r/leagueoflegends • u/AutoModerator • May 31 '26
Esports LCS 2026 Spring Playoffs / Playoffs / Round 1 - Day 4 / Live Discussion Spoiler
LCS 2026 Spring Playoffs
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Today's matches will be played on Patch 26.10.
Today's Matches
| # | Match | PST | EST | CET | KST |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | TLAW vs SR | 13:00 | 16:00 | 22:00 | 05:00 |
- All matches are Best of 5
Streams
Bracket
| Round 1 | Round 2 | Round 3 | Finals | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| C9 | 3 | |||||||||
| vs | - | |||||||||
| FLY | 2 | C9 | 0 | |||||||
| vs | - | |||||||||
| LYON | 3 | FLY | 0 | tbd | 0 | |||||
| vs | - | vs | - | |||||||
| TLAW | 2 | tbd | 0 | |||||||
| ---------- | - | - | ---------- | - | - | ---------- | - | - | ------- | - |
| FLY | 3 | tbd | 0 | |||||||
| vs | - | vs | - | |||||||
| SEN | 0 | FLY | 0 | tbd | 0 | |||||
| vs | - | |||||||||
| TLAW | 0 | tbd | 0 | |||||||
| vs | - | |||||||||
| SR | 0 |
Format
- Playoffs
- Double Elimination bracket
- Top 4 teams start in the Upper Bracket
- 5th and 6th seed start in the Lower Bracket
- All matches are best of five
- Top 2 teams qualify for the 2026 Mid-Season Invitational
- Champion qualifies for the Esports World Cup 2026
The official LCS ruleset can be found here.
VoDs
Live Discussions and Post-Match Threads:
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u/Adventurous-Quit-669 May 31 '26
Man our production and casters are so fucking good
Why do we suck at the game
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u/dark1252 May 31 '26
If you want to know where the LCS problems are - take a look at the players faces after that games. One team just got a paid trip away, one team got knocked out for the rest of the split and not a single one seemed to care.
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u/unH4te May 31 '26
I mean if your liquid do you even celebrate a win vs SR?? It's like a challenger 5 stack stomping diamonds
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u/awayfromcanuck May 31 '26
If a team has shit macro but decent/good micro/mechanical skill you at least have something to build on but half this SR roster doesnt even have mechanical skill. Zinie was overhyped, Ceos is trash tier, Bvoy is inconsistent af but even his peaks arent high enough.
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u/unH4te May 31 '26
Korea is gonna be so bad in a couple of years. Zinnie actually won challengers there lol can't even be an upgrade over palafox
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u/Antique-Grade-9064 May 31 '26
i don't imagine SR being the place to foster rookie talent tbh, who on this lineup has any ability to help him grow as a midlaner?
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u/xxbrazilmaster69xx rip old flairs May 31 '26
That seems like a cop-out. Zinnie was awful individually all by himself almost the entire year. He's been mechanically horrid. That's not on the organization.
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u/Due-Mountain-8716 May 31 '26
That was without akali in the fight. Had to try it, but Jesus. What a stomp
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u/unH4te May 31 '26
The state of LCS is so sad other than the top 4 teams they're just there cause playoffs is 6 teams
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u/Adventurous-Quit-669 May 31 '26
LEC first seed got swept by bottom team
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u/gigashadow89 May 31 '26
LEC first seed was Vitality and they are a dumpster fire F tier organization overall.
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u/Thswherizat May 31 '26
Haven't watched League in a few years, NA used to actually have pretty good supports... what is Ceos doing there?
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u/xxbrazilmaster69xx rip old flairs May 31 '26
Nobody knows. Contractz is the only good player on the team. They at least weren't so bad last year in summer, but that was an overperformance. Zinie hasn't fit in at all and none of the other three (barring Contractz) have looked worth signing in a few years.
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u/Due-Mountain-8716 May 31 '26
At least SR got some spicy picks to make it as interesting as they can.
TL is just so much better. Men vs kids.
