2021 LCK season

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
League	LCK
Sport	League of Legends
Duration	13 January – 10 April (Spring)
Number of teams	10
Spring
Season champions	DWG KIA
Runners-up	Gen.G
Season MVP	Kim "Canyon" Geon-bu^[1] (DWG KIA)
Summer
Season champions	DWG KIA
Runners-up	T1
Season MVP	Han "Peanut" Wang-ho^[2] (Nongshim RedForce)
LCK seasons
← 2020 2022 →

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]

•   Korean: Naver, Afreeca TV, Twitch
•   English: Twitch
•   Chinese: HuyaTV
•   French: OTP

Spring

Regular season

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

	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

Regular season

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

	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

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.