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It’s NA’s last chance as LCS champs take on Korea’s premier LoL esports roster, staking their claim in MSI 2024. Team Liquid vs T1. This article is continuously being updated. Refresh the page for more recaps! MSI 2024 is heating up, and it’s seeing industry winners struggle against the underdogs of the season. One of […]

Team Liquid enters the best-of-five stage as the fan-favorite underdogs, but do they have enough map presence to outsmart an LPL powerhouse? The MSI 2024 bracket stage saw the strongest League of Legends pro teams in the running take the stage at Chengdu for the final leg of the tournament. The strongest bot lane duos […]

VCS underdogs took on one of the best Korean teams in an aggressive DK vs GAM elimination match for the 7th day of Worlds Swiss Stage. The first week of Worlds matches kicked off with another David vs Goliath match-up with the Vietnam representatives in the running fighting Dplus Kia. Deft’s team fell behind in […]

It’s a struggle for survival as two world-class teams fought for their right to stay in the competition on Day 4 of Worlds Swiss Stage. TL vs GAM – LCS vs VCS Steal as many Barons as you want from Pyosik, he’ll still win the game on Kindred. It was a tense best-of-three series for […]

Faker’s legendary roster took on the #1 NA team in a dynamic T1 vs C9 bo3 showdown that had both teams gunning for the lead in Worlds Day 4 Blazing into the third day, the first match-up pit the Unkillable Demon King against the strongest seed in the NA region. As the Worlds stage saw, […]

Despite the glaring skill difference, the LCS team’s newest addition might have what it takes to win a game against a legendary opponent they’ve felled before in the Worlds 2023 main event. LCK vs LCS – T1 vs Team Liquid. The memory of T1’s domination in the higher brackets is still fresh in everybody’s mind […]

Disguised Toast is letting go of its NACL Championship League of Legends team members. Today, we bid farewell to our NACL Championship League of Legends team. Since the start of the season, we wanted to make sure that our players would have the chance to prove their worth and value as some of the top […]

The 2023 LCS Season is coming to its conclusion with the final series of the year between Cloud9 and NRG. Despite the massive differences between the two teams—one of them the back-to-back champions looking to win their third to establish themselves as a dynasty, the other is the underdog stepping into its first Finals—Cloud9 and […]

The penultimate LCS game of the season will determine which team will face Cloud9 in the 2023 LCS Summer Finals. The Lower Bracket Finals won’t be the first NRG vs Team Liquid series of the LCS Summer Playoffs. These two teams faced each other in the first round of the playoffs and the series ended […]

In a recent press release, Riot Games annouınced the hiring of the new Head of LoL Esports for the Americas, Carlos Antunes. Antunes, a seasoned esports leader with nearly a decade of experience established himself in the world of competitive gaming and Riot during his time in Brazil (CBLOL) and Latin America (LLA). In his […]

The 2023 LCS Summer Playoffs kick off on July 27 with the EG vs TSM matchup. The journey for the LCS trophy and a spot at the Worlds 2023 starts tomorrow with two of the biggest surprising teams of the split facing off each other. EG came into the Summer with four new players and […]

An overall look at where teams stand before the 2023 LCS Summer Playoffs kick-off. Finally, the exciting part of the LCS season is ready to commence as the players get ready for the best-of-five stage of the league. The Summer Split has been full of surprises so far with a lot of teams performing well […]

The LCS All-Pro Awards for the Summer Split 2023 have been unveiled With the regular season behind us and LCS Playoffs primed to start later this week, we are officially getting into the award season. Every split, LCS hands out awards to recognize the brilliance and performances of its top players and coaching staff. As […]

EG Armao: “I don’t think we are a top-three team yet.” Almost nobody expected Evil Geniuses to be at the top of the LCS after they dropped the majority of their roster during the offseason. But this new squad of underdogs turned a lot of heads once they came into the 2023 LCS Summer winning […]

