World Championship LoL 2017 Overview

The largest League of Legends championship is only a few days away, uniting the whole community for an enticing month of fierce gameplay. Details are quite lengthy, but we'll try to keep it as brief as possible. 

For the first time, 24 teams will compete in up to three stages of Worlds. Namely, these are the Play-in Stage, Group Stage and Knockout Stage. First, 12 teams will battle it out in the Play-in stage, with only four winners moving on to the group stage. Teams placed in this area are from scarce regions or lower seedings from top regions. For the group stage, 12 more teams will be introduced to make up four groups of four.  

From each group, only the top two are invited to compete in the Knockout stage where games become stretched to best-of-five format. Here is where the top team will emerge, a new world champion to lift the trophy for the 7th iteration of the competition. 

Some facts include a $2,250,000 original; prize pool, 10 commentators, 10 analysts and that China will be hosting the event across 4 cities. These include Wuhan, Guangzhou, Shanghai and Beijing. 

To learn more about teams and their rosters, click here: http://na.leagueoflegends.com/en/