LoL Worlds first Knockouts teams confirmed after dramatic series

Ruben Oroz Ruben Oroz

Published: Oct 17, 2025

The League of Legends 2025 World Championships (LoL Worlds) Swiss Stage is continuing nicely.

Today were the first multi-game series of the tournament, excluding Play-Ins, as 2-0 teams competed for Knockouts qualification.

KT Rolster defeated Top Esports and CTBC Flying Oyster were stopped by Anyone’s Legend in best-of-threes.

These victories could prove to be crucial with the ridiculously good teams in the 1-1 bracket.

Today’s losses could mean a series against one of T1, Gen.G, HLE, or BLG in the next round.

KT Rolster ease past Top Esports

KT Rolster fans are currently full of mixed emotions as the team is looking really strong.

Historically, KT fans try not to get overexcited about the team as the organisation usually chokes.

Which is why this dominant victory is both good and bad news. KT look great and it’s going to be hard for fans to control their expectations.

The team only qualified for Worlds because Gen.G selected them as their opponents, then surprisingly lost.

KT have been inconsistent but we’re beginning to see the highs of this roster with the star power of Gwak ‘Bdd’ Bo-sung and very good showings from botlaner Seo ‘deokdam’ Dae-gil.

LPL second-seeds Top Esports were expected to be difficult opposition but KT dominated them.

TES have a history of choking internationally themselves and will now be nervous of being reverse-swept in the Swiss Stages.

Meanwhile, KT are through to the Worlds Quarter-finals, a stage they have never progressed from despite multiple attempts.

Anyone’s Legend overcame a difficult series vs CFO

The other series was much, much closer.

CFO shocked T1 in a massive LoL Worlds upset to secure their status as tournament dark horses.

Meanwhile, Anyone’s Legend have had an unbelievable start to the tournament.

In front of a home audience, the Chinese second seeds have defeated Korea’s top two teams in Gen.G and Hanwha Life Esports.

And now they have also defeated LCP champions CFO, who did not make it easy for them.

In fact, CFO won the first match of the series and did so in dominant fashion.

The Taiwanese team continued their momentum from the T1 win to stomp Anyone’s Legend in Game 1 with a quadra from in-form botlaner Chiu ‘Doggo’ Tzu-Chuan closing the match.

But then in Game 2, Anyone’s Legend adapted to CFO and stopped their opponents from increasing the pace of the game.

Anyone’s Legend stayed composed, controlled the map, and cleanly scaled to tie up the series for a decider match.

This time, it was CFO who adapted and took a more careful stance as they took smarter and more measured engages.

However, Anyone’s Legends’ tanky composition was making life difficult for CFO.

Eventually, midlaner Cui ‘Shanks’ Xiao-Jun took over the game with a remarkable LeBlanc performance to book his team’s place in the Worlds Knockouts.

Meanwhile, this was CFO’s first series loss since the Esports World Cup back in July.

They will now wait for the 1v1 bracket to discover who they will face next for a spot in the next round.

Current LoL Worlds Swiss Bracket

Qualified teams (3-0)

1 -1 LoL Worlds matches (Bo1)

0-2 LoL Worlds eliminator matches (Bo3)

Ruben Oroz
Ruben Oroz

Since: October 7, 2025

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