Teamfight Tactics

The global ecosystem is divided into four regions: Americas, Asia Pacific (APAC), China (CN), and Europe, Middle East & Africa (EMEA). Throughout each set, players compete in a series of events in their respective regional circuits with the ultimate hope of earning a slot in the Tactician’s Crown.

AMERICAS, APAC & EMEA

Across the Americas, APAC and EMEA, players progress through a unified competitive structure that culminates in the Tactician’s Crown, the pinnacle global championship event of the set.

Ranked Ladder

Players compete on their regional in-game ladder to earn qualification into Tactician’s Cups and the Golden Spatula, forming the foundation of the competitive pathway.

Tactician’s Trials

Regional two-day qualification events featuring top Ranked Ladder players. The highest performers advance to the Tactician’s Cups.

Tactician’s Cup I & II

Each Cup is a three-day, 128-player regional tournament held under a standardized format across all regions.

• Day 1: 128 players → 64 advance

• Day 2: 64 players → 32 advance

• Day 3: 32 players compete through staged elimination rounds until a final 8-player lobby determines qualification outcomes.

Cup I qualifies players to Regional Finals and Cup II. 
Cup II qualifies players to Regional Finals.

Regional Finals

The final regional event of the set, featuring a Play-In stage followed by two weeks of competition.

• Play-Ins determine the final Week 1 field

• Week 1 narrows 40 players to 16

• Week 2 determines the final 8 competitor

The champion is crowned after a six-game final series and qualifies to the Tactician’s Crown.

Tactician’s Crown

The global championship of the set, featuring 40 of the world’s top players.

The event progresses through structured elimination rounds before concluding in a checkmate format: the first player to reach 20 points and then win a game is crowned Set Champion.

CHINA

Visit the official TFT CN website.

The TFT Pro Circuit (TPC) is Riot’s top-tier competitive league, featuring 128 elite players across four regions: the Americas, APAC, EMEA, and China.

Throughout each in-game set, Pro Circuit players compete in three regional events to earn Pro Points and secure seeding into their respective Regional Finals. The journey culminates at the Tactician’s Crown, where the world’s best compete for the title of Set Champion.

Shurima Cup

The first event of the TFT Pro Circuit. Players begin their campaign toward Regional Finals, earning Pro Points that influence Regional Finals seeding. Every placement matters as top-level talent fills every lobby.

Bilgewater Cup

The second Pro Circuit event. Players continue accumulating Pro Points, with results directly impacting their Regional Finals seeding and positioning.

Demacia Cup

The final Pro Circuit event before Regional Finals. This is the last opportunity for players to secure Pro Points and lock in their seeding heading into the set’s most important regional competition.

Regional Finals

Regional Finals is the culminating regional tournament of the set. The highest-performing Pro Circuit players compete for qualification to the Tactician’s Crown and for placement into the next set’s Pro Circuit.

The champion of each region advances to represent their region on the global stage.

Tactician’s Crown (TC)

The Tactician’s Crown remains the pinnacle of TFT competition. Players battle through regional level events throughout each Set, with the goal of earning a spot in the Tactician’s Crown - the ultimate showdown featuring the world’s 40 best players. There are 3 Tactician’s Crown events per year.

TFT Open

TFT’s Flagship Community event, the TFT Open, takes place in a different host city at the end of each year and brings together the global TFT community as hundreds of players compete in an intense open-bracket LAN tournament.

TFT Vegas Open 2026 will mark the event’s highly anticipated return to Las Vegas — three years after the inaugural TFT Open debuted at the MGM Grand in 2023, where 512 players competed.

With the recent TFT Paris Open 2025 setting a new record of 768 competitors, the 2026 Vegas Open is set to welcome more players than ever before, continuing the rapid growth of TFT’s global competitive scene.

More details will be shared here and  @competetft on X as the 2026 season progresses.