Lol champions in korean Continue League of Legends Champions Korea Current season, competition or edition: 2020 LCK seasonGameLeague of LegendsFounded2012Non. teams10CountrySouth KoreaVenue(s)LoL Park(33 Jong-ro, Cheongjin-dong, Jongno-gu, Seoul)Latest Champion(s)Damwon Gaming (1. Title)Most titlet1 (9 titles)QualificationFranchise PartnershipSponsor(s)Players Republic, Sidiz, Logitech, SK TelecomRelegation toChallengers KoreaDomestic cup(s)KeSPA CupInternational cup(s)Mid-Season InvitationalWorld Championship League of Legends Champions Korea (Korean: 챔언ンンンンンンンンンンンンンンンンンンンンンン) is the primary competition of League of Legends eSports in South Korea. The league, contested by ten teams, runs two seasons a year and serves as a direct route to qualification for the annual League of Legends World Cup. LCK is managed in collaboration with Riot Games and KeSPA. The league was previously named League of Legends Champions, and at the end of 2014 it underwent a major restructuring that changed the format of the competition and renamed its current name. OGN maintained the league's exclusive broadcasting rights until 2016, when the rights were allocated to spotv games. [1] In 2019, Riot Games took over the broadcast of LCK. [3] LCK is widely regarded as the world's most powerful League of Legends competition, with the league winning the World Cup between 2013 and 2017; 2018 was the first season since 2013, when a team from LCK did not win the World Cup. History Pre-LCK era (2012-2014) After the launch of the South Korean League of Legends server in December 2011, cable broadcaster OnGameNet launched the country's first major League of Legends competition in March 2012. The tournament, called spring 2012, was held from March to May and a total of 16 teams competed. MiG Blaze became the competition's first champion after beating teammate MiG Frost in the final. In the 2012 summer of champions, a renamed MiG Frost, azubu frost, won the title itself. Azubu Frost, along with NaJin Sword, represented South Korea at the League of Legends World Championships in October. The three-race annual competition soon became the norm for the league's calendar year, which now lasts three seasons in the winter, spring and summer. Azubu Frost and NaJin Sword clashed in the Champions League final in early 2013, with the latter prevailing. In the spring of 2013 and the summer of the 2013 champions, MVP Ozone and SK Telecom won T1 K. SK Telecom T1 K won the Season 3 World Championship that year, which made it the first team in the league. Az SK Telecom T1 K first team to successfully defend their title the following year, sweeping Samsung Galaxy Ozone in the final of the Champions Winter 2013-14 to cap an unbeaten race run. Ozone's sister team, Samsung Galaxy Blue, won champions spring 2014, but was beaten by Kt Rolster Arrows in the Champions League final. In October 2014, a drastic overhaul of the league's structure was announced. [4] League of Legends Champions was renamed League of Legends Champions Korea (LCK) and the winter season was abolished in favour of spring split and summer split's annual racetrack. The format of the tournament, which consisted of a 16-team tournament with a group stage in a straight-out phase, was changed to a 10-team league that operates on a round-robin basis, and the top 5 teams qualified for the playoffs. Furthermore, organizations were prohibited from owning multiple teams - in particular, this change most affected KeSPA-affiliated teams, each of which operated two teams as part of a sister team system - forcing many organizations to merge or disband rosters. LCK era (2015-present) LCK spring 2015 the league operates in a new format and identity. The product of the previous year's merger between the newly minted SK Telecom T1, SK Telecom T1 K and SK Telecom T1 S swept through the calendar year by winning LCK spring 2015 and LCK Summer 2015. SK Telecom T1 retained its crown at LCK in the spring of 2016, which made it the first team in the history of the competition to win three consecutive titles. In the summer of 2016, the ROX Tigers ended, which became the second team to win the league since the restructuring. On April 22, 2017, SK Telecom won its sixth title in a T1 series by beating KT Rolster in the LCK Spring 2017 final. On August 26, 2017, Longzhu Gaming won its first title after beating spring winner SK Telecom T1. Longzhu Gaming was renamed Kingzone Dragonx after the 2017 World Cup and defended their title by beating the Afreeca Freecs in LCK 2018 Spring. Kt Rolster won the LCK Summer 2018 championship, beating Griffin in the final. SK