In today’s extensive developer update, Riot Games provided exciting updates on the number of spots available to teams from around the world for League of Legends’ Mid-Season Invitational, the World Championship, and the new International event coming early this year.
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According to Riot, the professional League scene could move to five regions worldwide as early as 2025, with the Americas, EMEA, LCK, LPL, and APAC. To account for the new changes, team slots at all three upcoming events will be adjusted, with some implications for qualifying.
For example, Riot plans to send five teams to the new, unnamed international event, with only one spot for each region. Since every major esports league will follow a uniform split schedule in 2025, this could mean that the winner of the 2025 Winter Split will attend this new tournament.
Globally, each region will play three different splits, with a total of three international events. MSI, on the other hand, will award two slots to each region with a total of 10 teams, while Worlds will see 17 teams compete in the tournament, including the MSI champion, a slot given to the second-best performing region at MSI, and then three slots per region.