Campeonato Brasileiro de League of Legends

Campeonato Brasileiro de League of Legends
Current season, competition or edition:
2026 CBLOL season
Formerly
GameLeague of Legends
Founded13 August 2012 (2012-08-13)
First season2012
OwnerRiot Games
DirectorIgor Corrêa
No. of teams8
RegionSouth America
VenuesRiot Games Arena, São Paulo
Most recent
champion
LOUD (5th title)
(CBLOL Cup 2026)
Most titlesLOUD, INTZ (5 titles each)
QualificationFranchise partnership
Relegation toGuest teams only:
  • Liga Regional Sur (Southern LATAM)
  • Circuito Desafiante (Brazil)
International cups
Related
competitions
LCK, LCP, LCS, LEC, LPL
Official websitewww.lolesports.com

The Campeonato Brasileiro de League of Legends (CBLOL, lit. Brazilian Championship of League of Legends) is the top level of professional League of Legends competition in Brazil and Southern Latin America. There were anywhere from eight to ten teams in the league prior to 2025. Each annual season of play is divided into three splits, marked Split 1, Split 2, and Split 3; during the two-split era both splits consisting of eighteen rounds of round-robin tournament play, which then concluded with play-off tournaments between the top six teams. The winners of each split qualify for First Stand, the Mid-Season Invitational and World Championship respectively.[1]

CBLOL would merge with North America's LCS and Latin America's Liga Latinoamérica to form the League of Legends Championship of The Americas in 2025, with CBLOL becoming the South Conference ("LTA South"). The decision was reversed beginning in 2026, reinstating CBLOL.

With the exception of some touring events, all games of the CBLOL are played live at the Riot Games Arena in São Paulo.[2] In addition to a small studio audience, all games are streamed live on Twitch and YouTube. Live games were also played on SporTV in 2017.[3]

Overview

The tournament had been organized since 2012, shortly after the debut of the Brazilian server, with professionalism still incipient, when it was held in just three days. In 2014, the first league championship was held: the Brazilian League - Champions Series, and in the same year the precedent of two annual competitions was inaugurated, with the holding of the Brazilian Regional Final. After that, the two-split format was adopted, with each one played in the first phase in the "all against all" format, and later knockout until the grand finale.[4][5] Also in 2015, the league format with stable members was adopted, but subject to lowering and promotion of the worst placed to benefit the best of the Challenging Circuit.[6][7] Until 2014, a qualifying phase for the championship dispute was adopted.[8]

On 21 January 2020, Riot Brazil confirmed that CBLOL moved to franchising.[9]

On 11 June 2024, Riot announced that CBLOL, LCS and LLA would form a pan-American league, the League of Legends Championship of The Americas in 2025. Six of the ten CBLOL teams remained partnered and formed the South Conference ("LTA South"), with INTZ, KaBuM! Esports, Liberty and Los Grandes leaving after 2024; KaBuM! would join a revived Challenging Circuit, which would serve as Brazil's second division once more. They would be joined by a team from southern Latin America (which would be Leviatán) and a guest slot determined by a promotion and relegation tournament with teams from the Challenging Circuit and South Regional League (Southern LATAM) after 2025; this guest spot went to Isurus Gaming, initially as Isurus Estral under a partnership with Estral Esports.

CBLOL adopted a first split which qualified a team from the pan-American league for a new international tournament named First Stand, but this was won by North America's Team Liquid. Also, the third split would lead to the Americas regional tournament which would send at least one team from the South to Worlds, which would be Vivo Keyd Stars.[10][11] On September 28, 2025, Riot would discontinue the LTA and revive CBLOL and the LCS.[12]

Format

Copa CBLOL

  • 8 teams participate
  • 3 weeks, League play
  • Single Round Robin
  • Matches are best of one
  • Advancement:
    • The Top four teams advance to the Playoffs
    • 5th - 8th advance to Entry Phase
      • 5th and 6th compete for the 5th Playoffs spot
      • Loser of 5th/6th competes with winner of 7th/8th match for the final Playoffs spot
      • Matches in Entry Phase are best of three

