Over the past years, Riot Games has often organized two international tournaments each, each season, MSI and Worlds. Riot was very successful with this organization when pushing the attractiveness and drama of both MSI and Worlds to the extremely high threshold. In addition, this also helps to raise the number of people watching these two tournaments to the extremely high threshold.
Riot over the years has organized MSI and Worlds extremely successfully
However, the negative side of this organization is that the number of peak matches of League of Legends is relatively high. Although Riot Games sought to solve when changing the formula of MSI to the Branch – the branch lost, it seemed not enough to satisfy the audience. So in the upcoming 2025 season, Riot will most likely make a “turning point” with League of Legends to meet this.
Specifically, as revealed from the Sheep Esports page, from the 2025 season, Riot will organize another international tournament next to MSI and Worlds. Not stopping there, this prestigious website also revealed that each large area (LCK, LPL, LEC, LCS) will have at least 1 representative to this tournament. Riot's third international tournament is scheduled to be between the winter and spring tournament.
“Riot is planning to organize the third international tournament in the middle of the winter and spring tournament next year (2025). Time, venue as well as the tournament has not been decided but at least each large area (LPK, LPL, LEC, LCS) will have a team invited to this tournament.”
Not only organizing additional tournaments, Riot's decision is likely to lead to a major change of the entire League of Legends tournament. The first is that the LCS will most likely convert to the 3 -seasons format (winter, spring, summer) like the current LEC to fit the new tournament system. For LPL and LCK, the Sheep Esports side has no accurate information, but they are also considering switching to format in the future in the future.
Sheep Esports also shared: “We can only confirm that LCS is planning to move to the 3 -seasons format. With LPL and LCK, it is not possible but they will have the right ways to select the team to participate in this tournament. No, except for these two areas, they also switch to 3 -season format.”
Remember in the time of 2013 (the year of Faker started to be the player), the LCK area (then OGN) also applied 3 seasons. The area still holds the 3 -seasons format until 2014 before falling to 2 seasons since the 2015 season. Even the second title of Faker's region is OGN Winter 2014.
OGN Winter 2014 is the 2nd regional title in Faker's career
And coincidentally, after about 10 years since the last time the LCK area applies the 3 -season format, this formula is having a great opportunity to return. That “turning point” changes will likely bring to the audience a lot of top and attractive matches since the 2025 season. Even, it can also bring positive changes to help professional League of Legends in general and LCK in particular develop in the future.