17 of the world's best League of Legends teams descend on China for the 2025 World Championships in Beijing, Shanghai and Chengdu.
T1 defeated BLG 3-2 in the 2024 final to extend their record of most World Championships won by a single team, with Lee "Faker" Sang-hyeok also becoming the first player to win five titles.
Dates
The 2025 League of Legends World Championships will start on Tuesday 14th October and culminate with the final on Sunday 9th November.
Location
China is hosting the 2025 League of Legends World Championships, with three host cities sharing the action as below:
- Beijing - Play-In & Swiss Stages
- Shangai - Quarter Finals & Semi Finals
- Chengdu - Final
Prize Money
The purse for the 2025 League of Legends World Championships is set at $5,000,000, more than double the $2.225m that was shared in 2024.
Teams
The teams that will compete in the 2025 League of Legends World Championship are as follows:
- Gen. G
- Hanwha Life Esports
- KT Rolster
- CTBC Flying Oyster
- Secret Whales
- PSG Talon
- G2 Esports
- Movistar KOI
- Fnatic
- Bilibili Gaming
- Anyone's Legend
- Top Esports
- FlyQuest
- Vivo Keyd Stars
- 100 Thieves
- T1
- Invictus Gaming
T1 and Invictus Gaming will face each other in the play-in stage in Beijing. The winner will then progress to the Swiss Stage, where they will be joined by the remaining 15 teams.
Format
As aforementioned, two teams will play each other in a best-of-five match in the play-in stage for a place in the Swiss Stage.
The Swiss Stage is then competed by 16 teams, where the first eight teams to pick up three wins will progress to the knockouts.
The knockouts are expected to be a best-of-five format, and will operate as normal with quarter finals, semi finals and culminating in a final.
The 2025 Championships is also the first to adopt a 'Fearless Draft' format, where champions that have been played by either team become unavailable for the remainder of the series. It will be used for all best-of-three and best-of-five series throughout the competition.
