After a year-long hiatus to make method for the LTA, the Campeonato Brasileiro de League of Legends (CBLOL) returns, beginning with the CBLOL Cup 2026.
Kicking off the 2026 season, the CBLOL Cup will run from January seventeenth till February twenty eighth, providing one slot at First Stand, the primary worldwide League of Legends match of the yr.
With established Brazilian groups in addition to new faces coming collectively in São Paulo’s Riot Video games Area, esports followers can stay up for a month filled with back-to-back high-stakes matches.
CBLOL Cup 2026: Groups
The CBLOL Cup will characteristic six Brazilian associate groups in addition to two extra invited rosters:
- Fluxo W7M
- FURIA
- Keyd Stars
- LOUD
- paiN Gaming
- RED Canids
- Leviatán
- LOS Grandes
Leviatán will signify the Liga Latinoamérica (LLA), whereas LOS was introduced as a visitor staff following the exit of 2026 Promotion Event winner, Isurus Gaming.
Format
The eight collaborating organisations will start the CBLOL Cup with the Common Season. Between January seventeenth and February 1st, all groups will face off in BO1 matches.
The highest 4 rising groups will advance to the double-elimination Playoffs. Furthermore, the primary two seeds will earn a direct bye into the Higher Bracket Semifinals, with seed one being allowed to decide on its place within the bracket and its potential future opponents.
In the meantime, seeds 5 to eight should first safe one of many two remaining Playoffs slots by the Play-In Stage:
- Seeds 5 and 6 will compete in a best-of-three (BO3) sequence, with the winner advancing to the Playoffs as seed 5.
- The loser, nevertheless, will play towards the winner of the BO3 between the Common Season’s seventh and eighth-placed groups.
- The 2 survivors will then compete in a best-of-five (BO5) for the ultimate Playoffs slot (seed six).
Afterwards, the Playoffs will happen from February seventh to twenty eighth.
Much like the Play-In part, the Playoffs bracket will start with BO3s after which change to BO5s for all lower-bracket matches, in addition to the Higher Bracket Last and the Grand Last. All BO3s and BO5s will use Fearless Draft.
Gamers to Watch at CBLOL Cup
After underwhelming performances all through the previous two years, LLA’s Leviatán is heading to the CBLOL Cup 2026 with a brand-new roster. Among the many new signings is midlaner Eneas ‘Enga’ Protti, who has been competing throughout the South American scene since 2019. The Argentine participant had a profitable 2025 season, profitable two Liga Regional Sur splits together with his earlier staff, Farenvehn.
Equally, CBLOL veteran Leonardo ‘Robo’ Souza has returned to paiN Gaming for the upcoming season following a four-year tenure with Brazilian rival LOUD. The highest laner seems again on a difficult yr within the LTA and will probably be seeking to show he can nonetheless take Brazilian groups to international occasions after over 10 years of competing.
LOUD has not solely changed its high laner but it surely additionally reworked the vast majority of its roster, together with two imports from South Korea. One in every of them is Ko ‘Youngjae’ Younger-jae, who has represented the likes of BRION and Freecs within the LCK. Just lately, the participant competed in LCK Challengers for KT Rolster’s academy staff. After greater than 5 years of aggressive expertise, this would be the jungler’s first season overseas.
Lastly, Keyd Stars was the one South American organisation to signify the area eventually yr’s League of Legends World Championship, due to its second-place end on the LTA Championship in September. Given its profitable 2025 season, the staff solely made one roster change forward of CBLOL. Nevertheless, it’s the signing of Ling ‘Kaiwing’ Kai-wing.
As a part of CTBC Flying Roster, Kaiwing dominated Pacific’s LCP to make all three international occasions in 2025 and made it to the quarterfinals at Worlds 2025. As Keyd Stars’ first-ever Hong Kong import, Kaiwing is moving into the footwear of veteran help participant Adrian ‘Trymbi’ Trybus.
Watch CBLOL Cup 2026?
Tickets for the preliminary six match days of the CBLOL Cup 2026 will go stay right this moment (January sixth) on its devoted web site. A particular ticket sale date devoted to the Playoffs and Grand Last will probably be introduced later through social media.
For many who can’t attend the occasion in particular person, all video games will probably be broadcast in Portuguese on CBLOL’s official Twitch and YouTube channels.
As well as, the CBLOL Fantasy platform will enable followers to enter weekly competitions with mates and entry an data hub with content material and data surrounding the CBLOL Cup.
