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Korean giants T1 defeated Chinese team Bilibili Gaming (BLG) 3-2 at a packed-out O2 Arena in London to become winners of the Worlds 2024 final.
In doing so, MVP Faker secured his fifth League of Legends World Championship with T1, preventing BLG from claiming their first ever Worlds title.
It was also a back-to-back win for T1, following their Worlds 2023 win last year.
Faker and T1 visited Spurs’ football stadium the day after their win, to celebrate.
Audience numbers at Worlds 2024 final in London
In terms of attendance numbers at the Worlds 2024 final, 14,700 fans watched the biggest League of Legends esports event of the year live in London’s O2 Arena, making it a sellout show.
Members of the audience were also given wristbands, which lit up based on what was happening in the game, or during the Worlds 2024 opening ceremony featuring Linkin Park and other artists.
The news comes after experts the Worlds 2024 finals will provide a £12m boost to the London economy.
And in terms of online viewers, the final broke records to become the most-watched Worlds final, with a whopping 6.9m peak viewers.
And Riot later posted these figures:
How T1 beat BLG at Worlds 2024 final
BLG were the dominant side right from the off, with bot-laner Elk picking up a fast first blood on T1 ADC Gumayusi. Elk and BLG mid-laner knight turned up the heat with some solid plays, with Elk securing a cheeky cross-map snipe as Ashe to kill Faker in the bot lane.
T1 responded well, with a stomp in game two, with Faker, Oner and Keria having perfect KDAs with no deaths. But it was BLG’s turn to get some perfect KDAs in game three, with Bin and Elk going 7-0-5 and 7-0-4 respectively.
Game four saw T1 fight back hard, and from the mid game they went on the ascendancy to take us to a fifth and final game – cue Silver Scrapes.
Game five saw knight pick Ahri, which is the champion that Faker has a signature in-game skin for, as Faker picked Galio. It was a nervy affair, with both teams careful not to make mistakes, and both with relatively even gold, towers and kills at the mid-game, with knight claiming all three BLG kills, and T1 securing three drakes to BLG’s one.
It was a pivotal moment at the 29-minute mark, with T1 winning a decisive teamfight, leading them to taking the game, and the series.
It was a tense grand final, with both teams full of confidence coming into it. Check out Riot’s announcements and team comments from yesterday’s Worlds 2024 Media Day in London here.
Broadcast talent for Worlds 2024‘s final included Sjokz, Chronicler, Azael, Dagda, Emily Rand, Chronicler, Medic and Vedius.
Even Swedish T1 academy player Rekkles had a lift of the Worlds 2024 trophy:
T1 press conference after winning Worlds 2024 and the Worlds skins they’d like to receive
T1 were applauded by members of the press when they arrived for the post-match press conference at the London O2 Arena:
The team told Ashley Kang which Worlds skins they’d like to receive after their win.
They said:
- Zeus: Gragas, Camille, or Ornn
- Oner: Vi or Xin Zhao
- Faker: “What fans might like!”
- Gumayusi: Jhin or Varus
- Keria: Renata or Pyke
BLG’s Worlds 2024 post-game final press conference: ‘We’ve put a lot of effort in and trust ourselves, but T1 did better’
BLG Elk said after the grand finals loss: “So for today, we just finished the game and we’re not sure what will happen next year. We will try our best on the same stage [in the future].
“I have some regret on stage, but all the players and coaching team have put a lot of effort into this. We try our best to showcase our talents on stage, but T1 are a great team. Some decisions in the final have a huge influence on the result of the whole game. We trust being ourselves, but T1 did better.
“We lost to our ourselves and there are so many things we can learn from. We’ll try our best to stand on the big stage again and do better.”
Bin added: “I felt the match was winnable but this is League of Legends and every moment matters. In games four and five it felt like we got the opportunity to win but we didn’t catch it. After the loss, I’m very sad in this moment.
“I feel so sorry for all the fans, we came so close to the victory.”
The coach said: “We tried our best with early game aggression, we focused on the early to mid game in games one to three and T1 dealt with that quite well.
“If we talk about champion choices, for the three games we lost there could be some better choices and a better draft. I don’t have specific changes to make, but I’d have made more effort before the match, into analysing, and maybe this could’ve made the process better for the team.”
Knight said: “I’d like to thank all the fans, especially the Chinese fans, and we’ll do our best in the future.”
There’s more in the full press conference here, with the video courtesy of Pedro Romero:
See more photos from the 2024 Worlds finals in our image gallery on Facebook here
Dom is an award-winning writer and finalist of the Esports Journalist of the Year 2023 award. He graduated from Bournemouth University with a 2:1 degree in Multi-Media Journalism in 2007.
As a long-time gamer having first picked up the NES controller in the late ’80s, he has written for a range of publications including GamesTM, Nintendo Official Magazine, industry publication MCV and others. He worked as head of content for the British Esports Federation up until February 2021, when he stepped back to work full-time on Esports News UK and offer esports consultancy and freelance services. Note: Dom still produces the British Esports newsletter on a freelance basis, so our coverage of British Esports is always kept simple – usually just covering the occasional press release – because of this conflict of interest.
