In the five years since its first World Championship, League of Legends has gone from a budding game to an esports juggernaut known the world over. What started out as a small, $100,000 event, has ballooned into one of the most prestigious, popular tournaments in all of esports.

With this year's World Championship promising to be one of the best yet, we thought it was only right to look back on the previous iterations of the tournament and take a look at the road that brought us to now.

Here is a history of the World Championship.

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