League of Legends: Season 3 World Championship

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Season 3 World Championship
2013
Tournament information
Location United States
DatesSeptember 15–October 4
Administrator(s)Riot Games
Tournament
format(s)
10 team round-robin group stage
8 team single-elimination bracket
Venue(s)3 (in 1 host city)
Teams14
Purse$2,050,000
Final positions
Champions SK Telecom T1
(1st title)
Runner-up Royal Club
Tournament statistics
Matches played63
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The Season 3 World Championship was the third iteration of the annual League of Legends World Championship and the last one 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

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 ~ OMG SKT LD TSM GG W L
1 China Oh My God OMG ~ 1–1 2–0 2–0 2–0 7 1
1 South Korea SK Telecom T1 K SKT 1–1 ~ 2–0 2–0 2–0 7 1
3 Europe Lemondogs LD 0–2 0–2 ~ 1–1 2–0 3 5
4 United States Team SoloMid TSM 0–2 0–2 1–1 ~ 1–1 2 6
5 Lithuania GamingGear.eu GG 0–2 0–2 0–2 1–1 ~ 1 7

Group B[]

Pos Team ~ FNC GMB SSO VUL MSK W L TB
1 Europe Fnatic FNC ~ 2–0 2–0 1–1 2–0 7 1
2 Russia Gambit Gaming GMB 0–2 ~ 1–1 2–0 2–0 5 3 W
3 South Korea Samsung Ozone SSO 0–2 1–1 ~ 2–0 2–0 5 3 L
4 United States Team Vulcun VUL 1–1 0–2 0–2 ~ 2–0 3 5
5 Philippines Mineski MSK 0–2 0–2 0–2 0–2 ~ 0 8

Playoff stage[]

Broadcast desk during the playoffs
  • 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 Finals
         
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 Gambit Gaming 1
South Korea 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

Final standings[]

Team Ranking[]

Place Team Prize money[2]
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.[3]

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[]

  1. ^ 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.
  2. ^ "S3 World Championship Telah Dimulai!" (in Indonesian). Garena. Retrieved December 21, 2015.
  3. ^ https://www.theverge.com/2013/11/19/5123724/league-of-legends-world-championship-32-million-viewers

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