North American League of Legends will resume with the 2023 LCS Summer Split starting on June 14. UPDATE: The start of the Summer Split got delayed for two weeks when Riot decided to postpone the league due to the LCSPA player walkout. The parties eventually reached an agreement, with the new starting day for LCS […]

After their loss to NRG yesterday with Spirax in the mid lane, FlyQuest brings VicLa back today for the Evil Geniuses game. LCS Summer Split has been a near disaster for FlyQuest so far. This team build to win an LCS title was sitting in ninth place with a 3-9 record coming into Week 5, […]

“If I get Ziggs, I am going to win every LCS game.” Team Liquid had a much better start to the LCS Summer Split record-wise after missing the playoffs in Spring. But some of the worrying gameplay trends they had last split still reared their heads from time to time, even in their wins. Aiming […]

Dignitas is bringing in Philippe “Poome” Lavoie-Giguere as their new starting support as the team is trying to secure a spot in the LCS Summer Playoffs. Despite coming into the 2023 LCS Season with an ambitious project, Dignitas had fallen very short of the expectations with their last place finish in the Spring Split. But […]

A conversation with the Immortals support, Treatz, about his return to professional play, his teammates and his goals during the 2023 LCS Summer. After spending two years in LEC with SK, Erik “Treatz” Wessén returned to North America where he previously competed in TSM’s LCS and Academy squads. Despite not finding the most success in […]

Both fell out of favor with fans some time ago, Licorice and Golden Guardians are a match made in heaven as they make their way up to the top of the LCS. Golden Guardians were one of four new teams awarded a slot in the newly franchised LCS back in 2018. Despite being backed by […]

A quick conversation with NRG Contractz after their loss against Immortals during the LCS Summer Split opening week. Not the return to the LCS NRG imagined during the Week 1 of the LCS as the org lost to Evil Geniuses in their opening in a perfect game, which is a game where the losing side […]

We caught up with the Dignitas support, Diamond after the Cloud9 game to talk about his return to LCS, the new team environment and his personal goals for Summer. After their tenth-place finish in Spring, Dignitas came into the 2023 LCS Summer looking for redemption. One of the two moves they made in the offseason […]

Get ready to dive back into the action as the LCS returns for its highly anticipated Summer Split. After a two week delay resulting from the player walkout and negotiations between LCSPA and Riot, LCS is ready to resume with the Summer Split. The schedule and the broadcast format will be different this split due […]

Disguised NACL roster broke last split’s peak viewership during their opening series. The popular streamer Jeremy ‘Disguised Toast’ Wang’s esports organization, Disguised (DSG), made its entry into the North American Challengers League (NACL) with an impressive debut, garnering significant viewership and raising some hope for the league’s future. After Riot made significant changes to the […]

LCS fans can rejoice as the Summer Split is confirmed to return next Wednesday. After a brief delay, the LCS Summer Split is all set to make a comeback on June 14. This news comes following an agreement reached between the LCS Players Association (LCSPA) and Riot Games, the organizers of the LCS. The LCS […]

LCS will start two weeks later than the scheduled June 1 opening day due to the LCS player walkout protesting Riot’s decisions surrounding NACL. 2023 LCS Summer Split was supposed to kick off with its Opening Day in just two days, but after a historic walkout protest by the LCS players under the LCS Players […]

Can Cloud9 get the threepeat they missed back in 2014? Only two teams in the LCS history won three back-to-back-to-back titles, TSM in 2016-17 and Team Liquid in 2018-19. But it was the original Cloud9 who almost managed to do it first when the original squad with Zachary “Sneaky” Scuderi and William “Meteos” Hartman won […]

Can this finally be the split Immortals exceeds fan expectations? Only one playoff appearance and four bottom-two finishes in seven splits, Immortals have become an organization fans automatically put at the bottom of their power rankings at the start of each split. They once again made some changes in the offseason, the big one being […]

