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	Shiphtur Xpecial Ray ShrimP Diamondprox	Danny Le Alex Chu Ji Won Jeon Byeong-hoon Lee Danil Reshetnikov	Mid-laner Support Top laner Jungler Jungler
Cloud9	Impact Meteos Jensen Sneaky Bunny FuFuu	Jung Eon-yeong William Hartman Nicolaj Jensen Zachary Scuderi Michael Kurylo	Toplaner Jungler Midlaner AD Carry Support
Counter Logic Gaming	Darshan Xmithie HuHi Stixxay Aphromoo	Darshan Upadhyaya Jake Puchero Jae-hyun Choi Trevor Hayes Zaqueri Black	Toplaner Jungler Midlaner AD Carry Support
Echo Fox	kfo Hard Froggen Keith Big	Park Jeong-hun (박정훈) Anthony Barkhovtsev Henrik Hansen Yuri Jew Terry Chuong	Toplaner Jungler Midlaner AD Carry Support
EnVyUs	Seraph Proxcin Ninja LOD Hakuho	Shin Wu-Yeong Kim Seyoung Noh Geon-woo Benjamin deMunck Nickolas Surgent	Toplaner Jungler Midlaner AD Carry Support
Immortals	Huni Reignover Pobelter WildTurtle Adrian	Seung-hoon Heo Yeu jin Kim Eugene Park Jason Tran Adrian Ma	Toplaner Jungler Midlaner AD Carry Support
NRG eSports	Quas Santorin GBM Ohq KiWiKiD	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	Lourlo Dardoch FeniX Piglet Matt Jynthe[4]	Samson Jackson Joshua Hartnett Kim Jae-hun Chae Gwang-jin Matt Elento Phil Vu	Toplaner Jungler Midlaner AD Carry Support AD Carry
Team SoloMid	Hauntzer Svenskeren Bjergsen Doublelift Biofrost	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