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Bwipo and Flyquest celebrate their win at the LCS Summer Split at the Riot Games Arena on July 20, 2024 in Los Angeles, California.
Photo by Stefan Wisnoski for Riot Games
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Which LCS teams will play in unified Americas league from 2025?

Not everyone's making it to Riot's new-look competition.
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Isaac McIntyre
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Published: Sep 10, 2024 07:20 pm

The 2024 LCS campaign is all wrapped up with FlyQuest walking away with the flowers, and now all eyes are turning to the impending Americas League shakeup that will change the look of League of Legends in North America forever.

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Starting in 2025, the LCS will be fusing with Brazil’s CBLOL and Latin America’s LLA to form a new panregional super group: The Americas league. During this League upheaval, a half-dozen LCS teams will be welded together with six Brazilian organizations, two LLA squads, and two guest teams, all spread across North and South conferences.

This momentous change has left those in the NA scene with one major question: Which teams will be surviving the merger and which orgs will use the big changeover as a chance to hit the eject button and walk away from the Riot Games esport.

Here’s everything we know about the LCS teams in the Americas league next year.

LCS teams in Riot’s 2025 Americas League

FlyQuest's LoL team stands side by side on stage during the LCS 2024 Summer Championship opening ceremony.
The North American team roster is dropping by two for the second time in as many years. Photo by Colin Young-Wolff via Riot Games

Following a report from Travis Gafford in early September, we now have a much clearer picture regarding the NA League teams who’ll make the leap into the combined Americas league. While nothing’s set in stone (especially considering teams could still sell slots) we can name the six teams expected to carry over into NA’s new dawn.

The six LCS teams expected to appear in the unified league are:

  • 100 Thieves
  • Cloud9
  • Dignitas
  • FlyQuest
  • Shopify Rebellion
  • Team Liquid

This is a two-team cutdown from the eight who contested the 2024 LCS Summer season, with NRG and Immortals expected to walk away from the competition during the merger.

Considering this is an insider report from Gafford, it’s important to remember things could still change before the season begins next year. At very least, Dot Esports expects question marks to hang around 100 Thieves’ League future right up until January.

Competition stalwarts like Liquid and C9 are a whole lot safer, with both orgs privately eager to get started in the new conference format. Shopify is in a similar boat and is still very interested in staying in the esport. FlyQuest, who will enter the Americas league as technical reigning champions, have also been all-in on League for some time now.

These changes come a year after Evil Geniuses and Golden Guardians were removed from the NA competition. Long-time League heavyweights TSM sold its valuable roster slot to Shopify around the same time. None are expected to return during the merger.

This article will be updated after Riot formally confirms the 2025 LCS teams.

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Isaac McIntyre
Isaac McIntyre is the Aussie Editor at Dot Esports. He previously worked in sports journalism at Fairfax Media in Mudgee and Newcastle for six years before falling in love with esports—an ever-evolving world he's been covering since 2018. Since joining Dot, he's twice been nominated for Best Gaming Journalist at the Australian IT Journalism Awards and continues to sink unholy hours into losing games as a barely-Platinum AD carry. When the League servers go down he'll sneak in a few quick hands of the One Piece card game. Got a tip for us? Email: isaac@dotesports.com.
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