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Liga Latinoamérica

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Liga Latinoamérica
Current season, competition or edition: 2023 LLA season

Formerly	Liga Latinoamérica Norte Copa Latinoamérica Sur
Game	League of Legends
Founded	October 2018 (2018-10)
First season	2019 LLA Opening^[1]
Ceased	2024
Owner(s)	Riot Games
No. of teams	6
Last champion(s)	Rainbow7 (2nd title)
Most titles	Isurus (3 titles)
Qualification	Promotion tournament
TV partner(s)	Twitch, YouTube
Relegationto	Ligas Nacionales División de Honor Liga Master Liga de Honor Golden League Liga Tica de Leyendas Guardians League Liga Nacional Uruguay
Related competitions	Campeonato Brasileiro de League of Legends
Official website	la.lolesports.com

The Liga Latinoamérica (LLA; lit. 'Latin America League') is the top level of professional League of LegendsinLatin America (refers to Hispanic America). The esports league is run by Riot Games Latin America.^[2] Each annual competitive season is divided into opening and closing seasons, which conclude with a playoff tournament between the top four teams.

Plans for the league were first announced in May 2018 by Riot Games, which stated that it would merge Latin America's two regional leagues, the Liga Latinoamérica Norte (LLN, North Latin America League) and Copa Latinoamérica Sur (CLS, South Latin America Cup), into a single competition.^[3]^[4]

The LLA will cease after the 2024 season, as two teams from the league will join a merged pan-American league, with a team from Northern Latin America joining the North Conference (made up of teams from the LCS) and a team from southern Latin America joining the South Conference (made up of teams from CBLOL).^[5]^[6]

Format

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Each opening and closing season consists of a group stage and a playoff stage. In the group stage, teams compete for points in a triple round robin spread over two phases. The top four teams from the group stage advance to the playoff stage, which uses a "King of the Hill" single elimination bracket.^[7] During the 2019 season, there were no phases in the group stage, and six teams participated in a standard single elimination bracket in the playoff stage.^[8]

At the end of each split, the teams in the LLA are given performance points, with the bottom two teams in performance points after the Closing split playing in promotion and relegation series against the winners of the two regional leagues in Latin America, the Liga Regional Norte for teams in Mexico, Central America, the Caribbean, Colombia and Ecuador, and the Liga Regional Sur for teams from Argentina, Peru, Bolivia, Paraguay and Uruguay, for a chance to play in the next season's LLA. The 2023 promotion and relegation series was cancelled, with no performance points awarded for the Closing split, after The Kings were expelled from the LLA after the Opening split and Leviatán taking their spot from the Closing split onwards.

Group stage

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Six teams participate^[9]^[10]
Double round robin, matches are best-of-three
Match victories award teams one point
Top six teams advance to Playoffs

Playoffs

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Double elimination bracket

Matches are best-of-five
Top 4 teams play in the winners' bracket
5th plays against 6th in the losers' bracket
The loser with the lower seed from winners' bracket plays in losers' bracket round 2
The loser with the higher seed from winners' bracket plays in losers' bracket round 3

Current teams

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Estral Esports	Infinity	Isurus
Leviatán	Movistar R7	Six Karma

Past seasons

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Year	Season
2019	Opening	Isurus	Rainbow7	All Knights
2019	Closing	Isurus	All Knights	Infinity Esports
2020	Opening	All Knights	Isurus	Rainbow7
2020	Closing	Rainbow7	All Knights	Isurus
2021	Opening	Infinity Esports	Furious Gaming	All Knights
2021	Closing	Infinity Esports	Estral Esports	Furious Gaming
2022	Opening	Team Aze	Estral Esports	Rainbow7
2022	Closing	Isurus	Estral Esports	Team Aze
2023	Opening	Rainbow7	Six Karma	Estral Esports
2023	Closing	Rainbow7	Estral Esports	Six Karma
2024	Opening	Estral Esports	Rainbow7	Isurus
2024	Closing

References

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^ Souto, Francisco (31 May 2018). "LoL: La CLS y LLN se fusionarán en una liga latinoamericana única a partir de 2019". Cultura Geek (in Spanish). Retrieved 6 January 2020.

^ Vergara, Pedro (19 April 2019). "The final of the League of Legends of eSports will be in Bogotá". LatinAmerican Post. Retrieved 6 January 2020.

^ Ashton, Graham (31 May 2018). "Riot Games to Unite Latin America League of Legends Competitions". The Esports Observer. Retrieved 6 January 2020.

^ Fitch, Adam (1 June 2018). "Riot Games to consolidate competitions into singular Latin American league". Esports Insider. Retrieved 6 January 2020.

^ Wilson, Jason (11 June 2024). "Riot Games rolls out consolidation plan, new spring event for League of Legends esports". Sports Business Journal. Retrieved 11 June 2024.

^ Taifalos, Nicholas; McIntyre, Isaac (11 June 2024). "LCS, CBLOL, LLA unified as Riot takes VALORANT-like approach to LoL esports". Dot Esports. Retrieved 11 June 2024.

^ "La LLA cambia de formato para el 2020". la.lolesports.com (in Spanish). LoL Esports Latinoamérica. Retrieved 7 January 2020.

^ "¡NO TE PIERDAS LA LIGA MOVISTAR LATINOAMÉRICA 2019!" (in Spanish). LoL Esports Latinoamérica. Archived from the original on 14 January 2019. Retrieved 6 January 2020.

^ Moncav, Melany (11 October 2018). "Riot Games announces teams for new Latin American League (LLA)". Esports Insider. Retrieved 6 January 2020.

^ Souto, Por Francisco (8 October 2018). "LoL: conocé a los 8 equipos que formarán parte de la liga Latinoamérica 2019". Cultura Geek (in Spanish). Retrieved 6 January 2020.