This Week in Esports - Post 2015 WC Finals

With the 2015 World Championship over the preseason approaches,we're back with another edition of This Week in eSports!

[Warning: This post contains event spoilers!]

Continue reading for more on our 2015 World Champions, Doublelift joining TSM, and more!

2015 World Championship

The 2015 World Championship concluded this last weekend, congratulations to SKTelecom T1 on becoming the first team to have two World Champion titles.

A few bits:

• SKT T1 defeated KOO Tigers  3 to 1 in the grand finals, SKT T1 only lost one game throughout the entire 2015 World Championship.
• In the post game interview, the SKT T1 players were asked  which champions they would like to receive world championship skins for - Renekton, Elise, Ryze, Kalista, and Alistar. [source]

Missed the action? Come check out the VODs and Match Histories from the Finals!

VODS: 1/2/3/4  // MATCH HISTORIES: 1/2/3/4. You can also find the WORLDS COLLIDE video for the finals here, which aired during the opening ceremony.

Here's a VOD of the final match. Skip to around 46 minutes for the closing ceremonies:

Looking for more? Check out the LoL Esports article congratulating SKT on their world championship win.

Pick'EM

Congratulations to the messiah Dextcod on a perfect Pick'EM! Dextcod was the only summoner out of a total 2,696,780 summoners to have a perfect prediction.

Pictures

Be sure to check out the LoL Esports FLICKR for hundreds of pictures from the event, including the venue, cosplay, and more!

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Team, Player, Event & Organization News

EU:

• Dignitas EU, who qualified for the 2016 EU LCS earlier this year, has been acquired by Follow Esports organization! 

• Announcement from Dignitas

• Announcement from Follow Esports

NA:

• Counter Logic Gaming:

• CLG has released their Head Coach, Chris Ehrenreich. 
•  Statement from Chris can be found here.

• CLG parts ways with their long-time starting ADC Doublelift.(Tweet)

• Team Solomid ends their ADC tryouts and Doublelift has joined the team:

• During Doublelift's recent stream, he had a bit more to say about the team swap.

• After stepping down as starting support for Team Liquid, Xpecial is now a free agent
• Dignitas is hosting tryouts for both top and ADC positions for the 2016 NA Spring Split.

Riot:

• A slew of 2015 World Championship content, including the new Championship  Kalista, 2015 WC Ward skin, and summoner icons + returning Legacy content, is available through November 5th!