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2025 Mid-Season Invitational
The event stage inside Pacific Coliseum
Tournament information
SportLeague of Legends
LocationVancouver, Canada
DatesJune 27–July 12, 2025
AdministratorRiot Games
Venue(s)Pacific Coliseum
Teams10
PurseUS$2,000,000
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The 2025 Mid-Season Invitational is the tenth iteration of the Mid-Season Invitational (MSI), a Riot Games-organized tournament for League of Legends, a multiplayer online battle arena video game. The tournament is being played in Vancouver, Canada from June 27 to July 12, 2025, and is the first edition of the tournament to feature the Fearless Draft format,[1] and the first to be staged under the game's new competitive esports calendar since 2025.[2]

It is Canada's first hosting of an international League of Legends competition, with the tournament winners securing their slot at the 2025 World Championship.[a]

Gen.G of the League of Legends Champions Korea (LCK) are the defending champions.[3]

Host selection

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During the media day for the 2024 League of Legends World Championship Final at The O2 Arena in London, United Kingdom on November 1, 2024, Riot Games announced that the 2025 edition of the Mid-Season Invitational will take place in Canada, with the host city being determined at the start of the 2025 competitive calendar. This will be Canada's first hosting of a major League of Legends tournament since the Finals of the 2017 North American League Championship Series (NA LCS) Spring Split, when it was held at the Pacific Coliseum in Vancouver, Canada.[4]

Canada was originally slated to host the semi-final stage of the 2022 League of Legends World Championship at the Scotiabank Arena, Toronto.[5] However, due to the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic in Canada on securing multi-entry visas, Riot Games announced the State Farm Arena in Atlanta, United States as its replacement venue.[6]

Qualification

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The League of Legends Champions Korea (LCK), League of Legends Pro League (LPL), League of Legends EMEA Championship (LEC), League of Legends Championship of The Americas (LTA), and the League of Legends Championship Pacific (LCP) have two qualified teams each.[2] The LCK, by virtue of Hanwha Life Esports winning the First Stand Tournament, has its two qualified teams placed in the Bracket Stage, while the other four regions each having one team in the Play-In and one team in the Bracket Stage.

This is the first Mid-Season Invitational featuring the LCP, a new Asia-Pacific league consisting of a merger between the Pacific Championship Series (PCS), Vietnam Championship Series (VCS), League of Legends Japan League (LJL) and League of Legends Circuit Oceania (LCO), and the LTA, a merger between the League Championship Series (LCS), Campeonato Brasileiro de League of Legends (CBLOL), and Liga Latinoamérica (LLA).

Qualified teams

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All qualified teams also advanced to the League of Legends tournament of the 2025 Esports World Cup. On May 26, 2025, G2 Esports of the LEC became the first team to qualify for the tournament, with CTBC Flying Oyster of the LCP following suit on June 1. Six days later on June 7, GAM Esports of the LCP and Movistar KOI of the LEC completed the list of qualified teams in their respective regions. The LPL's Anyone's Legend became the first team from the region to qualify on June 9, with Bilibili Gaming also confirming their qualification four days later on June 13.

Defending champions Gen.G of the LCK advanced to the tournament on June 13, with T1 of the LCK, FlyQuest of the LTA North, and FURIA of the LTA South completing the list of qualified teams on June 15.

Starting in the bracket stage
Region League Team Path Seed
South Korea LCK Gen.G Road to MSI Qualification Match 1 winner 1
T1 Road to MSI Qualification Match 2 winner 2
Asia-Pacific LCP CTBC Flying Oyster Mid-Season champion 1
Europe LEC Movistar KOI Spring Split champion 1
China LPL Anyone's Legend Stage 2 champion 1
Americas LTA FlyQuest LTA North Split 2 champion 1
Starting in the play-in stage
Region League Team Path Seed
Asia-Pacific LCP GAM Esports Mid-Season runner-up 2
Europe LEC G2 Esports Spring Split runner-up 2
China LPL Bilibili Gaming Stage 2 runner-up 2
Americas LTA FURIA LTA South Split 2 champion 2

Venue

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On January 8, 2025, Vancouver was announced as the host city in a development update video published to Riot Games' social media channels to commence the 2025 competitive season.[7][8] The Pacific Coliseum, which was the site of 2017 NA LCS Spring Finals, was chosen as the venue of the tournament on March 20, 2025.[9]

Vancouver, Canada
Pacific Coliseum
Capacity: 17,500
2025 Mid-Season Invitational is located in Canada
Vancouver
Vancouver
2025 Mid-Season Invitational (Canada)

Format

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All matches in the tournament across both play-in and bracket stages are best-of-five series.

