League of Legends: Season 3 World Championship

2013 esports tournament

Season 3 World Championship2013

Tournament information
Location| United States
Dates| September 15–October 4
Administrator| Riot Games

Tournament
format(s)

| 10 team round-robin group stage
8 team single-elimination bracket
Venue(s)| 3 (in 1 host city)
Teams| 14
Purse| $2,050,000
Final positions
Champions| SK Telecom T1
Runner-up| Royal Club
Tournament statistics
Matches played| 63

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The Season 3 World Championship was an esports tournament for the multiplayer online battle arena video game League of Legends. It was the third iteration of the League of Legends World Championship held by Riot Games, and the last iteration 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

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* 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

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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

## Venues

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Culver City and Los Angeles were selected as the host cities for the World Championship.[2]

United States

Culver City, California  | Los Angeles, California
Group Stage and Quarterfinals | Semifinals | Finals
Culver Sound Studios | Galen Center | Staples Center
Capacity: 1,500  | Capacity: 10,258  | Capacity: 20,000
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Culver City

Los Angeles

## Group stage

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* 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  | Pld | W | L | PCT | Qualification

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1  | Oh My God  | 8  | 7  | 1  | .875  | Advance to knockouts
2  | SK Telecom T1 K  | 8  | 7  | 1  | .875
3  | Lemondogs  | 8  | 3  | 5  | .375  |
4  | Team SoloMid  | 8  | 2  | 6  | .250
5  | GamingGear.eu  | 8  | 1  | 7  | .125

Source: LoL Esports (Archived 2014-10-07 at the Wayback Machine)

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

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1  | Fnatic  | 8  | 7  | 1  | .875  | Advance to knockouts
2  | Gambit Gaming  | 9  | 6  | 3  | .667
3  | Samsung Ozone  | 9  | 5  | 4  | .556  |
4  | Team Vulcan  | 8  | 3  | 5  | .375
5  | Team Mineski  | 8  | 0  | 8  | .000

Source: LoL Esports (Archived 2014-10-07 at the Wayback Machine)

## Playoff stage

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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| | | Final
| | |
| AQ|  Gamania Bears| 0
| | |
| A1|  SK Telecom T1 K| 2| |
| | |  SK Telecom T1 K| 3
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| | |  NaJin Black Sword| 2| |
| AQ|  NaJin Black Sword| 2| | | |
| | | |
| B2|  Gambit Gaming| 1| |
| | |  SK Telecom T1 K| 3
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| | |  Royal Club| 0
| AQ|  Royal Club| 2| | | | |
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| A1|  Oh My God| 0| |
| | |  Royal Club| 3|
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| | |  Fnatic| 1| | |
| AQ|  Cloud9| 1| | | |
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| B1|  Fnatic| 2| |
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Source: LoL Esports (Archived 2014-10-07 at the Wayback Machine)

## Final standings

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### Team Ranking

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Place  | Team  | Prize money[3]

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1st  |  SK Telecom T1 K  | $1,000,000
2nd  |  Royal Club  | $250,000
3rd–4th  |  Fnatic  | $150,000
NaJin Black Sword
5–8th  |  Cloud9  | $75,000
Gamania Bears
Gambit Gaming
Oh My God
9–10th  |  Lemondogs  | $45,000
Samsung Ozone
11–12th  |  Team SoloMid  | $30,000
Team Vulcun
13–14th  |  GamingGear.EU  | $25,000
Mineski

## Viewership and attendance

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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.[4]

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

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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. ^ Pitcher, Jenna (September 2, 2013). "League Of Legends finals a sell out at Staples Center, North American regionals conclude". Polygon. Retrieved November 22, 2023.
3. ^ "S3 World Championship Telah Dimulai!" (in Indonesian). Garena. Retrieved December 21, 2015.
4. ^ "'League of Legends' eSports finals watched by 32 million people". 19 November 2013.

## External links

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* Information
* Season Three World Championship Official Rules (Archived 2014-11-07 at the Wayback Machine)

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SK Telecom T1 Season 3 League of Legends World Championship winners

* Jung "Impact" Eon-yeong
* Bae "Bengi" Seong-ung
* Lee "Faker" Sang-hyeok
* Chae "Piglet" Gwang-jin
* Lee "PoohManDu" Jeong-hyeon
* Coach: Kim "kkOma" Jeong-gyun

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