Game | League of Legends |
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First season | 2012 |
Owner(s) | Riot Games Brazil |
No. of teams | 2012–2020: 8 2021 onwards: 10 |
Countries | Brazil |
Most recent champion(s) | paiN Gaming (4nd title) (2024 Split 2) |
Most titles | INTZ (5th title) |
Qualification | Franchise partnership |
TV partner(s) | Twitch YouTube SporTV |
Promotion to | Mid Season Invitational World Championship |
Official website | br |
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]
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]
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]
Source: [12]
Team | First appearance |
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Fluxo | 2023 Split 1 |
FURIA | 2020 Split 1 |
INTZ | 2014 Split 2 |
KaBuM! Esports | 2014 Split 1 |
Liberty | 2022 Split 1 |
Los Grandes | 2022 Slipt 2 |
LOUD | 2021 Split 1 |
paiN Gaming | 2012 |
RED Canids Kalunga | 2016 Split 1 |
Vivo Keyd Stars | 2013 |
Year | Split | Winner | Runner-up | Third place | Fourth place |
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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 |
Source: [13]
* Denotes a team that no longer participates in the league.
Team | 1st | 2nd | 3rd | 4th | Total Top Four Finishes |
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INTZ | 5 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 9 |
paiN Gaming | 4 | 8 | 5 | 1 | 15 |
KaBuM! Esports | 4 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 9 |
LOUD | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 |
RED Canids Kalunga | 3 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 6 |
Vivo Keyd Stars | 1 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 10 |
Flamengo Esports* | 1 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 4 |
vTi Ignis* | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
Team oNe* | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
CNB* | 0 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 7 |
Vorax* | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
Rensga* | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
vTi Nox* | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
Los Grandes | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
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