100 Thieves Top Laner Kim "Ssumday" Chan-ho spoke to Inven Global's Nick Geracie to talk about securing 3rd place, his team's improvements throughout the split, and being set up to play against Cloud9 in the first round of the Spring Playoffs.
The bracket has been set! Cloud9 takes 1st, and chooses 100 Thieves as their opponent, and Evil Geniuses takes 2nd and will battle FlyQuest. TSM and Golden Guardians await in the Loser's Bracket, ready to face the ones who falter. Read more on the LCS playoffs here:
GG triumphed over Dignitas in its 19th and final match of the season in a tie-breaker to secure sixth place at 9-11, and with it, the 6th seed in the post-season.
Immortals fell to Dignitas to start out the final day of the 2020 League of Legends Championship Series Spring Split and was subsequently eliminated from post-season contention. Dignitas will move on to face Golden Guardians to decide who will secure the 6th and final seed in the 2020 LCS Spring Playoffs.
Today's cartoon is about the LCK matches being held via online for the first time in history. In such chaotic times, even the fact that the LCK will be resuming was great news. Did it really matter wh
Riot Games announced VALORANT will begin a closed beta April 7th in collaboration with Twitch. Next Tuesday, players will be able to gain access to the beta by watching select Twitch streams, following similar steps as their original closed beta for Legends of Runeterra, Riot's competitive card game. Read more on the beta and how to gain access here:
Last week, the Legends of Runeterra developers opened up about their philosophy for the game's progression system. The overall sentiment was clear: players need more agency when it comes to acquiring cards. This week's patch 0.9.3 aims to accomplish that by shifting Expedition rewards to weekly Vault rewards. Additionally, Riot Games is making text changes to a bunch of cards to illustrate their effects better.
100 Thieves closed out the day by defeating Counter Logic Gaming, which put the team in a three-way tie for 2nd place with Evil Geniuses and FlyQuest at a 10-8 record. Simultaneously, a three-way 8-10 tie for 6th place and the final seed in the 2020 LCS Spring Playoffs exists between Immortals, Dignitas, and Golden Guardians. Four tie-breaker matches will be played on Monday, March 30th to decide post-season seeding.
To start off our digital conference series, we invited Ryan "Gootecks" Gutierrez, Trisha Hershberger, Freya Fox and Scott Adametz, Esports Tech Lead at Riot Games to join Inven Global's Director of Corporate Strategy, Nick D'Orazio in a frank discussion about how the esports industry can survive and even thrive in the new normal that is COVID-19.
Cloud9 Support Philippe "Vulcan" Laflamme spoke to Inven Global's Nick Geracie about how C9 is adjusting to competing during the outbreak of COVID-19, LCS Player of the Week, and who he has his eye on in the post-season after denying Team Liquid a spot in the 2020 LCS Spring Playoffs.
TL's fate was in its own hands in its final matches of the 2020 LCS Spring Split against Cloud9, but was unsuccessful in securing the eighth win that would have kept the team's hopes for Spring Playoffs alive.
On the 29th (KST), KT Rolster took on Afreeca Freecs in Round 2 of the 2020 LCK Spring. After suffering a five match losing streak in Round 1, KT made a huge comeback and was tied for 4th alongside Af
In Day 28 of the Round 2 of 2020 LCK Spring Split, T1, APK Prince, and KT Rolster each took match victory against Hanwha Life Esports, SANDBOX Gaming, and Afreeca Freecs respectively. In the first mat
On the 29th (KST), APK Prince took on SANDBOX Gaming in Round 2 of the 2020 LCK Spring. In Game 2, APK was up 1-0, but because of an early deficit, it looked as if the series was going to a Game 3. Ho
On the 29th (KST), T1 faced Hanwha Life Esports in Round 2 of the 2020 LCK Spring. With a set score of 2-1, T1 managed to defeat HLE in a very heated match between the two teams. Although Choi “
On the 30th (KST), T1 took on Hanwha Life Esports in Round 2 of the 2020 LCK Spring. With a set score of 2-1, T1 was able to defeat HLE. Both Ellim and Cuzz saw gameplay in today's match, where Cuzz w
FlyQuest's win against Team Liquid gave the reigning LCS champion its 10th loss of the season, and because the worst TSM, EG, and 100 can do is 9-9, they've secured spots in the Spring Playoffs regardless of the result of their respective final matches.
FlyQuest's win over TL punched the team's post-season ticket, making it the second squad to qualify for the 2020 LCS Spring Playoffs after Cloud9.
A scandal surrounded the Overwatch League yesterday prior to the league restarting matches. One of the players from the Boston Uprising, Walid "Mouffin" Bassal, had sexual allegations towards minors.
The 2020 League of Legends Championship Series Academy League Spring Split has concluded, and the post-season has officially begun. Let's take a look at how the seeding for 2020 LCS Academy League Spring Playoffs ended up panning out, and what matchups will start things off on Thursday, April 2nd.
