One who can win any competition among many nationals can be regarded as a world championship. It is generally an international competition open to elite competitors from around the world, representing their nations, and winning such an event will be considered the highest or near highest achievement in the sport, game, or ability.
Gukesh Dommaraju is an Indian who featured in the 2024 FIDE World Championship in Singapore decides This event will determine the next world champion. 18-year-old Indian Challenger Gukesh Dommaraju takes on Chinese Defending Champion Ding Liren in a 14-game match, with the first to 7.5 points winning. The players have two hours for 40 moves, then 30 minutes to the end of the game, with 30 seconds added each move from move 41 onwards. The prize fund is $2,500,000, with $200,000 for a win and the remaining money split equally
The League of Legends World Championship 2024 (also known as LoL Worlds 2024 or just Worlds 2024) is the crowning event of League of Legends esports for the year. The tournament includes 20 teams from all regions of the game in a months-long race for the Summoner’s Cup.
The tournament will start the Play-Ins and Swiss Stages in the Riot Games Arena in Berlin, Germany. For the Knockout Stage the event moves to the Adidas Arena in Paris, France and the Grand Finals will be played in the O2 Arena in London, England.
Still other competitions, most commonly in professional sports, may or may not have a true world championship but may designate the winners of a domestic competition to be “world champions”. This is especially true of the “Big Four” major professional sports leagues in the United States and Canada; world cups and championships exist in all four of the major sports, but the domestic U.S. and Canadian leagues are generally known as the world professional championships (due to the best players worldwide being in the league itself) (as with the Stanley Cup, ostensibly an independent championship for ice hockey but under the de facto control of the National Hockey League through two trustees who since no later than 1947 have been NHL loyalists) or the equivalent of a world club championship.
In American football, although an IFAF World Championship exists, the United States is so far above and beyond the other nations it faces that the winner of the U.S.-based Super Bowl, a competition limited to the 32 teams in the National Football League, is commonly nicknamed as the world champion by the players, the press and fans alike; the NFL itself explicitly marketed the contest as a world championship in its first iterations.[1] Winners of the Major League Baseball‘s World Series are also commonly called world champions. Outside of the Big Four leagues, winners of the Women’s National Basketball Association, much like its men’s counterpart, commonly call themselves world champions, as with the winners of the National Lacrosse League and Drum Corps International