The World Championship schedule 2023 will take place from October 10 to November 19. The tournament has the presence of 22 teams, including: 21 teams from South Korea, China, Vietnam, Japan, Brazil, North America, Europe, Asia -Pacific and 1 team that won the qualifying match. According to Riot Games's announcement, the World Championship match will be the confrontation between two European and North American 4th teams, according to the Bo5 format.
Worlds 2023 is held in Seoul and Busan of Korea. This is the first time in 5 years Korea has been hosted the largest tournament of League of Legends.
Worlds schedule 2023
Start round (10/10 – 15/10): Seoul – LOL Park
The starting round will include 2 representatives of VCS (Vietnam), PCS (Asia – Pacific), No. 1 Seed LLA (Latin America), CBLOL (Brazil), LJL (Japan) and the qualifying championship team.
Swiss round (October 19 – October 23): Seoul – KBS Arena
The Swiss round will consist of 2 teams going from the starting round, 4 seed teams of the LCK area (Korea) – LPL (China), 3 seed teams of the LEC – LCS area. Accordingly, the two leading teams each 4 groups will win the right to the quarterfinals.
Regarding “Swiss format”, in the first round, the teams will be classified as usual. After the first round, the teams with the same winning difference will confront each other. The team that has 2 wins will continue. Any team that has 2 losses will be eliminated. This means that each team will have at least 3 chances to win the right to enter the round.
The quarterfinal round (November 2 – November 5): Busan – Sajik Indoor Gymnasium
Semifinals (11/11 – 12/11): Busan – Sajik Indoor Gymnasium
Final (November 19): Seoul – Gocheok Sky Dome