The 2023 LCS Summer Split start might be delayed with LCSPA voting in favor of an LCS player walkout. In a historic moment for the esports industry, players from the North American League of Legends Championship Series (LCS) have voted overwhelmingly in favor of a walkout. The vote was organized by the LCS Players Association […]

Familiar faces under a new banner. First time since its inaugural split in 2013, LCS will be played without CLG participating in the league. One of the founding members of the North American League of Legends scene, CLG said goodbye to LCS and its fans at the start of April when they closed down their […]

Will Evil Geniuses succeed at rebuilding their roster with only one player remaining from the title-winning team? No team in the recent history of the LCS exploded as spectacularly or as suddenly as this Evil Geniuses roster. At the end of April last year, Evil Geniuses had just won their first LCS trophy in the […]

Everything you need to know about the rumored and confirmed moves during the MSI break and the full LCS rosters for the Summer. While the off-season between the Spring and Summer is not as hectic as the one before the season started, there are still a lot of moves happening during the long MSI break. […]

Doublelift never failed to make an LCS Finals appearance in at least one of the splits since 2014. Will 2023 be the year the streak gets broken? Not the 2023 100 Thieves fans have been looking for so far. Coming into the season by breaking apart the roster that won the first title in the […]

Four titles in four splits now a distant memory, can Team Liquid return to the organization’s glory days? It’s been almost four years since Team Liquid was at the top of the LCS back in the Summer of 2019. After they lost Jake “Xmithie” Puchero and Peter “Doublelift” Peng the following split and the dynasty […]

TSM brings two of its legendary players back for what might be the org’s final split in the LCS. After spending a decade as one of the most successful organizations in the North American League of Legends, TSM has been going through some rough times in the last two years. Possible financial struggles combined with […]

After falling short during the Spring Split, FlyQuest is back with a strengthened squad to try their hand at an LCS trophy. FlyQuest’s LCS history is filled with mid-table finishes, with the exception of 2020 when they made back-to-back Finals. The organization found it hard since then to get back to that level where they […]

With the future of NACL looking grim as most orgs just left the league, the content creators might be the solution with Disguised Toast entering into the LoL Esports scene. LCS announced the details for the upcoming NACL (North American Challengers League) Summer Split, revealing the participating teams and the format for the competition. The […]

A historic moment in the esports industry is waiting around the corner if the LCS players vote in favor of a walkout. Riot and LCS removed the ruling that requires LCS organizations to field a roster in the North American Challengers League on May 12. Just under two weeks after the announcement, all but three […]

FlyQuest, Evil Geniuses and Team Liquid will be the only LCS organizations to field an NACL roster this upcoming Summer. It has been little more than a week since LCS announced the rule change allowing LCS organizations to opt out of participating in the North American Challengers League. And with the deadline for teams to […]

One of the cornerstones of the North American League of Legends scene, TSM, is leaving the LCS to pursue a World Championship in another major region. TSM, one of the most iconic organizations in the history of League of Legends, has announced its departure from the LCS (League of Legends Championship Series) after over a […]

With the rule requiring LCS organizations to field an NACL roster, teams are starting to exit the league. Only five days ago, last week Friday, Riot and LCS announced that they were removing the requirement for LCS organizations to participate in the North American Challengers League. It didn’t take long for the orgs to start […]

The thieves are welcoming a legend for the organization back, as well as a new LCK Challengers talent. After coming into the 2023 Season by strengthening their roster with two of the most legendary players in the LCS history, Peter “Doublelift” Peng and Søren “Bjergsen” Bjerg, 100 Thieves finished the Spring Split early in the […]

The organizations competing in the LCS won’t have to field a squad in the feeder system for the league. There have been a lot of concerns for the North American League of Legends scene lately like bad international results, low viewership and increasing import discussions. LCS fans had also gotten another set of bad news […]

North America’s King of Spring will have a new home for the LCS 2023 Summer. Since exploding onto the LCS stage on Clutch Gaming back in 2019 and joining Cloud9 for a then-record fee, Philippe “Vulcan” Laflamme has been regarded as one of the best support players in the league. In the three and a […]

