It’s finally Worlds time! All regional splits have concluded, and with them, the 17 LoL World Championship participants have been selected. Here’s a breakdown of all LoL Worlds qualified teams, alongside a quick preview to get you up to speed before the tournament kicks off and the best LoL players start to show off their skills!
The 17 teams at the 2025 Worlds are the following (with their qualification date alongside):
*T1 has won against iG in the play-ins, so the team is the confirmed 16th participant to the main event of the 2025 LoL Worlds.
*Invictus Gaming has lost its play-ins match against T1. As such, iG only made it to the play-ins and will not continue in the main event of the 2025 LoL Worlds.
As a reminder, the *4th seeds from China and Korea are not yet qualified for the Worlds main event, and instead compete in the play-ins for the final Swiss stage spot. T1 and iG will play one BO5 against each other on October 14th, and the winner will advance to the main event.
The loser, on the other hand, will have the honor of being the first ever team from the LCK or LPL to return to the airport without even entering the top 16.
Update: Invictus Gaming is now the holder of the Airport Speedrun record in China, having lost the play-ins match against T1.
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The LCK enters Worlds as the favorites once again, arriving off the back of 3 consecutive World Championship trophies, and of an equally dominant 2025 season.
GenG, Korea’s first seed, has shown itself to be one of the strongest teams in the history of League, conceding only one BO3 to T1 and one BO5 to KT since the start of Spring split – that’s a total of 40 matches won for only 2 losses (and close ones at that). They have been the heavy favourites all year long, and continue to be so at Worlds.
Behind them come HLE and KT. HLE is a force to be reckoned with on the international stage, and the only reason they aren’t talked about is because GenG exists.
As for KT, they’ve kept doing what they’ve always done: random things with random outcomes. Knocking GenG into the lower bracket of playoffs right before getting 3-0’d by HLE is, at this point, expected from them. They’ve done their usual, except this time, it’s been enough for them to reach the League of Legends World Championship.
And as the fourth seed, we have T1. T1 has looked shaky, pale in comparison to their glory days. But they’re at Worlds. And we’ve seen that story time after time – it doesn’t matter what shape T1 has been in regionally; if they make it to Worlds, they always finish top 4.
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The LPL presents three teams of very similar level (and then IG). Although BLG, AL, or TES haven’t been hyped up, they’re definitely a cut above the West, but all of them enter as underdogs against all four Korean teams.
With the merger of the North and South tournaments in America, the LTA North and South can only send up to two teams each, for a total of three. FlyQuest, first seed and North Conference champion, has been the undisputed best team of North America throughout most of the year and the entirety of Summer. With their commitment to their own playstyle, they’ve been head and shoulders above the rest of America and are ready to be Worlds’ dark horse once more.
100Thieves is… “just an American team”, in comparison. They’re there, but little hope is placed on them. The fact that their last performance was a loss to Brazil solidified that.
As for VKS, they’ve shown that the LTAS is on par with the rest of the LTAN: they can duke it out among themselves, but they’re all clearly below FQ. Still a clear improvement over a couple of years ago, but it doesn’t seem to be enough to go far at Worlds either.
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The LEC! Where everyone beats everyone, and in the end… nothing happens? G2 has reclaimed their usual spot at the top of the league, but they’ve failed to make any strides internationally for quite some time, making it hard to put a lot of faith in them.
And MKOI and Fnatic are in the same boat, except… closer to the part that’s sinking underwater.
The LCP has been a weaker region for many years now. However, in 2025, CFO has changed that, becoming a major threat at both of the previous international events this year, and definitely on par with the other four major regions. They’ve easily qualified for Worlds as the LCP’s first seed, where they will once again be this team of unknown level, that may be able to take T1 to 5 games and knock out teams from any other league.
The rest of the region, however, is one clear step behind. All year long, the second and third spots were closely fought over by TSW, GAM, and TLN. TSW and TLN claimed them for Worlds, but they shouldn’t be more of a factor there than GAM was at MSI.
You’re now up to speed on all the 2025 LoL Worlds qualified teams! You can check the LoL Worlds schedule for information on when each matchup happens.
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