Campeonato Brasileiro de League of Legends

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Campeonato Brasileiro de League of Legends
Game League of Legends
First season2012
Owner(s) Riot Games Brazil
No. of teams2012–2020: 8
2021 onwards: 10
Countries Brazil
Most recent
champion(s)
LOUD (4nd title) (2024 Split 1)
Most titlesINTZ (5th title)
Qualification Franchise partnership
TV partner(s) Twitch
YouTube
SporTV
Promotion to Mid Season Invitational
World Championship
Official website br.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. There are ten teams in the league. Each annual season of play is divided into two splits, marked Split 1 and Split 2, both consisting of eighteen rounds of round-robin tournament play, which then conclude with play-off tournaments between the top six teams. The winners of each split qualifies for the Mid-Season Invitational and World Championship. [1]

Contents

Starting in 2025, CBLOL will form a pan-American league alongside North America's LCS and Latin America's Liga Latinoamérica, with CBLOL becoming the South Conference under this system.

The matches have been held since 2015 at Riot studios in São Paulo and broadcast via livestream, with an audience. And for the finals the matches are held in arenas like Allianz Parque, and are attended by narrators, commentators, analysts and presenters. [2] In addition to full broadcasting on official YouTube channels, Twitch, and since 2017 CBLOL has also been playing live games on SporTV, with the same coverage as Riot. [3]

Overview

The tournament has 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. Since then, the two-splits format has been 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 from 2025. Six of the ten CBLOL teams will remain partnered and form the South Conference, joined by a team from southern Latin America and a TBA guest slot determined by a promotion and relegation tournament after 2025. CBLOL will adopt a first split which qualifies a team from the pan-American league for a new international tournament, with the third split leading to the Americas regional tournament which would send at least one team from the South to Worlds. [10] [11]

Format

Teams

Source: [12]

TeamFirst appearance
Fluxo2023 Split 1
FURIA 2020 Split 1
INTZ2014 Split 2
KaBuM! Esports 2014 Split 1
Liberty2022 Split 1
Los Grandes2022 Slipt 2
LOUD 2021 Split 1
paiN Gaming 2012
RED Canids Kalunga2016 Split 1
Vivo Keyd Stars2013

Past seasons

YearSplitWinnerRunner-upThird placeFourth place
2012vTi IgnisvTi Nox paiN Gaming Insight
2013 paiN Gaming CNBRMANex Impetus
20141Keyd Stars paiN Gaming CNB KaBuM! Esports
2 KaBuM! Esports CNBKeyd Stars paiN Gaming
20151INTZKeyd Stars paiN Gaming KaBuM! Black
2 paiN Gaming INTZKeyd Starsg3nerationX
20161INTZKeyd StarsOperation Kino KaBuM! Esports
2INTZCNB paiN Gaming Keyd Stars
20171RED CanidsKeyd Stars paiN Gaming INTZ
2Team oNe paiN Gaming RED CanidsINTZ
20181 KaBuM! Esports Vivo KeydRED CanidsCNB
2 KaBuM! Esports Flamengo Esports CNBVivo Keyd
20191INTZ Flamengo Esports Redemption POACNB
2 Flamengo Esports INTZ KaBuM! Esports Uppercut
20201 KaBuM! Esports Flamengo Esports Vivo Keyd FURIA Uppercut
2INTZ paiN Gaming KaBuM! Esports Prodigy
20211 paiN Gaming Vorax Flamengo Esports RED Canids Kalunga
2RED Canids KalungaRensga paiN Gaming Vorax
20221RED Canids Kalunga paiN Gaming KaBuM! Esports FURIA
2 LOUD paiN Gaming FURIA RED Canids Kalunga
20231 LOUD paiN Gaming Los Grandes FURIA
2 LOUD paiN Gaming RED Canids KalungaINTZ
20241 LOUD paiN Gaming Vivo Keyd StarsRED Canids Kalunga
2

Source: [13]

Number of top four finishes

  *   Denotes a team that no longer participates in the league.

Team1st2nd3rd4thTotal Top
Four Finishes
INTZ52029
KaBuM! Esports 40329
LOUD 40004
paiN Gaming 365114
RED Canids Kalunga30216
Vivo Keyd Stars14229
Flamengo Esports*13104
vTi Ignis*10001
Team oNe*10001
CNB*03227
Vorax*01012
Rensga*01001
vTi Nox*01001
Los Grandes00101

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