The only familiar face for Evil Geniuses fans in Summer will be the mid laner Jojopyun. Tough times continue for the Evil Geniuses organization and its fans. Another disappointing LCS split where the team aimed to repeat their title run from the 2022 Spring but failed, Evil Geniuses are looking to make some drastic changes. […]

Despite a disappointing Spring Split in the LCS, Team Liquid stays committed to their young core. Team Liquid came into the LCS 2023 Spring Split with high aspirations. Despite promoting two rookies from their Academy team, they also brought in a former LCS MVP in Park “Summit” Woo-tae and the reigning World champion jungler Hong […]

Former LCS champions might field a different roster for the 2023 LCS Summer Split. After winning the first and only LCS championship in the organization’s history in the 2022 Spring, Evil Geniuses were dubbed as the next powerhouse in the North American League of Legends. Their roster a combination of young native talent and a […]

Erik “Treatz” Wessén will join Immortals for the Summer Split as Kadir “Fleshy” Kemiksiz moves to the NACL roster. Immortals hasn’t found too much success in their second LCS stint so far. Since joining the league back in 2020, the org only has one playoff appearance and they finished the last three consecutive splits in […]

Cloud9 stops the Golden Guardians’ Lower Bracket run with a 3-1 victory in the LCS Spring Finals and secures themselves as the LCS’s number one seed at MSI. On one side, the reigning champions and the most dominant team in the league for the most part of the Spring Split. On the other side, the […]

The biggest fairytale story in LCS history is just one step away from becoming reality. There aren’t too many stories like 2023 Golden Guardians in esports. They’ve started the season with the lowest expectations, even we put them 8th in our power rankings, and even with a seven-game win streak they made playoffs in the […]

Golden Guardians will face Cloud9 in the 2023 LCS Spring Finals. FlyQuest vs Golden Guardians would’ve been considered an unlikely Lower Bracket Finals matchup at the start of Spring Split. FlyQuest was heavily favored to make the Finals directly and win the league while Golden Guardians were seen as a mid-table team. But despite the […]

One of the biggest names in the North American League of Legends might be leaving for permanent this time around. On October 24, 2020, one of the most legendary players to ever play League of Legends in North America, Søren “Bjergsen” Bjerg, announced his retirement and his transition into the head coaching position in TSM. […]

Can FlyQuest bounce back from their last series, or will Golden Guardians’ miracle run continue? The penultimate series of the LCS Spring Split is guaranteed to give us the fans a great story whichever way it goes in the end. If FlyQuest wins, we’ll get a Finals matchup between two of the best teams during […]

The first bot laner to win the award since Doublelift back in 2018. After nearly a month-long heated discussion about the last regular season award, LCS finally announced its Most Valuable Player for the 2023 Spring Split. There were a lot of candidates for LCS’s most-prized individual achievement, including many of his teammates, but the […]

North American League scene is saying goodbye to one of its founding members. LCS reporter and content creator Travis Gafford reported at the start of the week that CLG owner, The Madison Square Garden Company, was laying off nearly all of its staff and selling its League of Legends team in order to exit the […]

One of the most storied organizations in esports might be saying goodbye soon. Esports isn’t the only industry affected by the recent post-COVID downsizings and layoffs happening in various companies around the world, but there has been a lot of it happening in the industry. A lot of esports orgs like FaZe and 100 Thieves […]

Golden Guardians will face FlyQuest next week to qualify for the Finals. The surprise team of the 2023 LCS Spring Golden Guardians found themselves against the preseason favorites in Evil Geniuses during their run toward the first Finals appearance in the organization’s history. Pre-game predictions from the broadcast crew and fans heavily favored Evil Geniuses, […]

Cloud9 will be one of the two North American representatives in the 2023 Mid-Season Invitational. The two best teams from the LCS Spring regular season faced off against each other for the opportunity to secure their spot in the LCS Finals that will be held in Raleigh, North Carolina. Cloud9 and FlyQuest already played a […]

