League Of Legends Worlds Bracket

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With the League of Legends 2020 World Championship on the horizon, the group stage brackets will soon be decided so all spectators of League of Legends professional play can participate in the Worlds Pick’em action. Fans will have a chance at unique rewards this year if they guess the brackets of the tournament correctly. After the play-in stages conclude their games (September 25 – 30), viewers will be able to drag and drop their predictions in order of how they believe the tournament will play out.

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For each team and bracket that receives a certain amount of correspondence to your picks, you’ll receive a certain amount of points. The more points you have by the time the tournament concludes, the better your chances will be at receiving said rewards. The choosing of seeds will be split into two parts for group stage and knockout brackets so participants have two different chances to fill out their brackets and secure prizes.

The LoL Worlds Pick’em 2020 round one unlocked on September 30 @ 4:00 PM PDT. In our Worlds Play-in breakdown we took a glimpse at the teams poised for success in the tournament and which teams will most likely perform well into the World Tournament Main Event. Most of the teams that will be eligible to be picked for the Worlds Pick’em 2020 are also featured on our LoL Worlds 2020 Power Rankings as the top tier teams from Europe, China, Korea and North America duke it out for international supremacy.

Worlds Pick’em 2020 Predictions

Like any other World Championship, Worlds 2020 is slated to feature some of the most fearsome competition ever assembled on the Summoners Rift.

JD Gaming’s Kanavi and Zoom are one of the new school jungle-top duos that are striking fear into the hearts of every opponent. Even the #1 seeds in their own respective region are weary of them. Top Esports’ Knight makes his debut at the World Championship. His skill level is every bit warranted to appear at this event.

Finally, DAMWON Gaming and G2 Esports also possess magisterial talents in Mid lane, jungle and top that all have capabilities of making deep runs into the playoffs if not taken seriously.

Worlds 2020 Group Stage Pick’em

With such a stacked talent line-up, predicting the Worlds Pick’em is an art form in itself. After several back and forth’s between our analysts we finally came down with the following prediction:

© Esports.net Worlds 2020 Group Stage Pick’em Prediction

Our predictions favor the top Chinese, Korean and European seeds to advance forth into knockouts. We came to a general consensus that North America is the weakest region at Worlds 2020 and is likely not having any team into Knockouts this year. Out of the Play-in stage, only the Unicorns of Love and LGD Gaming had interesting performances, but have both been seeded into difficult groups.

In Group C, Gen.G should be the main favorite ahead of Fnatic who are traditionally performing poorly in Round 1 of groups. Once the re-matches kick off, Fnatic should bounce back and finish the group just shy of the Koreans. LGD and TSM might battle for 3rd spot simply because of the bo1 format.

Groups B and D are reserved for the top Korean and Chinese seeds. We have absolutely no faith in Rogue or FlyQuest taking games from LPL or Korean teams. The only real contender are Unicorns of Love who might steal a game from DRX and contest for second in a tiebreaker.

Finally, Group A is arguably the hardest one to predict. While G2 Esports are considered the main favorites, anyone that followed the LEC Summer Split knows how poorly G2 performs especially if Claps turns into Craps. Machi Esports and Suning might easily win games against each other and against G2 turning the group upside down. In the end, if G2 performs well they are guaranteed a first seed trailed by Suning with a potential tiebreaker between em.

Worlds 2020 Knockout Stage Pick’em (October 12th Update)

The Worlds Pick’em is a fun prediction based way of looking at the League of Legends World Championship for fans who want to participate in the esports action without having to delve into the stakes. As long as your predictions are correct, your eligibility for prizes continues to accumulate through two different phases. The picks for quarterfinals have unlocked on October 11 @ 4:00 PM PDT, with the locking of picks closing the night before the first match is played.

We correctly assessed the strength of all the participants in our Group Stage Picks but we failed to guess the correct seeding. Our Knockout Stage Pick’em is fairly easier as we already know how most participants scale up to each other.

© Esports.net Worlds 2020 Knockout Stage Prediction

All four match ups are pretty straight forward. As LEC fans we would love to see the European teams perform well, but in reality, the best we can hope for is a single team reaching semifinals.

