The LCS, League of Legends premier circuit in North America, will get a revised format with the 2020 Spring Split. Commissioner Chris Greeley announced Wednesday, that the league’s schedule will expand beyond the weekend and will feature Monday games in order to spread out the matches and give players more prime channel exposure.

The best place to watch LoL Esports and earn rewards! The 2019 League of Legends World Championship was the ninth world championship for League of Legends, an esports tournament for the video game developed by Riot Games.It was held from October 2, 2019, to November 10, 2019, in Berlin, Madrid and Paris. Twenty four teams from 13 regions qualified for the tournament based on their placement in regional circuits such as those in China, Europe.

Monday Night League

The LCS already had an expanded format, starting on Friday with Academy League games, but now it will stretch into Monday for the so-called Monday Night League. Instead of cramming all 10 LCS matches on the weekend, the league will have four on Saturday, four and Sunday, and two on Monday.

According to Greeley, this is done to give players and teams who aren’t among the top of the league a chance to stand out and develop their brand more. In a five-game marathon, it’s very likely that viewers don’t sit through all the games but pick and choose the ones with the most popular (or their most favorite) teams. By spreading out the schedule, each game’s importance on any given day improves.

Before the Monday Night League games, there will be another set of three Academy League games.

LCS Playoffs and Worlds qualification

Another change Riot are introducing concerns the LCS Spring and Summer playoffs and how the best teams from the region will qualify for the World Championship.

Here’s the TL;DR:

• Championship points are gone, and so are the Regional Finals (the so-called Gauntlet)
• Spring Playoffs will only qualify teams for MSI. Summer Playoffs will qualify teams for Worlds
• Spring Playoffs will be an 8-team double elimination best-of-5 bracket. Winner goes to Worlds
• Summer Playoffs will be an 8-team double elimination best-of-5 bracket, too. Winner gets 1st seed, runner-up gets 2nd seed, and lower bracket final loser gets 3rd seed

This is a pretty massive change. One of the critiques towards the Spring Split was that previously, it didn’t have any meaning besides getting you to MSI. The championship point system was introduced to combat that, ensuring that if you had a good Spring Split but flopped in Summer, you could still have a shot at making Worlds. In LPL’s 2019 season, this is how a team like Invictus Gaming made it to Worlds, for example.

This change now hits the reset button on these improvements and unless the importance of MSI in relation to Worlds changes, this could be seen as a step back for the LCS format.

Lol Worlds Bracket

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.

© Riot Games

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.

League Of Legends Worlds Final

Worlds 2020 Group Stage Pick’em

League Of Legends Worlds Bracket 2020

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.

League Of Legends World Championship Bracket

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.

League Of Legends Worlds Bracket

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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