Four of the ten teams started in the play-in stage — the second seeds from the LCP, LEC, and LPL, and the LTA South champions. Teams competed in a GSL-style double-elimination bracket and were seeded based on their region's performance during the 2025 First Stand Tournament, with the first two teams earning two wins advancing to the bracket stage. The two qualified teams from the play-in stage joined the top two seeds from the LCK, the first seeds from the LCP, LEC, and LPL, and the LTA North champions, where they will compete in a double-elimination bracket. Matchups were determined at the conclusion of the play-in stage. The winning team of MSI 2025 will qualify for the 2025 League of Legends World Championship, while the second-best performing region will also have an additional slot in the said tournament.[10]

The 2025 Mid-Season Invitational is the first edition of the tournament to adopt the Fearless Draft format. Fearless Draft is an evolution of the traditional pick/ban system wherein champions picked in previous games of a best-of-series become unavailable for both teams in subsequent games.[11] While Fearless Draft was originally intended to only be used during the first split of the season, Riot Games announced prior to the First Stand Tournament final that the rules would apply for the rest of the year after it received "overwhelming" positive feedback during the period.[1]

Play-in stage

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G2 Esports after defeating FURIA
  • Date and time: June 27–29, began at 17:00 PDT (00:00 UTC)[12]
    • Excluding games scheduled on June 27–28, which will begin at 12:00 PDT (19:00 UTC).
  • Four teams placed in a GSL-style double-elimination format
  • Seeding based on results from the 2025 First Stand Tournament
    • 2nd place: LEC; 3rd place: LCP; 4th place: LPL; 5th place: LTA
  • All matches are best-of-five.
  • Teams that earn two wins will advance to the bracket stage

Bracket

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Round 1Round 2Advance to bracket stage
June 27, 12:00 PDT
G2 Esports3
June 28, 17:00 PDT
FURIA2
G2 Esports0
June 27, 17:00 PDTBilibili Gaming
Bilibili Gaming3
Bilibili Gaming3
GAM Esports0
Lower Round 1Lower Round 2
June 29, 17:00 PDT
June 28, 12:00 PDTG2 Esports3
G2 Esports
FURIA2GAM Esports2
GAM Esports3