The teams are competing for the last spot in the LCS Finals Weekend in Raleigh. Before the last week of the regular season, both teams were poised to finish the split in the top four and both stumbled at the finish line going 0-3 during the superweek, finding themselves with a Lower Bracket start. Backs […]

Winner of the Cloud9 vs FlyQuest series will earn the right to represent North America at the MSI. The two best teams from the LCS regular season will go head-to-head one more time in the Upper Bracket semifinals to decide who will be the first team to guarantee their place in the 2023 LCS Finals. […]

Golden Guardians are waiting for the CLG vs. EG game to see who their next opponent is. In a weird twist of fate, Doublelift and Bjergsen found themselves having to get through the organization that almost eliminated them in the 2022 Summer, preventing their championship run on TSM before it even started. Not to mention […]

2022 Spring champions are looking to bounce back from a rough regular season. CLG vs Evil Geniuses is a very unexpected Lower Bracket elimination game if we look through the preseason expectations as coming into the season many power rankings had Evil Geniuses as a top-two team. But they haven’t had the best season so […]

The title favorites managed to come out on top in the hard-fought series. If there is one certainty in LSC, it is that Cloud9 vs CLG always delivers. These teams had some of the most high-tempo, high-kill games this year and their similar aggressive, scrappy playstyle always results in fun games. CLG is also the […]

100 Thieves are looking for redemption against the Golden Guardians in the lower bracket. Finally, we are at the stretch in a split where the stakes are their highest. One series loss means the defeated team’s season ends here. 100 Thieves vs Golden Guardians is shaping up to be one of the least predictable series […]

100 Thieves will continue their playoff journey in the lower bracket against GG this weekend. The 2023 LCS Playoffs started out with one of the most exciting matchups, FlyQuest vs. 100T. Coming into the series both teams were on decent form, but 100 Thieves especially was on the back of a seven-game win streak to […]

First and second seeds Cloud9 and FlyQuest made up nine of the fifteen LCS All-Pro slots. LCS Spring Split ending and playoffs almost arriving means it’s time for the award season to start as well. The first individual award to be announced was once again the All-Pro teams. The three teams are voted on by […]

The Immortals and Golden Guardians midlaner called time on his career, and will look towards new opportunities. Nicholas Antonio Abbott, otherwise known as Ablazeolive has said goodbye to professional League of Legends on March 21st. The 24-year-old has stated that competing in the LCS has taken too much time away from other aspects of his […]

With the LCS Spring Split Playoffs starting this Thursday, March 23, and it’s time to revisit our power rankings. It has been a long and exciting regular season, but finally we are leaving best-of-ones behind as the LCS heads into the playoffs. And despite all the chaos during the middle of the season and a […]

Nick “Ablazeolive” Abbott will take the rest of the LCS Spring Split off. Immortals are currently in ninth place in the LCS and they are doing a roster change in the mid lane. As Ablazeolive steps away from the main team, Immortals will promote their Challengers mid laner Onur Can “Bolulu” Demirol to the LCS. […]

The reigning LCS champions C9 start the Spring Split with a 2-0 week. LCS Spring Split’s opening week come to a strong conclusion. The new season of the LCS had a much different look with a lot of new content from both the league and organizations centered around the players. We’ve also had multiple guests […]

The wait is over, and the LCS is finally back on with the Spring Split Opening Day. After a nearly three months long break since the end of Worlds 2022, the North American League of Legends is back on the menu. This offseason was full of big changes with many organizations putting together ambitious rosters. […]

The former LCS MVP and the MSI-finalist support is stepping away from the pro play. Doesn’t matter when they started watching, in 2012 when the league was taking its first steps or in 2022 during its 10th year anniversary, every LCS fan knows who Zaqueri “aphromoo” Black is. The first support player to ever win […]

