2016 Spring North American League of Legends Championship Series

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2016 Spring North American League of Legends Championship Series
League North American League of Legends Championship Series
Sport League of Legends
TV partner(s) Twitch/riotgames (online)
Finals champions Counter Logic Gaming (Darshan, Xmithie, HuHi, Stixxay Aphromoo)
  Runners-up Team SoloMid (Hauntzer, Svenskeren, Bjergsen, Doublelift, Biofrost, Valkrin)
Seasons

The 2016 Spring North American League of Legends Championship Series (2016 Spring NA LCS) is the fourth season of the North American League of Legends Championship Series. [1] The spring split began on January 16, with a rematch of the 2015 NA LCS Summer playoff finals between Team SoloMid and Counter Logic Gaming. [2] Most matches were played at a film studio in Sawtelle, Los Angeles, California. The finals were played in Las Vegas, Nevada at the Mandalay Bay Events Center. [3]

Contents

Offseason

From the 2015 Summer NA LCS, as the team with the worst record Team Dragon Knights was automatically relegated to the NA Challenger Series. As the 8th and 9th places, Enemy eSports and Team 8 were obligated to play qualification matches against the 2nd and 3rd place CS teams, who were Team Coast and Team Imagine, respectively. Enemy was relegated after losing to Coast 3–0, but Team 8 beat Imagine 3–1 to remain in the LCS. The two teams that won the Promotion matches both sold their spots to other teams before the start of the Spring Split. LA Renegades were automatically promoted by winning the NA Challenger Series.

A total of three, Team Coast, Team 8, and Gravity Gaming sold their spots, all to new eSports organization that had been created for the sole purpose of being in the LCS. Coast sold their spot to NRG eSports, [4] Team 8 sold theirs to Immortals, [5] and Gravity to Echo Fox. [6] Team Impulse had announced their intentions to sell their spot, [7] but failed to do so by the (unknown) deadline, [8] but after playing in the Spring Split eventually sold to Phoenix1 just before the Summer split. [9]

Rosters

TeamPlayers
IDNameRole
Cloud9
  • An Le
  • Lee Yoon-jae
  • Nicolaj Jensen
  • Zachary Scuderi
  • Hai Lam
  • Michael Kurylo
  • Top
  • Jungler
  • Mid
  • AD Carry
  • Support
  • Substitute Jungler
  • Substitute Support
Counter Logic Gaming
  • Darshan Upadhyaya
  • Jake Puchero
  • Jae-hyun Choi
  • Trevor Hayes
  • Zaqueri Black
  • Top
  • Jungler
  • Mid
  • AD Carry
  • Support
Echo Fox
  • Park Jeong-hun
  • Anthony Barkhovtsev
  • Henrik Hansen
  • Yuri Jew
  • Terry Chuong
  • Top
  • Jungler
  • Mid
  • AD Carry
  • Support
Immortals
  • Seung-hoon Heo
  • Yeu jin Kim
  • Eugene Park
  • Jason Tran
  • Adrian Ma
  • Top
  • Jungler
  • Mid
  • AD Carry
  • Support
NRG eSports
  • Jung Eon-yeong
  • Galen Holgate
  • Lee Chang-suk
  • Johnny Ru
  • Kevin Koo Hyuk Kwon
  • Top
  • Jungler
  • Mid
  • AD Carry
  • Support
Renegades
  • Oleksii Kuziuta
  • Shin Woo-yeong
  • Alberto Rengifo
  • Alexey Ichetovkin
  • Noh Geon-woo
  • Aleš Kněžínek
  • Benjamin deMunck
  • Oh Gyu-min
  • Maria Creveling
  • Nickolas Surgent
  • Top (Week 1-6)
  • Top (Week 7-9)
  • Jungler
  • Mid (Week 1-7)
  • Mid (Week 8-9)
  • AD Carry (Week 1, Week 3 Day 2-Week 9)
  • AD Carry (Week 2)
  • AD Carry (Week 3 Day 1)
  • Support (Week 1-3)
  • Support (Week 4-9)
Team Dignitas
  • Billy Yu
  • Thomas Yuen
  • Danny Le
  • Apollo Price
  • Alan Nguyen
  • Top
  • Jungler
  • Mid
  • AD Carry
  • Support
Team Impulse
  • Feng
  • Proxcin
  • Pirean
  • Mash
  • Gate
  • Wang Xiao Feng
  • Kim Se-Young
  • Choi Jun-Sik(
  • Brandon Phan
  • Austin Yu
  • Top
  • Jungler
  • Mid
  • AD Carry
  • Support
Team Liquid
  • Samson Jackson
  • Christian Rivera
  • Joshua Hartnett
  • Kim Jae-hun
  • Chae Gwang-jin
  • Andy Ta
  • Matt Elento
  • Top
  • Jungler (Week 1 Day 1)
  • Jungler
  • Mid
  • AD Carry
  • Support (Week 1 Day 1)
  • Support
Team SoloMid
  • Kevin Yarnell
  • Dennis Johnsen
  • Søren Bjerg
  • Yiliang Peng
  • Bora Kim
  • Top
  • Jungler
  • Mid
  • AD Carry
  • Support

Final regular season standings

PlaceTeamMatch recordGame recordChamp. points
1. Immortals 17–1
2. Counter Logic Gaming 13–5
3. Cloud9 12–6
4. Team Liquid 10–8
5. NRG eSports 9–9
6. Team SoloMid 9–9
7. Echo Fox 6–12
8. Renegades 2-6
9. Team Impulse 5–14
10. Team Dignitas 4–14

Teams

TeamPosition in 2015 Summer SplitFirst appearance in LCSNumber of splits in LCS
Cloud9 7thSummer 20135
Counter Logic Gaming 1stSpring 20136
Echo Fox [lower-alpha 1] N/ASpring 20160
Immortals [lower-alpha 2] N/ASpring 20160
LA Renegades N/ASpring 20160
NRG eSports [lower-alpha 3] N/ASpring 20160
Team Dignitas 5th–6thSpring 20136
Team Impulse 4thSummer 20143
Team Liquid 3rdSpring 20136
Team SoloMid 2ndSpring 20136
notes
  1. ↑ Spot acquired from Gravity Gaming [10]
  2. ↑ Spot acquired from Team 8 [11]
  3. ↑ Spot acquired from Team Coast [12]

Playoffs

Playoff standings

PlaceTeamChampionship points
1stCounter Logic Gaming90
2ndTeam SoloMid70
3rdImmortals50
4thTeam Liquid30
5th/6thCloud910
5th/6thNRG eSports10
7th/10thEcho Fox0
7th/10thRenegades0
7th/10thTeam Impulse0
7th/10thTeam Dignitas0

Bracket

 Quarterfinals  Semifinals  Finals
              
   1 Immortals 0 
 3 Cloud 9 1  6 Team SoloMid 3  
 6 Team SoloMid 3    2 Counter Logic Gaming 3
   6 Team SoloMid 2
   2 Counter Logic Gaming 3  
 4 Team Liquid 3  4 Team Liquid 2 Third place
 5 NRG eSports 0 4 Team Liquid 0
 1 Immortals 3

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