Format

• Group Stage (October 1st-4th, October 8th-11th)

  • Double Round Robin Best of One matches (each team plays the others in its group on each side once.)
  • Tiebreakers will be held if necessary.

• Knockout Stage

  • Top two teams from each group advance to the Quarterfinals.
  • Random draw after group stage with the following restrictions:
  • 1st place teams will face a 2nd place team
  • No two teams from the same group can be placed in the same half of the bracket
  • All Matches are Best of Five.
  • Patch Information: v5.18

Prize pool and overall standings

$ 2,130,000 USD (Approximately € 1,879,086 EUR) is spread among the teams as follows:

Groups

Group A

Group B

Group C

Group D

Streams

• Stream on Twitch

• Stream on Youtube

• Stream on Azubu.tv

• Comment Stream

On-Air Team

NA LCS

• David 'Phreak' Turley

• Sam 'Kobe' Hartman-Kenzler

• Joshua 'Jatt' Leesman

• Rivington 'Riv' Bisland III

EU LCS

• Eefje 'Sjokz' Depoortere

• Trevor 'Quickshot' Henry

• Martin 'Deficio' Lynge

• Devin 'PiraTechnics' Younge

• Mitch 'Krepo' Voorspoels

LCK, LPL and IWC

• Julian 'PastryTime' Carr

• Max 'Atlus' Anderson

• Erik 'DoA' Lonnquist

Analyst Desk

• James 'Dash' Patterson

• Aidan 'Zirene' Moon

• Jake 'Spawn' Tiberi

• Christopher 'MonteCristo' Mykles

• Alberto 'Crumbz' Rengifo

• Jakob 'YamatoCannon' Mebdi

  
  

  Coverage
  

  • Riot Games

  • Esportspedia Coverage

  • TeamLiquid Coverage

  • GosuGamers Coverage

  • EsportspediaLive - Live Twitter Updates

  • AbiosGaming

  VoDs

  • VoDs on Reddit

  Betting

  • Betting Rankings

  • Esports Betting Overview | Day 4

  • Onivia

  • Unikrn

  • Alphadraft

  Apps

  Android

  • Lol Event VoDs

  • LCS Mashup

  • RiftReport

  • theScore eSports

  • Instant eSports (Beta)

  iOS

  • Lol Event VoDs

  • Instant eSports

  • Strafe

  • TheScore eSports

  Web Browser Addons

  Firefox

  • AbiosGaming

  Google Chrome

  • AbiosGaming