League of Legends: Season 3 World Championship

• 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	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

• 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	Oh My God		OMG	~	1–1	2–0	2–0	2–0		7	1
1	SK Telecom T1 K		SKT	1–1	~	2–0	2–0	2–0		7	1
3	Lemondogs		LD	0–2	0–2	~	1–1	2–0		3	5
4	Team SoloMid		TSM	0–2	0–2	1–1	~	1–1		2	6
5	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	Fnatic		FNC	~	2–0	2–0	1–1	2–0		7	1
2	Gambit Gaming		GMB	0–2	~	1–1	2–0	2–0		5	3	W
3	Samsung Ozone		SSO	0–2	1–1	~	2–0	2–0		5	3	L
4	Team Vulcun		VUL	1–1	0–2	0–2	~	2–0		3	5
5	Mineski		MSK	0–2	0–2	0–2	0–2	~		0	8

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

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

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.

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