Movistar KOI (MKOI) Co-Proprietor Ibai Llanos has confirmed that its complete 2025 roster will proceed with the organisation for the 2026 marketing campaign.
Revealing the information on KOI’s Twitch channel alongside streamer Sergio ‘SergioFFerra’ Salcedo, Ibai additionally famous that the organisation is wanting into renewing the contracts of a few of its key gamers past subsequent yr.
These gamers are Joseph ‘Jojopyun’ Pyun, Javier ‘Elyoya’ Prades and Álvaro ‘Alvaro’ Amo, with MKOI’s Head Coach Tomás ‘Melzhet’ Campelos additionally in renewal talks. In keeping with Riot Video games’ International Contract Database, MKOI’s present LEC roster has contracts up till the tip of the 2026 season.
At this second in time, MKOI’s two different beginning gamers, David ‘Supa’ Garcia and Alex ‘Myrwn’ Villarejo, aren’t a part of these renewal discussions.
As a complete, the 2025 season was a relatively profitable marketing campaign with the organisation enhancing on its LEC performances from 2024. With the addition of Jojopyun from Cloud9, MKOI went on to win LEC 2025 Spring in addition to end runner-up within the Summer season break up.
After qualifying for the 2025 League of Legends World Championship, the Spanish group finally misplaced to eventual Worlds winner T1 within the ultimate spherical of the Swiss Stage to bow out of the event.
Constructing an Infrastructure
While the group shall be retained for the 2026 season, Ibai additionally highlighted that the organisation shall be seeking to bolster its teaching workers with two new additions.
Furthermore, so as to bolster its present expertise pipeline, MKOI could have two academy groups subsequent yr. KOI Fénix, the organisation’s major academy group, will proceed to function within the tier-two Spanish scene. In the meantime, a 3rd group shall be built-in into the tier-three Spanish ecosystem.
This follows an analogous construction to French organisation Karmine Corp, which has academy rosters within the LFL’s first and second divisions.
While MKOI’s major roster shall be retained for 2026, the LEC has made some main adjustments to the upcoming season. Notably, this contains the introduction of a brand new event, LEC Versus, that can exchange the Winter break up and options two ERL groups — Los Ratones and Karmine Corp Blue. The winner of the occasion would be the LEC’s consultant for First Stand.