Telecom T1 won the title at LCK Spring in 2019 after beating Griffin 3-0 in the final. This was the seventh LCK address of SK Telecom T1. On August 31, 2019, SK Telecom T1 again defeated Griffin 3–1 in the final. It was their eighth championship and their back-to-back LCK title in 2019. [6] Format Regular Season: Ten teams take part in double rounds, each match is the best of the three best five teams in advance playoffs In King of the Hill format Round 1 match (i.e. Wild Card) is the best-of-three, the other best-of-five the winner of the spring split represents South Korea in the Invitational. The winner of the summer split (Seed 1), the team with the most championship points (Seed 2), and the winner of the regional qualifier (Seed 3) qualify for the World Cup. Results per season Split 1. Azubu Blaze 2013 Winter Najin Sword Azubu Frost KT Rolster B Azubu Blaze Najin Black Sword Samsung Galaxy Ozone[a] SK Telecom T1 K Tavaszi MVP Ózone CJ Entus Blaze SK Telecom T1 2 CJ En tus Frost Summer SK Telecom T1 K KT Rolster Bullets MVP Ozone CJ Entus Frost 2014 Winter SK Telecom T1 K Samsung Galaxy Ózon KT Rolster Bullets Najin White Shield Samsung Galaxy Blue Samsung Galaxy White Najin White Shield Spring Samsung Galaxy Blue Najin White Shield Samsung Galaxy Ozone CJ Entus Blaze Summer KT Rolster Arrows Samsung Galaxy Blue Samsung Galaxy White SK Telecom T1 S 2015 Spring SK Telecom T1 GE Tigers CJ Entus Jin Air Green Wings SK Telecom T1 KOO Tigers KT Rolster Summer SK Telecom T1 KT Rolster KOO Tigers CJ Entus 2016 Spring SK Telecom T1 ROX Tigers KT Rolster Jin Air Green Wings ROX Tigers SK Telecom T1 Samsung Galaxy Summer ROX Tigers KT Rolster SK Telecom T1 Samsung Galaxy 20 17 Tavaszi SK Telecom T1 KT Rolster Samsung Galaxy Team MVP Longzhu Gaming SK Telecom T1 Samsung Galaxy Summer Longzhu Gaming SK Telecom T1 KT Rolster Samsung Galaxy 2018 Tavaszi Kingzone DragonX Afreeca Freecs KT Rolster SK Telecom T1 KT Rolster Afreeca Freecs Gen.G Summer KT Rolster Griffin Afreeca Freecs Kingzone DragonX 2019 Spring SK Telecom T1 Griffin Kingzone DragonX Damwon Gaming SK Telecom T1 Griffin Damwon Gaming Summer SK Telecom T1 Griffin Damwon Gaming Sandbox Gaming 2020 Spring T1 Gen.G DragonX Damwon Gaming Damwon Gaming DRX Gen.G Summer Damwon Gaming DRX Gen.G Afreeca Freecs Team Team Winners Runners-up Winner Seasons Runners-up Seasons T1 [b] 9 1 2013 Summer , 2013-14 Winter, 2015 Spring, 2015 Summer, 2016 Spring, 2017 Spring, 2019 Spring, 2019 Summer, 2017 Summer 2017 Summer KT Rolster[c] 2 4 2014 Summer, 2018 Summer 2013 Summer , 2015 Summer, 2016 Summer, 2017 Spring OGN Entus[d] 2 3 2012 Spring, 2012 2012 Spring, 2012-13 Winter, 2013 Spring Gen.G[e] 2 3 Spring 2013, 2014 Spring 2013-14 Winter, 2014 Summer, 2020 Spring DRX[f] 2 1 2017 Summer, 2018 Spring 2020 Summer Hanwha Life Esports[g] 1 2 2016 Summer 2015 Spring, 2016 Spring HyFresh Blade[h] 1 1 0 2012-13 Winter 2014 Spring Damwon Gaming 1 0 2020 Summer Griffin 0 3 2018 Summer , 2019 Spring, 2019 Summer CLG Europe 0 1 2012 Summer Afreeca Freecs 0 1 2018 Spring ^ Named MVP Ozone before September 2013 ^ known Previously as SK Telecom T1 ^ Previously known as KT Rolster Bullets and KT Rolster Arrows ^ Previously known as MiG Blaze & MiG Frost , Azubu Frost & Azubu Blaze, and CJ Blaze ^ Formerly mvp ozone, Samsung Galaxy Ozone, Samsung Galaxy Blue & White, and Samsung Galaxy ^ Formerly longzhu gaming, Kingzone DragonX, and DragonX ^ Previously known as GE Tigers, KOO Tigers, and Rox Tigers ^ Formerly known as Najin Sword & Najin White Shield, and Brion Blade Broadcast talent section does not refer to any source. Please help improve this section by providing quotes from trusted sources. Sourceless material can be attacked and removed. (October 2020) (Information on how and when to remove this template message) Korean ID name role Caster Jun Jeon Yong-jun Play-by-play caster SEONG K Seong Seong Seung-heon CloudTemplar Lee Hyun-woo Color roller - Kim Dong-jun KangQui Kang Seung-hyun English id name role Atlus Max Anderson Play-by-play roller Valdes Brendan Valdes LS Nick De Cesare Color roller Wadid Kim Bae-in Color caster Format Overview Regular season 10 team participates. Play matches: Use a double round-robin format. Each series has to be the top three. The top 5 teams qualify for the playoffs: regular-season winners make the finals. The second and third-placed teams are in the 3rd round. Bottom 2 teams playing in the LCK spring/summer promotion If two teams have the same record, the draws will be broken: Game record (teams get +1 point for a game won, -1 point for a lost game, team with more points wins a draw).