 The Chase Center hosted the tournament's final. | |||||||
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| Date | 5 November 2022 | ||||||
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| Venue | Chase Center, San Francisco | ||||||
| MVP | Hwang "Kingen" Seong-hoon | ||||||
| Live Broadcast | |||||||
| Announcers | English Clayton "CaptainFlowers" Raines Marc "Caedrel" Lamont Sam "Kobe" Hartman-Kenzler Korean Chun "Caster Jun" Yong-jun Lee "CloudTemplar" Hyun-woo Kang "KangQui" Seung-hyeon Jo "CoreJJ" Yong-in | ||||||
| Viewers | Worldwide 5.1 million concurrent peak viewers[1] | ||||||
The 2022 League of Legends World Championship Final was a League of Legends (LoL) esports series between T1 and DRX on 5 November 2022 at the Chase Center in San Francisco, California, United States. It marked the twelfth final of a LoL World Championship. Both T1 and DRX were two of four representatives from the League of Legends Champions Korea (LCK) at the tournament, the others being Gen.G and DWG KIA. It was T1's first appearance in the final since the 2017 edition and the first time a play-in team made a tournament run to the final, with DRX starting their tournament from the play-in stage as the LCK's fourth seed, barely qualifying through the regional qualifiers.
The series was a best of five and was played in front of 18,000 spectators,[2] with 5.1 million concurrent peak viewers, which was the highest in the tournament's history at the time. The series ended 3–2 in favor of DRX after a back-and-forth five-game series, and was considered the completion of a Cinderella run by commentators, with many regarding it as one of the greatest finals in the history of League of Legends.[3]
DRX's top laner Hwang "Kingen" Seong-hoon earned Most Valuable Player honors. The series marked the first international victory for DRX and support Cho "BeryL" Geon-hee's second world championship, making him the only two active players alongside Lee "Faker" Sang-hyeok, who also played in the series in his fifth finals appearance, to have more than one world championship after winning the title with DWG KIA in 2020. It also marked the first world championship for ADC Kim "Deft" Hyuk-kyu, who was reportedly in his final year of professional play before eventually deciding to continue his playing career, and his second international title after winning the 2015 Mid-Season Invitational with Edward Gaming, whom DRX also faced en route to the finals and were the defending champions heading into Worlds.
- ^ "Worlds 2022 sets new League of Legends esports record with 5.1 million concurrent viewers". 6 November 2022.
- ^ Li, Roland (November 7, 2022). "Lightning, fire and lasers: League of Legends championship brings massive, international crowd to S.F." San Francisco Chronicle. Retrieved November 7, 2022.
- ^ Scales, Kali (6 November 2022). "DRX Shocks the World - Defeats T1 to Win Worlds 2022". Esports Illustrated. Retrieved 1 February 2024.