2016 NA LCS season

2016 NA LCS season
League	NA LCS
Sport	League of Legends
Duration	January 16 – April 17 (Spring); June 3 – August 28 (Summer)
Number of teams	10
TV partner(s)	Twitch
Spring
Champions	Counter Logic Gaming
Runners-up	Team SoloMid
Top seed	Immortals
Season MVP	Kim "Reignover" Yeu-jin[1]; (Immortals)
Summer
Champions	Team SoloMid
Runners-up	Cloud9
Top seed	Team SoloMid
Season MVP	Søren "Bjergsen" Bjerg[1]; (Team SoloMid)
Regional finals
Winner	Cloud9

The 2016 NA LCS season was the fourth year of the North American League of Legends Championship Series.[2] It was divided into spring and summer splits, each consisting of a regular season and playoff stage. Regular season games were played in the Riot Games Studios in Los Angeles, California.

Format

Teams compete in a double round robin tournament over the course of nine weeks during the regular season, with matches being best-of-three. The top six teams from the regular season advanced to the playoff stage, with the top two teams receiving a bye to the semifinals. The seventh place team qualifies for the next split of the LCS but does not participate in playoffs. The bottom three teams play in a promotion/relegation tournament against the top two NA Challenger Series teams. Playoffs were single-elimination and matches were best-of-five. The winner of the summer split automatically qualified for the 2016 World Championship, while the team with the most cumulative championship points from the spring and summer splits also qualified for World Championship. A final team, the winner of the regional finals, also qualified for the World Championship.

Spring

Offseason changes

As the team with the worst record in the 2015 NA LCS Summer regular season, Team Dragon Knights was automatically relegated to the NA Challenger Series. As the eighth and ninth team places respectively, Team 8 and Enemy eSports were obligated to play in a promotion tournament against the second and third place Challenger 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. The 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 organizations that had been created for the sole purpose of being in the LCS. Coast sold their spot to NRG eSports,[3] Team 8 sold theirs to Immortals,[4] and Gravity to Echo Fox.[5] Team Impulse had announced their intentions to sell their spot,[6] but failed to do so by the deadline.[7] However, Team Impulse eventually sold its spot to Phoenix1 just before the summer split.[8]

Teams

Team	Position in 2015 Summer Split	First appearance in LCS	Number of splits in LCS
Cloud9	7th	Summer 2013	5
Counter Logic Gaming	1st	Spring 2013	6
Echo Fox[lower-alpha 1]	N/A	Spring 2016	0
Immortals[lower-alpha 2]	N/A	Spring 2016	0
LA Renegades	N/A	Spring 2016	0
NRG eSports[lower-alpha 3]	N/A	Spring 2016	0
Team Dignitas	5th–6th	Spring 2013	6
Team Impulse	4th	Summer 2014	3
Team Liquid	3rd	Spring 2013	6
Team SoloMid	2nd	Spring 2013	6

Notes

Spot acquired from Gravity Gaming[9]
Spot acquired from Team 8[10]
Spot acquired from Team Coast[11]

Rosters

Team	Players
Team	ID	Name	Role
Cloud9	Balls Rush Jensen Sneaky Hai Bunny FuFuu	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 Xmithie HuHi Stixxay Aphromoo	Darshan Upadhyaya Jake Puchero Jae-hyun Choi Trevor Hayes Zaqueri Black	Top Jungler Mid AD Carry Support
Echo Fox	kfo Hard Froggen Keith Big	Park Jeong-hun Anthony Barkhovtsev Henrik Hansen Yuri Jew Terry Chuong	Top Jungler Mid AD Carry Support
Immortals	Huni Reignover Pobelter WildTurtle Adrian	Seung-hoon Heo Yeu jin Kim Eugene Park Jason Tran Adrian Ma	Top Jungler Mid AD Carry Support
NRG eSports	Impact Moon GBM Altec KonKwon	Jung Eon-yeong Galen Holgate Lee Chang-suk Johnny Ru Kevin Koo Hyuk Kwon	Top Jungler Mid AD Carry Support
Renegades	RF Legendary Seraph Crumbzz Alex Ich Ninja Freeze LOD Ohq Remi Hakuho	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	BillyBoss Kirei Shiphtur Apollo KiWiKiD	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	Lourlo IWDominate Dardoch FeniX Piglet Smoothie Matt	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	Hauntzer Svenskeren Bjergsen Doublelift YellOwStaR	Kevin Yarnell Dennis Johnsen Søren Bjerg Yiliang Peng Bora Kim	Top Jungler Mid AD Carry Support

