After the FLY vs C9 game today, only one team remains undefeated in North America. LCS had an unfortunate delay at the start of the day. Due to some hardware issues relating to on-stage audio, teams were sent back to their facilities and had to play the rest of the games remotely, which were pushed […]
C9 and FlyQuest are alone at the top of the LCS ahead of their game tomorrow. We started out the second week with a clash at the top as C9 took on the CLG who started the split by surprising everyone once again. The other big games of the day were FLY vs GG in […]
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 […]
LCS broadcast days are changing to Thursdays and Fridays starting with the new Spring Split. A lot of sweeping changes are happening in the League of Legends Esports as we close out 2022. We saw Europe merge with Turkey and the Middle East to create EMEA, changing the name of LEC, and there are rumors […]
100 Thieves shooting for the sky by signing two LCS legends. 100 Thieves are arguably the most successful organization in LCS over the last year and a half. They made three straight finals and won the trophy in the 2022 Spring Split. But the losses in the last two LCS Finals, both sweeps, meant the […]
The 2022 LCS Spring champions are looking to repeat the same in 2023. Since re-joining the LCS back in 2020, Evil Geniuses have been a team that was pushing to win titles but fell short in playoffs every time. At least that was true until last year’s Spring Split, where the Geniuses accomplished one of […]
After weeks of speculation, Team Liquid revealed their jungler for the 2023 LCS Season, along with the rest of the roster. For the 2022 LCS Season Team Liquid had built one of the most expensive rosters in the North American competition’s history. Signing two big-name imports from LEC (Gabriël “Bwipo” Rau and Steven “Hans sama” […]
TSM reveal their LCS roster for the next year of competition. 2022 hasn’t been kind to TSM. One of the most storied organizations in LCS history, TSM had a disastrous two splits in a row. It started with losing the face of the franchise, Søren “Bjergsen” Bjerg to Team Liquid in his return to pro […]
We have our first complete roster confirmation that will compete in LCS. In the midst of roster rumors and speculations, Golden Guardians didn’t get too much attention from either the reporters or the fans. Despite making playoffs in five of the last six LCS splits, Golden Guardians never had too much impact in the post-season. […]
After spending Summer Split in the LPL, Park “Summit” Woo-tae is looking to return to North America. Even though he first joined the LCS only last year, and only played one split, Summit made himself a name in North America in a quick fashion. The Korean top laner was one of the most dominant players […]
With the backing from their new ownership group, FlyQuest are coming into the 2023 LCS season as a contender. It was only two years ago, back in 2020, FlyQuest made back-to-back LCS Final and was one of the top teams in the league. Unfortunately for the organization, the success was limited to the calendar year […]
Evil Geniuses decided not to re-sign with the veteran top laner Jeong “Impact” Eon-young. Ever since Impact joined LCS back in 2014 with Team Impulse, he has been regarded as one of the best players in the region. With his 2x LCK titles and his recent victory in Worlds 2013 with SKT T1, he was […]
Yiliang “Doublelift” Peng and Søren “Bjergsen” Bjerg will once again play together in a new roster that mixes experience with young talent. Doublelift is regarded as perhaps the greatest player ever in the North American League of Legends esports scene. With his closest competition being his former teammate, Bjergsen. After a legendary career with 8x […]
TSM continue its 2022 roster-building strategy as they try to build a solid roster without spending big time. 2022 hasn’t been the best year for TSM’s LoL division. They started out the Spring by losing their franchise player, Søren “Bjergsen” ( Link listen) Bjerg, to Team Liquid. They put together a roster with two LDL […]
Dignitas are looking to bounce back after a not-so-great 2022 season. 2022 started out looking like it was going to be good for Dignitas. After making two straight LCS Playoffs, Dignitas strengthen their roster with the veteran jungler Kim “River” Dong-woo and were pushing for a higher finish. And after a 3rd place finish in […]
MAD Lions AD Carry, William “UNF0RGIVEN” Nieminen, is close to joining 100T after his first year in LEC. After a very successful 2021 with back-to-back championships, MAD Lions were in a small rebuilding stage in the 2022 season. With the departure of their champion bot laner Matyáš “Carzzy” Orság, MAD had signed UNF0RGIVEN from SK […]
North America’s academy system will have a completely new look starting with the 2023 season. When talking about imports in LCS or the international success of NA, or more so the lack of it, as a region, the foremost problem always seems to be talent development. LCS organizations historically have cold feet when it comes […]
Reigning LCS Summer champions are reportedly signing two mid laners from the European Regional Leagues. Despite winning the 2022 LCS Summer Split, Cloud9 had a very disappointing Worlds. The organization only won one game, against Fnatic, and players drew heavy criticism from fans due to their individual plays. As they played the split with a […]
With this 3-1 victory, C9 secured themselves a spot at Worlds 2022, while EG is knocked down to the lower bracket. EG vs C9 – Game 1 Both teams came into Game 1 with scaling drafts, so the early game did not contain much action. The first blood came after a mid gank from Inspired […]
The first series of the LCS Summer 2022 Playoffs was between Team Liquid and FlyQuest, with TLcoming out ahead in the clash. TL came into the split hoping to lift the trophy after falling short in the Spring Semis. The star-studded squad was the focus of fans’ criticism after their performance did not meet expectations […]
A brief recap of winners and losers of the LCS Summer 2022 Split as it heads into the playoffs. This Summer was a high point for LCS in recent years, with more native players finding success in the league and the general level of teams seeming much more competitive. As we leave another regular season […]
LCS Summer 2022 regular split is behind us as we go into the Playoffs to crown our champions. Summer Split Playoffs for LCS is essentially an eight team tournament that not only produces a Summer Split Champion, but also the two other Worlds representatives for the region. The Playoffs will start in this Saturday, August […]
LCS mid-split roster moves are continuing, this time with a transfer between Dignitas and Golden Guardians. After a disappointing playoff exit from the 2021 LCS Championship, Dignitas brought in the Korean jungler Kim ‘River’ Dong-woo from PSG Talon, where he had multiple impressive international showings. The signing of a jungler as exciting as River meant […]
If you’ve missed the games today, here is a recap of how the LCS Summer Split Week 5 Day 2 went. If you’d like to read more about the teams in the league you can read our LCS Power Rankings, which gets updated weekly. Previous Weekly Recaps LCS Week One Recaps – Day One, Two, […]
LCS Summer Split second round robin kicked off today, and here is a recap of the day one if you’ve missed the games. If you’d like to read more about the teams in the league you can read our LCS Power Rankings, which gets updated weekly. Previous Weekly Recaps LCS Week One Recaps – Day […]
LCS Summer Split’s first round robin is finished with today’s games. If you’d like to read more about the teams in the league you can read our LCS Power Rankings, which gets updated weekly. LCS Week One Recaps – Day One, Two, Three LCS Week Two Recaps – Day One, Two LCS Week Three Recaps […]