In less than two months 16 teams will descend on Paris, France to begin the 2015 League of Legends World Champions. Defending champion organization, Samsung Galaxy, have already been eliminated from Worlds contention, meaning that there we be no repeat champion for the fourth year in a row. Although there won't be a repeat in Berlin come the Summoner's Cup Final on Halloween, two former world champions have clinched their spots in the tournament and will have a chance to recapture what was once theirs.

With playoff action going on across the globe, six teams have booked their tickets to France and are already preparing for the biggest tournament of the year. From the sextet of teams, we see a mixture of familiar and new brands to the world stage, and a few legends returning to the grandest stage in League of Legends before possibly retiring at the end of the year.

Let's get to know a bit more about the six teams that will be embarking on their journey for the Summoner's Cup this fall.

Teams were not ranked by perceived skill or chances at Worlds. They are ranked by earliest qualifier to the latest.

No. 1 - SK Telecom T1 (South Korea)

The first team that qualified for the 2015 World Championships is also one of its former winners. SK Telecom T1 took down the rest of the field in 2013 to take home the Summoner's Cup. Tournament MVP and world renowned mid laner Faker is still on the team today, but the rest of the team is radically different from their 2013 campaign, with Bengi being the only returning member of the team, aside from Faker, who won the championship two years ago.

SK Telecom T1 tore through the Korean region to make sure they were the inaugural team to qualify for the championship this year, the former champions not even qualifying in 2014 after a slump to end the season. They won the spring championship to start off the Korean circuit, and T1 followed it up with another dominating performance in the summer regular season to put themselves in another Champions final in two weeks time. Only losing one domestic match in the past six months, T1 are the heavy favorites to carry the South Korean flag into the World Championships in October.

Unlike the SKT T1 championship team of the past that got through the games with pure mechanics, the 2015 squad is a different beast. They might not possess the strongest team fighting of the organizations going to Worlds, but their macro game and knowledge of prioritizing objectives is almost second to none.

No. 2 - ahq e-Sports Club (Taiwan)

If you're looking for a non-Korean/Chinese/Fnatic team to select as a dark horse entering Worlds, look no further than Taiwan's giants, ahq e-Sports Club. The organization is no stranger to the world stage, the team playing in the tournament last year in front of their region's home fans. While they didn't make it into the quarterfinals in a group with Summoner's Cup favorites Samsung White and EDward Gaming, they did make a late run in the group stages to force EDG into a tiebreaker game they eventually lost.

The team coming into Worlds this year, like T1, is extremely different than the one they fielded last time around. The only remaining player from the 2014 season is their mid lane player Westdoor, the famed solo queue player that transitioned into professional a few years ago and hasn't looked back as one of the most skilled players at his position in the world. He's joined by a new cast of players that won the spring season of LMS, made it to the Mid-Season Invitational, and even surprised many by beating Team SoloMid in the group stages before getting eliminated by EDward Gaming for the second straight major international tournament.

When watching ahq, you might not rank them up with the best teams from perceived stronger regions, but don't look past the back-to-back Taiwanese champions. Any team that thinks that they can slide by ahq will be met with a flurry of offense, the LMS champions leading their region with an insane 0.89 kills/death per minute. ahq's superb team fighting and outstanding technical talent gives them a chance to slug it out with any team in the world, and they're not afraid of any of the Korean or Chinese giants entering the tournament.

Watch out if you qualify, EDward Gaming. ahq is looking for revenge.

No. 3 - Flash Wolves (Taiwan)

Before ahq e-Sports Club took over Taiwan in the spring playoffs and beyond, the Flash Wolves were Taiwan's strongest team. They were good enough to qualify for the IEM World Championships in March as Taiwan's representatives. The Flash Wolves did their region proud in the group stages, eliminating the strongest European side at the time in SK Gaming and qualifying for the semifinals.

Similarly to ahq that got to the semifinals of the Mid-Season Invitational and loss to the eventual champions EDG in that match, the same happened to the Wolves against Team SoloMid. Since that loss in the tournament, ahq's taken over as the region's flagship team and is seen as LMS' best hope to bring pride back to the region following two straight World Championships where Taiwan failed to make a major impact.

The squad qualified through the Taiwanese Region Finals, playing in a four team single-elimination bracket with the winner grabbing the second coveted spot for Taiwan at Worlds. Taiwan's final Worlds seed came down to Hong Kong eSports and the Flash Wolves, the former of the two teams having lost to ahq eSports in the LMS summer finals. HKE were led by possibly Taiwan's greatest League of Legends player, Toyz, from the famed Taipei Assassins team that took down Azubu Frost to win the 2012 Summoner's Cup.

It was a back and forth series between the two teams, but the Flash Wolves eventually beat Toyz in his final tournament before retiring from his illustrious pro-gaming career. Coming into the battle for the Summoner's Cup, Taiwan's second seed will be seen as heavy underdogs to make it through the group stages unless they are gifted an easier group that sticks them clear of the top Chinese and Korean teams. In terms of players, look out for Karsa in the jungle and Maple in the mid lane, those two players having the ability to breakthrough as mainstream names come the end of the group stage.

No. 4 - LGD Gaming (China)

Nope, this is right, friends, that isn't EDward Gaming you're looking at as China's top seed. The Mid-Season Invitational champions ran into a buzzsaw named LGD Gaming last night, the back-to-back LPL winners getting blown out and eliminated from the playoffs by a rejuvenated LGD team. It not only knocked EDG out of the playoffs, but also forced them into the Chinese Regional Finals, meaning that the team that was atop of the world rankings for most of the year might not even make the tournament.

