League of Legends Championship of The Americas

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The League of Legends Championship of The Americas (LTA) was Riot Games’ 2025 attempt to create a single Pan‑American top league by merging the North American LCS, Brazil’s CBLOL, and Latin America’s LLA. It ran for one season in 2025 and featured 16 teams split into two conferences: North (Los Angeles) and South (São Paulo). The league played in Riot Games Arena venues in both cities, with most matches streamed online.

How it worked
- The 16 teams were mostly franchised, with two guest teams and one provisional guest team. One guest team was new to the league and the other came from regional second‑tier leagues.
- The season was divided into three splits. Each split fed into a different international event: the first split determined a team for the First Stand Tournament, the second split sent teams to the Mid‑Season Invitational (MSI), and the top teams from the third split earned spots at the World Championship.
- The final rounds of the 2025 season were held in Allen, Texas.

Who won and what happened
- FlyQuest won the only LTA Championship in 2025, making them the last champion of the league. FlyQuest also holds the most LTA titles, with one.
- On September 28, 2025, Riot Games announced the LTA would be discontinued. The LCS (North America) and CBLOL (Brazil) would return as separate leagues in 2026. The LTA was replaced by the two traditional leagues, with LLA continuing to exist in the region.

Why it ended
- The LTA faced criticism for its format, including a lack of double‑elimination and inconsistent formats across splits. Fans and commentators argued this made competition less engaging and created an uneven playing field between North and South teams.
- After the 2025 season, Riot decided to end the LTA and revert to the familiar LCS and CBLOL structures, while the region’s rest of the ecosystem continued under those leagues.

Background context
- The LTA emerged from Riot’s 2024 plan to merge the three regional leagues (LCS, CBLOL, LLA) into a single Americas league. It aimed to unify the North and South conferences under one umbrella, with promotion and relegation for guest teams.
- The league’s format, venues, and structure were designed to showcase top teams from across the Americas and feed into the major international events every split.

In short, the LTA was a short‑lived, single‑season experiment to unify Americas League of Legends competition, crowned FlyQuest as its champion, and then reverted to the previous regional leagues after facing format and competitive balance criticisms.