Source: LoL Esports

Matches

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Round 1
Match 1 		June 27 G2 Esports 3 – 2 FURIA Vancouver, Canada
12:00 (UTC-8)    Recap Pacific Coliseum
K/D/A: 4/17/6
Gold: 47.1K
Turrets: 4
Drakes: 1
Elder Dragons: 0
Barons: 0
Rift Heralds: 1
Voidgrubs: 0
Game 1
28:06
FUR leads series 1–0 		K/D/A: 17/4/43
Gold: 55.1K
Turrets: 7
Drakes: 3
Elder Dragons: 0
Barons: 1
Rift Heralds: 0
Voidgrubs: 3
K/D/A: 25/9/54
Gold: 72.4K
Turrets: 11
Drakes: 3
Elder Dragons: 0
Barons: 2
Rift Heralds: 1
Voidgrubs: 3
Game 2
34:34
Series tied 1–1 		K/D/A: 9/25/11
Gold: 60.4K
Turrets: 3
Drakes: 1
Elder Dragons: 0
Barons: 0
Rift Heralds: 0
Voidgrubs: 0
K/D/A: 21/17/50
Gold: 70.6K
Turrets: 10
Drakes: 2
Elder Dragons: 0
Barons: 1
Rift Heralds: 1
Voidgrubs: 0
Game 3
36:57
G2 leads series 2–1 		K/D/A: 17/21/36
Gold: 64.8K
Turrets: 4
Drakes: 3
Elder Dragons: 0
Barons: 1
Rift Heralds: 0
Voidgrubs: 3
K/D/A: 9/30/22
Gold: 54.0K
Turrets: 3
Drakes: 2
Elder Dragons: 0
Barons: 0
Rift Heralds: 1
Voidgrubs: 1
Game 4
31:22
Series tied 2–2 		K/D/A: 30/9/66
Gold: 64.1K
Turrets: 8
Drakes: 2
Elder Dragons: 0
Barons: 0
Rift Heralds: 0
Voidgrubs: 2
K/D/A: 20/3/50
Gold: 63.7K
Turrets: 10
Drakes: 4
Elder Dragons: 0
Barons: 1
Rift Heralds: 1
Voidgrubs: 0 		Game 5
30:20
G2 wins series 3–2 		K/D/A: 3/20/5
Gold: 47.7K
Turrets: 2
Drakes: 1
Elder Dragons: 0
Barons: 0
Rift Heralds: 0
Voidgrubs: 3
Round 1
Match 2 		June 27 Bilibili Gaming 3 – 0 GAM Esports Vancouver, Canada
17:00 (UTC-8)    Recap Pacific Coliseum
K/D/A: 22/8/60
Gold: 59.0K
Turrets: 8
Drakes: 4
Elder Dragons: 0
Barons: 0
Rift Heralds: 1
Voidgrubs: 2
Game 1
29:21
BLG leads series 1–0 		K/D/A: 8/22/14
Gold: 46.4K
Turrets: 0
Drakes: 0
Elder Dragons: 0
Barons: 0
Rift Heralds: 0
Voidgrubs: 1
K/D/A: 22/11/68
Gold: 62.5K
Turrets: 9
Drakes: 4
Elder Dragons: 0
Barons: 1
Rift Heralds: 0
Voidgrubs: 0
Game 2
31:24
BLG leads series 2–0 		K/D/A: 11/22/33
Gold: 51.4K
Turrets: 3
Drakes: 0
Elder Dragons: 0
Barons: 0
Rift Heralds: 1
Voidgrubs: 3
K/D/A: 29/9/52
Gold: 58.3K
Turrets: 10
Drakes: 4
Elder Dragons: 0
Barons: 0
Rift Heralds: 1
Voidgrubs: 3 		Game 3
25:42
BLG wins series 3–0 		K/D/A: 9/29/20
Gold: 42.9K
Turrets: 0
Drakes: 0
Elder Dragons: 0
Barons: 0
Rift Heralds: 0
Voidgrubs: 0
Lower Round 1
Match 3 		June 28 FURIA 2 – 3 GAM Esports Vancouver, Canada
12:00 (UTC-8)    Recap Pacific Coliseum
K/D/A: 16/30/43
Gold: 78.8K
Turrets: 5
Drakes: 2
Elder Dragons: 0
Barons: 1
Rift Heralds: 0
Voidgrubs: 0
Game 1
45:17
GAM leads series 1–0 		K/D/A: 30/16/91
Gold: 86.1K
Turrets: 8
Drakes: 4
Elder Dragons: 1
Barons: 1
Rift Heralds: 1
Voidgrubs: 3
K/D/A: 23/4/47
Gold: 58.3K
Turrets: 11
Drakes: 3<br>Elder Dragons: 0
Barons: 1
Rift Heralds: 1
Voidgrubs: 2
Game 2
27:18
Series tied 1–1 		K/D/A: 4/23/9
Gold: 44.6K
Turrets: 1
Drakes: 1
Elder Dragons: 0
Barons: 0
Rift Heralds: 0
Voidgrubs: 1
K/D/A: 14/6/38
Gold: 55.0K
Turrets: 9
Drakes: 2
Elder Dragons: 0
Barons: 1
Rift Heralds: 0
Voidgrubs: 3
Game 3
27:50
FUR leads series 2–1 		K/D/A: 6/15/10
Gold: 48.7K
Turrets: 5
Drakes: 2
Elder Dragons: 0
Barons: 0
Rift Heralds: 1
Voidgrubs: 0
K/D/A: 9/22/20
Gold: 58.9K
Turrets: 3
Drakes: 2
Elder Dragons: 0
Barons: 0
Rift Heralds: 0
Voidgrubs: 0
Game 4
35:05
Series tied 2–2 		K/D/A: 22/9/53
Gold: 69.0K
Turrets: 8
Drakes: 3
Elder Dragons: 0
Barons: 1
Rift Heralds: 1
Voidgrubs: 3
K/D/A: 6/19/17
Gold: 58.9K
Turrets: 2
Drakes: 1
Elder Dragons: 0
Barons: 1
Rift Heralds: 0
Voidgrubs: 3 		Game 5
36:32
GAM wins series 3–2 		K/D/A: 19/6/51
Gold: 72.5K
Turrets: 9
Drakes: 4
Elder Dragons: 1
Barons: 0
Rift Heralds: 1
Voidgrubs: 3
Round 2
Match 4 		June 28 G2 Esports 0 – 3 Bilibili Gaming Vancouver, Canada
17:00 (UTC-8)    Recap Pacific Coliseum
K/D/A: 11/18/27
Gold: 61.9K
Turrets: 7
Drakes: 2
Elder Dragons: 0
Barons: 0
Rift Heralds: 0
Voidgrubs: 2
Game 1
35:21
BLG leads series 1–0 		K/D/A: 18/11/37
Gold: 67.1K
Turrets: 10
Drakes: 2
Elder Dragons: 0
Barons: 1
Rift Heralds: 1
Voidgrubs: 1
K/D/A: 9/20/20
Gold: 51.9K
Turrets: 3
Drakes: 0
Elder Dragons: 0
Barons: 0
Rift Heralds: 0
Voidgrubs: 2
Game 2
30:07
BLG leads series 2–0 		K/D/A: 20/9/39
Gold: 59.4K
Turrets: 9
Drakes: 4
Elder Dragons: 0
Barons: 1
Rift Heralds: 1
Voidgrubs: 1
K/D/A: 2/17/3
Gold: 54.6K
Turrets: 3
Drakes: 1
Elder Dragons: 0
Barons: 0
Rift Heralds: 0
Voidgrubs: 3 		Game 3
33:28
BLG wins series 3–0 		K/D/A: 17/2/41
Gold: 67.9K
Turrets: 10
Drakes: 3
Elder Dragons: 0
Barons: 1
Rift Heralds: 1
Voidgrubs: 0
Lower Round 2
Match 5 		June 29 G2 Esports 3 – 2 GAM Esports Vancouver, Canada
17:00 (UTC-8)     Pacific Coliseum
K/D/A: 14/10/44
Gold: 57.4K
Turrets: 8
Drakes: 2
Elder Dragons: 0
Barons: 0
Rift Heralds: 1
Voidgrubs: 3
Game 1
28:48
G2 leads series 1–0 		K/D/A: 10/14/20
Gold: 50.3K
Turrets: 4
Drakes: 1
Elder Dragons: 0
Barons: 0
Rift Heralds: 0
Voidgrubs: 3
K/D/A: 25/12/60
Gold: 66.8K
Turrets: 11
Drakes: 2
Elder Dragons: 0
Barons: 1
Rift Heralds: 0
Voidgrubs: 1
Game 2
31:28
G2 leads series 2–0 		K/D/A: 12/25/31
Gold: 55.6K
Turrets: 3
Drakes: 3
Elder Dragons: 0
Barons: 0
Rift Heralds: 1
Voidgrubs: 2
K/D/A: 6/18/7
Gold: 57.6K
Turrets: 6
Drakes: 2
Elder Dragons: 0
Barons: 0
Rift Heralds: 1
Voidgrubs: 3
Game 3
32:38
G2 leads series 2–1 		K/D/A: 18/6/39
Gold: 66.4K
Turrets: 9
Drakes: 3
Elder Dragons: 0
Barons: 1
Rift Heralds: 0
Voidgrubs: 0
K/D/A: 5/15/5
Gold: 55.1K
Turrets: 4
Drakes: 0
Elder Dragons: 0
Barons: 0
Rift Heralds: 0
Voidgrubs: 3
Game 4
32:57
Series tied 2–2 		K/D/A: 15/5/40
Gold: 63.7K
Turrets: 7
Drakes: 4
Elder Dragons: 1
Barons: 1
Rift Heralds: 1
Voidgrubs: 0
K/D/A: 11/2/31
Gold: 66.1K
Turrets: 10
Drakes: 3
Elder Dragons: 0
Barons: 1
Rift Heralds: 1
Voidgrubs: 3 		Game 5
35:24
G2 wins series 3–2 		K/D/A: 2/11/41
Gold: 55.1K
Turrets: 3
Drakes: 2
Elder Dragons: 0
Barons: 0
Rift Heralds: 0
Voidgrubs: 0

