T1 won the 2025 League of Legends World Championship, defeating KT Rolster 3–2 in the grand final on 9 November 2025 in Chengdu, China. The best-of-five final capped a tournament played across Beijing, Shanghai and Chengdu. This article replaces an outdated preview with the verified results, knockout bracket and historical context of Worlds 2025.
Who won LoL Worlds 2025?
T1 are the 2025 champions. The final went all five games, with KT Rolster taking two games before T1 prevailed 3–2. The series was played at the Dong’an Lake Sports Park Multifunctional Gymnasium in Chengdu. Riot Games’ official LoL Esports schedule records the winner, opponent, date and series score.
| Stage | Date | Series | Score |
|---|---|---|---|
| Final | 9 November | T1 vs KT Rolster | 3–2 |
| Semifinal | 2 November | T1 vs Top Esports | 3–0 |
| Semifinal | 1 November | KT Rolster vs Gen.G | 3–1 |
| Quarterfinal | 31 October | T1 vs Anyone’s Legend | 3–2 |
| Quarterfinal | 29 October | KT Rolster vs CTBC Flying Oyster | 3–0 |
These are selected knockout results, not a reconstructed full group-stage table. For all fixtures and games, use Riot’s official match schedule. The bracket also explains why preseason rankings cannot substitute for actual tournament outcomes.
T1’s route: two five-game series and a sweep
T1 reached the quarterfinals and faced Anyone’s Legend. That best-of-five ran the full distance: a 3–2 T1 win. In the semifinal, T1 beat Top Esports 3–0 to advance to Chengdu. Their final against KT Rolster was much closer and required a deciding fifth game.
KT Rolster took a different path through the bracket. They beat CTBC Flying Oyster 3–0 in the quarterfinals and defeated Gen.G 3–1 in the semifinal. That result eliminated a major contender and set up the championship match. Those tournament results give more useful historical context than a preserved list of pre-event favourites.
Where were Worlds 2025 held?
Riot Games staged the championship across three Chinese cities. The early stages, including Play-In and Swiss competition, took place in Beijing. The quarterfinals and semifinals followed in Shanghai at Mercedes-Benz Arena between 28 October and 2 November. The final was held on 9 November in Chengdu. The 2025 event used a Swiss-style stage before the single-elimination best-of-five knockout bracket.
This structure matters for interpreting results. A group-stage score does not automatically translate into a final ranking, and a best-of-five knockout loss ends a team’s title campaign even if it had performed strongly earlier in the tournament.
Why the T1–KT result mattered
The finalists were both Korean organisations with a long domestic rivalry. Their meeting on the Worlds final stage turned that history into a global championship contest. T1’s win followed its 2023 and 2024 world titles, giving the organisation a third consecutive championship and another title in its modern era.
However, a single championship final is not proof that one team’s strategic approach is universally superior. Draft choices, preparation, in-game decisions and execution should be studied game by game if a tactical explanation is required. The verified 3–2 result is the foundation of this retrospective.
German-language edition and other esports finals
Readers looking for this specific event in German can consult our deutsche Worlds-2025-Ergebnisübersicht. This is an editorial language link; whether both posts are formally paired through Polylang and served with reciprocal hreflang remains a separate technical check.
Another major esports championship held in 2025 was Dota 2’s The International in Hamburg. That was a different game and organiser, with its own tournament structure and results.
Sources and match archive
- LoL Esports: official Worlds 2025 match results
- Riot Games: host cities, venues and competition stages
