2015 League of Legends World Championship

*League of Legends* World Championship
2015
Tournament information
Location	France; United Kingdom; Belgium; Germany
Dates	October 1–October 31
Administrator(s)	Riot Games
Tournament; format(s)	16 team round-robin group stage ; 8 team single-elimination bracket
Venue(s)	4 (in 4 host cities) Paris (Group Stage) ; London (Quarterfinals) ; Brussels (Semifinals) ; Berlin (Finals) ;
Teams	16
Purse	$2,130,000 USD (€1,907,194.31)
Final positions
Champion	SK Telecom T1; (2nd title)
Runner-up	KOO Tigers
3rd place	Origen; Fnatic
Tournament statistics
Matches played	73
MVP	Jang "MaRin" Gyeong-hwan (SK Telecom T1)
Highest KDA	Bae "Bang" Jun-sik (SK Telecom T1)
Highest CSPM	Enrique "xPeke" Cedeño Martinez (Origen)
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The 2015 League of Legends World Championship was an esports tournament for the multiplayer online battle arena video game League of Legends. It was the fifth iteration of the League of Legends World Championship, an annual international tournament organized by the game's developer, Riot Games. It was held from October 1 to 31 in various cities across Europe: the group stages in Le Dock Pullman, in Paris, France; the quarterfinals at the Wembley Arena in London, England, United Kingdom; the semifinals in the Brussels Expo in Brussels, Belgium; and the finals at Mercedes-Benz Arena in Berlin, Germany. The 16 teams qualified by either winning a professional league or a regional qualifying tournament.^[3] There was a 16 team round-robin group stage followed by an 8 team single elimination bracket. The games were officially streamed on Twitch, YouTube and Azubu in several languages. The BBC also streamed the tournament online on BBC Three but for United Kingdom IP addresses only. A peak of around 14 million concurrent viewers watched the finals, according to official sources.

Teams[]

The following teams qualified to participate in the tournament's group stage:^[4]

Region		League		Path	Team	ID	Pool
Europe		EU LCS		Summer Champion	Fnatic	FNC	1
				Most Championship Points	H2k-Gaming	H2K	2
				Regional Finals Winner	Origen	OG	3
China		LPL		Most Championship Points	LGD Gaming	LGD	1
				Regional Finals 1st-place	EDward Gaming	EDG	2
				Regional Finals 2nd-place	Invictus Gaming	IG	2
North America		NA LCS		Summer Champion	Counter Logic Gaming	CLG	1
				Most Championship Points	Team SoloMid	TSM	2
				Regional Finals Winner	Cloud9	C9	3
South Korea		LCK		Summer Champion	SK Telecom T1	SKT	1
				Most Championship Points	KOO Tigers	KOO	2
				Regional Finals Winner	KT Rolster	KT	2
TW/HK/MO		LMS		Summer Champion	ahq e-Sports Club	AHQ	2
TW/HK/MO		LMS		Regional Finals Winner	Flash Wolves	FW	2
Wildcard	Brazil	CBLOL	IWCT	CBLOL Winter Champion ►IWCT Chile Winner	paiN Gaming	PNG	3
Wildcard	Southeast Asia	GPL	IWCT	GPL Regional Finals Winner ►IWCT Turkey Winner	Bangkok Titans	BKT	3

Rosters[]

Team	Players
Team	ID	Name	Role
Europe
Fnatic	Huni Reignover Febiven Rekkles YellOwStaR	Heo Seung-hoon (허승훈) Kim Yeu-jin (김의진) Fabian Diepstraten Martin Larsson Bora Kim Luis Sevilla Petit	Top Jungle Mid AD Support Coach
H2k-Gaming	kaSing	Andrei Pascu Jean-Victor Burgevin Yoo Sang-ook (유상욱) Petter Freyschuss Raymond Tsang Neil Hammad	Top Jungle Mid AD Support Coach
Origen	sOAZ Amazing xPeke Niels Mithy	Paul Boyer Maurice Stückenschneider Enrique Cedeño Martínez Jesper Svenningsen Alfonso Aguirre Rodriguez Tadayoshi Littleton	Top Jungle Mid AD Support Coach
China
EDward Gaming	ClearLove	Shek Wai Ho (石偉豪) Tong Yang (童扬) Ming Kai (明凯) Heo Won-seok (허원석) Tian Ye (田野) Ji Xing (姬星)	Top Top (substitute) Jungle Mid AD Support Coach
Invictus Gaming		Liu Zhi-Hao (刘志豪) Lee Byung-kwon (이병권) Song Eui-jin (송의진) Ge Yan (葛炎) Tang Jin-Tai (唐金泰) Liu Hong-Jun (刘洪均) Won Sang-yeon (원상연)	Top Jungle Mid AD AD (sub) Support Coach
LGD Gaming	GODV	Choi Cheon-ju (최천주) Lee Ho-jong (이호종) Zhu Yong-Quan (朱永权) Wei Zhen (韦朕) Gu Seung-bin (구승빈) Chen Bo (陈博) Huang Ting-Hsiang (黄鼎翔)	Top Top Jungle Mid AD Support Coach
North America
Cloud9	Balls Hai Incarnati0n Sneaky LemonNation	An Le Hai Du Lam Nicolaj Jensen Zachary Scuderi Daerek Hart Royce Newcomb	Top Jungle Mid AD Support Coach
Counter Logic Gaming	ZionSpartan Xmithie Pobelter Doublelift Aphromoo	Darshan Upadhyaha Jake Puchero Eugene Park Yiliang Peng Zaqueri Black Tony Gray	Top Jungle Mid AD Support Coach
Team SoloMid	Dyrus Santorin Bjergsen WildTurtle Lustboy	Marcus Hill Lucas Tao Kilmer Larsen Søren Bjerg Jason Tran Ham Jang-sik (함장식) Choi Yoon-sub (최윤섭)	Top Jungle Mid AD Support Coach
South Korea
KOO Tigers	Smeb	Song Kyung-ho (송경호) Lee Ho-jin (이호진) Lee Seo-haeng (이서행) Kim Jong-in (김종인) Kang Beom-hyeon (강범현) Jeong No-chul (정노철)	Top Jungle Mid AD Support Coach
KT Rolster	—	Kim Chan-ho (김찬호) Go Dong-bin (고동빈) Kim Sang-moon (김상문) Noh Dong-hyeon (노동현) Lee Jong-beom (이종범) Oh Chang-jong (오창종)	Top Jungle Mid AD Support Coach
SK Telecom T1	MaRin bengi Faker kKoma	Jang Gyeong-hwan (장경환) Bae Seong-ung (배성웅) Lee Sang-hyeok (이상혁) Lee Ji-hoon (이지훈) Bae Jun-sik (배준식) Lee Jae-wan (이재완) Kim Jeong-gyun (김정균)	Top Jungle Mid Mid (sub) AD Support Coach
Taiwan/Hong Kong/Macau
ahq e-Sports Club		Chen Yi (陳奕) Xue Zhao-Hong (薛兆鴻) Liu Shu-Wei (劉書瑋) Chou Chun-An (周俊諳) Kang Chia-Wei (康家維) Chen Yan-fu (陳彥甫)	Top laner Jungle Mid AD carry Support Coach
Flash Wolves	Karsa Maple	Chou Lu-Hsi (周律希) Hung Hau-Hsuan (洪浩軒) Huang Yi-Tang (黃熠棠) Ha Jong-hun (하종훈) Hsiung Wen-An (熊汶銨) Hu Shuo-Jie (胡碩傑) Chen Ju-Chih (陳如治)	Top Jungle Mid AD AD Support Coach
Wildcard
paiN Gaming	MiT	Matheus Borges Thúlio Carlos Gabriel Santos Felipe Gonçalves Hugo Padioleau Gabriel Souza	Top Jungle Mid AD Support Coach
		Pawat Ampaporn Chayut Suebka Nuttapong Menkasikan Juckkirsts Kongubon Sorawat Boonphrom Akarawat Wangsawat	Top Jungle Mid AD Support Coach

Venues[]

Paris, London, Brussels, Berlin were the four cities chosen to host the competition.

Paris, France	London, England, UK
Group Stage	Quarterfinals
Le Dock Pullman	Wembley Arena
Capacity: 3,500	Capacity: 12,500
Paris	London
Brussels, Belgium	Berlin, Germany
Semifinals	Final
Brussels Expo	Mercedes-Benz Arena
Capacity: 15,000	Capacity: 17,000
Brussels	Berlin

Group stage[]

The group stage was played in a best of one double round-robin format, with the top two teams from each of the four groups advancing to the knockout stage, for a total of eight teams. The group stage started on October 1 in , Paris and concluded on October 11.^[4] In Group B, ahq e-Sports Club and Cloud9 both ended in a 3–3 tie, resulting in a tiebreaker won by ahq e-Sports Club to win second place in the group.

