At the end of the MSI 2025 season, the leading teams in the region will continue to play at the Esports World Cup 2025. However, the remaining teams in the region will also prepare to enter the last season of the year, the season that decides the last international tournament in the year – World Championship.
Recently, the LPL area has announced the schedule for the Split 3 of the region. According to the announcement, the tournament will officially start from July 19, ending on August 28 with the group stage. After that, the teams will play the play-in from August 30-2-2 and finally, the play-off round starts from September 7. In the group stage, matches will take place continuously from Monday to Sunday until the group stage ends.
In terms of formula, LPL 2025 Split 3 continues to use the way to divide into two groups like Split 2. 8 The team with the best achievement in Split 2 will go to ASCEND, 6 teams from 9-14 will go to Nirvana. Finally, the two worst performance teams Split 2 are Royal Never Give Up and OMG must not attend Split 3. Two groups are:
– ASCEND: Anyone's Legend, Bilibili Gaming, Funplus Phoenix, Invictus Gaming, JD Gaming, Team We, Top Esports, Weibo Gaming
– Nirvana table: Edward Gaming, LGD Gaming, LNG Esports, Ninjas in Pyjamas, TT Gaming, Ultra Prime.
In the group stage, the teams will compete in a round of 2 times with all matches are bo3. At the end of the group stage, the 4 teams with the highest score will go straight to the Grand Finals. After that, the four teams at the end of the ASCend and 4 teams topped the Nirvana table will advance to the play-in round, competing in Bo5 to select the last 4 teams into Grand Finals. Here, the teams will compete in the victory – branch to determine the champion of the season as well as the first place to attend the World Final 2025.
Besides the champion, the team that won the highest area of the LPL will become the No. 2 seed of the region in the year -end tournament. With the Chinese region, there will be 4 World Finals 2025, the remaining two will be selected through the regional qualifying round. Accordingly, the third to 6th rank (according to the regional point) will compete in the formula of the stairs to identify the other two representatives of China to the home tournament at home.
