MSI 2025, the second international competition of this season, will be held at the Pacific Coliseum in Vancouver, Canada, where Kim Yu-na won the gold medal
Mar 23, 2025
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Riot Games said MSI 2025 will open on June 27 at the Pacific Coliseum in Vancouver and will have a two-week battle until the final on July 12. The Pacific Coliseum is the largest building in Hastings Park, featuring short - track speed skating and figure skating competitions at the 2010 Vancouver Winter Olympics, and the spring final of the 2017 League of Legends Championship Series. In particular, for Korean fans, Kim Yu-na of figure skating is famous as the place where she won the gold medal at the 2010 Olympics.
MSI is an opportunity to make an interim evaluation of the league in five regions (countries) this season, and a stage to secure additional tickets to participate in the LoL World Championship (LOL World Cup). A total of 10 teams from LCK, LEC (Europe-Middle East-Africa), LPL (China), LTA (America), and LCP (Asia-Pacific) will participate in this MSI. The region that produced the two best performing teams will be given an additional ticket to the LOL World Cup. Thanks to Hanwha Life Insurance's victory, the two teams representing LCK will go straight to the quarterfinals without playing a preliminary match.
The MSI, which was first held in 2015, has been in existence for 11 years through this competition. Riot Games said it set aside $2 million (about 2.9 billion won), an eight-fold increase in the total prize money of MSI compared to the previous year, and doubled the total prize money of the LOL World Cup, which will be held from late September to early November, from $2.25 million to $5 million (about 7 billion won). There is also a possibility that the amount of prize money will increase further through profits from digital product sales.
Meanwhile, the LCK regular league, which held the LCK Cup, a kickoff competition of the season, will open on April 2 with a match between Hanwha Life Insurance and traditional powerhouse Gen.G, which won the LCK Cup and the First Stand at the same time. Unlike last year, which was divided into spring and summer seasons, it is a single-season method from this year, and the introduction of the peerless draft banpick method, which began with the LCK Cup, has also foreshadowed a change in the game. First of all, the top six teams will play in the MSI after the first and second rounds.
This article was translated by Naver AI translator.
