Worlds 2023 is here, the ultimate event of the 2023 League of Legends esports scene and potentially the biggest esports event of the year. We’ve collected the personal data of players and looked at the historical data of teams at Worlds to present our readers with some interesting data regarding the teams and players that make up the Worlds 2023 event.
22 teams in total have qualified for the Worlds 2023 event, including the 8 that will compete in the Play-In stage, and these teams represent all corners of League of Legends’ global esports scene. We already have published articles detailing where to watch the event, the history of Worlds’ viewership, and a recap of the first-day statistics for the Play-In stage, so now let’s take a closer look at the teams themselves.
Playerbase of Worlds 2023
In total, 110 players have arrived in South Korea, ready to compete in this year’s League of Legends World Championship event. Unsurprising for those familiar with the scene, the majority of these players will enjoy a home-turf advantage. Of the 110 players in total, 40 of them are South Korean nationals, making it the majority nationality for the player base.
The next-largest proportion of players are Chinese nationals, with 15 of them competing at Worlds 2023. Taiwan and Vietnam are also well-represented at the event, fielding 10 players each. The remainder of the player base represents the United States of America, Europe, Latin America, Australia, and Japan.
Apart from countries, we also looked at the ages of each player at the event. Not only did we discover the youngest and oldest players at the Worlds 2023 event, but also which team is the youngest by averaging the age of all their players. We also looked through all teams to have ever competed at Worlds and found the teams that have made the most Worlds appearances.
By averaging the age of each player on the teams, we found that T1 from Korea tied with Team Whales of Vietnam to be the youngest team at the event. T1’s average age was just slightly older than 21 years, helped by Zeus, who is only 19 years old. T1 managed to be the youngest team at the event, despite Faker being 27 years old, considerably older than the average age of the players at the event. Team Whales experienced no such outliers, simply having five players in their early twenties on the roster.
Although T1 and Team Whales were the youngest teams on average, they did not have the youngest player at the event. That honour goes to Peyz of Gen.G, who is only 17. Peyz made his competitive debut at 15 years of age and joined Gen.G, moving up from their Challengers team, earlier this year.
The oldest team at the entire event was the Brazillian LOUD roster, who clocked in at an average of 25 years of age. There’s no singular outlier on the roster who is dragging the average age of the team upwards, in fact, all five LOUD players are 24-26 years old.
Looking at the teams with the most Worlds appearances, Fnatic reigned supreme above the competition with 11 Worlds appearances. Hugely impressive, the Fnatic organisation has been present at every single Worlds event excluding one, in 2012. Cloud9 took second, having competed in every single World Championship since 2013. Cloud9 entered League of Legends in 2013 and won their first ever LCS event, since then they have been present at every single Worlds.
Finally, TSM and T1 finished up the podium places with a third place. Although TSM’s fate in the League of Legends scene is currently unknown, their dominant legacy in North America and internationally lives on.
Looking through the transfer data for each team at Worlds, we also looked at which roster is the oldest at the event, and which is the newest. Team Liquid is by far the newest roster at the event; APA joined the main Team Liquid roster only three months ago. APA had performed solidify with the Liquid Challengers team, and in July of 2023, he was tapped to move up to the main roster, replacing Haeri.
On the other hand, T1 has the longest-standing roster of any team at the event, and by a good margin. Many of the teams competing at Worlds are fielding rosters that have been playing with each other for less than a year, but T1 stands out from these as a team that has kept its roster together for multiple years. This cohesion might be just what the roster needs to bring Faker his 4th world title.
Worlds 2023 began on the 10th of October with the Play-In stage for teams to qualify for the main event. Keep track of the viewership for the event on the tournament page, or wait for one of our articles to present the data.
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