Splits 1 and 2

  • 8 teams participate
  • 7 weeks, League play
  • Single Round Robin
  • Matches are best of three with Fearless Draft
  • Advancement:
    • The Top six teams advance to the Playoffs
    • 7th and 8th don't advance to Playoffs

Current teams

Source: [13]

Team First appearance
Fluxo 2023 Split 1
FURIA 2020 Split 1
Leviatán 2025 Split 1 (LTA South)
Los Grandes[a] 2022 Split 2
LOUD 2021 Split 1
paiN Gaming 2012
RED Canids Kalunga 2016 Split 1
Vivo Keyd Stars 2013

Results

Year Split Winner Runner-up Third place Fourth place
2012 vTi Ignis vTi Nox paiN Gaming Insight
2013 paiN Gaming CNB RMA Nex Impetus
2014 1 Keyd Stars paiN Gaming CNB KaBuM! Esports
2 KaBuM! Esports CNB Keyd Stars paiN Gaming
2015 1 INTZ Keyd Stars paiN Gaming KaBuM! Black
2 paiN Gaming INTZ Keyd Stars g3nerationX
2016 1 INTZ Keyd Stars Operation Kino KaBuM! Esports
2 INTZ CNB paiN Gaming Keyd Stars
2017 1 RED Canids Keyd Stars paiN Gaming INTZ
2 Team oNe paiN Gaming RED Canids INTZ
2018 1 KaBuM! Esports Vivo Keyd RED Canids CNB
2 KaBuM! Esports Flamengo Esports CNB Vivo Keyd
2019 1 INTZ Flamengo Esports Redemption POA CNB
2 Flamengo Esports INTZ KaBuM! Esports Uppercut
2020 1 KaBuM! Esports Flamengo Esports Vivo Keyd FURIA Uppercut
2 INTZ paiN Gaming KaBuM! Esports Prodigy
2021 1 paiN Gaming Vorax Flamengo Esports RED Canids Kalunga
2 RED Canids Kalunga Rensga paiN Gaming Vorax
2022 1 RED Canids Kalunga paiN Gaming KaBuM! Esports FURIA
2 LOUD paiN Gaming FURIA RED Canids Kalunga
2023 1 LOUD paiN Gaming Los Grandes FURIA
2 LOUD paiN Gaming RED Canids Kalunga INTZ
2024 1 LOUD paiN Gaming Vivo Keyd Stars RED Canids Kalunga
2 paiN Gaming Vivo Keyd Stars RED Canids Kalunga LOUD
2025 CBLOL replaced by LTA South
2026 Cup LOUD RED Canids Kalunga FURIA Los Grandes
1 TBA TBA TBA TBA
2 TBA TBA TBA TBA

Source:[14]

Titles by team

Team Winners Runner-up Splits won Splits runner-up
INTZ 5 2 2015-1, 2016-1, 2016-2, 2019-1, 2020-2 2015-2, 2019-2
LOUD 5 0 2022-2, 2023-1, 2023-2, 2024-1, 2026-Cup
paiN Gaming 4 8 2013, 2015-2, 2021-1, 2024-2 2014-1, 2017-2, 2020-2, 2022-1, 2022-2, 2023-1, 2023-2, 2024-1
KaBuM! Esports 4 0 2014-2, 2018-1, 2018-2, 2020-1
RED Canids Kalunga 3 01 2017-1, 2021-2, 2022-1 2026-Cup
Vivo Keyd Stars 1 5 2014-1 2015-1, 2016-1, 2017-1, 2018-1, 2024-2
Flamengo Esports 1 3 2019-2 2018-2, 2019-1, 2020-1
vTi Ignis 1 0 2012
Team oNe 1 0 2017-2

Notes

  1. ^ Guest Spot, was initially belonging to Isurus before they withdrew.

References

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