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List of League Championship Series (esports) teams

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionFeb 27, 2026
Entity authorityQ27676216 ↗
Source-derived summary

This is a list of teams that compete in the League of Legends Championship Series (LCS), the top level of professional League of Legends in North America. This also includes the teams that competed in the League of Legends Championship of The Americas (LTA) North Conference, or LTA North, which briefly replaced the LCS in 2025.

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Editorial reviewA dependable orientation record for establishing vocabulary, names and a first evidence trail. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2025—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. For this dossier, List, League and Championship is the immediate research focus.
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This entry incorporates text from “List of League Championship Series (esports) teams” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.