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2011 esports tournament
The League of Legends : Season 1 World Championshipesports tournament for the
multiplayer online battle arena video game
League of Legends , held from June 18 to 20, 2011, in
Jönköping , Sweden. It was the first iteration of the
League of Legends World ChampionshipRiot Games . The tournament was won by
Fnatic , who defeated
Against All Authority 2–1 in the final.
Background
League of Legends released in 2009, and after two years, it had built a strong community of players around its
free-to-play model. However, the game lacked a full competitive experience until the introduction of ranked play and draft mode in mid-2010. Initially, only a handful of people at Riot believed in the future of competitive play, but as data suggested a growing viewership, the company decided to test the competitive landscape, organizing the first World Championship tournament in 2011, hosted by
DreamHack in
Jönköping , Sweden. Players brought their own computers, networked them together, and competed in front of fans.
[3]
Teams Eight teams qualified for the World Championship: three from North America, three from Europe, one from Singapore, and one from the Philippines.
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Venues
Jönköping was selected as the host city for the World Championship.
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Group stage
Group A
Pos
Team
Pld
W
L
PCT
Qualification
1
Epik Gaming
3
3
0
1.000
Advance to knockout stage
2
Against All Authority
3
2
1
0.667
Advance to relegation matches
3
Fnatic
3
1
2
0.333
4
Team Pacific
3
0
3
0.000
Group B
Pos
Team
Pld
W
L
PCT
Qualification
1
Team SoloMid
3
2
1
0.667
Advance to knockout stage
2
Counter Logic Gaming
3
2
1
0.667
Advance to relegation matches
3
Gamed!de
3
1
2
0.333
4
Xan
3
1
2
0.333
Relegation matches Finals Advance to knockouts Against All Authority 2 Against All Authority Gamed!de 0 Counter Logic Gaming 1 Fnatic Fnatic 2 Fifth place Gamed!de 0 Counter Logic Gaming 1
Source:
League of Legends (
Archived 2013-01-11 at the
Wayback Machine )
Knockout stage Upper semifinals Upper final Final Team SoloMid 1 Against All Authority 2 Against All Authority 0 Fnatic 2 Epik Gaming 0 Fnatic 2 Fnatic 2 Against All Authority 1 Lower semifinal Lower final Against All Authority 2 Team SoloMid 2 Team SoloMid 0 Epik Gaming 0
Source:
League of Legends (
Archived 2013-01-11 at the
Wayback Machine )
Final standings Broadcast and viewership The Season One World Championship accumulated over 1.6 million viewers and peaked at 210,000 concurrent viewers.
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References
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"League of Legends Season 1 Championship to have $100,000 prize pool" .
PC Gamer . Retrieved November 22, 2023 .
^ Kim, Kyeongbeom; Hong, James (September 11, 2017).
"Fun Facts from Worlds 2016: SKT T1 Faker dies again and again! The secret to their success?" . InvenGlobal . Retrieved November 22, 2023 .
^ Smith, Noah (November 7, 2019).
"How the League of Legends World Championship became the Super Bowl of esports" .
The Washington Post . Retrieved November 22, 2023 .
^ Fulford, Nico (June 20, 2020).
"LoL Worlds Season 1 retrospective - Where it all began" . GGRecon . Retrieved November 22, 2023 .
^
"Ten years of worlds: A League of Legends World Championship oral history" .
ESPN . September 24, 2020. Retrieved November 22, 2023 .
^ Cooke, Taylor (October 11, 2018).
"How the League of Legends World Championship Shaped an Entire Esport" .
The Esports Observer . Retrieved November 22, 2023 .
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