# 2019 LCK season

The 2019 LCK season was the eighth season of the League of Legends Champions Korea (LCK), a professional esports league for the MOBA PC game League of Legends.

## Spring Split
### Team standings

| Pos | Team | SW | SL | GW | GL | Pts | Qualification |
| 1 | Griffin | 15 | 3 | 31 | 8 | 23 | Advance to Finals |
| 2 | SK Telecom T1 | 14 | 4 | 31 | 13 | 18 | Advance to Playoffs Round 2 |
| 3 | Kingzone DragonX | 13 | 5 | 27 | 12 | 15 | Advance to Playoffs Round 1 |
| 4 | SANDBOX Gaming | 13 | 5 | 28 | 16 | 12 | Advance to Wild Card |
| 5 | DAMWON Gaming | 11 | 7 | 25 | 17 | 8 | Advance to Wild Card |
| 6 | Hanwha Life Esports | 9 | 9 | 20 | 21 | −1 | |
| 7 | Gen.G | 5 | 13 | 16 | 28 | −12 | |
| 8 | Afreeca Freecs | 5 | 13 | 14 | 29 | −15 | |
| 9 | KT Rolster | 4 | 14 | 13 | 29 | −16 | Drop to promotion tournament |
| 10 | Jin Air Green Wings | 1 | 17 | 3 | 35 | −32 | Drop to promotion tournament |

### Playoffs

| Wild Card | Wild Card | Wild Card | Playoffs Round 1 | Playoffs Round 1 | Playoffs Round 1 | Playoffs Round 2 | Playoffs Round 2 | Playoffs Round 2 | Finals | Finals | Finals |
| | | | | | | | | | 1 | Griffin | 0 |
| | | | | | | 2 | SK Telecom T1 | 3 | 2 | SK Telecom T1 | 3 |
| | | | 3 | Kingzone DragonX | 3 | 3 | Kingzone DragonX | 0 | | | |
| 4 | SANDBOX Gaming | 1 | 5 | DAMWON Gaming | 0 | | | | | | |
| 5 | DAMWON Gaming | 2 | | | | | | | | | |

## Summer Split
### Team standings

| Pos | Team | SW | SL | GW | GL | Pts | Qualification |
| 1 | Griffin | 13 | 5 | 29 | 13 | 16 | Advance to Finals |
| 2 | DAMWON Gaming | 13 | 5 | 28 | 16 | 12 | Advance to Playoffs Round 2 |
| 3 | SANDBOX Gaming | 12 | 6 | 27 | 18 | 9 | Advance to Playoffs Round 1 |
| 4 | SK Telecom T1 | 11 | 7 | 26 | 17 | 9 | Advance to Wild Card |
| 5 | Afreeca Freecs | 11 | 7 | 26 | 20 | 6 | Advance to Wild Card |
| 6 | Gen.G | 10 | 8 | 24 | 20 | 4 | |
| 7 | Kingzone DragonX | 9 | 9 | 23 | 23 | 0 | |
| 8 | KT Rolster | 6 | 12 | 16 | 28 | −12 | |
| 9 | Hanwha Life Esports | 5 | 13 | 15 | 27 | −12 | Drop to promotion tournament |
| 10 | Jin Air Green Wings | 0 | 18 | 4 | 36 | −32 | Drop to promotion tournament |

### Playoffs

| Wild Card | Wild Card | Wild Card | Playoffs Round 1 | Playoffs Round 1 | Playoffs Round 1 | Playoffs Round 2 | Playoffs Round 2 | Playoffs Round 2 | Finals | Finals | Finals |
| | | | | | | | | | 1 | Griffin | 1 |
| | | | | | | 2 | DAMWON Gaming | 0 | 4 | SK Telecom T1 | 3 |
| | | | 3 | SANDBOX Gaming | 0 | 4 | SK Telecom T1 | 3 | | | |
| 4 | SK Telecom T1 | 2 | 4 | SK Telecom T1 | 3 | | | | | | |
| 5 | Afreeca Freecs | 1 | | | | | | | | | |

## Media
### Streams

* twitch
* Facebook
* twitch
* AfreecaTV
* NaverTV
* Facebook
* Garena Live
* YouTube
* YouTube
* twitch
* twitch
* Huya
* OPENREC
* twitch

### Broadcast Talent

* Korean
** Jeon "Caster Jun" Yong Jun – Play-by-Play Caster
** Seung "SEONG K" Seung Heon – Play-by-Play Caster
** Lee "CloudTemplar" Hyun-woo – Color Caster
** Kim Dong-jun – Color Caster
** Kang "KangQui" Seung Hyun – Color Caster
* English
** Max "Atlus" Anderson – Play-by-Play Caster
** Chris "PapaSmithy" Smith – Color Caster
** Brendan "Valdes" Valdes – Play-by-Play Caster
** Nick "LS" De Cesare – Color Caster

### Viewership Statistics
#### Spring

Peak Viewership :
| Total | 28,014,116 |
| Without Chinese Viewers | 641,088 |
| English Streams | 227,915 |
| Chinese Streams | 27,532,576 |
| Korean Streams | 468,409 |
| Twitch.TV Streams | 243,544 |
| YouTube Streams | 223,603 |
| Other ||
| Avg Concurrent Viewers | 2,878,118 |
| Avg Concurrent Viewers (Excl. Chinese) | 124,793 |
| Total time watched | 820,503,526 |

#### Summer

Peak Viewership :
| Total | 766 770 |
| Without Chinese Viewers | 766 770 |
| Twitch.TV Streams | 366 440 |
| Other ||
| Total Time Watched | 33 852 258 Hours |
| Avg Concurrent Viewers | 117 136 |