Bracket stage

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T1 preparing for their match against Bilibili Gaming (Oner, Faker, Gumayusi, and Keria pictured above)

Draw

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Following the conclusion of the play-in stage, a draw was originally scheduled to be conducted for the bracket stage. The eight qualified teams were divided into the following four tiers:[13]

As G2 and BLG were able to qualify for the bracket stage, no draw was conducted to ensure no intra-regional matches can take place in the first rounds of both upper and lower brackets, and the first round of the latter. Hence, T1 and Gen.G of the LCK, and Anyone's Legend and Bilibili Gaming of the LPL are in opposite brackets each.

Bracket

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  • Date and time: July 1–12, will begin at 17:00 PDT (00:00 UTC)[12]
    • Excluding games scheduled on July 3–5, which will begin at 12:00 PDT (19:00 UTC).
  • Eight teams will be drawn into four tiers where teams in Tier 1 will face teams from Tier 4, while teams from Tier 2 will go up against teams from Tier 3
  • Teams from the same region are to be placed on opposite bracket sides
  • Double elimination; all matches are best-of-five.
Upper Round 1Upper Round 2Upper FinalGrand Final
July 1, 17:00 PDT
Gen.G3
July 4, 15:00 PDT
G2 Esports1
Gen.G3
July 2, 17:00 PDT
Anyone's Legend2
Anyone's Legend3
July 9, 17:00 PDT
FlyQuest1
Gen.G3
July 3, 16:00 PDT
T12
CTBC Flying Oyster2
July 5, 16:00 PDT
T13
T13
July 3, 12:00 PDT
Bilibili Gaming0
Movistar KOI1July 12, 17:00 PDT
Bilibili Gaming3Gen.G
Lower Round 1Lower Round 2Lower Round 3Lower Final
July 8, 17:00 PDT
July 4, 12:00 PDTBilibili Gaming3July 11, 17:00 PDT
G2 Esports0FlyQuest2July 10, 17:00 PDTT1
FlyQuest3Bilibili Gaming
July 7, 17:00 PDTAnyone's Legend
July 5, 12:00 PDTAnyone's Legend3
CTBC Flying Oyster3CTBC Flying Oyster1
Movistar KOI1

