League_of_Legends_Season_1_World_Championship
League of Legends: Season 1 World Championship
2011 esports tournament
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.
| 2011 | |
| 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] |
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]
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 |
|---|---|
| Europe | Against All Authority |
| Gamed!de | |
| Fnatic | |
| North America | Team SoloMid |
| Epik Gaming | |
| Counter Logic Gaming | |
| Singapore | Xan |
| Philippines | Team Pacific |
Jönköping was selected as the host city for the World Championship.[5]
 Sweden | |
|---|---|
| Jönköping, Sweden | |
| Elmia Exhibition and Convention Centre | |
| Capacity: 2,000 | |
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| 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 A
| 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 |
- Group B
- 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)
| 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)
| Place | Team | Prize money |
|---|---|---|
| 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 |
The Season One World Championship accumulated over 1.6 million viewers and peaked at 210,000 concurrent viewers.[6]
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