Evil Geniuses are looking to bounce back after a misfortunate Summer Playoffs and Worlds. Spring and Summer of 2022 were two very different stories for Evil Geniuses. They came into the year with a roster of star players mixed with young native talent. After a very middling regular season, they powered through the Spring Playoffs […]

An unexpected challenger for the LCS title appears. FlyQuest aren’t exactly strangers to success in the LCS. It’s been a while now, but back in 2020, they made back-to-back Finals and even finished Worlds with a 3-3 group stage record. No pieces from that roster, or even the coaching staff, is still with the organization, […]

Reigning LCS champions are looking to repeat while keeping their roster almost intact. Even with all of their on-and-off-the-Rift problems in 2022, Cloud9 still managed to get themselves another trophy. They were already one of the most successful teams in the LCS in the last three years, but this was the first Summer Finals they […]

Team Liquid is building a full Korean-speaking roster for the 2023 Season. Despite winning the Spring Lock-In Tournament and making playoffs in both splits, 2022 was nothing but disappointing for Team Liquid compared to the expectations. Building the most expensive roster in the LCS history with the anticipation of a North American Worlds, TL came […]

LCS bows to fans’ demands and makes changes to the broadcast start times. After a great tenth-year anniversary in 2022, LCS had a bit of a rough start to 2023. With Riot’s structuring of their esports broadcasts, LCS lost their weekend slot to Valorant, with the NA LoL league pushed to Wednesdays and Thursdays. Fans […]

Can 100 Thieves make their fourth consecutive Finals appearance? 100 Thieves have become accustomed to success in the last two years. After the addition of Felix “Abbedagge” Braun to the Golden Guardians core they acquired, they made three straight LCS Finals, along with winning their first LCS trophy in LCS 2021 Summer. But despite making […]

CLG are looking to carry their 2022 success into the new season. Coming into 2022, CLG had just finished their fifth split in a row at the bottom two of the league, had fans calling for their removal from the LCS, and just completely changed their backroom staff along with their starting roster. Just one […]

A completely new look for Dignitas with the new season. For the last couple of years, Dignitas have been trying to invest in young talent and build a native team. It wasn’t that long ago when they made a great mid-regular season run and were celebrated as the NA team in LCS. But none of […]

Golden Guardians are aiming for an outside chance at the playoffs in LCS 2023 Spring. 2023 will be the sixth year Golden Guardians competed in the LCS. They have been pretty consistent about making playoffs in both Summer and Spring splits, but the organization never saw too much success beyond that. In their ten LCS […]

The LCS Season 2023 Kickoff Event ended in a victory for the young guns of the league. LCS had a nice start to the 2023 Season with a great showmatch at the LoL Esports’ new Kickoff Events. The game featured one player from each ten LCS teams representing their organizations drafted into two games facing […]

TSM will try to bounce back after a rough year. If you want to talk about a tough year, it doesn’t get worse than TSM’s 2022. Not many teams get a Competitive Ruling from LCS for their staff in the middle of the year, while TSM got handed two of them in the span of […]

The first matchup of the LCS in 2023 will be the Kickoff Event Showmatch on January 10. It has been a shaky end to the year for the North American League of Legends, and a not-so-great start either. LCS drew a lot of criticism from the community in recent months with the decisions made about […]

Immortals looking to make noise in LCS with an almost full native roster. In the six splits LCS had after the name change from NA LCS, Immortals only managed to make playoffs once, back in 2021 Summer. The last two splits, they either finished second to last or dead last, while looking like probably the […]

One of the most familiar faces of the North American League of Legends is saying goodbye to the scene. 2023 is more and more looking like a year of massive changes. Unfortunately for North American LoL fans, these changes are scarier than the rest of the regions. We learned about the league moving to weekdays […]

Full rosters for every LCS team and rumored player movements. With all ten teams moving players around at the same time with multiple reports coming out every day, it might be hard to track every activity. In this article, you can find the complete rosters for all LCS teams, along with the complete timeline for […]