With another stunning grand finals, Champions Summer 2014 has wound its way to a close. And when the season ends, winners are chosen. In Champions, the winners are not just who took home the Champions Cup. So when everyone goes home, who gets to take the accolades with them? A grand total of ₩ 270,000,000 KRW (around $ 263,881 USD) was given out this season.

The Champions Champions- KT Rolster Arrows (₩ 80,000,000 or $ 78,188)

The team taking home first place in the Grand Finals is no other than the KT Rolster Arrows. Despite having many close attempts between KT A and B (later Arrows and Bullets), never before had the KT Rolster organization taken home a trophy from their home tournament. But this season Ssumday, Kakao, Rookie, Arrow, and Hachani have brought glory to their organization in bringing home the win. KT Arrows are now the second-highest team in the Qualifier Gauntlet, behind the loser of the SKT T1 K/ Samsung White tiebreaker.

Champions Runners Up- Samsung Blue (₩ 40,000,000 or $ 39,094)

The Champions of spring, Blue looked all but infallible all throughout the season. Coming into the finals with a 11-2 record, dropping games only to IM #2 and their sister team Samsung White, Blue were favored to win by almost everyone. And yet when the lights went down on Haeundae, Blue were not the ones holding the Champions Cup. While this means little for their Worlds position, having already clinched 1st place seeding, it shows that Blue is not unstoppable as they might have appeared.

3rd Place Team- Samsung White (₩ 24,000,000 or $ 23,437)

Samsung White showed that while they were taken down 3-1 against their sister Blue, they are still a force to be reckoned with. After annihilating SKT T1 S in the 3rd place match 3-0, there is no question that White remains a strong team in Champions. They will face SKT T1 K in a tiebreaker match to see if they will clinch second place or enter the top of the qualifier gauntlet for a chance at going to Worlds.

Season MVP- KT Arrows Kakao (₩ 10,000,000 or $ 9,766)

A consistent bright spot on an inconsistent team, Kakao has managed to pull his team through Champions summer to victory. Beating Dade out by only 50 points (Kakao’s 750 to Dade’s 700), he was able to show that his jungling was the key to victory in the finals. Hopefully we will continue to see more high quality play out of Kakao in the Worlds Qualifiers and onwards.

Honorable Mentions

4th Place- SKT T1 S

5th-8th Place- Jin Air Stealths, SKT T1 K, Najin Black Sword, Najin White Shield

NLB Winners- SKT T1 K

NLB Second Place- Najin Black Sword

KDA Winners (₩ 2,000,000 or $ 1,953)

Top- Samsung White Looper

Jungle- Samsung White Dandy

Mid- SKT T1 S Easyhoon

ADC- KT Arrows Arrow

Support- Samsung White Mata

It’s interesting that only one of the Finalists had a showing in the KDA winners list (Arrow of KT Arrows). It seems interesting also that three of the KDA winners were from Samsung White. It’s not terribly surprising after the 3rd place match featuring KDA’s such as Dandy’s 10-0-7 Rengar, though. On that note, however, Easyhoon managed to play safe enough that series and throughout the season to maintain a solid KDA. Arrow managed to go on several rampages during the Grand Finals, like his 11-2-12 Kog’maw in Game 5. This vaulted his KDA above Ohq, whose KDA was above Arrows by 2 prior to the Finals (Ohq’s 7.4 to Arrow’s 5.1).