Four LCK teams that have all reached the quarterfinals, which team is advantageous for the match?
Oct 26, 2025
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As expected, all four teams of LCK (Korea) KT Rollster, Gen.G., Hanwha Life e-Sports, and T1 advanced to the quarterfinals of the LOL World Cup, continuing their cruise to win for the 10th time in history.
KT was the first to receive a ticket to the quarterfinals by winning all three games at the Swiss stage (round of 16), followed by Gen.G and Hanwha Life Insurance with 3 wins and 1 loss, and even T1 won the last ticket by catching 2-0 Movistar Koy of LEC (Europe) in the final match of the Swiss stage of the "2025 League of Legends World Championship" (Lold Cup) held at Beijing Smart Esports Center in China on the 25th.
As a result, AL and TES of LPL (China), which failed to take advantage of the home ground along with four LCK teams, and CFO of LEC's leading G2 and LCP (Asia-Pacific) will play in the quarterfinals.
Through a match draw held after the game on the 25th, KT will compete with CFO and T1 with AL to advance to the semifinals, respectively. However, as Gen.G and Hanwha Life Insurance unfortunately faced off in the quarterfinals, the best structure for all four LCK teams to reach the semifinals did not come out. TES will face G2 in the quarterfinals.
LCK will try to win for the 10th time this time after winning nine LOL World Cups, and for now, the possibility is quite high. Among the four teams, T1 is trying to win the LOL World Cup for the third time in a row and the sixth time in history, while Gen.G. has changed its team name after winning the Samsung Galaxy, and has the best performance of advancing to the semifinals three times. KT or Hanwha Life Insurance have never advanced to the quarterfinals or higher. However, he is determined to be different this time.
KT, which was the first to reach the quarterfinals after laughing at expectations, certainly followed the luck of the match, but its best strength is that it properly shows the harmony between veterans and newcomers. Veteran 'BDD' Kwak Bo-sung is taking center stage based on his experience in the 5th LOL World Cup in history, and rookie 'Perfect'Lee Seung-min is firmly supporting him with his outstanding skills. Above all, it is a traditional club that leads Korean e-sports along with T1, but it is expected that it will be able to continue the momentum of the Swiss stage by meeting the CFO, who is considered the weakest among the teams that advanced to the quarterfinals. KT is also trying to reproduce the precedent that DRX, which was considered the weakest as the fourth seed in LCK in the 2022 LOL World Cup, reached the final, defeated T1, and won a dramatic championship.
Gen.G is aiming to win for the fourth time this year alone as a powerhouse who has won the MSI in the international competition in May this year, followed by the e-Sports World Cup and the LCK this season in a row. Hanwha Life Insurance won the first international stand held for the first time this season, and finished second after Gen.G in LCK. He lost to Gen.G. 1-3 on the LCK final stage, but he is determined to show a different side in the international competition. The winning team will compete with the winner of the KT-CFO match to advance to the finals.
Defending champion T1, who faced a crisis with two losses in the round of 16, seems to have revived by beating 100 Cves and Movistar in a row. However, AL, like KT, is a strong team that has reached the quarterfinals with all three wins, and is very strong and receiving unilateral support from Chinese home fans, which is the biggest obstacle to its bid for three consecutive losses. However, it is difficult to predict victory or defeat easily at the moment because T1 has never lost to a Chinese team in the LOL World Cup. If he wins here, he will face the winner of TES-G2 and also determine the final.
This article was translated by Naver AI translator.
