The 2025 LCK Cup tournament has officially ended with the championship of Hanwha Life Esports (HLE). However, HLE is not the team that dominates the parameters of views but T1, the team was eliminated early from the play-off round.

On February 23, HLE won a 3-2 final against Geng, following the championship of the 2025 LCK Cup tournament. With this result, HLE is the representative team of the LCK area to attend the new international tournament of Riot Games - First Stand - at home in Korea. However, the journey to HLE's championship is not easy when this team won 4 BO5 matches and all took place in 5 games.

T1 dominated views 2025 LCK Cup

Thanks to these extremely intense matches, 2025 LCK Cup has attracted a large number of viewers. However, the match with the highest views in this tournament is not the final match between HLE - GENG but T1 - HLE in the second round of the play -off. According to statistics from Esportscharts, this match at the highest time reached 1.9 million viewers at the same time, excluding data from Chinese platforms. 

Even the views of this match are nearly 500,000 higher than the final final (more than 1.4 million viewers at the same time). In addition to the match against HLE, T1 also appeared twice in the list of 5 matches the most views 2025 LCK Cup, met Geng (1.2 million) and the other Dplus (more than 1 million), both matches were Play in the group stage. The last match in the top 5 is HLE - Geng in the final of the victory branch (950,000 viewers).

In this 2025 LCK Cup tournament, Riot Games has applied a new playboy: Divide 10 teams into two confrontations, the winning table will gain more advantages when entering the next round. HLE had to play from the play-in round, then played the play-off from the first round to winning the final championship. Meanwhile, T1, despite the top of the group, soon stopped in the first round of the play-off after receiving the 2-3 defeat against HLE.

In the near future, HLE will play at Riot Games's new international event, First Stand, held in Seoul, South Korea from 10-16/March. The tournament will gather 5 champions from 5 League of Legends region in the world. Currently, there have been 3 teams that officially won tickets, Hanwha Life Esports (Korea), CTBC Flying Oyster (Asia - Pacific) and Team Liquid (America). Two teams from China and Emea will soon be announced in the near future.