–2	1–1	—		1	3	–2

Group D

#	Team		1	2	3		W	L	±
1	1907 Fenerbahçe eSports		—	2–1	2–0		4	1	3
2	Hong Kong Attitude		1–2	—	2–0		3	2	1
3	Rampage		0–2	0–2	—		0	4	–4

Elimination

Match 1       Team WE 3 Young Generation 0

Match 2       Cloud9 3 Lyon Gaming 0

Match 3       Fnatic 3 Hong Kong Attitude 0

Match 4       1907 Fenerbahçe 3 Team oNe Esports 1

Group stage

Group A

#	Team		1	2	3	4		W	L	±
1	SK Telecom T1		—	2−0	1−1	2−0		5	1	4
2	Cloud9		0−2	—	2−0	1−1		3	3	0
3	ahq e-Sports Club		1−1	0−2	—	1−1		2	4	−2
3	EDward Gaming		0−2	1−1	1−1	—		2	4	−2

Group B

#	Team		1	2	3	4		W	L	±
1	Longzhu Gaming		—	2−0	2−0	2−0		6	0	6
2	Fnatic		0−2	—	2−1	2−1		4	4	0
3	GIGABYTE Marines		0−2	1−2	—	1−1		2	5	−3
4	Immortals		0−2	1−2	1−1	—		2	5	−3

Group C

#	Team		1	2	3	4		W	L	±
1	Royal Never Give Up		—	2−0	1−1	2−0		5	1	4
2	Samsung Galaxy		0−2	—	2−0	2−0		4	2	2
3	G2 Esports		1−1	0−2	—	2−0		3	3	0
4	1907 Fenerbahçe eSports		0−2	0−2	0−2	—		0	6	–6

Group D

#	Team		1	2	3	4		W	L	±
1	Team WE		—	2−0	1−1	2−0		5	1	4
2	Misfits Gaming		0−2	—	2−1	2−0		4	3	1
3	Team SoloMid		1−1	1−2	—	1−1		3	4	−1
4	Flash Wolves		0−2	0−2	1−1	—		1	5	−4

Knockout stage

Bracket

Interior of Beijing National Stadium, as used for the 2017 League of Legends World Championship finals.

The stage for the finals between SKT T1 and Samsung Galaxy

Quarterfinals

Semifinals

Finals

A1

SK Telecom T1

3

D2

Misfits Gaming

2

SK Telecom T1

3

Royal Never Give Up

2

C1

Royal Never Give Up

3

B2

Fnatic

1

SK Telecom T1

0

Samsung Galaxy

3

D1

Team WE

3

A2

Cloud9

2

Team WE

1

Samsung Galaxy

3

B1

Longzhu Gaming

0

C2

Samsung Galaxy

3

Final standings

Final standings, 2017

Places	Region	League	Team	Prize (USD)
1st	South Korea	LCK	Samsung Galaxy	$1,723,721
2nd	South Korea	LCK	SK Telecom T1	$620,539
3rd–4th	China	LPL	Royal Never Give Up	$321,761
	China	LPL	Team WE
5–8th	South Korea	LCK	Longzhu Gaming	$183,863
	Europe	EU LCS	Misfits Gaming
	Europe	EU LCS	Fnatic
	North America	NA LCS	Cloud9
9–11th	North America	NA LCS	Team SoloMid	$103,423
	Europe	EU LCS	G2 Esports
	Vietnam►SEA	VCS►GPL	GIGABYTE Marines
12–13th	China	LPL	Edward Gaming	$80,440
	TW/HK/MO	LMS	ahq e-Sports Club
14–16th	TW/HK/MO	LMS	Flash Wolves	$57,457
	North America	LCS	Immortals
	Turkey	TCL	1907 Fenerbahçe eSports
17–20th	Latin America North	LLN	Lyon Gaming	$34,474
	TW/HK/MO	LMS	Hong Kong Attitude
	Brazil	CBLOL	Team oNe Esports
	Vietnam►SEA	VCS►GPL	Young Generation
21–24th	Japan	LJL	Rampage	$22,982
	Latin America South	CLS	Kaos Latin Gamers
	Oceania	OPL	Dire Wolves
	CIS	LCL	Gambit Esports
Total				$4,596,578

League of Legends Live

League of Legends Live was held on the eve of the finals, November 3, in Beijing National Aquatics Center (or known as the Water Cube) to commemorate the tournament, featuring international artists and League of Legends community musicians. It featured performances of a wide variety of music from League of Legends, including Get Jinxed, hits from Pentakill, DJ Sona, Warsongs, Star Guardian, The Curse Of The Sad Mummy, medleys of a wide variety of Worlds and Champion themes, DJ and music producer Alan Walker, and many other tracks over the course of the 90-minute show.

Reception of performances

During the opening ceremony of the finals, dancers were decked out in different masks, unified as the ground around them exploded with visual effects and colors. It was followed by Jay Chou's Worlds 2017 remix Hero performance, and a live version of Legends Never Die by Against the Current, with Chou playing the piano behind. An augmented reality dragon (modeled after the in-game Elder Drake) also flew and soared around the arena halfway through the performance, with a giant Summoner's Cup rising from the grounds of the stadium at the same time, catching the stadium's audience and global fans by surprise. The closing ceremony featured Alan Walker performing his own remix of Legends Never Die, with Chrissy Costanza on the vocals. The overall performances of the ceremony received widespread praises.

Legacy

The finals had 60 million unique viewers worldwide, breaking 2016's viewer record.

League of Legends fans raised over US$2 million for three different charities (BasicNeeds, Learning Equality and the Raspberry Pi Foundation) with the sales of the "Worlds 2017 Championship Ashe" skin.

The loss of SK Telecom T1 in a 0-3 defeat, as well as Faker's emotional moment resulted in one of the greatest upsets in League of Legends' history, and have noticeably caught the attention of League of Legends' fans throughout the world, with many support and tributes given to the team and Faker for their success.