EMEA Masters 2025 Summer preview: Teams, schedule, format

Ivan Frigato Published September 26, 2025

The 2025 Masters EMEA tournament will last for over a month, bringing together many of the best European League of Legends teams to battle it out until a winner is finally determined.

The EMEA Masters tournament is one of the most-anticipated European LoL events of the year. The 2025 EMEA Masters Summer tournament is now underway, with the Swiss stage pitting 32 hungry teams against each other to see which squads will proceed to the playoffs and which will drop out early.

Event overview

EMEA Masters 2025 Summer Swiss stage format

• 32 teams compete in a 7-round grand Swiss-system tournament.
• The first round will have every team battle in simultaneous best-of-one matches to determine which teams rank high and which rank low
• Teams that get four wins in the Swiss stage advance to the playoffs, while teams with four losses are eliminated

The 2025 EMEA Masters Summer Swiss stage may seem daunting at first, but it’s fairly straightforward. It consists of seven rounds, with the goal of each team being to win four matches. Most matches are played best-of-one, so teams only have to win one game to pick up  series victory.

Each of the teams with three wins will then face each other in best-of-three matches. Winning a best-of-three match guarantees the winning team a spot in the playoffs, while losing one sends them to the next Swiss stage round, prompting them to repeat best-of-three matches until they either win one or are eliminated for losing four total Swiss stage matches.

Reigning champions Los Ratones. Image credit: Los Ratones

EMEA Masters 2025 Summer Swiss stage dates and schedule

The 2025 EMEA Masters Summer’s Swiss stage kicks off on September 29, 2025, at 11 am ET.

Matchdays include September 29 and 30, as well as October 1, 2, 6, 7, and 8. The gap in between is to ensure the tournament doesn’t clash with the 2025 Valorant Champions grand finals. The final day of competition for the 2025 EMEA Masters Swiss stage will be October 8, 2025.

Round 1 (September 29)

• 11 am ET – Galions vs Senshi eSports
• 11 am ET – Los Heretics vs Vitality.Bee
• 11 am ET – BIG vs The Otter Side
• 11 am ET – TeamOrangeGaming vs Veni Vidi Vici
• 12 pm ET – GIANTX PRIDE vs Partizan Sangal
• 12 pm ET – Verdant vs Odivelas Sports Club
• 12 pm ET – Karmine Corp Blue vs Unicorns of Love
• 12 pm ET – Los Ratones vs Forsaken
• 1 pm ET – GNG Amazigh vs Entropiq
• 1 pm ET – ULF Esports vs Gamespace MCE
• 1 pm ET – Bushido Wildcats vs Zena Esports
• 1 pm ET – Barca eSports vs Team Phantasma
• 2 pm ET – ROSSMANN Centaurs vs Colossal Gaming
• 2 pm ET – Misa Esports vs StormMedia FMS
• 2 pm ET – Geekay Esports vs Zero Tenacity
• 2 pm ET – Gentle Mates vs eSuba

Round 2 (September 30)

High (1-0 score)

• Partizan Sangal vs Galions
• The Otter Side vs Misa Esports
• Barca eSports vs Los Ratones
• Bushido Wildcats vs BIG
• Geekay Esports vs GNG Amazigh
• ULF Esports vs Vitality.Bee
• Odivelas Sports Club vs ROSSMANN Centaurs
• Karmine Corp Blue vs Gentle Mates

Low (0-2 score)

• The Otter Side vs Gamespace MCE
• GIANTX PRIDE vs Colossal Gaming
• eSuba vs Senshi eSports
• Entropiq vs Veni Vidi Vici
• Los Heretics vs Unicorns of Love
• Zena Esports vs Verdant
• Team Phantasma vs Forsaken
• Zero Tenacity vs StormMedia FMS

Round 3 (October 1)

High (2-0 score)

• ROSSMANN Centaurs vs Barca eSports
• MISA vs PXS
• Gentle Mates vs BIG
• Vitality.Bee vs Geekay Esports

Middle (1-1 score)

• The Otter Side vs Senshi eSports
• Team Phantasma vs Los Ratones
• Odivelas Sports Club vs GNG Amazigh
• Veni Vidi Vici vs Los Heretics
• TeamOrangeGaming vs Galions
• Bushido Wildcats vs Unicorns of Love
• Verdant vs Karmine Corp Blue
• GIANTX PRIDE vs Zero Tenacity

Low (0-2 score)

• Gamespace MCE vs Zena Esports
• Entropiq vs Colossal Gaming
• Forsaken vs USE
• StormMedia FMS vs eSuba

Favorites to win the EMEA Masters 2025 Summer Swiss stage

There are a handful of teams that have a particularly strong chance of reaching the playoffs, including Los Heretics defending champion Los Ratones.

Los Heretics is easily the favorite to win the entire tournament, being the favorite in the Spanish championship and barely falling short in the Superliga Summer Split. Similarly, Los Ratones is a stand-out team that dominates most tournaments it faces thanks to the skill its roster of top streamers and professional players. The team has finished first in every tournament it has entered, including this year’s Winter and Spring EMEA Masters events, and it wouldn’t be surprising if it stomps the opposition here too.

Karmine Corp Blue is going into the tournament as another favorite to win, but there’s a chance it may struggle. Despite securing the LFL Summer and Winter titles, the team has been inconsistent in EMEA tournaments since it revamped its roster, barely cracking the top three in both the 2025 EMEA Masters Winter and Spring tournaments. While it’s going into the swiss stage after dominating the 2025 LFL Summer final against Gallions, it may be a bumpier road to the playoffs than most would likely predict, and that’s worth watching out for.

Image credit: Karmine Corp Blue

Best EMEA Masters 2025 Summer Swiss stage matches to bet on

Riding with Los Ratones and Los Heretics for every match the two teams participate in can lead to some high-confidence bets.

• Los Ratones has dominated every EMEA Masters tournament of this year, and with the gap in skill between the streamer-led team and other participating teams being so large, betting on Los Ratones to win every match it plays without giving up the Nexus even once in the Swiss stage may be a strong play.
• Los Heretics is understandably considered to be an extremely strong team, and it wouldn’t be a surprise if it comfortably wins its first four matches to qualify for the playoffs.
• Despite not having many eyes on it, UoL Sexy Edition has seen slow and steady improvement throughout the year, and may be a good underdog team to side with in the swiss stage.

The large number of participating teams in the swiss stage may make things a little tough from a LoL betting perspective. Sticking with the event’s two favorites and our underdog pick may keep things easier for interested bettors.

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