2025 LTA season

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2025 LTA season
League LTA
Sport League of Legends
Duration
  • 25 January – 23 February (Split 1)
  • 5 April – TBD (Split 2)
  • TBD (Split 3)
Number of teams16
Split 1
Split 2
Split 3
LTA seasons
2026 →

The 2025 LTA season is the inaugural season of the League of Legends Championship of The Americas (LTA), a pan-American professional esports league for the video game League of Legends . The league launched with 16 teams, thirteen (13) of whom are franchised, two guest teams, and one provisional guest team, [a] all playing across three splits in line with the new three-split structure and competitive calendar introduced the game's developer Riot Games starting with the 2025 competitive season. [1]

Contents

Notable events

Guest teams

Two guest teams will be competing in the 2025 season – Disguised from the North America Challengers League (NACL) in the United States and Isurus Estral from Argentina. All teams will compete in a promotion and relegation tournament against the top teams from the Tier 2 leagues.

Split 1

The inaugural LTA Split began on 18 January, with the Finals slated for 23 February at the newly renovated Riot Games Arena in São Paulo, Brazil.

Format

All sixteen (16) teams, eight (8) in each conference, competed in a Double-elimination tournament bracket in their respective conferences to determine the top four (4) teams each from both the LTA North and LTA South. All matches were played in best-of-threes. The remaining eight (8) will then compete in an eight-team single-elimination playoff bracket, where all matches except the finals will also be best-of-threes and the first round of matchups being cross-conference matches. The finals will be a best-of-five series, with the winner being crowned Split 1 Champion and the lone LTA representative at the 2025 First Stand Tournament. [8] [6]

Split 1 implements the "Fearless Draft" format, which was popularized by China's LoL Development League, where teams cannot pick a champion that they've already played in a series, even if the champion was picked by the opposing team.

The draw for the first round matchups in each conference were held on 18 January 2025.

North

Venue: Riot Games Arena, Los Angeles
Source: LoL Esports

Bracket 1
Round 1Round 2Advance to inter-conference playoffs
Match 1 – 25 January
FlyQuest2
2 February
Shopify Rebellion0
FlyQuest1
Match 2 – 25 JanuaryCloud9 KIA
Cloud9 KIA2
LYON Gaming0
Cloud9 KIA2
Lower Round 2Round 3
1 FebruaryTeam Liquid2
Team Liquid
Shopify Rebellion2Shopify Rebellion0
LYON Gaming1
Bracket 2
Round 1Round 2Advance to inter-conference playoffs
Match 3 – 26 January
100 Thieves2
2 February
Disguised0
100 Thieves2
Match 4 – 26 January100 Thieves
Team Liquid1
Team Liquid2
Dignitas0
Lower Round 2Round 3
1 FebruaryFlyQuest2
FlyQuest
Disguised1Dignitas0
Dignitas2

South

Venue: Riot Games Arena, São Paulo
Source: LoL Esports

Bracket 1
Round 1Round 2Advance to inter-conference playoffs
Match 1 – 25 January
paiN Gaming2
2 February
LOUD1
paiN Gaming1
Match 2 – 25 JanuaryLeviatán
Leviatán2
Vivo Keyd Stars1
Leviatán2
Lower Round 2Round 3
9 February
1 FebruaryLOUD2
LOUD
LOUD2RED Canids1
Vivo Keyd Stars1
Bracket 2
Round 1Round 2Advance to inter-conference playoffs
Match 3 – 26 January
Isurus Estral2
2 February
FURIA1
Isurus Estral2
Match 4 – 26 JanuaryIsurus Estral
RED Canids1
RED Canids2
Fluxo w7m0
Lower Round 2Round 3
9 February
1 FebruaryFURIA1
paiN Gaming
FURIA2paiN Gaming2
Fluxo w7m0

Playoffs

Venue: Riot Games Arena, São Paulo

QuarterfinalsSemifinalsFinal
15 February, 16:00 BRT
100 Thieves2
22 February
paiN Gaming0
100 Thieves
15 February, 19:00 BRT
FlyQuest
Leviatán0
23 February
FlyQuest2
16 February, 19:00 BRT
Isurus Estral1
22 February
Team Liquid2
Team Liquid
16 February, 16:00 BRT
Cloud9 KIA
Cloud9 KIA2
LOUD0

Split 2

Format

In both conferences, teams will compete in a double round-robin tournament, with all matches being contested in best-of-ones. The top (6) teams will qualify for a best-of-five Double-elimination tournament playoff bracket, with the winners in each conference being crowned Conference Champions [8] and qualifying for the 2025 Mid-Season Invitational. [6]

Split 3

The Americas Regional Championship will be held in a to-be-determined venue in LTA North.

Format

Split 3 will have a "Pick & Play" format for the initial stages of the split. Both conferences will have a similar format across six (6) weeks of play. The first week sees each team face each other based on the second split results, but after the first and second weeks the lowest-ranked teams pick their opponents. After the third week, a double elimination bracket is formed, with the top 4 teams seeded into the winner's bracket and the bottom 4 seeded into the loser's bracket. This bracket sees the best ranked teams pick their opponents for each of the two rounds.

After those two rounds, the remaining team in the winner's bracket plays in the "Worlds Qualifying Series" for the upper-bracket spot in the Americas Regional Championship and a slot at the 2025 League of Legends World Championship against the best remaining team based on record, with the two remaining sides competing for the final spot for their conference. All games in "Pick & Play" are best-of-threes, with the exception of the final week, which consists of best-of-fives.

In the Americas Regional Championship, the three remaining teams from each of the two conferences compete in a best-of-five Double elimination tournament bracket, with the winners of the "Worlds Qualifying Series" (the first two LTA representatives at Worlds 2025) starting in the upper bracket, with the remaining teams starting in the lower bracket. The winner of the finals will be crowned the LTA Champion and will earn the final LTA slot at the 2025 World Championship. [9]

If an LTA team finishes as a finalist at MSI 2025, it will have an additional fourth slot in the tournament.

Notes

  1. ↑ 100 Thieves is a "provisional guest team", as their franchise slot was sold back to Riot Games. For 2025, they will participate like a franchised team in the LTA, meaning they can't be relegated.

References

  1. ↑ "LoL Esports: Building Towards A Brighter Future". lolesports.com. Retrieved 16 January 2025.
  2. ↑ Wilson, Jason (11 June 2024). "Riot Games rolls out consolidation plan, new spring event for League of Legends esports". Sports Business Journal . Retrieved 16 January 2025.
  3. ↑ Taifalos, Nicholas; McIntyre, Isaac (11 June 2024). "LCS, CBLOL, LLA unified as Riot takes VALORANT-like approach to LoL esports". Dot Esports. Retrieved 16 January 2025.
  4. ↑ Fudge, James (31 October 2024). "Teams, Format for League of Legends Championship of The Americas Revealed". The Esports Advocate. Retrieved 16 January 2025.
  5. ↑ Ciocchetti, Cecilia (31 October 2024). "100 Thieves sells League franchise slot while Disguised takes the stage for LTA 2025". Dot Esports. Retrieved 16 January 2025.
  6. 1 2 3 "Welcome to the LTA". lolesports.com. Retrieved 16 January 2025.
  7. ↑ "Cloud9 Announces Kia as New Entitlement Partner for League of Legends Team". Cloud9. Retrieved 15 February 2025.
  8. 1 2 "What you need to know about the LTA: 2025 LTA Address" (video). youtube.com. League of Legends Championship of The Americas. 14 January 2025.
  9. ↑ "Introducing The LTA – 2025 Explainer" (video). youtube.com. League of Legends Championship of The Americas. 31 October 2024.
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