Regular season

Place	Team	Match record
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	5–13
9.	Team Impulse	5–13
10.	Team Dignitas	4–14

Playoffs

The 2016 NA LCS Spring finals saw a rematch of the previous split's finals between Team SoloMid and Counter Logic Gaming.[12] The finals were played in Las Vegas, Nevada at the Mandalay Bay Events Center.[13]

Standings

Place	Team	Championship points
1st	Counter Logic Gaming	90
2nd	Team SoloMid	70
3rd	Immortals	50
4th	Team Liquid	30
5th/6th	Cloud9	10
5th/6th	NRG eSports	10
7th–10th	Echo Fox	0
7th–10th	Renegades	0
7th–10th	Team Impulse	0
7th–10th	Team Dignitas	0

Bracket

Quarterfinals			Semifinals			Finals

			RS1	Immortals	0
RS3	Cloud 9	1	QF1	Team SoloMid	3
RS6	Team SoloMid	3				1	Counter Logic Gaming	3
						2	Team SoloMid	2
			RS2	Counter Logic Gaming	3
RS4	Team Liquid	3	QF2	Team Liquid	2	Third place match
RS5	NRG eSports	0				4	Team Liquid	0
						3	Immortals	3

Summer

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
Team Envy	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

Rosters

Team	Players
Team	ID	Name	Role
Team Apex	Ray Diamondprox Keane ShrimP Xpecial	Lae-young Jang Danil Reshetnikov Ji-won Jeon Byeong-hoon Lee Alex Chu	Top Jungle Mid AD Carry Support
Cloud9	Impact Meteos Jensen Sneaky Bunny FuFuu	Jung Eon-yeong William Hartman Nicolaj Jensen Zachary Scuderi Michael Kurylo	Top Jungle Mid AD Carry Support
Counter Logic Gaming	Darshan Xmithie HuHi Stixxay Aphromoo	Darshan Upadhyaya Jake Puchero Jae-hyun Choi Trevor Hayes Zaqueri Black	Top Jungle Mid AD Carry Support
Echo Fox	kfo Hard Froggen Keith Big	Park Jeong-hun (박정훈) Anthony Barkhovtsev Henrik Hansen Yuri Jew Terry Chuong	Top Jungle Mid AD Carry Support
Team Envy	Seraph Proxcin Ninja LOD Hakuho	Shin Wu-Yeong Kim Seyoung Noh Geon-woo Benjamin deMunck Nickolas Surgent	Top Jungle Mid AD Carry Support
Immortals	Huni Reignover Pobelter WildTurtle Adrian	Seung-hoon Heo Yeu jin Kim Eugene Park Jason Tran Adrian Ma	Top Jungle Mid AD Carry Support
NRG Esports	Quas Santorin GBM Ohq KiWiKiD	Diego Ruiz Lucas Tao Kilmer Larsen Lee Chang-suk Oh Gyu-min Alan Nguyen	Top Jungle Mid AD Carry Support
Phoenix1	Zig Inori (from week 4) Zentinel (weeks 1-3) Pirean Mash Gate Slooshi (as substitute)	Derek Shao Rami Charagh Kevin Pires Choi Jun-sik Brandon Phan Austin Yu Andrew Pham	Top Jungle Jungle Mid AD Carry Support Mid
Team Liquid	Lourlo Dardoch FeniX Piglet Matt	Samson Jackson Joshua Hartnett Kim Jae-hun Chae Gwang-jin Matt Elento	Top Jungle Mid AD Carry Support
Team SoloMid	Hauntzer Svenskeren Bjergsen Doublelift Biofrost	Kevin Yarnell Dennis Johnsen Søren Bjerg Yiliang Peng Vincent Wang	Top Jungle Mid AD Carry Support

Regular season

Place	Team	Match record
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 Envy^	8-10
7.	Apex Gaming^	8–10
8.	Phoenix1	5–13
9.	NRG Esports	4–14
10.	Echo Fox	1–15

^ — Team Envy won the tiebreaker over Apex Gaming due to head-to-head matchup in the regular season.

