2025 LTA season

2025 LTA season
League	LTA
Sport	League of Legends
Duration	25 January – 23 February (Split 1) 5 April – 15 June (Split 2) 26 July – 28 September (Split 3)
Number of teams	16
Split 1
Winners	Team Liquid
Runners-up	100 Thieves
Season MVP	Sean "Yeon" Sung (Team Liquid)
Split 2
Conference Champions	FlyQuest (North) FURIA (South)
Runners-up	Cloud9 KIA (North) paiN Gaming (South)
Season MVP	Kacper "Inspired" Słoma (North; FlyQuest) Marcos "CarioK" Oliveira (South; paiN Gaming)
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]

Notable events

• On 11 June 2024, Riot Games announced in a blog post titled "LoL Esports: Building Towards A Brighter Future" that the League Championship Series (LCS), Campeonato Brasileiro de League of Legends (CBLOL) and Liga Latinoamérica (LLA) would plan to merge into a Pan-American league that would begin play in 2025. ^{[2] [3]}
• On 31 October 2024, the League of Legends Championship of The Americas was formed, with the inaugural 16 teams in the league announced that same day. ^[4]
  • 100 Thieves, initially planned to be a regular partnered team coming from the former LCS, also announced on October 31 that they sold their slot back to Riot Games. As such, they would be a "provisional guest team" for the 2025 LTA season, which means they'll not be eligible for relegation but may leave competitive League at the end of the 2025 season. ^[5]
• On 13 January 2025, Mark Zimmerman, who was the final commissioner of the LCS, was named the first commissioner of the LTA. ^[6]
• On 14 January 2025, Cloud9 announced a partnership with KIA America for their League of Legends division. The team is now known as Cloud9 KIA. ^[7]
• On 24 January 2025, Fluxo announced a partnership with w7m esports for their League of Legends division. The team is now known as Fluxo w7m.^{[ citation needed ]}
• On 16 March 2025, prior to the final of the 2025 First Stand Tournament, Riot Games announced that the "Fearless Draft" format would continue beyond the first split of the season. This included the LTA's Split 2 and Split 3 as well as MSI and Worlds. ^[8]
• On 21 March 2025, Mark Zimmerman announced during an "LTA Address" that the formats for Splits 2 and 3 would change to align with Fearless Draft's global rollout. Split 2's regular season, initially announced as double round-robin best-of-1 group stage, was split into a single round-robin best-of-1 "positioning phase" and single round-robin best-of-3 "group stage", while Split 3's "Pick and Play" elimination stage matches were all converted to best-of-5s. ^[9]
• On 19 May 2025, Japanese car manufacturer Honda would end their sponsorship of Team Liquid's League of Legends team in response to a tweet made by one of Liquid's Rainbow Six Siege players against a player on Japanese team CAG Osaka during the RE:L0:AD tournament. ^[10]
• On 23 June 2025, Isurus and Estral Esports decided to part ways from their joint venture, Isurus Estral, who were in the LTA South as guests. As part of the split, Isurus would keep the LTA slot. ^[11]
• On 19 July 2025, 100 Thieves confirmed its departure from the LTA after the 2025 season, with the league announcing a new partner team soon to take its place from the 2026 season onward. ^[12]

Guest teams

Two guest teams are competing in the 2025 season – Disguised from the North America Challengers League (NACL) in the United States and Isurus Estral (later just Isurus) ^[11] from Argentina. Both 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 held on 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) then-competed in an eight-team single-elimination playoff bracket, where all matches except the finals were best-of-threes and the first round of matchups being cross-conference matches. The finals were a best-of-five series, with the winner being crowned Split 1 Champion and the lone LTA representative at the 2025 First Stand Tournament. ^{[13] [6]}

Split 1 implemented 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. While the format was initially intended to be used only for Split 1, Riot Games later announced that it would apply for the remainder of the season. ^[8]

