T1, CFO and Top Esports clinch last Worlds 2025 quarterfinal spots

CTBC Flying Oyster, Top Esports and T1 have made it through the League of Legends World Championship 2025 Swiss Stage, securing the last three spots in the quarterfinals.

For FlyQuest, Bilibili Gaming and Movistar KOI, defeat meant elimination and the end of their Worlds 2025 run.

Every match carried do-or-die stakes. With margins razor-thin, the final day of the Swiss Stage delivered one of the most intense and competitive showdowns of the tournament so far.

FlyQuest went on stage as the last hope for the Americas, and it was arguably the favourite to win. However, CTBC Flying Oyster (CFO) showed once again that it could beat any team, and it wanted to take its region to the playoffs for the first time since 2015.

The first game was delayed slightly due to two early technical pauses, but fans didn’t have to wait long. FlyQuest looked more proactive, trading picks in the side lanes and building a small gold lead. It controlled more map space, and the match pace suited its style. However, CFO answered through better macro, knocking down outer towers and keeping the gold difference narrow, even when FlyQuest pushed ahead.

Right when FlyQuest seemed ready to snowball, everything collapsed.

CFO caught FLY near Baron and instantly flipped the game, wiping out the LTA first seed, claiming Baron, and pushing forward. Chiu ‘Doggo‘ Tzu-Chuan, in particular, led the charge with huge damage on Corki. The map opened wide, inhibitors fell, FlyQuest scrambled to defend, and CTBC Flying Oyster dictated every fight. Even FlyQuest’s late Baron at 35 minutes in could not stop the inevitable from happening, and, after the longest game of Worlds so far, CFO ended the game after 45 minutes.

Contrary to the opening game of the series, the second one was one-sided from the first minute. CFO snowballed early kills into a quick gold gap, and it spread its advantage across the lanes with clean rotations and constant pressure. FlyQuest tried to stabilise by securing objectives and kills, but every attempt failed to slow CFO down.

A decisive fight near Atakhan sealed the series, with Doggo tearing through the FLY line-up. Securing an ace, CTBC Flying Oyster marched forward and ended the match without hesitation. CTBC Flying Oyster made history, whilst FlyQuest suffered a disappointing exit.

Both LPL teams came to Worlds with high expectations, but on the last day of the Swiss Stage, only one could move on.

Top Esports came out swinging with Seo ‘Kanavi‘ Jin-hyeok giving his side a lead with strategic ganks in the bot lane. However, once Bilibili Gaming (BLG) found the right angle to engage everything changed fast. BLG’s Ornn and Neeko combo turned every fight into a disaster for Top Esports.

As game one reached the late game, BLG’s teamfighting was simply cleaner, and the team won multiple skirmishes, broke open the mid lane, and secured the Baron to reinforce pressure on lanes. Top Esports was always a step late defending its base, and BLG ended the map confidently.

The second game, however, told a very different story. 

Top Esports drafted a much stronger teamfight comp and played with conviction from the first few minutes. With the back against the wall, Top Esports controlled neutral objectives, tightened its rotations, and never allowed Bilibili Gaming to find its signature flanks. When fights finally broke out, Top Esports always looked better positioned to win it.

After a clean final push through mid lane, Top Esports tied the series without giving BLG much of a chance to come back. 

With everything on the line, BLG made a change and swapped Zhao ‘Shad0w’ Zhi-Qiang out for Yang ‘Beichuan’ Ling in the final game of the qualifying series. But it didn’t help the team to stabilise, and the game quickly turned into chaos.

There was constant action across every lane. In fact, the third game of the series between Top Esports and BLG recorded the most kills of Worlds 2025 so far. Both teams kept trading blows, and neither found a clear lead for the majority of the game — until Top Esports scaled and took the Baron.

One last teamfight to steal the Cloud Soul was all Top Esports Needed to wipe out BLG and qualify for Worlds Playoffs. Despite being one of the favourite teams to win the tournament, Bilibili Gaming’s Worlds 2025 run ended here.

Movistar KOI (MKOI) entered the Rift as the final LEC representative, aiming to pull off a miracle against the reigning World Champions. However, whilst T1 might falter regionally and in BO1s, these series at Worlds are their comfort zone.

Nevertheless, MKOI claimed First Blood on Mun ‘Oner‘ Hyeon-ju, and it seems the LEC representatives found a good footing. Alex ‘Myrwn‘ Pastor Villarejo hunted down Lee ‘Gumayusi‘ Min-hyeong twice in the side lane, and MKOI built a small gold lead. But even when it looked like MKOI was in the lead, T1 never faltered and traded back kills and objectives, keeping its first win within reach.

It was only a matter of time before T1 leveraged Lee ‘Faker’ Sang-hyeok’s Azir to gain control of the Rift. As MKOI forced a messy follow-up fight that backfired completely, T1 snowballed. The reigning World Champions claimed Baron, stacked objectives, and crushed the Nexus with full authority to take game one.

Even if the second game seemed to be more competitive, the result didn’t change. Almost every minute of the early game resulted in a kill — 14 kills in 14 minutes. While MKOI were proactively finding the right angles to engage T1, the LCK team eventually forced Herald mid, strengthening its lead in the second game of the series. 

Yet MKOI did not concede, and at 21 minutes, the LEC representative nearly aced T1 and looked ready to flip the match. However, T1 controlled the lanes, forced pressure everywhere, and the teams’ priorities during fights led T1 to win fight after fight. With the LCK team controlling the Rift, MKOI was forced to defend and wait for an opportunity to strike back.

The game thus dragged into a tense late-game stand-off. But once MKOI tried one last gamble on Elder, T1 teleported into MKOI’s base and ended the match through a clean backdoor.

Movistar KOI was eliminated from Worlds 2025. Meanwhile, T1, the reigning world champions, marched on to the quarterfinals.

Following the conclusion of the Swiss Stage, only eight teams have moved forward to the League of Legends Worlds 2025 Knockout Stage.

All matches will be played next week, starting on October 28th, 2025 at 7am BST. All matches will be streamed live on League of Legends’ official esports Twitch and YouTube channels, alongside accepted co-streamers.

The Quarterfinals matches are as follows: