The2025 First Stand Tournament was the inauguralFirst Stand Tournament (FST) – aLeague of Legends tournament organized by publisherRiot Games at the conclusion of the first of three splits in the current competitive calendar of thegame's professional esports scene. The inaugural tournament was held inSouth Korea from 10 to 16 March 2025.

Hanwha Life Esports of theLeague of Legends Champions Korea (LCK) won the tournament by defeatingLeague of Legends EMEA Championship (LEC) representativesKarmine Corp with a score 3-1 in the final, marking the organization's first international title.^[1]

Five teams from each of the five major professional regions, namely theLeague of Legends Champions Korea (LCK),League of Legends Pro League (LPL),League of Legends EMEA Championship (LEC),League of Legends Championship of The Americas (LTA), and theLeague of Legends Championship Pacific (LCP), qualified through winning their respective splits.

This would be the first and only First Stand Tournament featuring the LTA, a merger between theLeague Championship Series (LCS),Campeonato Brasileiro deLeague of Legends (CBLOL), andLiga Latinoamérica (LLA). The LTA was announced to be discontinued on 28 September 2025, with the LCS and CBLOL returning in 2026.^[2]

On 23 February 2025, Hanwha Life Esports of the LCK, CTBC Flying Oyster of the LCP, and Team Liquid of the LTA, all qualified on the same day after winning their respective splits. This was followed by Top Esports of the LPL, qualifying for the tournament on 1 March, with Karmine Corp of the LEC being the final team to advance to FST after winning the Winter Split overG2 Esports the day after, qualifying for aLeague of Legends international competition for the first time in the organization's history. Notably, this snaps G2 Esports' streak of qualifying for six consecutive international tournaments, dating back to the2022 Mid-Season Invitational. Also, this has been the worst performance for LPL in cross-region tournaments.

The LoL Park inSeoul, which is the main studio of the LCK, was chosen to host the tournament's inaugural edition on 1 November 2024 during the media day for the2024 League of Legends World Championship Final atThe O2 Arena inLondon,United Kingdom.^[3]

Seoul, South Korea
LoL Park
Capacity: 450
	Seoul 2025 First Stand Tournament (South Korea)

The tournament was the first international event to adapt the Fearless Draft format, where teams cannot pick a champion that they've already played in a series, even if the opposing team already picked that champion.^[4] The five qualified teams were placed in a single round-robin best of 3 group; teams could which side ofSummoner's Rift they want to be on for two of their series, while their opposing teams had the choice during the other two series. The top four teams then advances to the knockout stage, which was a single-elimination best of 5 bracket. The winner of the Final is crowned FST champion and gives their region's two representatives automatic advancement or byes to the2025 Mid-Season Invitational's Bracket Stage.

• Tiebreakers are based on the number of games won, but not necessarily series won.
• Karmine Corp was placed third by winning three games (1-2 vs Team Liquid; 2-0 vs Top Esports)
• Top Esports was placed fourth by winning two games (2-0) against Team Liquid.
• Team Liquid also won two games, but were eliminated due to three losses incurred (2-1 vs Karmine Corp, 0-2 vs Top Esports), and due to head-to-head matches against Top Esports and Karmine Corp.

• Date and time: 15–16 March, start time at 13:00KST (UTC+9)
• All matches are best-of-five.
• The winning region will receive two automatic byes to the2025 Mid-Season Invitational Bracket Stage

A base prize pool of US$1,000,000 was offered for the tournament.^[5]

The tournament's officialslogan,Yours For the Taking, was unveiled on 9 January 2025 alongside a format explainer video on YouTube.

Although Fearless Draft was initially intended for just the first split of the season and the First Stand Tournament, it was announced prior to the First Stand final on 16 March 2025 that it would be adopted for the rest of the 2025 competitive calendar, including theMid-Season Invitational andWorld Championship.^[16]

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