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 1

Round 2

Advance to inter-conference playoffs

25 January

FlyQuest

2

2 February

Shopify Rebellion

0

FlyQuest

1

25 January

Cloud9 KIA

Cloud9 KIA

2

LYON Gaming

0

Cloud9 KIA

2

Lower Round 2

Round 3

1 February

Team Liquid

2

Team Liquid

Shopify Rebellion

2

Shopify Rebellion

0

LYON Gaming

1

Bracket 2

Round 1

Round 2

Advance to inter-conference playoffs

26 January

100 Thieves

2

2 February

Disguised

0

100 Thieves

2

26 January

100 Thieves

Team Liquid

1

Team Liquid

2

Dignitas

0

Lower Round 2

Round 3

1 February

FlyQuest

2

FlyQuest

Disguised

1

Dignitas

0

Dignitas

2

South

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

Bracket 1

Round 1

Round 2

Advance to inter-conference playoffs

25 January

paiN Gaming

2

2 February

LOUD

1

paiN Gaming

1

25 January

Leviatán

Leviatán

2

Vivo Keyd Stars

1

Leviatán

2

Lower Round 2

Round 3

9 February

1 February

LOUD

2

LOUD

LOUD

2

RED Canids

1

Vivo Keyd Stars

1

Bracket 2

Round 1

Round 2

Advance to inter-conference playoffs

26 January

Isurus Estral

2

2 February

FURIA

1

Isurus Estral

2

26 January

Isurus Estral

RED Canids

1

RED Canids

2

Fluxo w7m

0

Lower Round 2

Round 3

9 February

1 February

FURIA

1

paiN Gaming

FURIA

2

paiN Gaming

2

Fluxo w7m

0

Playoffs

Venue: Riot Games Arena, São Paulo

Quarterfinals

Semifinals

Final

15 February

100 Thieves

2

22 February

paiN Gaming

0

100 Thieves

2

15 February

FlyQuest

1

Leviatán

0

23 February

FlyQuest

2

100 Thieves

0

16 February

Team Liquid

3

Isurus Estral

1

22 February

Team Liquid

2

Team Liquid

2

16 February

Cloud9 KIA

1

Cloud9 KIA

2

LOUD

0

Split 2

Format

In both conferences, teams competed in a single round-robin best-of-one round called the Positioning Phase. The results of this phase determined the seeding for the Group Stage, with the teams split into two groups of four and competing in a single round-robin schedule of best-of-three games. After the Group Stage, the top two teams in each group, four total, advanced to their conference's best-of-five Double-elimination tournament playoff bracket and played an additional seeding match, while the bottom two teams in each group faced each other for the final two playoff berths. ^[9] The winners in each conference were crowned Conference Champions ^[13] and qualified for the 2025 Mid-Season Invitational and Esports World Cup (alongside the LTA North runners-up for the latter). ^[6]

North

Positioning phase

Pos	Team	Pld	W	L	PCT
1	FlyQuest	7	6	1	.857
2	Cloud9 KIA	7	6	1	.857
3	100 Thieves	7	5	2	.714
4	Team Liquid	7	4	3	.571
5	LYON	7	3	4	.429
6	Shopify Rebellion	7	2	5	.286
7	Disguised	7	1	6	.143
8	Dignitas	7	1	6	.143

Updated to match(es) played on 6 April 2025. Source: LoL Esports

Group stage

Group A

Pos	Team	Pld	W	L	PCT	Qualification
1	Cloud9 KIA	3	3	0	1.000	Advance to 1st Place Seeding Match
2	Team Liquid	3	2	1	.667	Advance to 3rd Place Seeding Match
3	LYON	3	1	2	.333	Advance to elimination matches
4	Disguised	3	0	3	.000

