League of Legends Championship Pacific (LCP) 2025: Teams, Format, and More

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The League of Legends Championship Pacific (LCP) in 2025 is the new top-tier regional League of Legends (LoL) esports competition in Asia-Pacific. The LCP will serve as the sole pathway for teams in the region to qualify for global events. Check out the LCP 2025 teams and format below.

LCP 2025: Teams and Format

Participating teams in the upcoming LCP 2025 season are:

CTBC Flying Oyster (Partner)
Fukuoka SoftBank HAWKS gaming (Partner)
GAM Esports (Partner)
Talon (Partner)
DetonatioN FocusMe (Guest)
MGN Vikings Esports (Guest)
Team Secret Whales (Guest)
The Chiefs Esports Club (Guest)

Season Format

This split will be divided into the Regular Season and Playoffs. In the Regular Season, there are 2 phases.

Phase 1 is the Group Stage. Team performance from the season is used to determine seeding in Season Finals but the match record will be reset. Hence based on their standings from the season, 8 teams will be divided into 2 groups, Contender and Breakout. The top 4 teams will be seeded into Contender, while Breakout will consist of the bottom 4 teams. They will then play through a Single Round-Robin Best-of-3 (BO3) to determine a first round of standings for the next phase of the Regular Season.

Phase 2 is the Group Seeding Bracket. But first, a group reshuffle will be conducted via a group breaker to ensure the highest level of competition. In the group breaker, the 4th placed team from the Contender Group and the 1st placed team from the Breakout group will face off, while the 3rd placed team from Contender will face the 2nd placed team from Breakout in a single BO3 match. Winning teams from this group breaker will join the Contender Group, while losing teams will join the Breakout Group.

Teams within each group will then compete in a double elimination format. Following this, all teams from the Contender Group will advance to the Season Finals Playoff, while only teams with two wins from the Breakout Group will move forward.

Next, in the Playoffs, the remaining 6 teams will go through a series of BO3 and Best-of-5 (BO5) matches in a Double Elimination format to vie for Worlds qualification. The top team will also be crowned the inaugural LCP champion.

Season Kickoff Schedule

As the first split of the year, League of Legends Championship Pacific Season Kickoff will determine which teams qualify for First Stand, the new and first global event of the year. Season Kickoff will begin on 17 January and will run until 23 February, and matches will begin at 17:00 GMT+7 // 18:00 GMT+8 // 19:00 GMT+9 // 21:00 GMT+11 each matchday.

Here is week 1’s match lineup:

17 Jan