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u/cmcdonald22 May 31 '26
Revan was saying he thinks its confidence issues, like, okay, lets assume that's true.
I think there's one way you make this roster work, and I don't think its actually possible and they definitely won't do it, but...
I think Contractz has to be Inspired Jr. And I don't mean in mechanics, or changing the way he personally plays the game, I mean he has to become the dictator. The only time plays work for SR is when Fudge remembers he can play at an LCS level, or when Contractz is there. Zinie Bvoy and Ceos on their own are like watching the 3 stooges of macro. So if the problem is confidence, then just don't let them think. Just have Contractz micro manage everyone and everything and all they need to do is have some hands. That's it.
Otherwise you have to blow up the entire thing from the coaches on down.
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u/Adventurous-Quit-669 May 31 '26
Ya gotta route for the weird comp on the team down 0-2 , every time
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u/Ok-Train-3945 May 31 '26
at least in LEC, games are fun to watch since teams throw. This is just depressing game
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u/B-raww May 31 '26
Poor contractz man
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u/Gerberpertern TL ★ APA May 31 '26
Yeah… I really like him and hope he can get on a better team.
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u/cmcdonald22 May 31 '26
problem is, unless Blabber starts to suck again to a worse extent than anyone has ever seen, none of the top 3 teams need him.
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u/NYNMx2021 May 31 '26
I wonder how much longer the LCS can last like this. I mean reddit was their biggest social media forum according to them a few years ago and weve got under 50 comments mid game 2. That said, the games right now make no sense. These teams are so horribly mismatched, TL can fuck up all game but they get bailed out because the skill gap is too large. Realistically only 3-4 teams are interesting and that feels like a big problem. how did this league used to have 10 teams? i cant even imagine what 2 extra teams would look like rn
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u/british_pubs Swimin' with the fishies May 31 '26
I don't wanna doomer but I think the reason I'm struggling to get invested in the LCS this split, when I actually really enjoy versus, is because I feel like I'm just watching the same split again (obviously things have changed, but in the broad strokes)
C9 still look good all regular & playoffs, but yet to be seen if they can get it over the line in a finals TL are still scrim gods not showing it on stage FLY are still young & exiting, but the gap between them & the top teams is still there Ect ect. I just feel like no storyline has progressed much. Possible it's something else because it's much the same in LEC but I'm still having a blast with it idk, but that's my feeling
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u/cmcdonald22 May 31 '26
I legit thought the thread broke for a while when no one posted ANYTHING for 14 minutes.
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u/veirceb May 31 '26
The skill gap is large and the top teams can't improve because of that and the region just gets weaker and weaker.
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u/veirceb May 31 '26
Rahel yesterday and Bvoy today. Are LCS adcs just horrible?
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u/cmcdonald22 May 31 '26
Yes.
Don't let the Morgan/Thanatos propagandists fool you, the gap between the top ADCs and bottom ADCS is so much bigger than Top laners.
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u/Xeven18 May 31 '26
People say they don't like clearly biased casters - I'm starting to feel it with APA
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u/Left_Fist May 31 '26
At least he uses the properly terminology when it comes to humping the turret.
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u/british_pubs Swimin' with the fishies May 31 '26
I am most certainly watching an LCS series of all time
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u/Fellers May 31 '26
LOL is that APA on commentary?
His voice rises towards the end of the sentence. It's becoming super noticeable.
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u/baudelioelite14 May 31 '26
Inspired really changed my view of how to play nocturne, no one plays around his ult like him and watching Jose being afk farming makes it show how good Inspired understands the champion and the game
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u/cmcdonald22 May 31 '26
For what its worth, TL have 3 globals and arent using or playing around any of them in particular. It's like they drafted 3 characters without ults.
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u/Arreaneridan May 31 '26
Oh look, TL finished reading the ability descriptions!
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u/cmcdonald22 May 31 '26
Did we see a Shen Ult? Cause I might have missed it if we did.
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u/Arreaneridan May 31 '26
They used it a few times. Mostly for noc submarine attack.