Source: LoL Esports

Matches

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Upper Round 1
Match 6 		July 1 Gen.G 3 – 1 G2 Esports Vancouver, Canada
17:00 (UTC-8)     Pacific Coliseum
K/D/A: 4/22/8
Gold: 52.8K
Turrets: 2
Drakes: 0
Elder Dragons: 0
Barons: 1
Rift Heralds: 1
Voidgrubs: 3
Game 1
32:08
G2 leads series 1–0 		K/D/A: 22/4/61
Gold: 65.1K
Turrets: 9
Drakes: 4
Elder Dragons: 1
Barons: 0
Rift Heralds: 0
Voidgrubs: 0
K/D/A: 27/11/64
Gold: 69.6K
Turrets: 11
Drakes: 4
Elder Dragons: 0
Barons: 1
Rift Heralds: 1
Voidgrubs: 3
Game 2
31:59
Series tied 1–1 		K/D/A: 11/27/31
Gold: 53.1K
Turrets: 0
Drakes: 1
Elder Dragons: 0
Barons: 0
Rift Heralds: 0
Voidgrubs: 0
K/D/A: 14/3/20
Gold: 54.7K
Turrets: 8
Drakes: 3
Elder Dragons: 0
Barons: 0
Rift Heralds: 1
Voidgrubs: 3
Game 3
27:25
GEN leads series 2–1 		K/D/A: 3/14/4
Gold: 43.1K
Turrets: 1
Drakes: 1
Elder Dragons: 0
Barons: 0
Rift Heralds: 0
Voidgrubs: 0
K/D/A: 16/11/34
Gold: 61.1K
Turrets: 10
Drakes: 3
Elder Dragons: 0
Barons: 1
Rift Heralds: 1
Voidgrubs: 3 		Game 4
30:36
GEN wins series 3–1 		K/D/A: 11/16/23
Gold: 53.3K
Turrets: 1
Drakes: 2
Elder Dragons: 0
Barons: 0
Rift Heralds: 0
Voidgrubs: 0
Upper Round 1
Match 7 		July 2 Anyone's Legend 3 – 1 FlyQuest Vancouver, Canada
17:00 (UTC-8)     Pacific Coliseum
K/D/A: 7/28/15
Gold: 59.1K
Turrets: 2
Drakes: 1
Elder Dragons: 0
Barons: 0
Rift Heralds: 1
Voidgrubs: 3
Game 1
35:36
FLY leads series 1–0 		K/D/A: 28/7/79
Gold: 72.1K
Turrets: 9
Drakes: 4
Elder Dragons: 0
Barons: 2
Rift Heralds: 0
Voidgrubs: 0
K/D/A: 18/6/34
Gold: 59.1K
Turrets: 11
Drakes: 3
Elder Dragons: 0
Barons: 1
Rift Heralds: 1
Voidgrubs: 3
Game 2
27:47
Series tied 1–1 		K/D/A: 6/18/9
Gold: 45.1K
Turrets: 1
Drakes: 0
Elder Dragons: 0
Barons: 0
Rift Heralds: 0
Voidgrubs: 0
K/D/A: 20/14/63
Gold: 72.0K
Turrets: 9
Drakes: 4
Elder Dragons: 0
Barons: 2
Rift Heralds: 1
Voidgrubs: 3
Game 3
35:23
AL leads series 2–1 		K/D/A: 14/20/39
Gold: 66.7K
Turrets: 3
Drakes: 0
Elder Dragons: 0
Barons: 0
Rift Heralds: 0
Voidgrubs: 0
K/D/A: 33/12/77
Gold: 71.0K
Turrets: 9
Drakes: 2
Elder Dragons: 0
Barons: 1
Rift Heralds: 1
Voidgrubs: 3
Game 4
32:57
AL wins series 3–1 		K/D/A: 12/33/29
Gold: 66.7K
Turrets: 2
Drakes: 2
Elder Dragons: 0
Barons: 0
Rift Heralds: 0
Voidgrubs: 0
Upper Round 1
Match 8 		July 3 Movistar KOI 1 – 3 Bilibili Gaming Vancouver, Canada
12:00 (UTC-8)     Pacific Coliseum
K/D/A: 10/23/28
Gold: 59.7K
Turrets: 0
Drakes: 1
Elder Dragons: 0
Barons: 0
Rift Heralds: 0
Voidgrubs: 1
Game 1
36:23
BLG leads series 1–0 		K/D/A: 23/10/55
Gold: 75.7K
Turrets: 10
Drakes: 4
Elder Dragons: 0
Barons: 1
Rift Heralds: 1
Voidgrubs: 2
K/D/A: 22/10/43
Gold: 63.5K
Turrets: 9
Drakes: 2
Elder Dragons: 0
Barons: 1
Rift Heralds: 1
Voidgrubs: 0
Game 2
30:38
Series tied 1–1 		K/D/A: 10/22/24
Gold: 51.7K
Turrets: 2
Drakes: 2
Elder Dragons: 0
Barons: 0
Rift Heralds: 0
Voidgrubs: 3
K/D/A: 7/17/20
Gold: 64.5K
Turrets: 2
Drakes: 0
Elder Dragons: 0
Barons: 1
Rift Heralds: 0
Voidgrubs: 0
Game 3
37:21
BLG leads series 2–1 		K/D/A: 17/7/32
Gold: 75.4K
Turrets: 10
Drakes: 4
Elder Dragons: 1
Barons: 1
Rift Heralds: 1
Voidgrubs: 3
K/D/A: 11/9/23
Gold: 72.8K
Turrets: 5
Drakes: 4
Elder Dragons: 0
Barons: 1
Rift Heralds: 1
Voidgrubs: 0 		Game 4
40:04
BLG wins series 3–1 		K/D/A: 9/11/27
Gold: 72.8K
Turrets: 7
Drakes: 2
