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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 LCK season
LeagueLCK
SportLeague of Legends
Duration13 January – 10 April (Spring)
Number of teams10
Spring
Season championsDWG KIA
  Runners-upGen.G
Season MVPKim "Canyon" Geon-bu[1]
(DWG KIA)
Summer
Season championsDWG KIA
  Runners-upT1
Season MVPHan "Peanut" Wang-ho[2]
(Nongshim RedForce)
LCK seasons

2021 was also the first season LCK implemented their long-term partnership model.[3] On 1 November 2020, Riot Korea announced the ten organizations that successfully signed the contract for LCK franchising model.[4]

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.[5]

The spring split began on 13 January 2021 and concluded with the spring finals on 10 April 2021.

Broadcasting

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The LCK was broadcast at the following platforms:[6]

  • South Korea  Korean: Naver, Afreeca TV, Twitch
  • United States  English: Twitch
  • China  Chinese: HuyaTV
  • France  French: OTP

Spring

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Regular season

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Pos Team SW SL GW GL Pts Qualification
1 DWG KIA 16 2 33 10 23 Advance to Semifinals
2 Gen.G 13 5 29 15 14
3 Hanwha Life Esports 12 6 26 18 8 Advance to Quarterfinals
4 T1 11 7 27 17 10
5 DRX 9 9 21 26 −5
6 Nongshim RedForce 7 11 18 24 −6
7 KT Rolster 6 12 18 27 −9
8 Liiv SANDBOX 6 12 15 25 −10
9 Afreeca Freecs 5 13 16 26 −10
10 Fredit BRION 5 13 12 27 −15
Source: [7]

Playoffs

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Quarterfinals Semifinals Finals
DWG KIA 3
Hanwha Life Esports 3 Hanwha Life Esports 0
Nongshim RedForce 2 DWG KIA 3
Gen.G 0
Gen.G 3
T1 3 T1 0
DRX 1

Summer

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Regular season

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Pos Team SW SL GW GL Pts Qualification
1 DWG KIA 12 6 29 14 15 Advance to Semifinals
2 Gen.G 12 6 27 19 8
3 Nongshim RedForce 12 6 27 19 8 Advance to Quarterfinals
4 T1 11 7 25 19 6
5 Liiv SANDBOX 11 7 26 21 5
6 Afreeca Freecs 11 7 25 21 4
7 KT Rolster 7 11 21 25 −4
8 Hanwha Life Esports 7 11 17 26 −9
9 Fredit BRION 5 13 20 28 −8
10 DRX 2 16 9 34 −25
Source: [8]

Playoffs

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Quarterfinals Semifinals Finals
DWG KIA 3
Nongshim RedForce 3 Nongshim Redforce 0
Afreeca Freecs 1 DWG KIA 3
T1 1
Gen.G 1
T1 3 T1 3
Liiv Sandbox 0

References

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  1. ^ Heath, Jerome (2 April 2021). "DWG's Canyon wins regular season MVP for 2021 LCK Spring split". Dot Esports. Retrieved 25 March 2022.
  2. ^ Lupasco, Cristian (17 August 2021). "Nongshim RedForce's Peanut named MVP of the 2021 LCK Summer Split". Dot Esports. Retrieved 25 March 2022.
  3. ^ "[Official] Franchising in the LCK to start from 2021". InvenGlobal. 6 April 2020. Retrieved 17 March 2021.
  4. ^ "[LCK] Riot Games announces the 10 finalized organizations that made it into LCK's franchising model". InvenGlobal. 2 November 2020. Retrieved 17 March 2021.
  5. ^ "Details of the 2021 LCK Spring announced, Wolf and Chronicler newly joins the LCK global caster line-up". InvenGlobal. 6 January 2021. Retrieved 17 March 2021.
  6. ^ "After LCK and YouTube fail to agree, where to watch the 2021 LCK". WIN.gg. Retrieved 17 March 2021.
  7. ^ "[LCK Today] T1 soars over HLE with sweep, LSB upsets DRX". 28 March 2021.
  8. ^ "[LCK Today] Gen.G defeats NS RedForce 2-0 to secure 2nd place in the regular split standings". 15 August 2021.