First up, TOP Esports meets Fnatic in a classic LPL vs LEC match up. It’s the tradition for Fnatic to be eliminated by a Worlds Champion for two years in a row now. While TOP Esports has a huge claim on the trophy themselves, we anticipate the Final is where they will fall short. There were lessons learned in the Fly Quest vs TOP Esports match up in Groups on how to beat the LPL top seed, but Fnatic can at best hope to take one game with a superior force draft. After that TOPs teamfighting and lane dominance should prove too much for FNC to handle.

Suning vs JD Gaming is an interesting match up due to both teams preparing very specific drafts for one another. When two teams from the same region meet we can expect the Worlds meta to be ignored and very specific and niche matchups to decide the outcome. Over the course of the entire season JD has been the better team, and we can expect this trend to continue into Knockouts.

G2 Esports vs Gen.G is where the LEC is putting their hopes in for a strong EU finish at Worlds. Gen.G has looked shaky at best in Groups and are hardly considered favorites in this match. If G2 doesn’t Craps themselves from the get go, we can expect a swift 3-0 from the Europeans.

Finally, DAMWON vs DRX is a repeat of the LCK 2020 Summer Finals. We already know how this match-up goes as DAMWON is an absolute bully when it comes to beating teams from their own region. DRX didn’t grow that much in the past two months, that they would suddenly become a challenger for DAMWON. We can fully expect another swift 3-0 here.

Update 23/10: Our bracket still holds true regardless of the Suning vs JD Gaming result. We are still confident TOP Esports can beat Suning with relative ease and advance to the Worlds 2020 Finals.

Worlds 2020 Pick’em Rewards

For each lock-in phase successfully executed, each player will be awarded small 500 blue essence awards for Group Stage and Quarterfinal lock-ins. Semi final lock-ins will be awarded 500 orange essence and Finals lock-ins receive a Hextech Chest + Key combo to utilize in the craft section of the league client. League of Legends Worlds Pick’em bares a similar resemblance to fantasy esports in that most fans can still participate in the competitive result aspect of League of Legends in a manner separate from Fanduel or DraftKings betting options.

While certain sites like DraftKings possess a slew of options for bettors in a variety of formats that could be appealing for tournaments as decadent as Worlds 2020, the LoL Worlds Pick’em is a streamlined attempt at getting spectators to jump in on the action regardless of result. While esports betting in the USA is still restricted in some areas from participating in those options, a LoL Worlds 2020 Pick’em seems to make a lot more sense for fans who want to get their foot in the door on competitive League of Legends betting formats. The skills it takes to have an elite bracket within a Worlds pick’em are just as valuable for these other sites as well.

Finally, fans that guess correctly for every stage of the competition will be eligible to win the following prizes:

• All five Ultimate Skins including: DJ Sona, Spirit Guard Udyr, Pulsefire Ezreal, Elementalist Lux, and Gun Goddess Miss Fortune.
• NEW: Perfect pick prize – Alienware Aurora Battlestation

Check back on this page on October 11 @ 4:00 PM PDT for our picks for the Knockout stage, before you play your own 2020 Worlds Championship Pick’em Challenge.

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TL;DR:

• LCS starts on Jan 25 and Academy on Jan 24
• LCS games will be on Saturdays, Sundays, and Mondays
  • We’re introducing Monday Night League, featuring two marquee LCS matchups of the week and kicking off at 5:30 PM PT
• Academy games will be on Fridays, Saturdays, Sundays, and Mondays
  • Academy Rush, a new show, will air on Fridays at 5PM PT and will feature 4 Academy games played simultaneously and the 5th and final game shown in full
• We’ve updated the LCS Playoffs format for Spring and Summer, taking place over 4 weeks
• Academy Playoffs format has been updated for Spring Split
• The 3 LCS teams will qualify for Worlds 2020 via the new LCS Summer Playoffs instead of the old path of Regional Qualifier and Championship Points

We ended last year on a high with the news that the LCS is the third most popular major sports league among 18-34 year olds in the US. We’ve been busy preparing for the upcoming competitive season and excited to share some of what we’ve been working on with all of you.

Schedule Updates: More days of LCS and Academy

LCS

During the regular season, LCS will be expanding to 3 days a week with games on Saturdays, Sundays, and Mondays at the LCS Studios. Each Saturday and Sunday, there will be 4 LCS games followed by an in-studio Academy game.

Mondays will feature the 2 marquee match-ups of the week. We’re calling this new broadcast night Monday Night League. Before Monday Night League games, we’ll be broadcasting 3 Academy games live from the LCS Studios.