Elder Dragons: 0
Barons: 1
Rift Heralds: 0
Voidgrubs: 3
Upper Round 1
Match 9 		July 3 CTBC Flying Oyster 2 – 3 T1 Vancouver, Canada
16:00 (UTC-8)     Pacific Coliseum
K/D/A: 15/26/29
Gold: 64.8K
Turrets: 2
Drakes: 2
Elder Dragons: 0
Barons: 1
Rift Heralds: 1
Voidgrubs: 2
Game 1
36:36
T1 leads series 1–0 		K/D/A: 26/15/58
Gold: 77.2K
Turrets: 10
Drakes: 3
Elder Dragons: 0
Barons: 1
Rift Heralds: 0
Voidgrubs: 1
K/D/A: 24/3/63
Gold: 59.4K
Turrets: 10
Drakes: 2
Elder Dragons: 0
Barons: 1
Rift Heralds: 1
Voidgrubs: 2
Game 2
27:55
Series tied 1–1 		K/D/A: 3/24/5
Gold: 42.8K
Turrets: 0
Drakes: 2
Elder Dragons: 0
Barons: 0
Rift Heralds: 0
Voidgrubs: 1
K/D/A: 20/6/55
Gold: 58.9K
Turrets: 9
Drakes: 4
Elder Dragons: 0
Barons: 1
Rift Heralds: 1
Voidgrubs: 3
Game 3
29:47
CFO leads series 2–1 		K/D/A: 6/20/16
Gold: 50.9K
Turrets: 3
Drakes: 0
Elder Dragons: 0
Barons: 0
Rift Heralds: 0
Voidgrubs: 0
K/D/A: 19/34/38
Gold: 68.4K
Turrets: 2
Drakes: 3
Elder Dragons: 0
Barons: 1
Rift Heralds: 0
Voidgrubs: 1
Game 4
38:03
Series tied 2–2 		K/D/A: 34/19/93
Gold: 76.7K
Turrets: 8
Drakes: 3
Elder Dragons: 0
Barons: 0
Rift Heralds: 1
Voidgrubs: 2
K/D/A: 3/21/7
Gold: 40.2K
Turrets: 1
Drakes: 2
Elder Dragons: 0
Barons: 0
Rift Heralds: 0
Voidgrubs: 1 		Game 5
25:00
T1 wins series 3–2 		K/D/A: 20/3/47
Gold: 53.3K
Turrets: 10
Drakes: 1
Elder Dragons: 0
Barons: 0
Rift Heralds: 1
Voidgrubs: 2
Lower Round 1
Match 10 		July 4 G2 Esports 0 – 3 FlyQuest Vancouver, Canada
12:00 (UTC-8)     Pacific Coliseum
K/D/A: 7/14/20
Gold: 63.7K
Turrets: 2
Drakes: 3
Elder Dragons: 0
Barons: 1
Rift Heralds: 0
Voidgrubs: 0
Game 1
38:43
FLY leads series 1–0 		K/D/A: 14/7/39
Gold: 71.1K
Turrets: 10
Drakes: 3
Elder Dragons: 0
Barons: 1
Rift Heralds: 1
Voidgrubs: 3
K/D/A: 15/24/34
Gold: 65.2K
Turrets: 4
Drakes: 1
Elder Dragons: 0
Barons: 0
Rift Heralds: 1
Voidgrubs: 0
Game 2
38:36
FLY leads series 2–0 		K/D/A: 23/15/62
Gold: 77.4K
Turrets: 9
Drakes: 4
Elder Dragons: 1
Barons: 2
Rift Heralds: 0
Voidgrubs: 3
K/D/A: 5/10/4
Gold: 47.2K
Turrets: 2
Drakes: 2
Elder Dragons: 0
Barons: 0
Rift Heralds: 0
Voidgrubs: 0 		Game 3
28:50
FLY wins series 3–0 		K/D/A: 10/5/26
Gold: 52.6K
Turrets: 7
Drakes: 1
Elder Dragons: 0
Barons: 0
Rift Heralds: 1
Voidgrubs: 3
Upper Round 2
Match 11 		July 4 Gen.G 3 – 2 Anyone's Legend Vancouver, Canada
15:00 (UTC-8)     Pacific Coliseum
K/D/A: 6/22/16
Gold: 42.6K
Turrets: 1
Drakes: 1
Elder Dragons: 0
Barons: 0
Rift Heralds: 0
Voidgrubs: 1
Game 1
27:09
AL leads series 1–0 		K/D/A: 22/6/58
Gold: 54.0K
Turrets: 7
Drakes: 2
Elder Dragons: 0
Barons: 0
Rift Heralds: 1
Voidgrubs: 2
K/D/A: 17/6/56
Gold: 58.6K
Turrets: 9
Drakes: 4
Elder Dragons: 0
Barons: 0
Rift Heralds: 0
Voidgrubs: 0
Game 2
28:56
Series tied 1–1 		K/D/A: 6/17/15
Gold: 50.3K
Turrets: 2
Drakes: 0
Elder Dragons: 0
Barons: 1
Rift Heralds: 1
Voidgrubs: 3
K/D/A: 17/10/50
Gold: 66.7K
Turrets: 8
Drakes: 3
Elder Dragons: 0
Barons: 1
Rift Heralds: 0
Voidgrubs: 0
Game 3
34:04
GEN leads series 2–1 		K/D/A: 10/17/22
Gold: 58.1K
Turrets: 1
Drakes: 2
Elder Dragons: 0
Barons: 0
Rift Heralds: 1
Voidgrubs: 3
K/D/A: 4/15/7
Gold: 48.6K
Turrets: 1
Drakes: 2
Elder Dragons: 0
Barons: 0
Rift Heralds: 0
Voidgrubs: 0
Game 4
30:58
Series tied 2–2 		K/D/A: 15/4/47
Gold: 63.0K
Turrets: 9
Drakes: 2
Elder Dragons: 0
Barons: 1
Rift Heralds: 1
