{"id":32483,"date":"2026-01-06T07:37:29","date_gmt":"2026-01-06T07:37:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blix.gg\/?p=32483"},"modified":"2026-01-06T07:37:30","modified_gmt":"2026-01-06T07:37:30","slug":"riot-games-revealed-the-league-of-legends-champions-korea-2026-season-opening-teams","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blix.gg\/blog\/news\/league-of-legends\/riot-games-revealed-the-league-of-legends-champions-korea-2026-season-opening-teams\/","title":{"rendered":"Riot Games Revealed the League of Legends Champions Korea 2026 Season Opening Teams"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Riot finally decided to reveal all the participating teams and players we will <strong>see at the LCK 2026&nbsp; Season Opening<\/strong>. We will have five teams that have top-tier LoL professionals and they will start playing on January 9.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Riot finally decided to reveal all the participating teams and players we will <strong>see at the LCK 2026\u00a0 Season Opening<\/strong>. We will have five teams that have top-tier LoL professionals and they will start playing on January 9.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">LCK Season Opening<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed aligncenter is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Here are the draft results and teams for the 2026 Season Opening event on January 9th, 6PM KST! <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/LCK?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#LCK<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/4lX7iOlzRh\">pic.twitter.com\/4lX7iOlzRh<\/a><\/p>&mdash; LCK (@LCK) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/LCK\/status\/2008130715872112953?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">January 5, 2026<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The Season Opening in the LCK is a<strong> special ceremony event that we will see once the LCK season starts<\/strong>. All players will be drafted in mixed teams depending on their role, and each team will have its assigned captain. Fans will have the chance to see<strong> teams from organizations<\/strong> like Gen.G Esports, Hanwha Life Esports, KT Rolster, and the <a href=\"https:\/\/blix.gg\/news\/league-of-legends\/worlds-2025-champions-recap-top-picks-and-bans\/\">Worlds 2025<\/a> winners &#8211; T1.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">The Teams and Players<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>People wishing to watch the 2026 LCK Season Opening will find the <strong>following teams and players<\/strong>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Team TOP<\/strong> &#8211; Choi \u201cZeus\u201d Woo-je; Kim \u201cKiin\u201d Ki-in, Lee \u201cDuDu\u201d Dong-ju; Choi \u201cDoran\u201d Hyeon-jun; Hweang \u201cKingen\u201d Seong-hoon<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Team JGL<\/strong> &#8211; Mun \u201cOner\u201d Hyeon-jun; Seo \u201cKanavi\u201d Jin-hyeok; Kim \u201cWiller\u201d Jeong-hyeo; Mun \u201cCuzz\u201d U-chan; Kim \u201cGIDEON\u201d Min-seong<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Team MID<\/strong> &#8211; Lee \u201cFaker\u201d Sang-hyeok; Heo \u201cShowMaker\u201d Su, Lee \u201cScout\u201d Ye-chan; Jeong \u201cChovy\u201d Ji-hoon; Son \u201cucal\u201d Woo-hyeon<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Team BOT<\/strong> &#8211; Park \u201cRuler\u201d Jae-hyuk; Kim \u201cPeyz\u201d Su-hwan; Park \u201cTeddy\u201d Jin-seong; Sin \u201cSmash\u201d Guem-jae; Nam \u201cDiable\u201d Dae-geun<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Team SUP<\/strong> &#8211; Ryu \u201cKeria\u201d Min-seok; Jang \u201cGhost\u201d Yong-jun; Kim \u201cKellin\u201d Hyeong-gyu; Yu \u201cDelight\u201d Hwang-jung; Kim \u201cLife\u201d Jeong-min<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">LCK Cup 2026<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Keep in mind that we are also just a few days away from the LCK Cup 2026. This is the <strong>pre-season tournament <\/strong>that will be used to determine the teams that will<strong> qualify for the initial international event<\/strong> of the 2026 season, called 2026 First Stand.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The LCK Cup 2026 will be held <strong>between January 14 and March 1<\/strong> and we will have the following participating teams:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>DRX<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Dplus<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>BRION<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>SOOPers<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>T1<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Gen.G Esports<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Hanwha Life Esports<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>FEARX<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>KGT ROlster<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Nongshim RedForce<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>The 10 teams will be in two groups, where we will see matches between <strong>January 14 and February 1<\/strong>. Following that, LoL fans will have access to the Play-In stage (Feb 6-8), and then the Playoffs (Feb 12 &#8211; March 1).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Riot finally decided to reveal all the participating teams and players we will see at the LCK 2026&nbsp; Season Opening. We will have five teams that have top-tier LoL professionals and they will start playing on January 9.&nbsp; Riot finally decided to reveal all the participating teams and players we will see at the LCK<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":90,"featured_media":32485,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[31,6],"class_list":{"0":"post-32483","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-league-of-legends","8":"tag-league-of-legends","9":"tag-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blix.gg\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32483","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blix.gg\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blix.gg\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blix.gg\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/90"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blix.gg\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32483"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blix.gg\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32483\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32486,"href":"https:\/\/blix.gg\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32483\/revisions\/32486"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blix.gg\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/32485"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blix.gg\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32483"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blix.gg\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32483"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blix.gg\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32483"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}