More than one League of Legends team from the LCS or LEC competitions making it into the 2024 World Championship playoffs was always going to be a surprise, but fans will be dismayed to see just how long the odds on Western teams are this year.
The numbers, crunched by a League tech whizz on their Worlds Simulator app, are rough reading for European and North American fans alike: If every Worlds team plays to their betting odds—in this case, Bet365 was used—then there’s a 65.44 percent chance a single Western team qualifies for the eight-team quarterfinals. Chances then plummet to as low as 1.21 percent regarding two teams from the competitions surviving groups.
