After 3 weeks of competition, the 2025 LCK Cup tournament was officially closed with a 16-9 victory for the Elder table. The teams will take a week off before the knockout round of the tournament starts.

In 2025, Riot Games brought a new change to the LCK area when announcing the new tournament was 2025 LCK Cup. The tournament also brings a new format when the championships and runner -up LCK last summer will choose the teams to create two confrontations. After 3 weeks of competition, the Elder table won the final 16-9 against the Baron table. 

Summary of the group stage 2025 LCK Cup: Convincing victory for the Elder table

As the winner, the Elder will receive many benefits in the next round. According to the competition law, the top 3 teams in the Elder table will be directly into the Play-off, while the last two teams will join 4 teams from the Baron table to play at the Play-in. Finally, the team at the bottom of the Baron table will be eliminated from the tournament.

In the Elder table, the other Dplus showed excellent performance when they won the group stage, defeating both the highest rated teams in the Baron table, T1 and Hanwha Life Esports. With this result, the other Dplus is the first team and will gain great advantage when entering the play-off. Meanwhile, Geng, despite being highly appreciated, received defeat against Brion (0-2) and T1 (1-2), accordingly only in the second table.

KT Rolster is the last team to go straight to the play-off when equal to the Geng point but lose in difference (losing more than Geng 2 games). With Drx, this team lacks Teddy due to health problems but Vietnamese gunner Lazyfeel has shown very well, contributing to the team to win 3 points. However, Drx is still ranked 4th in this table and with NS Redforce (2 wins - 3 losses) to play at the play -in.

Vietnamese gunner Lazyfeel has shown very impressively when playing at LCK

In the Elder table, T1, despite losing to the other Dplus at the opening match, won 4 victories, including defeating Geng to win the top of the Baron table. Hanwha Life Esports, although it is the leading team of the Baron table, only ranks second in the table with a record of 3 wins - 2 losses. The two teams of Brion and Freies are at the same point but still gain the right to go on the play-in round. Finally, BNK Fearx with 5 consecutive losses became the first team to be eliminated from the tournament. 

The results of the group stage 2025 LCK Cup

The play-in round of the tournament will play live to find 3 teams to win the right to go. After that, the 2025 LCK Cup play-off round will still take place with the combination format, 4 teams will compete in the first round to eliminate the first 2 teams, then the first team Elder (Dplus Kia) will choose the opponent in the round 2. Next, the last 4 teams will compete in the formula of the victory - branch.