Everything you need to know about the TFT Paris Open 2025

Jack Stewart, Senior Editor

Last Updated: 05/12/2025

The Teamfight Tactics (TFT) Paris Open kicks off next week, with the esports tournament taking place December 12th-14th.

Over 750 competitors will travel to the Paris Expo Porte de Versailles to compete for the Tactician’s Belt and the $100k (£75k) grand prize.

The tournament will be played in TFT’s new Lore & Legends set with 100 unique champions.

TFT Paris Open format

This year’s event will be the biggest TFT Open yet, with the Main Event featuring 768 spots open to competitors.

The players will compete on the Lore & Legends set from TFT Patch 16.1, which only launched earlier this week.

We’re going bigger than ever at the TFT Paris Open, with 768 spots in the Main Event open to competitors. Players will compete on Lore & Legends, which will launch shortly before the event kicks off. The seeding, point system, and format can be found below.

Seeding will be initially decided by players’ ranking in the previous set, K.O. Coliseum.

After Round 1, players will then be seeded via a snake draft based on the points players earn throughout the tournament.

Players will earn points based on the results of each game at the following distributions (starting with first place): 8/7/6/5/4/3/2/1.

TFT Paris Open schedule

The Main Event will feature five rounds in total, played across three days of games.

Players will be split into pools of eight before each round, with players advancing based on the number of points they rack up in total.

Day 1 Format

• 768 players are divided into three groups of 256 (32 lobbies each).
• Each group plays four games, with initial lobby seeding based on their K.O. Coliseum ranking.
  • After four games:
    • Top two players per lobby (192 total) advance to Round 2.
    • Next 64 highest scorers across all lobbies also advance (total 256).
    • Bottom 512 are eliminated.
• Points reset after each round and are only used for tie-breaking.

Day 2 Format

• Round 2 (256 players) → three games → Top four per lobby advance (128 total).

• Round 3 (128 players) → three games → Top four per lobby advance (64 total).
• Round 4 (64 players) → eight lobbies, checkmate format:
  • A player reaching 20 points puts the lobby in check.
  • To win, that player must win a game while in check.
  • Multiple players can be in check simultaneously.
  • If no one wins after six games, the highest total points wins.
• Eight checkmate winners advance to Day 3 (Final Lobby).
• Remaining players are ranked by Day 2 checkmate points.

Day 3 Format

• Eight finalists compete in a checkmate format:
  • Reaching 20 points puts others in check.
  • Players with 20+ points must then win a game to secure the championship.
  • If no player wins after eight games, the player with the highest total points wins.
• Final standings are based on Day 3 points.

Prize pool breakdown

• 1st – $100k (£75k)
• 2nd – $25k (£19k)
• 3rd – $15k (£11k)
• 4th – $12.5k (£9k)
• 5th – $10k (£7.5k)
• 6th – $9k (£6.8k)
• 7th – $8k (£6k)
• 8th – $7k (£5.2k)
• 9th-16th – $3k (£2.2k)
• 17th-24th – $2.5k (£1.8k)
• 25th-32nd – $2k (£1.5k)
• 33rd-40th – $1.5k (£1.1k)
• 41st-48th – $1.25k (£950)
• 49th-56th – $1k (£750)
• 57th-64th – $750 (£560)
• 65th-128th – $450 (£340)

How to watch the TFT Paris Open and schedule

Day 1 of the TFT Paris Open will only be watchable through the streams of chosen co-streamers.

The same goes for the start of Day 2 until the Round of 64 begins, in which case Riot’s own broadcast will then start.

And the final Day 3 will be shown on both official co-streams and the main broadcast.

The chosen co-streamers are:

• Disguised Toast (English Co-Stream)
• K3Soju (English Co-Stream)
• Ming (Chinese Co-Stream)
• ReventXz (Spanish Co-Stream)
• Em Che (Vietnamese Co-Stream)
• Shaunz (French Co-Stream)
• Gotaga (French Co-Stream)
• Kamet0 (French Co-Stream)
• Sologesang (German Co-Stream)
• MessiofTFT (Korean Co-Stream)
• GreenTea (Chinese Co-Stream) 
• Kimi (Japanese Co-Stream)

Jack Stewart, Senior Editor

In my seven years of esports writing, I've introduced esports coverage to newspapers, interviewed some of the biggest names in the industry, and driven viewers mad with the puns in my YouTube scripts. I'm most proud of the latter.

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