Group A[]

#	Team	Record	~	FW	KOO	PNG	CLG
1	Flash Wolves	4–2	FW	~	2–0	1–1	1–1
2	KOO Tigers	4–2	KOO	0–2	~	2–0	2–0
3	paiN Gaming	2–4	PNG	1–1	0–2	~	1-1
3	Counter Logic Gaming	2–4	CLG	1–1	0–2	1-1	~

Group B[]

#	Team	Record	~	FNC	AHQ	C9	IG	Tie-Break
1	Fnatic	4–2	FNC	~	1–1	1–1	2–0
2	ahq e-Sports Club	3–3	AHQ	1–1	~	1–1	1–1	Win
3	Cloud9	3–3	C9	1–1	1–1	~	1–1	Loss
4	Invictus Gaming	2–4	IG	0–2	1–1	1–1	~

Group C[]

#	Team	Record	~	SKT	EDG	H2K	BKT
1	SK Telecom T1	6–0	SKT	~	2–0	2–0	2–0
2	EDward Gaming	4–2	EDG	0–2	~	2–0	2–0
3	H2k-Gaming	2–4	H2K	0–2	0–2	~	2–0
4	Bangkok Titans	0–6	BKT	0–2	0–2	0–2	~

Group D[]

#	Team	Record	~	KT	OG	LGD	TSM
1	KT Rolster	5–1	KT	~	1–1	2–0	2–0
2	Origen	4–2	OG	1–1	~	1–1	2–0
3	LGD Gaming	2–4	LGD	0–2	1–1	~	1–1
4	Team SoloMid	1–5	TSM	0–2	0–2	1–1	~

Knockout stage[]

Wembley Arena stage during the Flash Wolves versus Origen game

The bracket stage started on October 15 in Wembley Arena in London, continued to Brussels Expo in Brussels, and concluded on October 31 with the grand finals hosted in Mercedes-Benz Arena in Berlin.^[5] The knockout stage has been streamed on BBC Three,^[6] while the final will be streamed on ESPN3.^[7] The bracket stage is played in a best of 5 format. In the grand final, SK Telecom T1 beat KOO Tigers 3 to 1, dropping their only game of the whole tournament.

Quarter-finals		Semi-finals		Final

15 October – Wembley Arena

Flash Wolves	1
		24 October – Brussels Expo
Origen	3
		Origen	0
16 October – Wembley Arena
		SK Telecom T1	3
SK Telecom T1	3
				31 October – Mercedes-Benz Arena
ahq e-Sports Club	0
				SK Telecom T1	3
17 October – Wembley Arena
				KOO Tigers	1
Fnatic	3
		25 October – Brussels Expo
EDward Gaming	0
		Fnatic	0
18 October – Wembley Arena
		KOO Tigers	3
KT Rolster	1

KOO Tigers	3

Final standings[]

Players for SK Telecom T1 holding the championship trophy

Place	Team	Prize money^[8]
1st	SK Telecom T1	$1,000,000
2nd	KOO Tigers	$250,000
3rd–4th	Fnatic	$150,000
3rd–4th	Origen	$150,000
5–8th	ahq e-Sports Club	$75,000
	EDward Gaming
	Flash Wolves
	KT Rolster
9–11th	Cloud9	$45,000
	H2k-Gaming
	LGD Gaming
12–13th	paiN Gaming	$35,000
12–13th	Counter Logic Gaming	$35,000
14–16th	Bangkok Titans	$25,000
	Invictus Gaming
	Team SoloMid

Viewership numbers[]

The final was expected to have over 30 million people streaming it online.^[9] The finals were watched by 36 million people, with a peak concurrent viewership of 14 million viewers.^[10]

Controversies[]

Obscenity incident[]

During the final day of the group stage in Paris, Cloud9's Hai "Hai" Lam made an obscene gesture towards an opponent while on stage. Hai was fined €500.^[11]

Technical issues[]

In game 2 of the quarterfinals between Fnatic and EDward Gaming, an in-game bug occurred to Fnatic's Kim "Reignover" Ui-Jin which prevented the game from continuing, forcing the game to be remade from scratch. EDG lost 0–3 to FNC, but because the remade of game 2, in which FNC had an advantage over EDG, EDG was taunted "lost 0–4 in a BO5" in China. After investigating the issue, Riot Games chose to disable Gragas, the champion Reignover was playing, for the rest of the tournament, along with Lux and Ziggs, champions who were deemed susceptible to the same issue.^[12]

Notes[]

^ Tang "Time" Jintai, the substitute player of Invictus Gaming, had the overall highest KDA of 22.0; however, he only played one game.

