2 - World Championship 2015

October of every year, Riot Games organizes an event where the top teams around the globe compete to be the best team in the world. For this year or season (Season 5), there are 16 teams competing. There are 3 teams from Korea, 3 teams from China, 2 teams from Taiwan/HongKong/Macau, 3 teams from North America, 3 teams from Europe, and 2 teams from the International Wildcard Qualifiers. They will be divided into four groups. A group contains 1 team from each of the regions. There should be no two teams of the same region in 1 group.

World Championship 2015 has two stages, the group stage and the knockout stage. The group stage is the first half of the event. In this stage, teams from each group fight each other twice. The top two teams from each group advances to the next stage while the bottom two teams will be eliminated. The knockout stage is the second half. This is where we will see who will be crowned the world champion of season 5. In here, teams fight teams from other groups as they advance to the semi-finals and eventually the top two remaining teams will fight in the finals. Games that will be played in the knockout stage are Best of 5.

As of now, the group stage is still happening. Group stage will end at October 11. It is assumed that the knockout stage will begin on October 15 and it will end on October 31. I am looking forward on seeing the World Champion 2015. I can hardly wait. :) Here are the standings of each team as of this day (October 7, 2015).

If you want to know we also had a team here in the Philippines that was able to enter the World Championship. It was in the year 2013 (Season 3 of League of Legends). Unfortunately our team, Mineski, wasn't able to reach the bracket stage and finishing last place in the worlds but they were able to gain good experiences and a chance to fight their favorite LoL players coming from different regions around the world.