League of Legends esports began in 2009 and has since grown into a global phenomenon. Riot Games established professional leagues around the world and the annual World Championship, which has increased in viewership from 1.69 million in 2011 to over 100 million in 2019. South Korean teams and players like SK Telecom T1 and Faker came to dominate the early Worlds, though China has seen increasing success in recent years. Prize pools and player salaries have also rapidly increased, with the 2019 Worlds prize pool reaching $2.25 million.

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2. Introduction to League of Legends Esports
League of Legends is one of the leading esports game in the world, also known
by the abbreviation LoL. With LoL Worlds 2020 Group Stage starting on Oct 3rd,
we reflect on the history of LoL Esports and let you know how it evolved into a
global phenomenon from humble beginnings.
Riot Games has created the League of Legends and releases it on 27 October
2009. League of Legends is a MOBA game,the battle arena games which
played in multiplayer online mode. League has taken inspiration from a popular
game Warcraft III:The Frozen Throne mod.
The game is based on a fictional battlefield called ‘Summoners Rift’, game
played between two teams with 5 players each. Each player has his unique
characters which is called ‘Champions’, the goal of the game is to destroy the
enemy’s Nexus which is base structure of enemy. LoL matches typically lasts
between 30 to 60 minutes where Champions are known with the role in the game
. Let’s take a closer look into the history of LoL Esports.
History of League of Legends Esports

3. Esports journey of League of Legends begins with its release on 2009 with the
competition played online with LAN events which was hosted by Electronic
Sports League (ESL), MLG and IGN . In starting the main competitors were
come from Europe and North America regions,some of them become the most
iconic eSports teams as we known. Teams like Counter Logic Gaming(CLG) and
Team SoloMid (TSM) was Founded with the vision to compete in the emerging
LoL Esports tournaments.
The very first LoL World Championship took place in 2011 with the Prizepool of
$100,000 at Dreamhack Summer in Jönköping, Sweden. The first season of
League of Legends World Championship had 8 participant teams in total where
top three teams from Europe and North America, one team from Philippines and
a team from Singapore who represented country at Worlds2011. Season 1 of
World Championship was pretty impressive at that time where they have a total
1.69 million unique viewers to watch the final match between Fnatic and Against
All Authority and the tournament venue was famously dubbed as Phreak’s

4. Basement. The first LoL World Championship title won by Fnatic who beat
Against All Authority (2-1) in grand finals.
Growth of League of Legends Esports Around
The world
After the success of League of Legends World Championship Season 1 Riot
Games decided to move into season 2 with the vision of player growth outside its
domestic markets of Europe and North America. In late 2011 Riot Games
launched two new game servers in China and Korea,both have the biggest
gaming market in world. By introducing Korea in competition this reshaped the
competitive scene of League of Legends beacuse at that time Korea has the
most advanced eSports ecosystem in the world, StarCraft a real time strategy
game was the massive hit in Korea market at that time .

5. As Riot Games were creating a competitive ecosystem for the League of
Legends, season two was breakthrough of that vision. Season 2 of League of
Legends World Championship established the League of Legends Championship
Series (LCS) which was based on Europe and North America, made up of 8
teams each. The LCS had featured as a promotion and relegation system untill
2018,when Riot games rebranded the European LCS to the League of Legends
European Championship (LEC).
On the other hand China set as the world’s second- largest economy which
brought billions of dollars investment in non-endemic ownership. League of
Legends Quickly rises as the most popular eSports title in China where at the
time of FunPlus PhoeniX lift the Summoners Cup in 2019 the domestic viewers
watching hit 100 million. There are 12 professional leagues around the world,
let’s take a look at them.
List of League of Legends Esports Leagues:
League name Region
● League of Legends European Championship (LEC) Europe
● League of Legends Championship Series (LCS) North
America
● League of Legends Champions Korea (LCK) South
Korea
● Pacific Championship Series (PCS) Taiwan, Hong Kong,
Macau and South East Asia
● League of Legends Pro League (LPL) China
● Turkish Championship League (TCL) Turkey
● League of Legends Continental League (LCL)
Russia
● Vietnam Championship Series (VCS)
Vietnam
● Oceanic Pro League (OPL)
Oceania
● Campeonato Brasileiro de League of Legends (CBLOL)Brazil

