Liga Latinoamérica

The Liga Latinoamérica (LLA; lit. 'Latin America League') is the top level of professional League of Legends in Latin America (refers to Hispanic America). The esports league is run by Riot Games Latin America. 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.

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).

Format
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. 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.

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

 * Six teams participate
 * Double round robin, matches are best-of-three
 * Match victories award teams one point
 * Top six teams advance to Playoffs

Playoffs
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