The League of Legends Worlds Championship 2025, the biggest event of the competitive season for Riot Games' MOBA, is here. With 17 teams this year, the tournament has a million-dollar prize pool and brings together the world's top professional players!

Divided into three stages - Play-In, Swiss Stage, and Knockout Stage - Worlds 2025 begins on October 14 and continues for almost a month, bringing together fans from around the world to follow the big moment of the League of Legends season.

Based in China, the World Championship will be held in three different arenas in the cities of Beijing, Shanghai, and Chengdu. So you don't miss any details about the tournament, we've put together the key facts about Worlds 2025, with information on dates, times, format, teams, prizes, and much more.

Worlds 2025 dates and schedules

Worlds 2025 will begin on October 14 and continue until November 9, offering nearly a month of excitement on the LoL servers. The tournament is divided into three phases and concludes by crowning the best team with the title of League of Legends world champion. See the dates below:

Most games start at 6 a.m. ET every day, except for October 15, 16, and 25, when they start at 3 a.m. ET, and the Knockout Stage, which starts at 5 a.m. ET.

Understand the format of Worlds 2025

The League of Legends Worlds Championship 2025 will take place in three distinct stages. The first is called the Play-In and features only two teams (T1 and Invictus Gaming), the last teams to qualify through their regions (LCK and LPL, respectively).

The second stage - the Swiss Stage - begins just one day after the Play-In Stage and brings together the 16 teams that qualified for the World Championship. Finally, the Knockout Stage will pit the eight best teams in the world against each other in knockout matches, with no chance of a comeback! Here is a summary of each stage:

Play-In

T1, seed #4 from the LCK, faces Invictus Gaming, seed #4 from the LPL, in a best-of-five match to determine who will be the first team eliminated from Worlds 2025 and who will advance to the Swiss Stage.

An interesting fact about this stage is that it takes place in Fearless Draft mode, meaning that teams cannot repeat characters that have already been used previously in the series, making the games much more exciting.

Swiss Stage

The Swiss Stage is the stage with the most matches in the World Championship, where the 16 teams face each other in daily games between October 15 and 25. The matches begin in best-of-one series, with higher-seeded teams facing lower-seeded teams. From then on, teams with the same results continue to face each other until they reach three wins - guaranteeing qualification for the Knockout Stage - or suffer three losses - being eliminated from the tournament.

To add more excitement and raise the level of the series during the Swiss Stage, only non-elimination/qualifying matches will be played in a best-of-one format. Teams with two losses or two wins will then play in a best-of-three format, ensuring that only the best survive to the final stage.

Knockout Stage

The third and final stage of Worlds will feature the eight best League of Legends teams in the world in 2025. Only seven series will be held between October 28 and October 9, with three best-of-five series separating each team from the World Championship title.

In this stage, there are no second chances: the matches will be played in a best-of-five format, and the losing team will be eliminated. The team that wins the last best-of-five of the season on October 9 in Chengdu will secure the Worlds 2025 title.

Where will Worlds 2025 be held?

Worlds 2025 will take place in China, with three different host cities - one for each stage of the tournament.

How much is the prize pool for Worlds 2025?

The total prize pool for the League of Legends World Championship in 2025 is $5 million, which will be divided among the 17 participants according to their results. The champion takes home the largest prize - 20% of the total - equivalent to $1 million, in addition to choosing a line of in-game skins. The last-place team receives a prize of $75,000, while the rest of the prizes range from $112,500 to $800,000.

Which teams will participate in the League of Legends World Championship in 2025?

Seventeen teams will participate in Worlds 2025. Five regions will be represented, with four spots for China (LPL) and South Korea (LCK), and three spots for three other regions: LTA (Americas), LCP (Pacific), and LEC (Europe).

See a table with the teams, their positions in the 2025 Worlds standings, and the region they represent:

Which Brazilian team will participate in Worlds 2025?

The team that will represent Brazil at the League of Legends World Championship is Keyd Stars. The team, which has three players from Brazil, one from South Korea, and one from Poland, qualified for Worlds 2025 with the second-best seed in the LTA after finishing the regional season as runners-up, losing to FlyQuest 3-1. You can check out the current Keyd Stars roster below:

In addition to Keyd, another team that came close to participating in the event was RED Canids, which lost to 100 Thieves - last classified by the LTA - in the lower bracket semifinal by a score of 3-0.

What are Worlds drops and how do you get them?

Worlds drops are rewards given to viewers who watched the League of Legends World Championship live. To participate, fans must watch the championship on the official Riot Games website, where they can win various rewards, including emotes, icons, and esports capsules. In some cases, special moments in the match - such as stealing Baron Nashor or achieving a pentakill - can activate extra rewards for viewers.

The rewards for fans are: