2021 LCK season explained

2021 LCK season
League:LCK
Sport:League of Legends
No Of Teams:10
Season:Spring
Mvp:Kim "Canyon" Geon-bu[1]
(DWG KIA)
Season Champs:DWG KIA
Second Place:Gen.G
Season2:Summer
Mvp2:Han "Peanut" Wang-ho[2]
(Nongshim RedForce)
Season Champs2:DWG KIA
Second Place2:T1
Seasonslistnames:LCK
Prevseason Link:2020 LCK season
Prevseason Year:2020
Nextseason Link:2022 LCK season
Nextseason Year:2022

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 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

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

Spring

Playoffs

Summer

Playoffs

Notes and References

  1. News: Heath . Jerome . DWG's Canyon wins regular season MVP for 2021 LCK Spring split. 25 March 2022 . Dot Esports . 2 April 2021.
  2. News: Lupasco . Cristian . Nongshim RedForce's Peanut named MVP of the 2021 LCK Summer Split. 25 March 2022 . Dot Esports . 17 August 2021.
  3. Web site: 6 April 2020. [Official] Franchising in the LCK to start from 2021]. 17 March 2021. InvenGlobal. en.
  4. Web site: 2 November 2020. [LCK] Riot Games announces the 10 finalized organizations that made it into LCK's franchising model]. 17 March 2021. InvenGlobal. en.
  5. Web site: 6 January 2021. Details of the 2021 LCK Spring announced, Wolf and Chronicler newly joins the LCK global caster line-up. 17 March 2021. InvenGlobal. en.
  6. Web site: After LCK and YouTube fail to agree, where to watch the 2021 LCK. 17 March 2021. WIN.gg. en.