League of Legends Worlds 2025 Set Across Multiple Chinese Cities

The 2025 League of Legends World Championship, marking the 15th anniversary of competitive League of Legends, will be hosted across four major Chinese cities from October 14 to November 9. The tournament begins with the Play-In Stage at the Beijing Smart Esports Center, featuring a new best-of-five format where the fourth-seeded teams from Korea's LCK and China's LPL compete for the final Swiss Stage berths. Following this, sixteen teams will compete in a Swiss-style group stage in Beijing, with the top eight advancing to the Knockout Stage held at Shanghai's Mercedes-Benz Arena, where quarterfinals and semifinals will be held on consecutive days without breaks for the first time. The championship finals will be held in Chengdu at the Dong’an Lake Sports Park Multifunctional Gymnasium, which seats 18,000 spectators. Seventeen teams from five major regions—Korea, China, Europe, the Pacific, and the Americas—will compete, with Korea and China each sending four teams due to their strong performances at the Mid-Season Invitational. This event highlights China's growing esports sector and Riot Games’ continued commitment to staging world-class esports tournaments in Asia.