Sixteen of the top teams around the world will fight for the title of the 2015 League of Legends World Champion. These teams will not just be competing for a priceless title; they will also be competing for the $2,000,000 in the prize pool and the Summoner’s Cup. This battle for the Summoner’s Cup will begin in Paris France on October 1^st where these sixteen teams will fight traveling all across Europe until two teams remain.

If you are not familiar with League of legends, it is one of the most played M.O.B.A’s (Multiplayer Online Battle Arena) in the world. Two teams battle on the map called Summoner’s Rift. Here each team will kill the opposing team and minions and monsters around the map, gaining gold to buy items. The main objective of the game it to destroy towers guarding the enemy’s base and then destroy the enemy’s base called the nexus to win the game.

First the sixteen teams will be put into four groups with four teams in each called the “group stage”. Here each team will play against every other team in their group twice. The top two teams from each group will move on into the “Knockout stage” and the last two teams of the groups will be eliminated. During the Knockout stage the remaining eight teams will compete in a single elimination tournament bracket. These eight teams will play each other in a best of five match. The winner of each best of five moves on to the semifinals, while the losers are eliminated. Finally on October 31^st the final two teams will battle in Berlin, Germany to become the World Champions.

The 16 teams are split by region they are in, these teams are SKTelecom T1, KOO Tigers and KT Rolster from Korea, LGD Gaming, Edward Gaming and Invictus Gaming from China, ahq e-Sports Club and Flash Wolves from Taiwan, Hong Kong and Macau, Counter Logic Gaming, Team SoloMid and Cloud9 from the US, Fnatic, H2K and Origen from Europe and two Wildcard Qualifiers the Bangkok Titans and paiN Gaming. In preparation these teams have put in countless hours of study on the enemy teams they will be facing and practice with their own team.

Many people around the world are joining together at viewing parties, which are selected places all over the world like to watch these matches on TV with other friends and random people to watch these teams compete to become the World Champions. If you would like to know more about the viewing parties in the United States go see the information at the official League of Legends Website. Maybe one of those days you can stop online and watch the dedicated players with the big League of Legends community with the 27 million daily players around the world.