First Stand 2025: Who’s on Team Liquid?

Team Liquid players are competing in the First Stand 2025 event. This is an international tournament taking place between the first and second splits of all regions. With the event already underway, teams are vying for the First Stand title in the first-ever global competition featuring the Fearless Draft format! So, who is on the League of Legends Team Liquid roster? Read on for details.

Team Liquid is one of five invited teams competing in the 2025 First Stand tournament that's running from March 10 to March 16. The other teams are Hanwha Life, Top Esports, Karmine Corp, and CTBC Flying Oyster. The event features the Fearless Draft format, where League of Legends champions can only be selected once by either team during a series.

The tournament kicks off with Stage 1, also known as the Group Stage, and features a single-round robin format and best-of-three (Bo3) matches. From there, only the top four teams advance to Stage 2 — the Knockout Stage — where they must face off under a single-elimination format in best-of-five (Bo5) matches.

In addition to securing a spot in the 2025 Mid-Season Invitational (MSI 2025) Bracket Stage, the 2025 First Stand event also features a $1,000,000 USD prize pool. Which team will claim the lion's share of it?

Impact is currently the top laner for Team Liquid. He helped the team claim victory at the League of Legends Championship of The Americas (LTA) 2025 Split 1 Playoffs, where Team Liquid earned their spot in the First Stand 2025 tournament! The players defeated Isurus Estral 2-1, Cloud9 2-1, and swept 100 Thieves 3-0 in the finals.

In terms of Impact's career highlights, they include a World Championship title in 2013 and six League Championship Series (LCS) Championship titles. He's also won two League of Legends Champions Korea (LCK) Championships so far.

While Impact's favorite champions include Alistar, Sona, Janna, Lee Sin, and Gangplank, he’s particularly known for securing pentakills with Gangplank, including at the 2022 LCS Championship and the 2014 OGN LoL Masters All-Star event!

UmTi is the jungler for Team Liquid in League of Legends esports. His player name is inspired by a monster in MapleStory. Like Impact, UmTi helped Team Liquid secure first place in both the LTA 2025 Split 1 Playoffs and the LCS 2024 Summer event.

He also played a role in Team Liquid's MSI 2024 qualification by defeating Dignitas 3-0, 100 Thieves 3-1, and Cloud9 3-0 in the elimination bracket before climbing to the finals for a revenge match against FlyQuest and claiming the 3-1 victory,

One of UmTi's pentakills happened during the 2024 LCS Spring Playoffs. There, he played Jax against Cloud9 and secured a 7/0/2 KDA. You can watch a clip of that moment below!

Next, APA is the current mid laner for the team. He began his esport career as an Aurelion Sol one-trick player. He then played for several teams, including Lucky Esports. In addition to Aurelion Sol, this player is also well-versed in playing as Ziggs. Meanwhile, one of his standout moments was securing a pentakill with Corki at the 2024 LCS Championship.

Alongside his current teammates Impact and UmTi, APA not only helped Team Liquid claim victory in the LTA 2025 Split 1 Playoffs, LCS 2024 Summer tournament, and LCS 2024 Spring Playoffs, but he earned some notable individual achievements as well. For example, he was named the 2024 LCS Finals MVP and even won the LCS Most Improved Award in that same year.

As for Yeon, he is Team Liquid's current bot laner who claimed first place in the aforementioned LTA 2025 Split 1 Playoffs, LCS 2024 Summer event, plus the LCS 2024 Spring Playoffs. Individually, he was named the LCS Rookie of the Year in 2023 and the LTA Finals MVP for Split 1 of 2025. Below is also a clip of the player during the 2024 LCS Spring Playoffs where he secured a pentakill with Smolder against 100 Thieves.

Yeon started playing League of Legends at 13 years old. His talent led him to joining 100 Thieves back in 2020 before he won the North American (NA) Scouting Grounds tournament in the same year with Team Ocean Drake. Later, the player entered Team Liquid Academy and made a name for himself in that scene. Did you know that CoreJJ, his current teammate, mentored him during this academy era? Yeon's hard work and track record earned him his current role on Team Liquid.

Speaking of CoreJJ, he is Team Liquid's support player and has been with the team since 2018. This makes him the longest-standing member. He has fought alongside the current roster in the aforementioned events, including top finishes at the 2024 Esports World Cup 2024, LCS 2024 Championship, and more. As for this player's achievements, he won the LCS MVP Award twice — back in 2019 and 2020.

In an interview from 2024, he talked about his commitment to the team. "As long as Team Liquid wants me, then I'm always happy to play for Team Liquid," he said.

This iteration of Team Liquid has competed in numerous tournaments together since 2024. Will they be able to add the First Stand 2025 title to their list of achievements? Only time will tell!

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