Current season, competition or edition: 2026 LCP season | |
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| Game | League of Legends |
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| Founded | 29 September 2024 (2024-09-29) |
| First season | 2025 season |
| Organising body |
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| No. of teams | 8 (regular season) 6 (playoffs) |
| Venues | LCP Arena (4F, No. 136, Minquan West Road, Datong District, Taipei)[1] |
| Most recent champion | CTBC Flying Oyster (3rd title) (Season Finals 2025) |
| Relegation to | (Guest teams only) |
| International cups | First Stand Tournament Mid-Season Invitational World Championship |
| Related competitions | CBLOL,LCK,LCS,LEC,LPL |
TheLeague of Legends Championship Pacific (LCP) is a professionalesports league forLeague of Legends teams competing in theAsia-Pacific region.[a]Riot Games, the game's developer, and tournament organizer Carry International created the league on 29 September 2024. This followed an announcement in June by Riot in which they planned to form a single tournament to replace thePacific Championship Series (PCS) andVietnam Championship Series (VCS) as a tier-one league. Both leagues, alongside theLeague of Legends Japan League (LJL), which was integrated into the PCS for the 2024 season, became tier-two leagues.
The LCP utilizes a hybridfranchise andpromotion and relegation model, similar to theValorant Champions Tour (VCT) in Riot's tactical shooterValorant. Three teams are partners of the league and cannot be relegated, while another five are guest teams that can be relegated to the PCS, VCS, LJL or other sub-regional leagues based on their location.
The LCP is currently made up of three organizations each from Vietnam and Taiwan[b] and two organizations from Japan. With the exception of some touring events, all games of the LCP are played live at the LCP Arena inTaipei, Taiwan. In addition to a small studio audience, all games are streamed live onTwitch andYouTube.
The first professional esports league forLeague of Legends players in Taiwan, Hong Kong, Macau, and Southeast Asia was theGarena Premier League (GPL), which ran from 2012 to mid-2018 and ran byGarena, who distributed the game in those regions. Teams from Taiwan, Hong Kong, and Macau were given their own league, theLeague of Legends Master Series (LMS), in late 2014.[2] Three years later, theVietnam Championship Series (VCS) was upgraded to aTier 1 tournament and Vietnam became its own competitive region, separate from the rest of Southeast Asia.[3][4] The GPL was rebranded as theLeague of Legends SEA Tour (LST) in mid-2018.[5]
On 25 September 2019, Garena announced its intention to merge the LMS and LST into a single league. This was fully announced by Riot Games as thePacific Championship Series (PCS) on 19 December for a 2020 start.[6][7][8][9] The league, whilst originally franchised to feature 10 teams, would shrink to 8 teams for Spring 2024 (following a relegation series demoting Impunity Esports and Dewish Team whilst the promoted teams, Nate9527 andPSG Talon Academy, did not secure sponsors in time) and 7 for Summer 2024 (whenBeyond Gaming closed operations). The PCS would merge with Oceania's league, theLeague of Legends Circuit Oceania (LCO), in time for the 2023 season, giving the two best LCO teams spots in the PCS playoffs instead of the league qualifying for international tournaments on their own.[10]
Japan's professional esports league forLeague of Legends, theLeague of Legends Japan League (LJL), was formed in 2014. Throughout the course of the league's history,DetonatioN FocusMe (DFM) dominated the competition, scoring 16 LJL titles and representing the region several times in international competition. On 26 November 2023, Riot announced that the league would become part of the PCS, much like Oceania, for the 2024 season.[11] During the season, DFM's dominance would be replaced by that of Fukuoka SoftBank Hawks Gaming (owned by theNippon Professional Baseball (NPB) teamof the same name), who won both LJL splits and finished as PCS runners-up in Spring and Summer, qualifying for the2024 World Championship in the process.
