Riot Video games has named Floor Zero Gaming because the visitor crew competing within the 2026 League of Legends Championship Pacific (LCP) season.
The Australian esports organisation is considered one of 5 groups which have earned a visitor slot within the area’s highest tier of League of Legends esports.
Unveiled on December twenty second, Floor Zero Gaming fills the empty slot left by the departure of TALON Esports, which was faraway from the league resulting from latest monetary points affecting its enterprise operations.
Riot Video games revealed that it prioritised ‘sustaining a stability between regional illustration and aggressive power’ whereas reviewing a number of purposes.
“We decided that GZ met all our necessities and could be the perfect match for the league,” mentioned the writer.
Since launching in 2016, Floor Zero Gaming has cemented itself as one of many Pacific’s notable names in League of Legends esports. In 2024, the organisation gained each LCO splits earlier than scoring a seventh-place end on the 2024 PCS Summer time Playoffs.
All through 2025, the organisation struggled to duplicate its earlier success, ending the yr with a top-eight end within the third break up of the Pacific Championship Sequence.
All LCP 2026 Groups
With Floor Zero Gaming changing into the LCP’s newest collaborating crew, the eight groups competing within the LCP 2026 Season Kickoff have now been confirmed.
CTBC Flying Oyster, Fukuoka SoftBank HAWKS, and GAM Esports are the one partnered groups collaborating within the opening event of the season, whereas Secret Whales, DetonatioN FocusMe, Vikings Esports and Deep Cross Gaming make up the remainder of the league’s visitor slots.
Beginning on January sixteenth, the eight groups will compete in a best-of-three spherical robin format, with the highest six advancing to the playoffs. The winner of the playoffs will qualify for the 2026 First Stand Match, the primary cross-regional event of the League of Legends season.
