Worlds 2024 is just days away. Read on to learn what changes have been implemented with the format since 2023, and when and where you can catch the action.
Worlds 2024 - Time and Date
The most important esports event of the year is just a couple days away. The best of the best from all of the different regions compete at Worlds just as the League of Legends Season comes to an end, and ultimately one team will walk away as Champions.
Worlds begins with the Play-In Stage on the 25th of September and concludes all the way on the 2nd of November with Finals. As Worlds is being held in Europe this year, the match times will be more palatable to European and Asian viewers. All matches begin at 14:00 CEST (Berlin time), which would translate to 08:00 (New York time), 05:00 (Los Angeles time), and 20:00 (Beijing time).
Worlds 2024 - Format
Worlds will consist of three different stages: The Play-In Stage, the Swiss Stage, and the Knockout Stage. All in all, twenty teams will compete, starting with eight teams in the Play-In stage on Wednesday.
Play-In Stage
The champions of CBLOL (Brazil) and LLA (Latin America) regions, the top two teams from PCS (Asia-Pacific) and VCS (Vietnam), and the third seeded team from the LEC (Europe) and LCS (North America) will all be placed into two, best-of-three, double elimination brackets in the Play-In Stage.
This means each team can lose one match without being disqualified. The winners of each bracket, those that go 2-0, will move onto the Swiss Stage. The lower bracket winners will gain the last two advancement slots, ultimately making it so that four out of the eight teams will qualify from the Play-In Stage to Swiss.
Swiss Stage
These four teams will join the top two seeded teams from the LEC and LCS as well as the top four from the LCK (Korea) and LPL (China). These 16 teams will then be seeded into four draw pools and drawn into a set of eight best-of-one matches. Pool 1 teams will fight Pool 4 teams, while Pool 2 will fight Pool 3. In the first round, no team will play a team from their own region. The pools will be drawn as such:
Pool 1: LCK1, LCS1, LEC1, LPL1
Pool 2: LCK2, LPL2, LCS2, LEC2
Pool 3: LCK3, LCK4, LPL3, LPL4
Pool 4: Play-In Stage Teams
Following the first round, there will be a second draw that pairs teams with the same record against one another. Teams will not be placed in rematches against previous opponents, and they can end up facing a team from their own region from the second round onwards. The tournament will repeat this process for three more rounds of play until a team reaches 3 wins to advance, or 3 losses to be eliminated from Worlds 2024.
In total, eight teams will advance to the Knockout Stage. All advancement and elimination matches will be best-of-threes.
Knockout Stage
These eight teams move on to the most exciting part of the tournament - Knockout Stage. This stage encompasses Quarterfinals, Seminfinals, and, of course, on the 2nd of November, Finals.
To up the stakes, the tournament transitions into a single-elimination bracket with all matches being best-of-fives. Quarterfinal matchups will be decided by an on-stage draw on the final day of the Swiss Stage. Teams that advanced with a 3-0 record will be playing against teams that advanced with a 3-2 record.
Worlds 2024 Teams
Worlds 2024 - Where to Watch?
You can catch every match on LoLEsports.com! Fans who watch on LolEsports will get to celebrate each major moment of Worlds with exclusive rewards such as unique emotes, icons, and a legacy emote. For every Pentakill, Dragon steal, and Baron steal, you'll gain an Esports 2024 Capsule. During finals, Quadra kills will also cause Capsules to drop. You can also earn drops by watching Worlds partners this year as well.
Worlds PickāEms
Add even more fun to the mix by participating in the Worlds 2024 Pick'Em this year. You can make your Play-In predictions today and during the next two days and make tournament-long predictions with the Crystal Ball challenges that can earn you exclusive in-game content.
The rewards are tracked separately between traditional PickāEm and the more unpredictable Crystal Ball predictions. Just participating will earn you the new Kha'Zix "You Don't Say" Emote and the "Here's To You" Gragas Emote, as well as three Esports 2024 Capsules. But if you do well, you can earn far greater rewards:
Traditional PickāEm Rewards
Crystal Ball Rewards
What are you waiting for? Make your predictions right here!
Worlds 2024 In-Game Event
Another way to celebrate Worlds other than just watching the pros, is to play the game yourself! A new event is on the horizon and will be going live on the client with Patch 14.19 - you guessed it, the Worlds 2024 Event.
The event will begin on the 25th of September alongside Worlds itself, and last until the 11th of November. Your Event Pass progress will end on the 11th of November, but you can still purchase the Event Pass and claim all rewards retroactively until the 18th of November. Make sure you spend all your tokens before the shop closes on the 18th at 11:00 PST.
You can acquire the Worlds 2024 Pass for 1650 RP starting Wednesday, which will get you started with 200 Worlds Tokens, 4 Worlds 2024 Orbs, and unlock premium Worlds 2024 Pass rewards. You can also purchase the Worlds 2024 Pass Bundle for 2650 RP which includes all of the items above plus Zeri and her brand new Fright Night Zeri Skin, along with an icon and border. There is another! For 3650 RP, you can purchase the Worlds 2024 Premium Pass Bundle which also includes the Fright Night Zeri Nightshade Chroma and an exclusive "Get Amped!" emote.
Wondering how to get your hands on the Prestige Fright Night Zeri? It can indeed be found in the Worlds 2024 Event Shop, and will be purchasable for 2000 Worlds 2024 Tokens. You'll hit 2000 total Event Tokens at milestone 47 of the premium pass.
