Rosters
| Team | Players | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| ID | Name | Position | |
Kim Chan-ho | Top | ||
| Eric Ritchie | Top | |
Colin Earnest | Top | ||
Darshan Upadhyaya | Top | ||
| Heo Seung-hoon | Top | |
| Lee Ho-jong | Top | |
| Samson Jackson | Top | |
| Jung Eon-yeong | Top | |
| Derek Shao | Top | |
| Kevin Yarnell | Top | |
| 2018 NA LCS Spring Split | |
|---|---|
| League | North American League of Legends Championship Series |
| Sport | League of Legends |
| Number of matches | 5 best-of-fives in the play-offs, 90 best-of-ones in the regular season |
| Number of teams | 10 |
| TV partner(s) | Twitch |
| Regular season champions | 100 Thieves |
| Runners-up | Echo Fox |
| Season MVP | Aphromoo |
| 2018 NA League Championship Series Spring Playoffs | |
| 2018 NA League Championship Series Spring Finals | |
| Champions | Team Liquid |
| Runners-up | 100 Thieves |
The 2018 Spring North American League of Legends Championship Series split (2018 Spring NA LCS) is the sixth season and eleventh split of the North American League of Legends Championship Series, (NA LCS) the highest level of professional League of Legends play in North America.
Starting in 2018, the North American LCS will begin to franchise. There are various reasons for this. First, it changed the overall structure of the league, encouraging long-term investments from owners. This allowed the league to implement revenue sharing, leading to a better foundation for both the teams and professional players. Lastly, the professional players were given a larger voice and more protection within the league.
The buy-in price for the league was $10 million for existing League of Legends teams, who had previously participated in the League Championship Series or Challenger Series. New teams would be subject to an additional $3 million (a total $13 million), which was distributed to the teams that were replaced in the league. Interested parties were given applications in June, due on July 28, 2017. Over 100 existing esports organizations, traditional sports teams, venture capitalists and entrepreneurs reportedly applied. [1] Those applications were then narrowed down to a shortlist, nicknamed "phase two", which saw participants travel to Riot Games' Los Angeles office to interview and review their applications. [2] Riot Games and the North American League Championship Series players' association also decided that league would not expand and instead remain at 10 teams.
Buyers for the league were decided in mid-October. Several existing teams from the league — including Cloud9, Counter Logic Gaming, Echo Fox, FlyQuest, Team Liquid and Team SoloMid — were reportedly accepted back into the league. [3] [4] [5] Other existing teams, such as Immortals, Phoenix1, Team Dignitas and Team EnvyUs, were declined from entry into the restructured league. [6] [7] The team welcomed four new teams — one endemic esports team and three NBA franchises or affiliates. Longtime esports organization OpTic Gaming was reportedly awarded a spot in the league after receiving investment from Texas Rangers co-owner Neil Leibman. [8] The other three new spots went to Golden State Warriors co-owner Joe Lacob and his son Kirk as the Golden Guardians, the Cleveland Cavaliers and affiliated venture capital firms as 100 Thieves, and the Houston Rockets as Clutch Gaming. [9] [10] [11] [12]
| Team | Players | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| ID | Name | Position | |
Kim Chan-ho | Top | ||
| Eric Ritchie | Top | |
Colin Earnest | Top | ||
Darshan Upadhyaya | Top | ||
| Heo Seung-hoon | Top | |
| Lee Ho-jong | Top | |
| Samson Jackson | Top | |
| Jung Eon-yeong | Top | |
| Derek Shao | Top | |
| Kevin Yarnell | Top | |
| Pos | Team | W–L | Points | Qualification |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1. |   | 12–6 | +6 | Advance to semifinals |
| 2. | | 12–6 | +6 | |
| 3. | | 11–7 | +4 | Advance to quarterfinals |
| 4. | | 11–7 | +4 | |
| 5. | | 11–7 | +4 | |
| 6. |  | 11–7 | +4 | |
| 7. | | 7–11 | -4 | No qualification for Playoffs |
| 8. |  | 6–12 | -6 | |
| 9. | | 5–13 | -7 | |
| 10. | | 4–14 | -10 |
| Pos | Prize Pool | Qualification Points | Team |
|---|---|---|---|
 | $100,000 | 90 | Team Liquid |
 | $50,000 | 70 | 100 Thieves |
 | $30,000 | 50 | Echo Fox |
| 4th | $20,000 | 30 | Clutch Gaming |
| 5th/6th | - | 10 | Cloud9 |
| Team SoloMid | |||
| 7th | - | - | Counter Logic Gaming |
| 8th | - | - | FlyQuest |
| 9th | - | - | OpTic Gaming |
| 10th | - | - | Golden Guardians |
| Award | Player | Team |
|---|---|---|
| MVP | | 100 Thieves |
| Rookie of the Split |  | Cloud9 |
| Coach of the Split | | 100 Thieves |
| 1st Team All-Pro |  | Echo Fox |
| | Echo Fox | |
 | Team SoloMid | |
| | 100 Thieves | |
| | 100 Thieves |
| 1st Place Tiebreaker | |||
| 100 Thieves | 1 | ||
| Echo Fox | 0 | ||
| First Round | Third Place Tiebreaker | |||||||
| Team Liquid | 1 | |||||||
| Cloud9 | 0 | |||||||
| Team Liquid | 0 | |||||||
| Team SoloMid | 1 | |||||||
| Team SoloMid | 1 | |||||||
| Clutch Gaming | 0 | Fifth Place Tiebreaker | ||||||
| Cloud9 | 1 | |||||||
| Clutch Gaming | 0 | |||||||
| Quarterfinals | Semifinals | Final | |||||||||||
| 3 | Team SoloMid | 1 | 1 | 100 Thieves | 3 | ||||||||
| 6 | Clutch Gaming | 3 | 6 | Clutch Gaming | 2 | ||||||||
| 1 | 100 Thieves | 0 | |||||||||||
| 4 | Team Liquid | 3 | |||||||||||
| 4 | Team Liquid | 3 | 2 | Echo Fox | 1 | ||||||||
| 5 | Cloud9 | 0 | 4 | Team Liquid | 3 | Third Place | |||||||
| 2 | Echo Fox | 3 | |||||||||||
| 6 | Clutch Gaming | 0 | |||||||||||
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