Updated to match(es) played on 12 May 2025. Source: LoL Esports

Group B

Pos	Team	Pld	W	L	PCT	Qualification
1	FlyQuest	3	3	0	1.000	Advance to 1st Place Seeding Match
2	Shopify Rebellion	3	1	2	.333	Advance to 3rd Place Seeding Match
3	100 Thieves	3	1	2	.333	Advance to elimination matches
4	Dignitas	3	1	2	.333

Updated to match(es) played on 12 May 2025. Source: LoL Esports

Tiebreaker

In case of teams with similar records, game scores (the cumulative number of games won and lost over multiple series) is applied. The following are the game scores for all team with 1-2 records:

• Shopify Rebellion: 4-5
• 100 Thieves: 3-4
• Dignitas: 2-5

Cross-group matches

Seeding matches

1st Place Seeding Match 18 May Cloud9 0 FlyQuest 2

3rd Place Seeding Match 19 May Team Liquid 2 Shopify Rebellion 0

Elimination matches

Elimination Match 1 18 May LYON 1 Dignitas 2

Elimination Match 2 19 May 100 Thieves 2 Disguised 0

Playoffs

	Upper semifinals					Upper final										Final
	24 May
	1	FlyQuest	3
						7 June
	4	Shopify Rebellion	0
						1	FlyQuest	3
	25 May
						2	Cloud9 KIA	2
	2	Cloud9 KIA	3
	3	Team Liquid	0													15 June
																1	FlyQuest	3
	Lower quarterfinals					Lower semifinals					Lower final					2	Cloud9 KIA	2
	31 May
											14 June
	3	Team Liquid	3
						8 June					2	Cloud9 KIA	3
	5	Dignitas	1
						3	Team Liquid	1			4	Shopify Rebellion	0
	1 June
						4	Shopify Rebellion	3
	4	Shopify Rebellion	3
	6	100 Thieves	0

Source: LoL Esports

Awards

Award	Player	Team
Finals MVP	Quad	FlyQuest
Season MVP	Inspired
1st All-Pro Team
	Bwipo	FlyQuest
	Inspired
	Quad
	Massu
	Busio
2nd All-Pro Team
	Thanatos	Cloud9 KIA
	Blaber
	Quid	100 Thieves
	Zven	Cloud9 KIA
	Vulcan
3rd All-Pro Team
	Impact	Team Liquid
	River	100 Thieves
	Loki	Cloud9 KIA
	Yeon	Team Liquid
	CoreJJ

South

Positioning phase

Pos	Team	Pld	W	L	PCT
1	paiN Gaming	7	6	1	.857
2	FURIA	7	5	2	.714
3	LOUD	7	4	3	.571
4	Leviatán	7	4	3	.571
5	Vivo Keyd Stars	7	4	3	.571
6	RED Canids	7	3	4	.429
7	Fluxo w7m	7	1	6	.143
8	Isurus Estral	7	1	6	.143

Updated to match(es) played on 22 April 2025. Source: LoL Esports

Group stage

Group A

Pos	Team	Pld	W	L	PCT	Qualification
1	paiN Gaming	3	3	0	1.000	Advance to 1st Place Seeding Match
2	Vivo Keyd Stars	3	2	1	.667	Advance to 3rd Place Seeding Match
3	Isurus Estral	3	1	2	.333	Advance to elimination matches
4	Leviatán	3	0	3	.000

Updated to match(es) played on 12 May 2025. Source: LoL Esports

Group B

Pos	Team	Pld	W	L	PCT	Qualification
1	FURIA	3	2	1	.667	Advance to 1st Place Seeding Match
2	LOUD	3	2	1	.667	Advance to 3rd Place Seeding Match
3	RED Canids	3	1	2	.333	Advance to elimination matches
4	Fluxo w7m	3	1	2	.333

Updated to match(es) played on 12 May 2025. Source: LoL Esports

Tiebreaker

In case of teams with similar records, game scores (the cumulative number of games won and lost over multiple series) is applied, with RED Canids taking the third place spot with a 3-4 game score as opposed to Fluxo w7m's 2-5. FURIA and LOUD, however, have an identical 5-3 game score, but FURIA takes the top spot due to their win against LOUD in group play.

