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2021 LCK Season
The 2021 LCK season was the tenth season of South Korea's LCK, a professional esports league for the MOBA PC game ''League of Legends''. 2021 was also the first season LCK implemented their long-term partnership model. On 1 November 2020, Riot Korea announced the ten organizations that successfully signed the contract for LCK franchising model. The regular season format was double round robin. During the first round of the split, games were played five days per week, and for the second round, games took place four days a week. The spring split began on 13 January 2021 and concluded with the spring finals on 10 April 2021. Broadcasting The LCK was broadcast at the following platforms: * Korean: Naver, Afreeca TV, Twitch * English: Twitch * Chinese: HuyaTV * French: OTP Spring Regular season Playoffs Summer Regular season Playoffs References {{2021 in League of Legends competition League of Legends ''League of Legends'' (''LoL'', commonly refer ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
League Of Legends Champions Korea
''League of Legends'' Champions Korea (LCK) is the primary competition for ''League of Legends'' esports in South Korea. Contested by ten teams, the league runs two seasons per year and serves as a direct route to qualification for the annual ''League of Legends'' World Championship. The LCK is administered in cooperation between Riot Games and KeSPA. The league was formerly named ''League of Legends'' Champions before undergoing a major restructuring in late 2014, which saw a change in the competition's format and a rebranding to its current name. OGN reserved exclusive broadcasting rights of the league until 2016 when rights were split with SPOTV Games. In 2019, Riot Games took over the broadcasting of LCK. In 2021 the LCK franchised, and Challengers Korea (CK) and the LCK promotion tournament were discontinued. Teams from the LCK have won the World Championship a record nine times, including five consecutive titles from 2013 to 2017. History Pre-LCK era (2012–2014) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
League Of Legends
''League of Legends'' (''LoL'', commonly referred to as ''League'', is a multiplayer online battle arena video game developed and published by Riot Games. Inspired by ''Defense of the Ancients'', a Mod (video games), custom map for ''Warcraft III: Reign of Chaos, Warcraft III'', Riot's founders sought to develop a stand-alone game in the same genre. Since its release in October 2009, ''League'' has been free-to-play and is monetized through Freemium, purchasable character customization. The game is available for Windows and macOS. In the game, two teams of five players battle in player-versus-player combat, each team occupying and defending their half of the map. Each of the ten players controls a character, known as a "champion", with unique abilities and differing styles of play. During a match, champions become more powerful by collecting experience points, earning gold, and purchasing Item (game terminology), items to defeat the opposing team. In ''League''s main mode, Su ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
DWG KIA
Dplus KIA (DK), formerly known as DWG KIA and DAMWON Gaming (Abbreviation, abbr. DWG), is a South Korean professional esports organization. Its ''League of Legends'' team competes in the League of Legends Champions Korea, LCK, the top-level league for the game in South Korea. Dplus KIA won their first LCK title on 5 September 2020 after defeating DRX (esports), DRX in the 2020 LCK summer finals. Eight weeks later on 31 October 2020, Damwon won the 2020 League of Legends World Championship, 2020 World Championship after a dominant run through the group and knockout stages and a 3–1 victory over Suning (esports), Suning in the grand finals. History 2017 DAMWON Gaming was formed on 28 May 2017 by computer manufacturer Damwon after it acquired the Challengers Korea team Mirage Gaming. The team's initial roster consisted of top laner Lee "Parang" Sang-won, jungler Kim "Crush" Jun-seo, mid laner Kim "TRY" Yeong-hoon, bot laner Cho "BeryL" Geon-hee, and support Ryu "Hoit" Ho-se ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peanut (gamer)
Han Wang-ho (; born Yoon Wang-ho, February 3, 1998), better known as Peanut, is a South Korean professional ''League of Legends'' player for Hanwha Life Esports. Throughout his career, he has one Mid-Season Invitational title, one First Stand title, seven League of Legends Champions Korea (LCK) titles and one KeSPA Cup title. He also represented the South Korean national team at the 2018 Asian Games, earning a silver medal. Peanut's career began in 2015, at age 16, when he signed with League of Legends Champions Korea (LCK) team Najin e-mFire for the 2015 LCK season. From 2015 to 2021, Peanut played for a different team every year. In 2016, he signed with ROX Tigers, won the 2016 LCK Summer Split, and reached the 2016 World Championship Semi-Finals. He then signed with SK Telecom T1 in 2017, winning the 2017 Mid-Season Invitational and another LCK title. The following year, in his fifth consecutive LCK finals appearance, he won his third LCK title with Kingzone DragonX. After ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