ACADEMY

Similar to the last split, Academy will have 5 remote games on Fridays during the regular season. However, we’ll be changing the broadcast format to feature multiple games at once and calling this new show Academy Rush. Academy Rush will feature shoutcasters and analysts jumping between all of the Academy action to show you the biggest plays and highlight moments from all 4 games followed by a final and 5th game shown in full.

Academy Rush ensures you don’t miss a single big moment from Academy and helps you track upcoming talent in NA in a format that makes it easy to keep an eye on the stars of tomorrow. It can be a big time commitment to watch all 10 Academy games in a single week across multiple channels on top of the LCS broadcast. We hope debuting this new broadcast format will allow LCS fans to easily keep up with all the Academy action on a single channel.

For Academy players, gaining stage experience is a key step towards a starting spot on an LCS roster. In Summer 2019, organizations really benefited from giving their Academy teams valuable stage time after LCS matches on Sundays – with this in mind we decided to take it one step further and expand stage time for the Academy teams by featuring one Academy game after the LCS matches on the weekend. On top of that, 3 Academy games will be played on-stage every Monday. Through these changes, every Academy team will have an opportunity to play on stage every week.

Format: LCS Playoffs and Worlds qualification changes

Throughout 2019, we continued to analyze and evaluate both the LCS and Academy formats to meet the goals of the League. For the 2020 Season, we made some changes to the Playoff formats and how teams qualify for the World Championship. Every format has trade-offs but the new Playoff formats should more consistently lead to the best teams ending up at the top while still leaving open the possibility for a miracle run. Critically for all of us fans, we’ll get to see the top teams play more marquee matches than ever before.

LCS

• Regular Season: LCS will continue to operate on a 2-split format with a 9-week regular season and Best of 1s.
• Playoffs: The LCS format will be changing for Playoffs, which will take place over 4 weeks with the specific format changing between Spring and Summer.

Spring Playoffs

At the conclusion of the Spring Split regular season, the top six teams from the regular season will advance to a Best of 5 bracket.

Here’s how the new Spring Playoffs format works:

• First Round – In the First Round of the Winners Bracket, the first seed will choose to face either the third or fourth seed in Match A1. The second seed will play the third/fourth seed which has not been chosen in Match A2. The winning teams will advance to the Second Round of the Winners Bracket. The losing teams will drop to the Losers Bracket to play Matches X1/X2, where the fifth and sixth seeds will be waiting. The winners of Matches X1/X2 will proceed to Match Y1 for the Second Round of the Losers Bracket. The losers of Matches X1/X2 will be eliminated at fifth and sixth place.
• Second Round – In the Second Round of the Winners Bracket, the winners of Matches A1/A2 will face each other in Match B1. The winner will proceed to the Finals (Match C1) and the loser will drop to Match Z1 in the Losers Bracket, where they will face the winner of Match Y1. The loser of match Y1 will be eliminated in fourth place.
• Finals Weekend – The Finals Weekend will begin with Match Z1. The winner of this match will proceed to the Finals. The loser of Match Z1 will finish in third place. The loser of the Finals will finish in second place. The winner of the Finals will be crowned the 2020 LCS Spring Champion.

The winner of the 2020 LCS Spring Finals will advance to the 2020 Mid-Season Invitational.

Summer Playoffs

The top 8 eight teams from the regular season will advance to Playoffs where we transition to a Best of 5 bracket.

Here’s how the new Summer Playoffs format works:

• First Round – In the first round of the Winners Bracket, the third seed will play the sixth seed in Match A1. The fourth seed will play the fifth seed in Match A2. The loser of match A1 will play against the seventh seed in Match W2 in the Losers Bracket. The loser of Match A2 will play against the eighth seed in Match W1. The winners of Matches W1/W2 will proceed to Matches X1/X2 respectively in the Second Round of the Losers Bracket. The losers of Matches W1/W2 will be eliminated at seventh and eighth place.
• Second Round – The first seed will choose to face either winner of Matches A1/A2 in Match B1. The second seed will play the winner of Matches A1/A2 which has not been chosen in Match B2. The winning teams will advance to Match C1 in the Third Round of the Winners Bracket. The losing teams will drop to Matches X1/X2 in the Second Round of the Losers Bracket. The winners of Matches X1/X2 will proceed to Match Y1 in the Third Round of the Losers Bracket. The losers of Matches X1/X2 will be eliminated at fifth and sixth place.
• Third Round – In the Third Round of the Winners Bracket, the winners of Matches B1/B2 will face each other in Match C1. The winner will proceed to the Finals (Match E1) and the loser will drop to Match Z1 in the Losers Bracket, where they will face the winner of Match Y1. The loser of match Y1 will be eliminated in fourth place.
• Finals Weekend – The Finals Weekend will begin with Match Z1. The winner of this match will proceed to the Finals. The loser of Match Z1 will finish in third place. The loser of the Finals will finish in second place. The winner of the Finals will be crowned the 2020 LCS Summer Champion.

