LTA 2025 Split 1: Schedule, Teams, Format and all there is to know

The 2025 League of The Americas (LTA) is League of Legends’ new cross-conference competitive circuit that will feature teams from North America and LATAM. 

The competition was announced in 2024 and involves the merger of the LCS, CBLOL and LLA.

With many major changes occurring to League of Legends esports in the Americas for 2025, here’s a guide to the LTA and its inaugural split.

Before jumping into the first split, here are the basics of the new LTA structure. 

In total, the LTA features 16 teams which are evenly split into two conferences: North and South. The LCS forms the foundations of LTA North, while CBLOL involves the majority of teams within LTA South.

Similarly to the LEC, each annual LTA season is divided into three distinct splits. At the end of each split, the best teams qualify for an international event.  

The winner of the Split 1 qualifies for the inaugural First Stand tournament. Meanwhile, the winners of each conference in the Split 2 qualify for the Mid Season Invitational and the top three teams in the Split 3 playoffs (known as the Americas Regional Championship) qualify for the League of Legends World Championship.

Except for some touring events, all LTA games are played live in two venues. Both are known as the Riot Games Arena, however, one is in Los Angeles, California, and is dedicated to LTA North, while the other is in São Paulo, Brazil, and hosts LTA South.

These events provided no official matches but were utilised to determine the split’s first-round matchups. Split 1 matches kick off on January 25th and run until February 23rd.

As with most of Riot Games’ first splits of 2025, the LTA will be utilising Fearless Draft. This new pick/ban system prevents teams from playing a champion that has already been used once during their series.

The Split 1 sees both conferences compete in a separate double-elimination tournament with a full fearless format. To progress in the tournament, teams must win two best-of-three (BO3) series to advance to the playoffs or risk elimination after two losses.

Only the top four teams from each conference will progress to the LTA 2025 Split 1 Playoffs. 

LTA South will host the first-ever cross-conference competition at the Riot Games Arena in São Paulo. The playoffs consist of a best-of-five (BO5) single-elimination bracket to crown the Split 1 champion and name the Americas representative for the First Stand Tournament in March.

With the LTA consisting of various organisations from the Americas, there are a few new teams that people might not be aware of.

Overall, the CBLOL and LCS have six partnered teams each for LTA’s inaugural season. The LLA has also provided two more teams, one each for the North and South Conference.

In addition, one organisation for each conference was selected as a ‘guest team’ — Disguised (LTA North) and Isurus Estral (LTA South).  

These teams have to requalify for the LTA at the end of each season in promotion and relegation playoffs against the best teams from the regional tier-two leagues.

After selling their franchised slot back to Riot Games, 100 Thieves is also not considered a partnered team but will still compete in the tournament this year as a Provisional Guest. Riot Games will deliberate on this slot’s future in the upcoming season.

Sadly, with the formation of the LTA, the CBLOL and LCS both lost competitors to reduce the size of the league and introduce the LLA and guest slots. NRG and Immortals are out of League of Legends’ tier-one scene. Meanwhile, in the South, KaBuM! Esports, LOS (formerly known as Los Grandes), Liberty and INTZ eSports were cut from the CBLOL representatives.

Similar to the League of Legends Americas structure, there were a lot of roster changes in the LTA, across both conferences. 

Only four teams out of 16 have kept the same roster from 2024: FlyQuest, Team Liquid, Red Canids Kalunga and PaiN Gaming.

Perhaps the biggest roster moves from LTA North came from Cloud9 with Berseker and Jojopyun departing the organisation for LCK’s ⁠DN Freecs and LEC’s Movistar KOI, respectively. As a result, the organisation brought back a familiar face in former player Zven, whilst also recruiting HLE Challengers Mid Laner Loki. 

Following a split off, Fudge is back in the Top Lane, this time under Shopify Rebellion. The Australian is also joined by Contractz and Palafox in the Jungle and Mid Lane, respectively. 

Meanwhile, in the LTA South, former LEC player Trymbi has taken a trip overseas to join Vivo Keyd Stars. Ex-FlyQuest support Winsome will also be plying his trade in Brazil, joining LOUD for the 2025 season alongside Wiz, who departed FUIRA Esports at the end of 2024. 