T1 (esports)
T1 (previously known as SK Telecom T1 or SKT T1) is a South Korean esports organization operated by T1 Entertainment & Sports, a joint venture between SK Telecom and Comcast Spectacor. The team that would become SKT T1 was originally founded in 2002 by ''StarCraft'' player Lim "BoxeR" Yo-hwan under the name Team Orion, which was later renamed to 4 Union in December 2003. In April 2004, South Korean wireless carrier SK Telecom began sponsoring the team, officially creating the team SK Telecom T1. T1's ''League of Legends'' team has won a record five League of Legends World Championship, ''League of Legends'' World Championship titles (2013 League of Legends World Championship, 2013, 2015 League of Legends World Championship, 2015, 2016 League of Legends World Championship, 2016, 2023 League of Legends World Championship, 2023 and 2024 League of Legends World Championship, 2024), two Mid-Season Invitational titles (2016 Mid-Season Invitational, 2016 and 2017 Mid-Season Invitationa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Esports
Esports (), short for electronic sports, is a form of competition using video games. Esports often takes the form of organized, multiplayer video game competitions, particularly between professional players, played individually or as teams. Multiplayer competitions were long a part of video game culture, but were largely between amateurs until the late 2000s when the advent of online streaming media platforms, particularly YouTube and Twitch (service), Twitch, enabled a surge in participation by professional gamers and spectators. By the 2010s, esports was a major part of the video game industry, with many game developers designing for and funding for tournaments and other events. Esports first became popular in East Asia, particularly in China and South Korea (which first licensed professional players in 2000) but less so in Japan, whose broad Gambling in Japan, anti-gambling laws prohibit professional gaming tournaments. Esports are also popular in Europe and the Americas ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Multiplayer Online Battle Arena
Multiplayer online battle arena (MOBA) is a Video game genre, subgenre of strategy video games in which two teams of Gamer, players compete on a structured battlefield, each controlling a single Player character, character with distinctive abilities that grow stronger as the match progresses. The objective is to destroy the enemy team's main structure while defending one's own. In some MOBA games, the objective can be defeating every player on the enemy team. Matches emphasize team coordination, tactical choices, and real-time combat. Players are assisted by Artificial intelligence, computer-controlled units that periodically Spawning (video games), spawn in groups and march along set paths toward their enemy's base, which is heavily guarded by defensive structures. Players can influence these units by eliminating enemy waves or supporting their own, affecting lane control and map pressure. This type of Multiplayer video game, multiplayer Online game, online video games originated ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2021 In Esports
List of esports events in 2021 (also known as professional gaming). Calendar of events Tournaments Professional league seasons References {{E-Sports competitions 2021 in esports, Esports by year ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2021 Multiplayer Online Battle Arena Tournaments
1 (one, unit, unity) is a number, numeral, and glyph. It is the first and smallest positive integer of the infinite sequence of natural numbers. This fundamental property has led to its unique uses in other fields, ranging from science to sports, where it commonly denotes the first, leading, or top thing in a group. 1 is the unit of counting or measurement, a determiner for singular nouns, and a gender-neutral pronoun. Historically, the representation of 1 evolved from ancient Sumerian and Babylonian symbols to the modern Arabic numeral. In mathematics, 1 is the multiplicative identity, meaning that any number multiplied by 1 equals the same number. 1 is by convention not considered a prime number. In digital technology, 1 represents the "on" state in binary code, the foundation of computing. Philosophically, 1 symbolizes the ultimate reality or source of existence in various traditions. In mathematics The number 1 is the first natural number after 0. Each natural number, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