If there is any team in the world that can match wits and macro movements with Korea's SK Telecom T1, LGD Gaming is that team. Led by captain support PYL in the bottom lane, this team on paper looks like an all-star team between China and Korea's best talents in terms of game sense and mechanical ability. PYL and their mid lane Godv are two of China's brightest stars that barely missed out on Worlds last year, and their Korean imports Acorn, Flame, and Imp have all been the best player at their position during their careers.

The scariest factor about LGD is that they've only turned up their power recently. They've famously sandbagged through the regular season of both LPL splits, only coming alive and showing their real potential when the playoffs started and circuit points were on the line. After losing to EDG in a close 3-2 finals in the spring season, they came back this campaign with former Royal Club coach Chris and a new mentality to take EDG's throne as China's best chance at winning their first Summoner's Cup.

LGD's biggest question mark going into Worlds will be their jungler TBQ. With Riot's international tournaments usually only allowing one substitute per team, it's hard to fathom LGD leaving Flame in China while they make their trek towards France in October. This means that they will need to rely on TBQ to continue his top level play through an entire month, something that might be difficult for LGD's sometimes-good-sometimes-awful jungler.

But, if TBQ can stay steady, and GODV doesn't wilt under the pressure of millions watching him on the world stage, there isn't another team in the world that can stand up to them when it comes to their combination of skill and brains.

No. 5 - Fnatic (Europe)

Europe's undisputed rulers, Fnatic is the team the Western scene will be believing in to bring home the Summoner's Cup after three straight years of Asian dominance. Fnatic are stylish, offensively-powered, and on a perfect 21-0 streak in the EU LCS summer season. They firmly believe they can take down SKT, EDG, LGD, or whatever teams are thrown at them at Worlds in their own backyard this coming October.

Fnatic have gone to all six of the EU LCS grand finals, the black and orange army winning four of the five previous finals with only a single loss to Alliance in their championship history. The craziest thing about Fnatic's dominance is that they've played a different team in every single of those EU LCS finals, and they'll face their sixth new challenger Origen next Sunday for the title of best in Europe. While other teams fade, rebuild, or simply explode into dramatic flames, Fnatic continues to be the pillar that holds up Europe's faith in the international scene.

Even when they entered this year with an entirely new roster outside of Yellowstar, the team didn't rebuild — they reloaded. Fnatic were able to grab SKT T1 tryouts Huni and Reignover from South Korea, and they signed H2k's prospect mid lane player Febiven to take the spot of their former legendary ace Xpeke. The team was a work in process at the beginning, their communication terrible and the team's wins coming purely off mechanical skirmishes. That shallow style of playing has dropped off and matured as the year has gone along, Fnatic going from looking like an all-star solo queue team to being one of the best squads in the world.

The next thing we need to find about Fnatic is how good they really are. We know that they did well at MSI and took SKT T1 to five games before crumbling in the last game, and they've seemingly improved since then with the re-addition of Rekkles in the bottom lane alongside Yellowstar. Still, the same can be said about Asia's top teams, and it'll be a question if the EU LCS is a good region that can produce a possible Summoner's Cup team, or if it's a weak region and Fnatic was simply the benefactor of stomping inferior competition for four months.

Also, we can't go by without mentioning Yellowstar's accomplishment of making it to his fifth straight World Championships, tying him with North America's Dyrus, who is a part of the next team we're going to delve into.

No. 6 - Team SoloMid (North America)

The final team of our 'Super Six' is Team SoloMid, qualifying for Worlds following a victory over Team Liquid in the semifinals and making it back to their sixth straight LCS championship match. They are only equaled in the Western scene by Fnatic, the other team in the LCS that has gone to each of their region's final, but with the European side having four titles to TSM's three. Beyond that, Team SoloMid and Fnatic can't really be compared too much, with the EU LCS regular season champions having the best season of any team in Western history, and TSM having by far their worst regular season split in franchise history.

TSM are different than Fnatic in that they don't like to take chances in the early-game. This bit them at MSI when the rest of the region's championship teams were proactive early and picked apart TSM's stagnant laning phase. If TSM can get past the 25 minute mark and aren't in a gigantic objective or gold disadvantage, they're a team that can hold their own against the very best. Problem is, the best teams know exactly that, and they go right at TSM's jugular from the start of the game and never let them get into the part of the game they're most comfortable in.

The three-time North American champions, though, are scariest when they're overlooked. When no one really gave them a chance at the IEM World Championships in March, they ran through the competition with their superior team coordination and objective control. That hampered them going into MSI, where teams knew what to expect and surgically dissected every weakness that TSM flaunted during the first half of the year. But, when they were looking down and out at the end of the summer regular season, the champions brushed off their inconsistency and have gone 6-2 in the first two rounds of the playoffs.

TSM are not a best-of-one team. If Svenskeren didn't get banned from the first three games of last year's Worlds, TSM most likely doesn't make it out of groups. But, if they can slide into the realm of Bo5's and can get teams into a game of strategic chess and adapting mid-series, then SoloMid are a team that can beat a lot of the teams that will be heading to the World Championships this fall. On the other hand. with their weak early-game and lack of success in single games the past few months, TSM could also be the team that loses to any of the squads in the group stages come October.

Tyler "Fionn" Erzberger is a staff writer for theScore eSports who covers the North American LCS and Korea's Champions. You can follow him on Twitter.