Campeonato Brasileiro de League of Legends
Brazilian esports league
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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]
Upcoming season or competition: 2026 CBLOL season | |
| Game | League of Legends |
|---|---|
| First season | 2012 |
| Replaced by | League of Legends Championship of The Americas (2025 only) |
| Owner | Riot Games Brazil |
| No. of teams | 2012–2020: 8 2021–2024: 10 |
| Countries | Brazil |
| Most recent champion | paiN Gaming (4th title) (2024 Split 2) |
| Most titles | INTZ (5 titles) |
| Qualification | Franchise partnership |
| Broadcasters | Twitch YouTube SporTV |
| International cups | |
| Related competitions | LCK, LCP, LCS, LEC, LPL |
| Official website | br |
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 | — |