Top Lane: Park ‘Thanatos’ Seung-gyu

Jungle: Robert ‘Blaber’ Huang

Mid Lane: Lee ‘Loki’ Sang-min

Bot Lane: Jesper ‘Zven’ Svenningsen

Support: Philippe ‘VULCAN’ Laflamme

Top Lane: Jett ‘Srtty’ Joye

Jungle: Jade ‘Sheiden’ Libut

Mid Lane: Kim ‘Keine’ Joon-cheol

Bot Lane: Frank ‘Tomo’ Lam

Support: Jonah ‘Isles’ Rosario

Top Lane: Jeong ‘Impact’ Eong-young

Jungle: Um ‘UmTi’ Sung-hyeon

Mid Lane: Eain ‘APA’ Stearns

Bot Lane: Sean ‘Yeon’ Sung

Support: Jo ‘CoreJJ’ Yong-in

Top Lane: Ibrahim ‘Fudge’ Allami

Jungle: Juan Arturo ‘Contractz’ Garcia

Mid Lane: Cristian ‘Palafox’ Palafox

Bot Lane: Ju ‘Bvoy’ Yeong-hoon

Support: Denilson ‘Ceos’ Oliveira Gonçalves

Top Lane:  Gabriël ‘Bwipo’ Rau

Jungle: Kacper ‘Inspired’ Słoma

Mid Lane: Song ‘Quad’ Soo-hyung

Bot Lane: Fahad ‘Massu’ Abdulmalek

Support: Alan ‘Busio’ Cwalina

Top Lane: Rayan ‘Sniper’ Shoura

Jungle: Kim ‘River’ Dong-woo

Mid Lane: Lim ‘Quid’ Hyeon-seung

Bot Lane: Ian Victor ‘FBI’ Huang

Support: Bill ‘Eyla’ Nguyen

Top Lane: Eric ‘Licorice’ Ritchie

Jungle: Sebastián ‘Oddie’ Alonso Niño Zavaleta

Mid Lane: Kang ‘Saint’ Sung-in

Bot Lane: Park ‘Hena’ Jeung-hwan

Support: Pedro Luis ‘Lyonz’ Peralta

Top Lane: Jo ‘Castle’ Hyeon Seong

Jungle: Lawrence ‘eXyu’ Xu

Mid Lane: Felix ‘Abbedagge’ Brown

Bot Lane: Jeremiah ‘ScaryJarry’ Leathe

Support: Choi ‘Huhi’ Jaehyun

Jungle: Diogo ‘Shini’ Moreira

Mid Lane:  Gabriel ‘Fuuu’ Furuuti

Bot Lane: Vinicius ‘Marvin’ Marvin

Support: Guilherme ‘Guigs’ Soares

Top Lane: Guilherme ‘Guigo’ Ruiz

Jungle: Pedro ‘Tatu’ Seixas

Mid Lane: Arthur ‘Tutsz’ Machado

Bot Lane: Andrey ‘Ayu’ Saraiva

Support: Gabriel ‘Jojo’ Dzelme

Top Lane: Felipe ‘Boal’ Boal

Jungle: Pedro ‘Disamis’ Gonçalves

Mid Lane: Ronald ‘Kisee’ Vo

Bot Lane: Matheus ‘Morttheus’ Motta

Support: Adrian ‘Trymbi’ Trybus

Top Lane: Leonardo ‘Robo’ Souza

Jungle: Na ‘Wiz’ Yoo-joon

Mid Lane: Thiago ‘Tinowns’ Sartori

Bot Lane: Moon ‘Route’ Geom-su

Support: Kim ‘Winsome’ Dong-keon

Top Lane: Choi ‘Wizer’ Ui-seok

Jungle: Marcos ‘Cariok’ Oliveira

Mid Lane: Matheus ‘dyNquedo’ Rossini

Bot Lane: Alexandre ‘TitaN’ Lima

Support: Choi ‘Kuri’ Won-yeong

Top Lane: Francisco ‘fNb’ Miranda

Jungle: Gabriel ‘Aegis’ Lemos 

Mid Lane: Daniel ‘Grevthar’ Xavier

Bot Lane: Diego ‘Brance’ Amaral

Support: José Eduardo ‘Frosty’ Leal

Top Lane:  Cristóbal ‘Zothve’ Arróspide

Jungle: Artur ‘Scary’ Queiroz

Mid Lane: Cristian Sebastián ‘Cody’ Quispe Yampara

Bot Lane: Lorenzo ‘Ceo’ Tévez

Support: Fábio ‘ProDelta’ Marques

Top Lane: Noh ‘Burdol’ Tae-yoon

Jungle: Brandon ‘Josedeodo’ Villegas

Mid Lane: Jeong ‘Mireu’ Jo-bin

Bot Lane: Brian ‘Snaker’ Distefano

Support: Gabriel ‘Ackerman’ Aparicio