Since the years of forming the Esports League of Eccases in the APAC area, when Taipei Assassins won the 2012 World Championship, Riot Games has seen many areas of new tournaments like Vietnam Championship Series (VCS). Accordingly, APAC is also the home of Pacific Championship Series (PCS), a tournament spread across Southeast Asia.
Recently, the two League of Legends Japan League (LJL) and League of Legends Circuit Oceania (LCO) have joined the PCS ecosystem starting from the play-off, competing to win international events. This makes the competition between areas extremely fierce, creating “big explosions” in the most popular and monitored areas so far.
With a thickness, Riot Games was able to launch a completely new tournament in 2025. The new tournament will gather the best teams from Vietnam, Hong Kong China, Taipei China, Chinese Magic, Japan, Oceania and the rest of Southeast Asia, in order to bring regular inter -regional tournaments regularly with the most excellent competition, new competitiveness and competitive battles. With a total of 8 teams expected to participate in the tournament, Riot Games is starting a plan to connect a new combined partnership along with the promotion/relegation tournament model and will provide detailed information in the future.
Meanwhile, the list of the first visitors to participate in the tournament next year will be determined based on the results of the PCS and VCS Round of Summer 2024. This will give the teams participating in the VCS, PCS, LJL and LCO tournaments the opportunity to ensure a capacity in the new tournament. For future seasons, when the promotion/relegation model is effective, the visitors will have the opportunity to promote from the corresponding domestic tournament.
Competitive achievements are always an indispensable part of the success of the teams in the APAC and Riot Games region wishing to use it as the foundation of recruiting talents for the opening year as well as a way to ensure dynamic competitiveness, increase representative faces and opportunities to widely access new Lo Lo on the APAC ecosystem.
Performance of international events
With a total of 5 regions (America, LEC, LCK and Asia -Pacific), Riot Games has a new perspective on dividing the capacity to participate in its international events. Each area will have 1 new event participation (total 5 teams), 2 participating in MSI (total 10 teams) and 3 capacity to participate in Worlds.
In addition, the MSI champion and the 2nd excellent achievement will continue to receive additional capacity to attend the Worlds for their tournaments, bringing the total number of teams participating in Worlds to 17 teams. Worlds 2025 will include the booting ring that takes place in the Bo5 format, and the winning team will join 15 other participating teams directly into the Swiss format.