Too bad they still need to realize, that nocturne ult is a two part ult and does not need to be double pressed. Not to mention that ryze ult can be used to attack sidelanes, but I guess they forgot all that from all those previous seasons.
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u/PENZ_12 May 31 '26
I don't know what I'm missing...why on earth did Jose not immediately pop the Noc ult when they saw Contractz top if they were gonna opt into the 2v2 anyways? I feel like the extra second of Shen in isolation really sealed the deal there.
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u/cmcdonald22 May 31 '26
I know that like Ceos is absolutely terrible and that a bad support makes being a good ADC incredibly hard, but I dunno that we should let the 'Bvoy is good!' narrative continue.
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u/GiladSo | KT | May 31 '26
Triple global + Cait carry is a cool draft from TL. I don't really see the Khazix into that but hopefully Contractz will surprise me
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u/cmcdonald22 May 31 '26
I mean, Shen probably shuts it down, but in theory they just have almost no offense ult options for team fights, so IN THEORY SR should be able to out team fight them but ya know... name plates and hands matter.
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u/Gerberpertern TL ★ APA May 31 '26
I am here for the fact that APA is here for the TL funeral. I respect that lol.
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u/cmcdonald22 May 31 '26
I'm not gonna say SR can't win a game this series of even the series, but I am gonna say after that game that if they do it's going to be contractz dragging 4 corpses for sure.
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u/Due-Mountain-8716 May 31 '26
Not a great sign for entertainment if TL can just pick champs that outscale and still win early without fighting.
Hope they decide to draft an early game team next game despite having literally no need to do so.
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u/GiladSo | KT | May 31 '26
I think the new Imperial Mandate makes a lot of sense on Galio but Shurelia is maybe too much when you can built one item and only take damage from Yeon for the rest of the game (Hollow Radiance)
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u/Aeternumvalell May 31 '26
Whats is new about imperial mandaten?
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u/GiladSo | KT | May 31 '26
They changed the buildpath and stats a bit but mostly the old passive was removed, and it got instead:
- New Unique Passive - Control: Immobilizing abilities gain 15 ability haste.
- New Unique Passive - Command: Immobilizing an enemy champion marks them as Vulnerable for 4 seconds, increasing the damage they from all sources by 6%. Subsequent immobilizes against a target extend the duration of the effect.
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u/Delvez May 31 '26
Yeah I see the vision and I could see imperial mandate being something Galio builds but I also feel like you need to build it first to get the earlier power spike. Shurelya first does nothing for you here
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u/underscoreenfan May 31 '26
Zinie is just not taking this seriously I think, experimenting with runes and items + this gameplay?
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u/GiladSo | KT | May 31 '26
NA is the only region as far as I know that perma 5v5 randomly on jungle camps. Is every team's best player the jungler or are they all just psychopaths? (non derogatory)
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u/Due-Mountain-8716 May 31 '26
For most teams the answer to both is unironically yes
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u/GiladSo | KT | May 31 '26
Fair enough, it was so weird to see Ornn TP in like minute 12 for a random raptors contest, but if the junglers are the carries/shotcallers, I guess it makes sense. It is entertaining if nothing else lol
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u/Bubbly_Camera9583 May 31 '26
2 champions went invulnerable there. One champion will have it in a 1 min 30 seconds the other will have it by the time they finish gromp.
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u/unH4te May 31 '26
Someone in SR pulled off a bugi x peter zhang scam no way in hell this is your 1st choice
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u/ItzFeufo May 31 '26
When I saw who's casting besides Kangas and Kobe I knew it would be a series that will be on mute.
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u/ItzFeufo May 31 '26
Didn't pay attention tbh.
It's just my opinion / preference? When ppl get butthurt over it, I can't help it
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u/british_pubs Swimin' with the fishies May 31 '26
If I'm TL I'm watching my back, there's something in the air this week
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u/ahritina Jun 01 '26
PMTs
Game 1 / Game 2 / Game 3