2016 Summer North American League of Legends Championship Series

2016 North American League of Legends Championship Series
League North American League of Legends Championship Series
Sport League of Legends
Duration Nine weeks
Number of matches 200
Number of teams 10
TV partner(s) twitch.tv
Regular season champions Team SoloMid: (Hauntzer, Svenskeren, Bjergsen, Doublelift, Biofrost, Valkrin)
Runners-up Immortals: (Huni, Reignover, Pobelter, WildTurtle, Adrian, Impactful, Jummychu)
Relegated to League of Legends Challenger Series NRG Esports
3–1
Champions Team SoloMid: (Hauntzer, Svenskeren, Bjergsen, Doublelift, Biofrost, Valkrin)
  Runners-up Cloud9: (Impact, Meteos, Jensen, Sneaky, Smoothie)

2016 Summer North American League of Legends Championship Series (2016 Summer NA LCS) is the eighth split and in the fourth season of the North American League of Legends Championship Series (NA LCS). Most games are played in the Riot Games studio in Sawtelle, Los Angeles, California. The finals will be played at the Air Canada Centre in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, the first time an NA LCS match has been outside of the US.[1] The regular season was 200 matches were played in Double Round Robin over the course of nine weeks. All matches are Bo3. In the playoffs 1st and 2nd place, Team SoloMid and Immortals, secured first round byes in the playoffs. 4th place played 5th and 3rd place played 6th in the playoff quarterfinal 7th place re-qualifies for LCS next split and will not participate in playoffs. For 8th - 10th place LCS teams will played Promotion/Relegation matches against top CS teams. Playoffs were Single-elimination All matches are best-of-five. The winner of the tournament will be automatically qualified for the 2016 League of Legends World Championship, while the other teams will collect a certain amount of Championship points, with the team with the most cumulative points the spring and summer splits also qualifying for Worlds.

Final regular season standings

Place Team Match record Game record Champ. points
1. Team SoloMid 17-1
2. Immortals 16-2
3. Cloud9 12-6
4. Counter Logic Gaming 10-8
5. Team Liquid 9-9
6. Team EnVyUs^ 8-10
7. Apex Gaming^ 8-10
8. Phoenix1 5-13
9. NRG Esports 4-14
10. Echo Fox 1-15

^ - Team EnVyUs won the tiebreaker over Apex Gaming due to head-to-head matchup in the regular season.

Rosters

Team Players
ID Name Role
Team Apex
  • Danny Le
  • Alex Chu
  • Ji Won Jeon
  • Byeong-hoon Lee
  • Danil Reshetnikov
  • Mid-laner
  • Support
  • Top laner
  • Jungler
  • Jungler
Cloud9
  • Jung Eon-yeong
  • William Hartman
  • Nicolaj Jensen
  • Zachary Scuderi
  • Michael Kurylo
  • Toplaner
  • Jungler
  • Midlaner
  • AD Carry
  • Support
Counter Logic Gaming
  • Darshan Upadhyaya
  • Jake Puchero
  • Jae-hyun Choi
  • Trevor Hayes
  • Zaqueri Black
  • Toplaner
  • Jungler
  • Midlaner
  • AD Carry
  • Support
Echo Fox
  • Park Jeong-hun (박정훈)
  • Anthony Barkhovtsev
  • Henrik Hansen
  • Yuri Jew
  • Terry Chuong
  • Toplaner
  • Jungler
  • Midlaner
  • AD Carry
  • Support
EnVyUs
  • Shin Wu-Yeong
  • Kim Seyoung
  • Noh Geon-woo
  • Benjamin deMunck
  • Nickolas Surgent
  • Toplaner
  • Jungler
  • Midlaner
  • AD Carry
  • Support
Immortals
  • Seung-hoon Heo
  • Yeu jin Kim
  • Eugene Park
  • Jason Tran
  • Adrian Ma
  • Toplaner
  • Jungler
  • Midlaner
  • AD Carry
  • Support
NRG eSports
  • Lee Chang-suk
  • Diego Ruiz
  • Lucas Tao Kilmer Larsen
  • Alan Nguyen
  • Oh Gyu-min
  • Toplaner
  • Jungler
  • Midlaner
  • AD Carry
  • Support
Phoenix1
  • Zig
  • Zentinel[2]
  • Pirean
  • Slooshi
  • Mash
  • Gate
  • Inori[3]
  • Derek Shao
  • Kevin Pires
  • Choi Jun-sik
  • Andrew Pham
  • Brandon Phan
  • Austin Yu
  • Rami Charagh
  • Toplaner
  • Jungler
  • Midlaner
  • Midlaner
  • AD Carry
  • Support
  • Jungler
Team Liquid
  • Samson Jackson
  • Joshua Hartnett
  • Kim Jae-hun
  • Chae Gwang-jin
  • Matt Elento
  • Phil Vu
  • Toplaner
  • Jungler
  • Midlaner
  • AD Carry
  • Support
  • AD Carry
Team SoloMid
  • Kevin Yarnell
  • Dennis Johnsen
  • Søren Bjerg
  • Yiliang Peng
  • Vincent Wang
  • Toplaner
  • Jungler
  • Midlaner
  • AD Carry
  • Support

Teams

Team Position in 2016 Spring Split Playoffs First appearance in LCS Number of splits in LCS
Cloud9 5th/6th Summer 2013 6
Counter Logic Gaming 1st Spring 2013 7
Echo Fox 7th Spring 2016 1
Immortals 3rd Spring 2016 1
EnVyUs N/A Summer 2016 0
NRG eSports 5th/6th Spring 2016 1
Phoenix1 N/A Summer 2016 0
Team Apex N/A Summer 2016 0
Team Liquid 4th Spring 2013 7
Team SoloMid 2nd Spring 2013 7

Playoffs

Playoff standings

Place Team Championship points
1st Team SoloMid 90
2nd Cloud9 70
3rd Immortals 50
4th Counter Logic Gaming 30
5th/6th EnVyUs 10
5th/6th Team Liquid 10
7th/10th 0
7th/10th 0
7th/10th 0
7th/10th 0

Bracket

         
                           
      2  Immortals 2  
  3  Cloud9 3     3  Cloud9 3    
  6  EnVyUs 1         3  Cloud9 1
      1  Team SoloMid 3
      1  Team SoloMid 3    
  4  Counter Logic Gaming 3     4  Counter Logic Gaming 0   Third place
  5  Team Liquid 1   2  Immortals 3
  4  Counter Logic Gaming 2

References

  1. http://espn.go.com/esports/story/_/id/16001875/the-na-lcs-summer-finals-head-toronto
  2. Only started first three weeks
  3. Started Week 4
  4. only for the playoff quarterfinals


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