2020 LCK season

2020 LCK season
LeagueLCK
SportLeague of Legends
Duration5 February – 25 April (Spring)
17 June – 5 September (Summer)
Number of teams10
Spring
Season championsT1
  Runners-upGen.G
Top seedGen.G
Season MVPGwak "Bdd" Bo-seong[1]
(Gen.G)
Summer
Season championsDAMWON Gaming
  Runners-upDRX
Top seedDAMWON Gaming
Season MVPHeo "ShowMaker" Su[2]
(DAMWON Gaming)
LCK seasons

The 2020 LCK season was the ninth year of South Korea's LCK, a professional esports league for the MOBA PC game League of Legends.

The spring split began on 5 February and was scheduled to end with the spring finals on 13 April; however, the regular season was suspended for two weeks due to the COVID-19 pandemic in South Korea, and the split instead concluded on 25 April.[3][4][5]

The summer split began on 17 June and concluded with the summer finals on 5 September.

  1. ^ Heath, Jerome (23 April 2020). "Gen.G's Bdd wins MVP of LCK Spring Split". Dot Esports. Retrieved 15 August 2020.
  2. ^ Lupasco, Cristian (3 September 2020). "Damwon's ShowMaker named 2020 LCK Summer Split MVP". Dot Esports. Retrieved 6 September 2020.
  3. ^ Leckie-Zaharic, Alex; Byers, Preston (3 March 2020). "Riot reportedly suspends LCK due to coronavirus". Dot Esports. Retrieved 16 August 2020.
  4. ^ "LCK set to shut down due to coronavirus concerns". Reuters. 3 March 2020. Retrieved 16 August 2020.
  5. ^ Moncav, Melany (16 March 2020). "LCK reportedly returning soon after coronavirus shutdown". WIN.gg. Retrieved 16 August 2020.