The top three teams from 2020 LCS Summer Playoffs will advance to the 2020 League of Legends World Championship. As such, there will no longer be a Regional Qualifier or Championship Points.

During LCS Playoffs, games will take place on Saturdays and Sundays in Spring. However, broadcast days will expand for Summer Playoffs to accommodate the additional matches. We’ll have more information on the Summer Playoff broadcast schedule closer to Summer Split.

ACADEMY

• Regular Season: Academy will continue to mirror the LCS and operate on a 2-split format with a 9-week regular season and Best of 1s.
• Playoffs: For Spring, Academy will feature the top six teams from the regular season advancing to Playoffs. During Playoffs, matches will transition to a Best of 5 bracket with the top two teams receiving byes to Quarterfinals. More information on the Academy Summer Playoffs will be available closer to the start of Summer Split.

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During the Academy Playoffs in Spring, games will take place on Thursday and Friday.

How to Watch: Dates, Start times, and where to watch

Key Dates

LCS

• Spring Split Start Date: Saturday, January 25
• Spring Split Regular Season: January 25 – March 22
• Spring Playoffs: March 28 – April 19
  • Round 1 Winners: March 28-29
  • Round 1 Losers: April 4-5
  • Round 2: April 11-12
  • Finals: April 18-19
• Summer Split Start Date: Saturday, June 20
• Summer Split Regular Season: June 20 – August 16
• Summer Playoffs: August 20 – September 13
  • Round 1: August 20-23
  • Round 2: August 27-30
  • Round 3: September 5-6
  • Finals: September 12-13

ACADEMY

• Spring Split Start Date: Friday, January 24
• Spring Split Regular Season: January 24 – March 22
• Spring Playoffs: March 26 – April 10
  • Quarterfinals: March 26-27
  • Semifinals: April 2-3
  • Finals: April 9-10

Start Times

During the regular season, games begin at:

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• Fridays at 5:00 PM PT – Academy Rush

• Saturdays at 2PM PT – LCS and Academy
  • Pre-show coverage at 1:30 PM PT

• Sundays at noon PM PT – LCS and Academy
  • Pre-show coverage at 11:30 AM PT

• Mondays at 5:30 PM PT – Monday Night League and Academy
  • Academy games at 2:00 PM PT
  • LCS pre-game coverage at 5:00 PM PT

Where to Watch

LCS

• Watch.lolesports.com
• twitch.tv/LCS
• youtube.com/lolesports

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ACADEMY

• Watch.lolesports.com
• youtube.com/lolesports

We’ll update this post with the Twitch channel to watch for Academy Rush games. VODs will be uploaded for all simultaneous matches during Academy Rush on YouTube. Academy teams will also be able to co-stream their Academy Rush games.

Match Schedule

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We’ll release the rest of the Spring Split regular season match schedule by the end of the week. If you follow your favorite team on social media, you may get an early preview of their Spring Split schedule.

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Flex scheduling will continue to be used for weeks 5-9 of the LCS and Academy regular season.

LCS Regular Season Tickets: Come to the LCS Studios

Tickets to watch games at the LCS during the 2020 Spring Split regular season are only available for Saturdays and Sundays at the LCS Studios. Monday games will continue to be held in front of a live audience but tickets are not available for public sale.

Head over to the LCS Tickets page to purchase your regular season tickets starting tomorrow (Thursday, January 9) at noon PT. We’ll be updating our LCS Studios guide to plan your visit before early next week.

Don’t miss the debut of Academy Rush on Friday, January 24 at 5PM PT and Opening Day of the LCS with Cloud9 vs. Team Liquid on Saturday, January 25 at 2PM PT.

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