Voidgrubs: 3
K/D/A: 19/6/58
Gold: 58.0K
Turrets: 8
Drakes: 3
Elder Dragons: 0
Barons: 1
Rift Heralds: 0
Voidgrubs: 2 		Game 5
28:44
GEN wins series 3–2 		K/D/A: 9/19/17
Gold: 47.0K
Turrets: 2
Drakes: 0
Elder Dragons: 0
Barons: 0
Rift Heralds: 1
Voidgrubs: 1
Lower Round 2
Match 12 		July 5 CTBC Flying Oyster 3 – 1 Movistar KOI Vancouver, Canada
12:00 (UTC-8)     Pacific Coliseum
K/D/A: 12/6/25
Gold: 70.5K
Turrets: 10
Drakes: 3
Elder Dragons: 0
Barons: 1
Rift Heralds: 1
Voidgrubs: 2
Game 1
37:04
CFO leads series 1–0 		K/D/A: 6/12/17
Gold: 61.9K
Turrets: 2
Drakes: 3
Elder Dragons: 0
Barons: 0
Rift Heralds: 0
Voidgrubs: 1
K/D/A: 21/7/59
Gold: 69.2K
Turrets: 10
Drakes: 4
Elder Dragons: 0
Barons: 2
Rift Heralds: 0
Voidgrubs: 1
Game 2
33:29
CFO leads series 2–0 		K/D/A: 7/21/13
Gold: 57.6K
Turrets: 2
Drakes: 1
Elder Dragons: 0
Barons: 0
Rift Heralds: 1
Voidgrubs: 2
K/D/A: 9/22/14
Gold: 48.2K
Turrets: 2
Drakes: 1
Elder Dragons: 0
Barons: 0
Rift Heralds: 0
Voidgrubs: 0
Game 3
27:49
CFO leads series 2–1 		K/D/A: 22/9/42
Gold: 59.3K
Turrets: 8
Drakes: 3
Elder Dragons: 0
Barons: 1
Rift Heralds: 1
Voidgrubs: 3
K/D/A: 14/6/34
Gold: 62.3K
Turrets: 9
Drakes: 4
Elder Dragons: 0
Barons: 1
Rift Heralds: 1
Voidgrubs: 3 		Game 4
31:58
CFO wins series 3–1 		K/D/A: 6/14/11
Gold: 52.1K
Turrets: 1
Drakes: 1
Elder Dragons: 0
Barons: 0
Rift Heralds: 0
Voidgrubs: 0
Upper Round 2
Match 13 		July 5 Bilibili Gaming 0 – 3 T1 Vancouver, Canada
16:00 (UTC-8)     Pacific Coliseum
K/D/A: 8/22/17
Gold: 43.3K
Turrets: 0
Drakes: 0
Elder Dragons: 0
Barons: 0
Rift Heralds: 0
Voidgrubs: 3
Game 1
26:57
T1 leads series 1–0 		K/D/A: 22/8/52
Gold: 56.3K
Turrets: 10
Drakes: 4
Elder Dragons: 0
Barons: 1
Rift Heralds: 1
Voidgrubs: 0
K/D/A: 11/16/20
Gold: 58.1K
Turrets: 3
Drakes: 1
Elder Dragons: 0
Barons: 0
Rift Heralds: 1
Voidgrubs: 3
Game 2
33:36
T1 leads series 2–0 		K/D/A: 16/11/42
Gold: 66.3K
Turrets: 9
Drakes: 4
Elder Dragons: 0
Barons: 1
Rift Heralds: 0
Voidgrubs: 0
K/D/A: 12/18/30
Gold: 57.2K
Turrets: 2
Drakes: 0
Elder Dragons: 0
Barons: 0
Rift Heralds: 1
Voidgrubs: 0 		Game 2
33:30
T1 wins series 3–0 		K/D/A: 18/12/49
Gold: 63.8K
Turrets: 9
Drakes: 4
Elder Dragons: 0
Barons: 1
Rift Heralds: 0
Voidgrubs: 3
Lower Round 2
Match 14 		July 7 Anyone's Legend 3 – 1 CTBC Flying Oyster Vancouver, Canada
17:00 (UTC-8)     Pacific Coliseum
K/D/A: 14/6/37
Gold: 66.1K
Turrets: 8
Drakes: 3
Elder Dragons: 0
Barons: 0
Rift Heralds: 1
Voidgrubs: 3
Game 1
35:35
AL leads series 1–0 		K/D/A: 6/14/10
Gold: 60.0K
Turrets: 2
Drakes: 3
Elder Dragons: 0
Barons: 0
Rift Heralds: 0
Voidgrubs: 0
K/D/A: 22/15/52
Gold: 80.5K
Turrets: 9
Drakes: 4
Elder Dragons: 1
Barons: 1
Rift Heralds: 1
Voidgrubs: 1
Game 2
41:29
AL leads series 2–0 		K/D/A: 15/22/39
Gold: 77.0K
Turrets: 7
Drakes: 0
Elder Dragons: 1
Barons: 2
Rift Heralds: 0
Voidgrubs: 2
K/D/A: 8/19/24
Gold: 55.5K
Turrets: 1
Drakes: 1
Elder Dragons: 0
Barons: 0
Rift Heralds: 0
Voidgrubs: 3
Game 3
33:29
AL leads series 2–1 		K/D/A: 19/8/45
Gold: 64.5K
Turrets: 8
Drakes: 4
Elder Dragons: 0
Barons: 1
Rift Heralds: 1
Voidgrubs: 0
K/D/A: 15/6/44
Gold: 59.7K
Turrets: 9
Drakes: 2
Elder Dragons: 0
Barons: 1
Rift Heralds: 0
Voidgrubs: 2 		Game 4
29:36
AL wins series 3–1 		K/D/A: 6/15/8
Gold: 47.6K
Turrets: 3
Drakes: 2
Elder Dragons: 0
Barons: 0
Rift Heralds: 1
Voidgrubs: 1