Playoffs

The playoff stage for the third place match between Immortals and Counter Logic Gaming.

The summer finals were held at the Air Canada Centre in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, the first time an NA LCS match had been played outside of the United States.[14]

Standings

Place	Team	Championship points
1st	Team SoloMid	AQ
2nd	Cloud9	90
3rd	Immortals	70
4th	Counter Logic Gaming	40
5th/6th	Team Envy	20
5th/6th	Team Liquid	20
7th/10th		0
7th/10th		0
7th/10th		0
7th/10th		0

Bracket

Quarterfinals			Semifinals			Finals

			RS2	Immortals	2
RS3	Cloud9	3	QF1	Cloud9	3
RS6	Team Envy	1				2	Cloud9	1
						1	Team SoloMid	3
			RS1	Team SoloMid	3
RS4	Counter Logic Gaming	3	QF2	Counter Logic Gaming	0	Third place
RS5	Team Liquid	1				3	Immortals	3
						4	Counter Logic Gaming	2

Regional finals

Round 1

Round 2

Finals

CP3

Immortals

1

CP4

Cloud9

3

R2

Cloud9

3

CP5

Team Liquid

0

R1

Team Envy

0

CP6

Team Envy

3

References

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"NBA legend Rick Fox buys pro League of Legends team". Archived from the original on October 25, 2016. Retrieved August 17, 2017.
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"Phoenix1 replaces Team Impulse, picks up Gate, Mash, Slooshi, and more". ESPN.com. Retrieved August 17, 2017.
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[10] Spot acquired from Gravity Gaming[9]

[12] Spot acquired from Team 8[10]

[14] Spot acquired from Team Coast[11]

[Volk-1] Volk, Pete (April 25, 2017). "NA LCS MVP: Updated winners list". The Rift Herald. Retrieved January 18, 2020.

[2] Erzberger, Tyler (January 15, 2016). "NA LCS offseason report cards — CLG survives, NRG rises". ESPN.

[3] "Sacramento Kings co-owners buy LCS spot, recruit GBM, Impact". Archived from the original on June 30, 2016. Retrieved August 17, 2017.

[4] "Team 8 has sold its LCS spot". Archived from the original on May 29, 2016. Retrieved August 17, 2017.

[5] "NBA legend Rick Fox buys pro League of Legends team". Archived from the original on October 25, 2016. Retrieved August 17, 2017.

[6] LeJacq, Yannick. "League Of Legends Team Is Selling Its Spot In Next Year's Championship Series". Kotaku. Retrieved August 17, 2017.

[7] "Tempo Storm came close to buying Team Impulse's LCS spot". Archived from the original on October 29, 2016. Retrieved August 17, 2017.

[8] "Phoenix1 replaces Team Impulse, picks up Gate, Mash, Slooshi, and more". ESPN.com. Retrieved August 17, 2017.

[9] Gach, Ethan (June 6, 2016). "Rick Fox's Esport Teams Can't Stop Losing". Kotaku. Retrieved August 18, 2017.

[11] Hussain, Tamoor (October 7, 2015). "League of Legends Team-8 Acquired and Rebranded "Immortals," Expansion into Dota 2, Counter-Strike Planned". GameSpot. CBS Interactive. Retrieved November 20, 2015.

[13] Rosen, Daniel (November 16, 2015). "NRG eSports acquire NA LCS spot; sign Impact, GBM, Moon and konkwon". theScore eSports. theScore Inc. Retrieved November 20, 2015.

[15] Wolf, Jacob (January 9, 2016). "Every North American LCS team, and how they should stack up this season". The Daily Dot. Archived from the original on January 27, 2016. Retrieved January 21, 2016.

[16] "NA LCS spring finals to be held in Vegas". ESPN.com. Retrieved August 17, 2017.

[17] Erzberger, Tyler (June 6, 2016). "The NA LCS summer finals head to Toronto". ESPN. Retrieved January 19, 2020.

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