Korean esports staff T1 pose after profitable the League of Legends (LoL) World Championships for the third consecutive 12 months on the Dong’an Lake Sports activities Park Multifunctional Gymnasium in Chengdu, China, Nov. 9. Courtesy of Riot Video games
International streamer Disney+ stated Thursday it would completely broadcast a Korean League of Legends (LoL) competitors to 11 Asia-Pacific areas, together with Korea, Japan and Australia.
The KeSPA Cup 2025, which kicks off Saturday and runs by way of Dec. 14, will probably be livestreamed in each Korean and English, with video-on-demand (VOD) companies additionally accessible, in response to Disney+.
The occasion is an annual LoL event organized by the Korea e-Sports activities Affiliation (KeSPA), that includes 10 Korean groups and 4 abroad groups from Vietnam, Japan and North America.
Group and breakout phases will probably be held on-line, whereas the knockout stage will happen at Sangam SOOP Colosseum in western Seoul.
The stay broadcast is a part of a contract signed in September between Walt Disney Firm Korea and the KeSPA, granting the streaming platform unique rights to broadcast the KeSPA Cup 2025 and content material associated to the e-sports nationwide staff for the upcoming 2026 Aichi-Nagoya Asian Video games.
Disney+ stated it additionally plans to livestream warmup video games for the nationwide squad forward of the 2026 Asian Video games, slated for September subsequent 12 months in Japan.