References[]

^ ^a ^b "World Championship – Stats". LoL Esports. Riot Games. Retrieved December 21, 2015.
^ Magrino, Tom (October 31, 2015). "SKT rises above KOO Tigers 3–1 to become the 2015 World Champion". LoL Esports. Riot Games. Archived from the original on November 9, 2015. Retrieved November 11, 2015.
^ "League of Legends World Championships: What you need to know". BBC. October 15, 2015. Retrieved October 18, 2015.
^ ^a ^b Fields, Frank (September 7, 2015). "Everything you need to know about the 2015 World Championship". Retrieved September 15, 2015.
^ "2015 World Championship Venues | LoL Esports". Retrieved April 9, 2015.
^ Ward, Mark (October 16, 2015). "League of Legends makes global gains". BBC. Retrieved November 11, 2015.
^ "Team CLG Gets Focused - League of Legends Finals - ESPN".
^ "2015 World Championship Rules" (PDF). Riot Games. July 7, 2015. pp. 5–6. Archived from the original (PDF) on February 15, 2016. Retrieved November 11, 2015.
^ Ramgobin, Ryan (October 30, 2015). "SKT rises above KOO Tigers 3–1 to become the 2015 World Champion". The Independent. Retrieved November 11, 2015.
^ "League of Legends 2015 ChampionShip Saw 334 million Unique Impressions | SegmentNext". Retrieved 2015-12-10.
^ Leigh, Hunter (October 21, 2015). "Competitive Ruling: C9 Hai". LoL Esports. Riot Games. Archived from the original on November 9, 2015. Retrieved October 25, 2015.
^ Leigh, Hunter (October 18, 2015). "Gragas Disabled for Rest of Worlds 2015". LoL Esports. Riot Games. Archived from the original on October 19, 2015. Retrieved October 25, 2015.

External links[]

Media related to 2015 League of Legends World Championship at Wikimedia Commons

Official information

[1] Tang "Time" Jintai, the substitute player of Invictus Gaming, had the overall highest KDA of 22.0; however, he only played one game.

[stats-2] "World Championship – Stats". LoL Esports. Riot Games. Retrieved December 21, 2015.

[3] Magrino, Tom (October 31, 2015). "SKT rises above KOO Tigers 3–1 to become the 2015 World Champion". LoL Esports. Riot Games. Archived from the original on November 9, 2015. Retrieved November 11, 2015.

[4] "League of Legends World Championships: What you need to know". BBC. October 15, 2015. Retrieved October 18, 2015.

[LoL_Esports-5] Fields, Frank (September 7, 2015). "Everything you need to know about the 2015 World Championship". Retrieved September 15, 2015.

[6] "2015 World Championship Venues | LoL Esports". Retrieved April 9, 2015.

[7] Ward, Mark (October 16, 2015). "League of Legends makes global gains". BBC. Retrieved November 11, 2015.

[8] "Team CLG Gets Focused - League of Legends Finals - ESPN".

[9] "2015 World Championship Rules" (PDF). Riot Games. July 7, 2015. pp. 5–6. Archived from the original (PDF) on February 15, 2016. Retrieved November 11, 2015.

[10] Ramgobin, Ryan (October 30, 2015). "SKT rises above KOO Tigers 3–1 to become the 2015 World Champion". The Independent. Retrieved November 11, 2015.

[11] "League of Legends 2015 ChampionShip Saw 334 million Unique Impressions | SegmentNext". Retrieved 2015-12-10.

[12] Leigh, Hunter (October 21, 2015). "Competitive Ruling: C9 Hai". LoL Esports. Riot Games. Archived from the original on November 9, 2015. Retrieved October 25, 2015.

[13] Leigh, Hunter (October 18, 2015). "Gragas Disabled for Rest of Worlds 2015". LoL Esports. Riot Games. Archived from the original on October 19, 2015. Retrieved October 25, 2015.

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Tournament information
2015

Location	France United Kingdom Belgium Germany
Dates	October 1–October 31
Administrator(s)	Riot Games
Tournament format(s)	16 team round-robin group stage 8 team single-elimination bracket
Venue(s)	4 (in 4 host cities) Paris (Group Stage) London (Quarterfinals) Brussels (Semifinals) Berlin (Finals)
Teams	16
Purse	$2,130,000 USD (€1,907,194.31)
Final positions
Champion	SK Telecom T1 (2nd title)
Runner-up	KOO Tigers
3rd place	Origen Fnatic
Tournament statistics
Matches played	73
MVP	Jang "MaRin" Gyeong-hwan (SK Telecom T1)^[2]
Highest KDA	Bae "Bang" Jun-sik (SK Telecom T1)^{[note 1]}^[1]
Highest CSPM	Enrique "xPeke" Cedeño Martinez (Origen)^[1]
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