Lower Round 2
Match 15 		July 8 Bilibili Gaming 3 – 2 FlyQuest Vancouver, Canada
17:00 (UTC-8)     Pacific Coliseum
K/D/A: 9/23/23
Gold: 57.8K
Turrets: 2
Drakes: 3
Elder Dragons: 0
Barons: 0
Rift Heralds: 0
Voidgrubs: 3
Game 1
36:22
FLY leads series 1–0 		K/D/A: 23/9/54
Gold: 70.8K
Turrets: 11
Drakes: 2
Elder Dragons: 0
Barons: 1
Rift Heralds: 1
Voidgrubs: 0
K/D/A: 24/13/58
Gold: 63.3K
Turrets: 9
Drakes: 4
Elder Dragons: 0
Barons: 1
Rift Heralds: 1
Voidgrubs: 0
Game 2
30:04
Series tied 1–1 		K/D/A: 13/24/29
Gold: 51.6K
Turrets: 2
Drakes: 0
Elder Dragons: 0
Barons: 0
Rift Heralds: 0
Voidgrubs: 3
K/D/A: 21/20/54
Gold: 75.2K
Turrets: 10
Drakes: 3
Elder Dragons: 0
Barons: 1
Rift Heralds: 1
Voidgrubs: 3
Game 3
37:25
BLG leads series 2–1 		K/D/A: 20/21/59
Gold: 70.8K
Turrets: 5
Drakes: 3
Elder Dragons: 0
Barons: 1
Rift Heralds: 0
Voidgrubs: 0
K/D/A: 6/23/7
Gold: 48.0K
Turrets: 2
Drakes: 0
Elder Dragons: 0
Barons: 0
Rift Heralds: 0
Voidgrubs: 2
Game 4
28:21
Series tied 2–2 		K/D/A: 23/6/58
Gold: 57.1K
Turrets: 9
Drakes: 4
Elder Dragons: 0
Barons: 1
Rift Heralds: 1
Voidgrubs: 1
K/D/A: 31/5/83
Gold: 66.4K
Turrets: 11
Drakes: 4
Elder Dragons: 0
Barons: 1
Rift Heralds: 1
Voidgrubs: 3 		Game 5
31:31
BLG wins series 3–2 		K/D/A: 5/31/10
Gold: 46.9K
Turrets: 0
Drakes: 0
Elder Dragons: 0
Barons: 0
Rift Heralds: 0
Voidgrubs: 0
Upper Final
Match 16 		July 9 Gen.G 3 – 2 T1 Vancouver, Canada
17:00 (UTC-8)     Pacific Coliseum
K/D/A: 21/8/56
Gold: 68.5K
Turrets: 8
Drakes: 4
Elder Dragons: 0
Barons: 0
Rift Heralds: 1
Voidgrubs: 2
Game 1
35:30
GEN leads series 1–0 		K/D/A: 8/21/13
Gold: 59.1K
Turrets: 3
Drakes: 1
Elder Dragons: 0
Barons: 0
Rift Heralds: 0
Voidgrubs: 1
Lower Round 3
Match 17 		July 10 Bilibili Gaming v Anyone's Legend Vancouver, Canada
17:00 (UTC-8)     Pacific Coliseum
Lower Final
Match 18 		July 11 T1 v TBD, LPL Vancouver, Canada
17:00 (UTC-8)     Pacific Coliseum
Grand Final
Match 19 		July 12 Gen.G v TBD Vancouver, Canada
17:00 (UTC-8)     Pacific Coliseum

Ranking

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A base prize pool of US$2,000,000 is offered for the tournament. The prize pool is spread among the following final rankings as seen below:

Place Region Team Prize (%) Prize (USD)
1st 25% $500,000
2nd 15% $300,000
3rd 12% $240,000
4th LPL 10% $200,000
5th–6th LTA FlyQuest 8% $160,000
LCP CTBC Flying Oyster
7th–8th LEC Movistar KOI 6.5% $130,000
LEC G2 Esports
9th LCP GAM Esports 5% $100,000
10th LTA FURIA 4% $80,000

Marketing

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The tournament's official slogan, Ignite the Fire Within, was unveiled on June 17, 2025, alongside a format explainer video on YouTube.

Sponsorship

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Global partners

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Notes

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  1. ^ The automatic slots come into effect when the team qualifies for the playoffs of their region's third split. MSI 2024 champions Gen.G qualified for the 2024 World Championship after qualifying for the 2024 LCK Summer Split playoffs but formally qualified through championship points, a Worlds slot pre-requisite provided for the LCK at the time.

References

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