The long-awaited merger of American League of Legends is finally happening. Riot Games confirmed today that the LCS, CBLOL, and LLA leagues will soon be merging into a new, two-conference Americas League.
There WILL be disrespect. 🇺🇸🇨🇦
The league will be split into two conferences, North America and South America, with the LCS and CBLOL teams competing in each separately, not too dissimilar to how the leagues are currently split. However, the LLA will lose its classification as a tiered region in the ecosystem and will gain a spot in each of the Americas conferences.
The merger, revealed in a Riot Dev Update on June 11, is part of Riot’s larger plan to simplify its tier-one ecosystem across League esports. The end result will be a top-tier league in America that will mimic that of sister title VALORANT, with its American Champions Tour comprised of players and teams based on both continents.
It's just one of several major mergers made ahead of the 2025 League season, which will see Asian sub-regions outside of China's LPL and Korea's LCK come together next year. The Americas and Pacific regions will follow in the footsteps of Europe and the Middle East, whose sub-regions were consolidated in 2022.
