CBLOL 2026 Promotion Tournament Dates Set

Riot Games has announced the dates for the CBLOL 2026 Promotion Tournament, a competition in which leading Tier 2 teams from Circuito Desafiante and LRS will compete for a chance to reach CBLOL Tier 1 in the following year. The event has seven scheduled competition days, running from September 28 through October 12, and its placement on the calendar has drawn attention because it takes place during the CBLOL playoff period. The central scheduling concern involves LOS, which could be required to manage commitments in both competitions during the same window.

The Promotion Tournament will be played entirely in best-of-five series and will use a double-elimination format with upper and lower brackets. That format gives teams a route to continue after an upper-bracket defeat, while also creating a schedule that extends from the Play-In in late September to the Grand Final in October. The tournament is not limited to one qualifying match or one final weekend: each listed date belongs to the same bracket structure and can shape the route toward the final. For the qualified Tier 2 teams, the reader value is a confirmed chronology of every scheduled tournament day, from the opening Play-In through the Grand Final. For LOS, the important confirmed impact is the overlap itself, because possible CBLOL playoff dates can fall between Promotion Tournament matches.

Seven dates shape the promotion race

The calendar opens on September 28 with the Play-In. The upper bracket then continues immediately, with its first semifinal on September 29 and its second semifinal on September 30. The upper-bracket final is scheduled for October 1. After that stage, the lower bracket returns on October 5 for its semifinal and moves to the lower-bracket final on October 6. The Promotion Tournament ends on October 12 with the Grand Final. These seven competition days provide the full confirmed timetable for the event. They also show how the double-elimination format divides the tournament into upper- and lower-bracket paths before the final date. A team that remains in the upper bracket follows the September 29 through October 1 portion of the schedule, while a team sent into the lower bracket can be required to play on the October 5 and October 6 dates. The October 12 Grand Final is the final listed step in either route.

The format and dates make the scheduling issue more substantial than a single overlap. Every series in the Promotion Tournament is a best-of-five, and the bracket includes both an upper and a lower path. As a result, a team involved in the event may have competitive obligations on several dates rather than only on the day of the Grand Final. The stated prize is the opportunity for the best Tier 2 teams from Circuito Desafiante and LRS to contest a place in CBLOL Tier 1 in the next year. The confirmed schedule is especially useful when considered beside the CBLOL playoffs. LOS has a next playoff match listed for September 12, and later dates depend on the results of its playoff path. The material identifies LOS as the organization that could be clearly affected because it would be living through two competitions at the same time. This does not establish that LOS will reach any particular round, win any series, or play every listed date. It establishes a possible and demanding calendar route if results place the organization in both brackets across the same period.

LOS faces a crowded competitive window

LOS is the organization identified in the published calendar discussion as potentially affected by the overlap. Its next CBLOL playoff match is listed for September 12. If LOS loses, it is listed to play on September 27 and, in the event of a victory, on October 3, with a possible CBLOL Grand Final on October 10. If LOS wins its next match, the organization would return on September 26. In that route, a victory would send it directly to the October 10 Grand Final, while a defeat would leave another chance on October 3 to play for a place in the deciding series.

The most difficult outlined scenario places those playoff dates alongside the Promotion Tournament calendar. LOS could play a CBLOL match on September 27, then play in the Promotion Tournament on September 30 and October 1. It could then return to CBLOL on October 3 before appearing in the Promotion Tournament on October 6 if it lost the upper-bracket final. That path could still include the CBLOL final on October 10 and the Promotion Tournament Grand Final on October 12. This is the supported bracket impact: the dates could require LOS to move between two separate competitive tracks in a compressed period. The schedule does not guarantee that the organization will face every one of those matches, because the later playoff and Promotion Tournament appearances depend on results. Even so, the listed route explains why the timing has become the main point of the announcement. The confirmed issue is calendar pressure created by simultaneous competitions, not a confirmed outcome for LOS in either the CBLOL playoffs or the Promotion Tournament.

• September 28 to October 1: Play-In, both upper-bracket semifinals, and the upper-bracket final.
• October 5 to October 12: lower-bracket semifinal, lower-bracket final, and the Promotion Tournament Grand Final.

The CBLOL 2026 Promotion Tournament is set for seven competition days between September 28 and October 12, with a Tier 1 opportunity available to the qualified Tier 2 teams. Its best-of-five, double-elimination structure gives the schedule both upper- and lower-bracket stages before the Grand Final. The overlap with the CBLOL playoffs makes LOS the key scheduling case: depending on results, the organization could have to navigate both competitions across the same stretch of dates.