The League of Legends World Championship is nearing and the biggest tournament of the year has got all the teams gearing up at full speed. We’ve got you covered on everything you need to know when it comes to the overall LoL Worlds predictions letting you build your strategies for bets around the teams, and the match structures for the biggest League of Legends tournament of the season.
Firstly, let’s take a look at the tournament Format.
LOL Worlds 2024: Tournament Format
The tournament is set to begin on September 25 going all the way until November 2, in Europe. There is a total of 20 teams set to go into the tournament fighting for the Summoners Cup along with the title of the “Best League of Legends” team in the world.
Additionally, this year marks the 14th anniversary of the League of Legends franchise for Riot. The community is expecting a new play-in stage and the Swiss stage just like the previous year, which makes the competition even more thrilling for everyone.
The Worlds Play-in stage
Well, the play-ins kick off on September 25, lasting an entire 5 days. The teams are split into groups of 4, battling in a double-elimination bracket. The winner from each of those brackets will be thrown into a group stage with the remaining 4 teams.
Here is an expected Play-in divisions list:
- Group A – MAD Lions KOI, Vikings Esports, PSG Talon, and paiN Gaming
- Group B – GAM Esports, Fukuoka SoftBank Hawks Gaming, 100 Thieves, Movistar R7
For more details on the format, click here.
Worlds Main event
Following the conclusion of the Play-ins, the group stages would begin. Also starting this year, teams will not be divided into group stage anymore but would go into a swiss format meaning:
Teams that have 3 wins would head directly to the final stage and the ones with 3 matches dropped will be knocked out. The qualification and knockout matches would be best of three and the other matches would be a single win or lose.
This effectively would also mean that teams from the same region could be battling it out in the early stages of the game potentially causing internal civil wars!
LOL Worlds 2024 Predictions
Well, just like every year, trying to figure out what the meta is, whilst also figuring out who is bound to perform well is a big achievement in itself but such information is what helps us get valuable intel about the LoL Worlds Betting scene.
But do not worry, we’ve gone through every piece of information and data available to help you figure out your selections for the Lol Worlds predictions.
Starting right off of the bat, the play-ins would provide us with the 2 winners where we expect the following teams to definitely make it out of the play-ins.
- Group A: PSG Talon, MAD Lions KOI
- Group B: 100 Thieves, GAM Esports
Worlds 2024 Main event’s favorite predictions
Well, predictions like these are very hard to pull off and this year proves that there are no exceptions to this situation. While we wait to find the top 16 teams that will make it to the group stages, we strongly expect previous rank-holder teams like LCK teams (HLE, Gen.G) and LPL team (BLG) to be at the forefront. There are several dark horses, however, such as WBG, LNG, G2, TL, and last year’s champions, T1.
Finally a note on where to watch the tournament.
Where to watch LOL Worlds?
Like every year, LOL Worlds can be streamed on both YouTube and Twitch with English Broadcasters. The channels that broadcast in your regional languages will have their own localized streams in native languages.
Bilibili a Chinese streaming giant retained full broadcasting rights for Worlds and while it hasn’t been confirmed who – we know that one streaming platform would be getting all the rights this time around as well. Considering the co-streams and Riot’s intention to go global, we expect this tournament to be a mega hit!
To stay updated on LOL Worlds Tournament as it happens, keep watching this space.
