The Campeonato Brasileiro de League of Legends (CBLOL, lit. Brazilian Championship of League of Legends) was the top level of professional League of Legends competition in Brazil. There were anywhere from eight to ten teams in the league. Each annual season of play was divided into two splits, marked Split 1 and Split 2, both 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 qualified for the Mid-Season Invitational and World Championship respectively.[1]
| Most recent season or competition: 2024 | |
| Game | League of Legends |
|---|---|
| First season | 2012 |
| Ceased | 2024 |
| Replaced by | League of Legends Championship of The Americas |
| Owner(s) | Riot Games Brazil |
| No. of teams | 2012–2020: 8 2021–2024: 10 |
| Countries | Brazil |
| Last champion(s) | paiN Gaming (4th title) (2024 Split 2) |
| Most titles | INTZ (5 titles) |
| Qualification | Franchise partnership |
| TV partner(s) | Twitch YouTube SporTV |
| Promotion to | Mid Season Invitational World Championship |
| 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.
The matches were held from 2015 to 2024 at Riot studios in São Paulo and broadcast via livestream, with an audience. For the finals in the second split, the matches were 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, CBLOL had also been playing live games on SporTV since 2017, with the same coverage as Riot.[3]
Overview
editThe 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-splits 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 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. Also the third split would lead to the Americas regional tournament which would send at least one team from the South to Worlds.[10][11]
Final format
edit- 10 teams participated
- 9 weeks, League play
- Double Round Robin
- Matches were best of one
- Advancement:
- Top six teams advanced to Playoffs
- 7th - 10th don't advanced to Playoffs
- Ties were broken by the following methods:
- Head-to-head record during regular season
- Shortest combined game time (for the team's wins)
- If still tied, a tiebreaker game was played
Final teams
editSource: [12]
| Team | First appearance |
|---|---|
| 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 |
Results
edit| 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 | |
Source:[13]
Titles by team
edit| 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 |
| 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 | — |
| LOUD | 4 | 0 | 2022-2, 2023-1, 2023-2, 2024-1 | — |
| RED Canids Kalunga | 3 | 0 | 2017-1, 2021-2, 2022-1 | — |
| 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 | — |
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- ^ Santos, Maria Fernanda Soares (2024-04-21). "CBLOL 2024: LOUD vence PAIN e se consagra tetra campeã do CBLOL 2024.1". OHoje.com (in Brazilian Portuguese). Retrieved 2024-05-03.