6. ● League of Legends Japan League (LJL) Japan
● Liga LatinoAmerica (LLA) Latin
America
With establishment of professional leagues for regions, South Korea rise as the
most competitive league with South Korea’s League of Legends Champions
Korea(LCK) as compared to other regions. League of Legends Champions Korea
(LCK) sent NaJin Sword and Azubu Frost to the season 2 of League Of Legends
World Championship(Worlds) with the Taipei Assassin’s which are the former
reaching Grand finals but fall to become the champion. NaJin Sword and Azubu
Frost disappointed the region, they showed that region has the potential to
produce championship contenders.
In 2013, South Korean League of Legends begins the new era with the creation
of two of the most successful teams in League of Legends World Championship
history,Samsung Galaxy Pro-Game Team(SG) and SK Telecom T1(SKT).
Lee”Faker”Sang-Hyeok, a young rookie make their debut as a Mid Laner during
this time. Faker scouted directly from the solo queue,Solo Queue is a competitive
mode in League of Legends which played by the public pool of players. With his
debut,Faker dominated the competition throughout the regular season, he
created one of the most iconic moments in eSports history of League of
Legends,like during League of Legends Champions Summer 2013 finals Faker
vs. Ryu Zed outplay in the Hot6ix.
SK Telecom T1(SKT) and Faker carry the momentum of gameplay into the
Season 3 League of Legends World Championship where they has won the title
of Worlds2013 by defeating Royal Club (3-0) in finals.SKT has won Worlds title
two more times in 2015 and 2016 while they fell short in 2014 and 2017 and the
title has won by Samsung Galaxy in 2014 & 2017. Let’s take a look into the past
winners of Worlds.
List of All The Winners of League of Legends
World Championship

7. ● Riot Season 1 Championship 2011 – Fnatic
● Season 2 World Championship Winner (Worlds2012) –
Taipei Assassins
● Season 3 World Championship Winner (Worlds2013) –
SK Telecom T1 K
● Season 4 World Championship Winner (Worlds2014) –
Samsung White
● Season 5 World Championship Winner (Worlds2015) –
SK Telecom T1
● Season 6 World Championship Winner (Worlds2016) –
SK Telecom T1
● Season 7 World Championship Winner (Worlds2017) –
Samsung Galaxy
● Season 8 World Championship Winner (Worlds2018) –
Invictus Gaming
● Season 9 World Championship Winner (Worlds2019) –
FunPlus Phoenix
Invictus Gaming ended the era of dominance of South Korean teams by winning
the League of Legends World Championship 2018.
Riot Games published official statement about the player base statistics in 2014
this is the last time when they published official numbers. In 2011 League of
Legends have 5 million monthly players which increases to 32 million in 2012
and 67 million in 2014. If we go with the growth rate then estimated monthly
players increases between 80 million and 115 million in 2019.
As we told earlier that 2011 World Championship have the 1.69 million unique
viewers with the 210,000 peak concurrent viewers. After 8 years, in 2019 League
of Legends World Championship has attracted the 100 million unique viewers
with the 44 million peak concurrent viewership. 2011 World Championship
featured a $100,000 prizepool which increased year by year, in 2019 Worlds the
Prizepool was $2,250,000.

8. Let’s talk about the salary of the players, in 2013 Riot Games has released a
statement where they introduced a minimum salary for LCS professional players
was $75,000 which has risen to $320,000 by 2018 according to Forbes. During
the LCS 2019 off-season, ESPN reported that Team Dignitas had signed LoL Top
laner Heo”Huni”Seung-hoon worty $2.3 milion dollars for two years. This makes
Heo”Huni”Seung-hoon one of the highest paid players in the League of Legends.
It is alleged that many times Lee “Faker” Sang-hyeok received multiple 7 figure
offers from various regions like the LPL and LCS. Tencent apparently offered 10
million USD and someone from North America even went as far as to offer a
blank cheque!
Certainly League of Legends is the worlds’ biggest esports game and will
continue to do so along with Riot Games’ immaculate decisions regarding LoL
Esports and LoL Worlds. Catch this year’s Worlds 2020 group stage that starts
on 3rd October 1:30 PM IST with Top Esports vs Flyquest being the opening
game.
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