League of Legends: Season 1 World Championship

2011 esports tournament

Season 1 Championship2011

Tournament information
Sport| League of Legends
Location| Jönköping, Sweden
Dates| June 18–20, 2011
Administrator| Riot Games
Host(s)| DreamHack
Venue(s)| Elmia
Teams| 8
Purse| US$100,000[1]
Final positions
Champion| Fnatic
Runner-up| Against All Authority
Tournament statistics
Matches played| 21
MVP| Maciej "Shushei" Ratuszniak[2]

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The League of Legends: Season 1 World Championship was an esports 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 Championship, an annual international tournament organized by the game's developer, Riot Games. The tournament was won by Fnatic, who defeated Against All Authority 2–1 in the final.

## Background

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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

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Eight teams qualified for the World Championship: three from North America, three from Europe, one from Singapore, and one from the Philippines.[4]

Region  | Team

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Europe  | Against All Authority
Gamed!de
Fnatic
North America  | Team SoloMid
Epik Gaming
Counter Logic Gaming
Singapore  | Xan
Philippines  | Team Pacific

## Venues

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Jönköping was selected as the host city for the World Championship.[5]

Sweden

Jönköping, Sweden
Elmia Exhibition and Convention Centre
Capacity: 2,000

Jönköping

## Group stage

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Group A
Pos | Team  | Pld | W | L | PCT | Qualification

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|
|
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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  |

Source: League of Legends (Archived 2013-01-11 at the Wayback Machine)

Group B
Pos | Team  | Pld | W | L | PCT | Qualification

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|
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|
|
|

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  |

Source: League of Legends (Archived 2013-01-11 at the Wayback Machine)

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

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| | | | | | | | | | | | |
| 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

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Place  | Team  | Prize money

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1  | Fnatic | $50,000
2  | Against All Authority  | $25,000
3  | Team SoloMid | $10,000
4  | Epik Gaming  | $7,000
5  | Counter Logic Gaming | $3,500
6  | Gamed!de  | $2,000
7–8  | Team Pacific  | $1,000
Xan

## Broadcast and viewership

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The Season One World Championship accumulated over 1.6 million viewers and peaked at 210,000 concurrent viewers.[6]

## References

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1. ^ Senior, Tom (April 8, 2011). "League of Legends Season 1 Championship to have $100,000 prize pool". PC Gamer. Retrieved November 22, 2023.
2. ^ 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.
3. ^ 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.
4. ^ Fulford, Nico (June 20, 2020). "LoL Worlds Season 1 retrospective - Where it all began". GGRecon. Retrieved November 22, 2023.
5. ^ "Ten years of worlds: A League of Legends World Championship oral history". ESPN. September 24, 2020. Retrieved November 22, 2023.
6. ^ 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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