Tencent Games has revealed details for an Honor of Queens tournament taking place during the Honor of Kings International Championship (KIC) 2025.
The event is scheduled to run from November 15th to 30th, 2025, as a 5v5 womens-only competition featuring a prize pool of ₱320,000 (~$5,400/£4,120).
Honor of Queens will be split into two different stages during KIC Mini Battle, an open-bracket community event taking place at the Championship, which is being hosted in the Philippines.
Open Qualifiers will run from November 15th to 18th and 20th to 23rd, 2025 at the Shooting Gallery Hall. Four teams of five will compete each day in a BO1 Single-Elimination format, with the top team qualifying for the Playoffs.
The top eight teams will compete in the Playoffs at Ayala Mall, Manila Bay. It will be a Single-Elimination format, with a BO1 Quarterfinal, and BO3 Semi-Final and Grand Final.
Participants can register for the event through Google Forms, which closes on November 23rd. Throughout the tournament, each match winner can claim prize money.
What is KIC 2025?
The Honor of Kings International Championship is part of the mobile MOBA’s premier esports scene, deciding the best team of the 2025 season outside of China
The tournament runs from November 14th to 30th, and will see 16 qualified teams compete for a share of a $1m (~£760,000) prize pool. The event will feature teams such as OG Esports, Rex Regum Qeon, and the defending champions HomeBois BSE, formerly Black Shrew Esports.
The event also offers a direct pathway to Challenger Cup 2025, a major cup tournament that includes Chinese (King Pro League) teams.
Fans who are not able to attend KIC 2025 in the Philippines can still catch up on all the matches through the official YouTube and Twitch livestreams.
Honor of Kings is a 5v5 online MOBA game developed by TiMi Studio Group, a subsidiary of Tencent. Since its initial release in China back in 2015, it has quickly risen as one of the most popular esports titles in 2025. Just this weekend, the game broke the Guinness World Record for the largest live attendance ever for an esports match.
