After an attractive season, all regions in the world have positive changes. In particular, the European region is one of the four largest areas in League of Legends. The teams from small areas tried to overcome specialized tournaments before joining LEC. Recently, Riot has changed the competition format in the new season for LEC. Most recently, LEC Winter 2023 was released, this season was considered an additional season in a short time before LEC Spring took place.
LEC Winter 2023 will start with the mechanism of regular tournaments (Regular Season). According to the schedule, this tournament will last about 3 weeks through the formula for a round of a round of 10 teams. Eight teams with high scores will continue in the group stage. Coming to the next stage, the teams will play BO3 in the Double Elimination (Double Elimination). The four strongest teams will go to the BO5 formula's live qualifying round before finding the champion.
Any team that won the LEC Winter title will own a place to attend the final round in August to determine the World Final. Besides, the champions of spring and summer have the same opportunity. The champions of the three tournaments of the year will fight with the most stable teams of the tournament (evaluation by Championship Points).
The six best teams of the year will win 4 tickets in the order of seeds to Worlds 2023. The expansion of tournaments as well as combining previous semi -specialized tournaments into Emea Masters is a big step for the European region. Promising the mysterious factors will appear in the highest arena in the near future.