Cross-group matches

Seeding matches

1st Place Seeding Match 17 May paiN Gaming 2 FURIA 1

3rd Place Seeding Match 18 May Vivo Keyd Stars 2 LOUD 1

Elimination matches

Elimination Match 1 May 18 Isurus Estral 2 Fluxo w7m 0

Elimination Match 2 May 19 RED Canids 2 Leviatán 0

Playoffs

	Upper semifinals					Upper final										Final
	24 May
	1	paiN Gaming	3
						8 June
	4	LOUD	1
						1	paiN Gaming	3
	25 May
						2	FURIA	1
	2	FURIA	3
	3	Vivo Keyd Stars	0													15 June
																1	paiN Gaming	0
	Lower quarterfinals					Lower semifinals					Lower final					2	FURIA	3
	1 June
											14 June
	3	Vivo Keyd Stars	3
						7 June					2	FURIA	3
	5	RED Canids	1
						3	Vivo Keyd Stars	0			6	Isurus Estral	1
	31 May
						6	Isurus Estral	3
	4	LOUD	1
	6	Isurus Estral	3

Source: LoL Esports

Awards

Award	Player	Team
Finals MVP	Guigo	FURIA
Season MVP	CarioK	paiN Gaming
1st All-Pro Team
	Wizer	paiN Gaming
	CarioK
	Tutsz	FURIA
	Titan	paIN Gaming
	Kuri
2nd All-Pro Team
	Guigo	FURIA
	Tatu
	Roamer	paIN Gaming
	Ayu	FURIA
	Trymbi	Vivo Keyd Stars
3rd All-Pro Team
	Robo	LOUD
	Disamis	Vivo Keyd Stars
	Mireu	Isurus Estral
	Brance	RED Canids
	Jojo	FURIA

Split 3

On 3 June 2025, Riot Games announced that the final two games of the Americas Regional Championship (also known as the LTA Championship Finals) will be held at the Credit Union of Texas Event Center in Allen, Texas in the Dallas–Fort Worth metroplex in the United States on 27-28 September. ^{[14] [15]}

Format

Split 3 will have a "Pick & Play" format for the initial stages of the split. Both conferences will have a similar format across seven (7) weeks of play. The first week sees each team face each other based on the second split results, but after which, the lowest-ranked teams pick their opponents. After the first three weeks, a double elimination bracket is formed for the remaining four (4) weeks called the "Elimination Phase", 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 the first two rounds.

After those two rounds, the bracket will go on as is, with the top three teams in each conference's elimination phase qualifying for the Americas Regional Championship. The winner of each bracket per conference will earn a slot at the 2025 League of Legends World Championship as conference champions. All games in "Pick and Play"'s first three weeks are best-of-threes, while the double-elimination bracket "Elimination Phase" is consisted entirely of best-of-fives. ^[9]

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 each conference (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 inaugural LTA Champion, with the final LTA spot for Worlds 2025 being determined by the final rankings. ^[16]

Pick & play phase

North Pos Team Pld W L PCT 1 Cloud9 KIA 3 3 0 1.000 2 FlyQuest 3 3 0 1.000 3 Shopify Rebellion 3 3 0 1.000 4 Team Liquid 3 1 2 .333 5 Disguised 3 1 2 .333 6 LYON 3 1 2 .333 7 Dignitas 3 0 3 .000 8 100 Thieves 3 0 3 .000 Updated to match(es) played on 10 August 2025. Source: LoL Esports

Progression Team Week 1 Week 2 Week 3 100 Thieves TL (L) FLY (L) SR (L) Cloud9 KIA LYON (W) DIG (W) TL (W) Dignitas SR (L) C9 (L) DSG (L) Disguised FLY (L) SR (L) DIG (W) FlyQuest DSG (W) 100T (W) LYON (W) LYON C9 (L) TL (W) FLY (L) Shopify Rebellion DIG (W) DSG (W) 100T (W) Team Liquid 100T (W) LYON (L) C9 (L)

