League of Legends‘ big tournament is fast approaching and teams are preparing for battle.
The League of Legends World Championship finals take place on 19 October at Seoul’s impressive Sangam Sardium but teams from all over the globe are going to have earn a place via the preliminary stages.
Today RIOT revealed a full list of the group stages with times and dates including the quarter-final, semi-final and final. There’s also details on how the pools work with regards to progression.
The prize pool total is likely to end up being just over the $2 million mark, a lot less than the $10 million for the DOTA 2 International this year.
Each of the 16 qualifying teams for Worlds will be drawn into one of four groups (four teams per each group). Two out of the four groups will play the entirety of their group stage games in Taiwan, and the other two groups will play the entirety of their group stage games in Singapore. During the group stage, each team will play every other team twice (once on blue side, once on purple) – meaning that each team plays six games and there are 24 games per location.
GROUP STAGE ONE: September 18th – 21st
Taipei, Taiwan
Local time – 5pm – 11pm
PDT – 2am – 8am
CEST – 11am – 5pm
KST – 6pm – 12pm
GROUP STAGE TWO: September 25th – 28th
Singapore, Singapore
Local Time – 5pm – 11pm
PDT – 2am – 8am
CEST – 11am – 5pm
KST – 6pm – 12am
Local Time – 2pm – 8pm
PDT – 11pm – 5am
CEST – 8am – 2pm
KST – 3pm – 9pm
QUARTER FINALS: October 3rd – 6th
Busan, Korea
Local time – 5pm – 10pm
PDT – 1am – 6am
CEST – 10am – 3pm
Local time – 2pm – 7pm
PDT – 10pm – 3am
CEST – 7am – 12pm
Local time – 5pm – 10pm
PDT – 1am – 6am
CEST – 10am – 3pm
SEMI FINALS: October 11th-12th
Seoul, Korea
Local time – 5pm – 10pm
PDT – 1am – 6am
CEST – 10am – 3pm
FINAL: October 19th
Seoul, Korea
Local time: 4pm – 9pm – (3:30 Opening Ceremony)
PDT – 12am – 5am (11:30pm Opening Ceremony)
CEST – 9am – 2pm (8:30am Opening Ceremony)
