Campeonato Brasileiro de League of Legends explained

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Sport:esports
Game:League of Legends
Owner:Riot Games Brazil
Inaugural:2012
Teams:2012–2020: 8
2021 onwards: 10
Countries:Brazil
Champion:LOUD (4nd title) (2024 Split 1)
Most Successful Club:INTZ (5th title)
Qualification:Franchise partnership
Tv:Twitch
YouTube
SporTV
Promotion:Mid Season Invitational
World Championship

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]

Overview

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]

Format

Teams

Source: [12]

TeamFirst appearance
Fluxo2023 Split 1
FURIA2020 Split 1
INTZ2014 Split 2
KaBuM! Esports2014 Split 1
Liberty2022 Split 1
Los Grandes2022 Slipt 2
LOUD2021 Split 1
paiN Gaming2012
RED Canids Kalunga2016 Split 1
Vivo Keyd Stars2013

Past seasons

YearSplitWinnerRunner-upThird placeFourth place
2012vTi IgnisvTi NoxpaiN GamingInsight
2013paiN GamingCNBRMANex Impetus
20141Keyd StarspaiN GamingCNBKaBuM! Esports
2KaBuM! EsportsCNBKeyd StarspaiN Gaming
20151INTZKeyd StarspaiN GamingKaBuM! Black
2paiN GamingINTZKeyd Starsg3nerationX
20161INTZKeyd StarsOperation KinoKaBuM! Esports
2INTZCNBpaiN GamingKeyd Stars
20171RED CanidsKeyd StarspaiN GamingINTZ
2Team oNepaiN GamingRED CanidsINTZ
20181KaBuM! EsportsVivo KeydRED CanidsCNB
2KaBuM! EsportsFlamengo EsportsCNBVivo Keyd
20191INTZFlamengo EsportsRedemption POACNB
2Flamengo EsportsINTZKaBuM! EsportsUppercut
20201KaBuM! EsportsFlamengo EsportsVivo KeydFURIA Uppercut
2INTZpaiN GamingKaBuM! EsportsProdigy
20211paiN GamingVoraxFlamengo EsportsRED Canids Kalunga
2RED Canids KalungaRensgapaiN GamingVorax
20221RED Canids KalungapaiN GamingKaBuM! EsportsFURIA
2LOUDpaiN GamingFURIARED Canids Kalunga
20231LOUDpaiN GamingLos GrandesFURIA
2LOUDpaiN GamingRED Canids KalungaINTZ
20241LOUDpaiN GamingVivo Keyd StarsRED Canids Kalunga
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Source:[13]

Number of top four finishes

Denotes a team that no longer participates in the league.

Team1st2nd3rd4thTotal Top
Four Finishes
INTZ52 0 29
KaBuM! Esports4 0 3 29
LOUD4 0 0 0 4
paiN Gaming3 851 14
RED Canids Kalunga 3 0 2 1 6
Vivo Keyd Stars1 4 2 29
Flamengo Esports1 3 1 0 4
vTi Ignis* 1 0 0 0 1
Team oNe* 1 0 0 0 1
CNB* 0 3 2 27
Vorax* 0 1 0 1 2
Rensga*01001
vTi Nox* 0 1 0 0 1
Los Grandes 0 0 1 0 1

Notes and References

  1. News: Rodrigues. Bruno. 2017-02-07. Riot anuncia Mundial 2017 na China e vaga direta para o Brasil - Mais e-Sports. Mais e-Sports.
  2. News: League of Legends: Riot inaugura estúdio para transmitir o Brasileiro de LoL. TechTudo.
  3. News: Oliveira. Gabriel. CBLoL 2017 começará no dia 21 com transmissão do SporTV. CNB e-Sports Club Gaming is our sport. 2019-12-23. https://web.archive.org/web/20170703123707/http://mycnb.uol.com.br/noticias/5128-cblol-2017-comecara-no-dia-21-com-transmissao-do-sportv. 2017-07-03. dead.
  4. Web site: LoLeSports BR. 2017-07-10. br.lolesports.com.
  5. News: Melo. Gabriel. Relembre as finais dos campeonatos nacionais de LoL. CNB e-Sports Club Gaming is our sport. 2019-12-23. https://web.archive.org/web/20170731052221/http://mycnb.uol.com.br/noticias/4294-relembre-as-finais-dos-campeonatos-nacionais-de-league-of-legends. 2017-07-31. dead.
  6. News: Set. Ricardo. CBLoL 2015 é anunciado com formato semelhante à LCS. CNB e-Sports Club Gaming is our sport. 2019-12-23. https://web.archive.org/web/20170703145106/http://mycnb.uol.com.br/noticias/2123-cblol-2015-e-anunciado-com-formato-semelhante-a-lcs. 2017-07-03. dead.
  7. Web site: CBLoL e Desafiante na Temporada 2015 League of Legends. 2017-07-10. br.leagueoflegends.com.
  8. Web site: LoLeSports BR. 2017-07-10. lolesports.com.br. https://web.archive.org/web/20170707224139/http://lolesports.com.br/ligas/cblol. 2017-07-07. dead.
  9. Web site: Riot Brasil confirms CBLoL will move to franchising. Jan 22, 2020. ESPN.
  10. News: Wilson . Jason . Riot Games rolls out consolidation plan, new spring event for League of Legends esports . 11 June 2024 . . 11 June 2024 . en.
  11. News: Taifalos . Nicholas . McIntyre . Isaac . LCS, CBLOL, LLA unified as Riot takes VALORANT-like approach to LoL esports . 11 June 2024 . Dot Esports . 11 June 2024.
  12. Web site: LoL Esports . 2022-12-19 . lolesports.com.
  13. Web site: Santos . Maria Fernanda Soares . 2024-04-21 . CBLOL 2024: LOUD vence PAIN e se consagra tetra campeã do CBLOL 2024.1 . 2024-05-03 . OHoje.com . pt-BR.