South Pos Team Pld W L PCT 1 RED Canids 3 3 0 1.000 2 FURIA 3 2 1 .667 3 Vivo Keyd Stars 3 2 1 .667 4 paiN Gaming 3 2 1 .667 5 LOUD 3 1 2 .333 6 Isurus 3 1 2 .333 7 Leviatán 3 1 2 .333 8 Fluxo w7m 3 0 3 .000 Updated to match(es) played on 10 August 2025. Source: LoL Esports

Progression Team Week 1 Week 2 Week 3 Fluxo w7m FUR (L) ISG (L) LEV (L) FURIA FXW7 (W) PNG (L) VKS (W) Isurus RED (L) FXW7 (W) LLL (L) Leviatán PNG (L) VKS (L) FXW7 (W) LOUD VKS (L) RED (L) ISG (W) paiN Gaming LEV (W) FUR (W) RED (L) RED Canids ISG (W) LLL (W) PNG (W) Vivo Keyd Stars LLL (W) LEV (W) FUR (L)

Elimination phase

North

Round 1

Round 2

Round 3

Round 4

Conference Finals

16 August

Cloud9 KIA

2

31 August

Shopify Rebellion

3

Shopify Rebellion

1

17 August

FlyQuest

3

FlyQuest

3

7 September

Team Liquid

0

FlyQuest

23 August

30 August

100 Thieves

6 September

Disguised

3

Team Liquid

0

5 September

Shopify Rebellion

0

Dignitas

1

100 Thieves

3

100 Thieves

3

100 Thieves

3

24 August

29 August

Cloud9 KIA

2

LYON

1

Cloud9 KIA

3

100 Thieves

3

Disguised

2

Source: LoL Esports

South

Round 1

Round 2

Round 3

Round 4

Conference Finals

16 August

FURIA

0

31 August

Vivo Keyd Stars

3

Vivo Keyd Stars

3

17 August

paiN Gaming

1

RED Canids

1

7 September

paiN Gaming

3

Vivo Keyd Stars

23 August

29 August

RED Canids

6 September

LOUD

3

RED Canids

3

5 September

paiN Gaming

0

Fluxo w7m

0

Leviatán

1

RED Canids

3

RED Canids

3

24 August

30 August

LOUD

2

Isurus

2

LOUD

3

Leviatán

3

FURIA

0

Source: LoL Esports

Playoffs

Venues:

• Riot Games Arena, Los Angeles (Rounds 1-2)
• Credit Union of Texas Event Center, Allen, Texas (Lower Bracket Final; Finals)

Round 1

Round 2

Round 3

Finals

LTA North Champions

LTA South Champions

28 September

27 September

LTA North Seed #2

paiN Gaming

LTA South Seed #2

Shopify Rebellion

Source: LoL Esports

Promotion and relegation tournament

The two guest teams – Disguised (North) and Isurus (South), as well as teams from the second tier leagues will compete in a five-team double-elimination tournament per conference. The winners of both tournaments will qualify for the 2026 LTA season as guest teams.

Qualified teams

North Team League Path Disguised LTA North Guest team TBD North American Challengers League Split 2 playoffs top two teams Luminosity Gaming Estral Esports Liga Regional Norte Split 2 playoffs top two teams SDM Tigres

South Team League Path Isurus LTA South Guest team TBD Circuito Desafiante Split 2 playoffs top two teams TBD TBD Liga Regional Sur Split 2 playoffs top two teams Farenvehn

North

Round 1

Round 2

Round 3

Promotion Match

NACL #1

LRN #1

Disguised

NACL #2

LRN #2

South

Round 1

Round 2

Round 3

Promotion Match

CD #1

LRS #1

Isurus

CD #2

LRS #2

Notes

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

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