On 11 June 2024, Riot Games released a blog post titled "LoL Esports: Building Towards a Brighter Future", in which they would overhaul the competitive scene for 2025. Among these changes were the announcement of an 8-team pan-Asia-Pacific tournament that would take the place of the PCS and VCS as a tier-1 league. This league was announced to feature a hybridpromotion and relegation system, with some teams beingfranchise partners of the league while others were guests that would be relegated.[12] On 19 July Riot publicly announced that the league would consist of four partners and four guest teams. The league would officially launch as theLeague of Legends Championship Pacific on 29 September,[13] with the format for the inaugural season announced on 1 November and the teams revealed on 3 November.
Despite being part of the larger Asia-Pacific region, it was announced on 20 September 2024 that the LCO had folded. It is currently unknown what would replace the competition as a domestic league that promotes teams to the LCP.[14]
As of the 2026 season, the format is as follows:[15][16]
The eight teams compete in a singlebest-of-threeround-robin regular season. The top six teams advance to the knockout stage. The knockout stage features abest-of-five hybrid-elimination bracket. The first round issingle-elimination between the third to sixth seeds, with the winners advancing to adouble-elimination bracket with the top two seeds. The winner qualifiers for theFirst Stand Tournament as the LCP's representative.
The Split 2 format replicates the Split 1 format. The winner qualifies for theMid-Season Invitational as the LCP's first seed. The team with the most championship points among non-qualifiers at the end of Split 2 also qualifies for MSI as the LCP's second seed.
The eight teams compete in aSwiss-system tournament. Initial matches are best-of-three while qualification and elimination matches are best-of-five. The four teams to secure three wins advance to the playoffs, with additional seeding matches to be played to determine final seeding.
The playoffs features a best-of-five double-elimination bracket. The top two teams qualify for theWorld Championship as the LCP's top two seeds. The team with the most championship points among non-qualifiers at the end of Split 3 also qualifies for Worlds as the LCP's third seed. It is unknown which team receives the fourth seed should the LCP be given an additional Worlds slot via MSI.
At the end of the season, the two guest teams with the least amount of championship points participate in the Promotion Tournament. Guest teams competing in Worlds are exempted from the Promotion Tournament.
As the 2026 Promotion Tournament, the following domestic teams are eligible for promotion to LCP:
Aside from the LCP component regions, teams from other domestic leagues are also eligible for promotion via the LCP Wild Card. As of the 2026 playoffs, the following domestic teams compete in the LCP Wild Card playoffs for a slot at the LCP Promotion Tournament:[17]
Eight teams make up the league. This consists of threepartner teams that cannot be relegated and five guest slots that can be relegated to the domestic leagues below the LCP (currently consisting of thePCS,VCS,LJL and regional competitions in Southeast Asia) based on their location. For the league's inaugural season, there were four partner teams and four guest teams, with the guests consisting of two merit slots for the best non-partnered team in both the 2024 PCS and VCS Summer splits, as well as two additional teams.
| Team | Joined |
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| Partner teams | |
 CTBC Flying Oyster | 3 November 2024 |
 GAM Esports[c] | 18 August 2024 |
 SoftBank Hawks[d] | 3 November 2024 |
| Guest teams | |
| Deep Cross Gaming | 3 October 2025 |
| DetonatioN FocusMe[e] | 3 November 2024 |
| Ground Zero Gaming[f] | 22 December 2025 |
| Team Secret Whales[g] | 3 November 2024 |
| MVK Esports[h] | 3 November 2024 |
| Team | Joined | Left | Reason |
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 Chiefs Esports Club | 3 November 2024 | 3 October 2025 | Relegated |
| PSG Talon[i] | 1 September 2024 | 18 November 2025 | Removed |
| Year | Split | Champions | Runners-up | Third-place |
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| 2025 | Season Kickoff | CTBC Flying Oyster | Talon Esports | MGN Vikings Esports |
| Mid-Season | CTBC Flying Oyster | GAM Esports | Talon Esports | |
| Season Finals | CTBC Flying Oyster | Team Secret Whales | PSG Talon |
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