NA LCS 2016 Summer Promotion

Overview

Spring Promotion

Spring Split

Spring Playoffs

Summer Promotion

Summer Split

Summer Playoffs

Regional Finals

2016 NA LCS Summer Promotion

League Information

Organizer	Riot Games
Event Type	Offline
Country	United States
Start Date	2016-04-06
End Date	2016-04-08

Overview

The 2016 season changed the LCS promotion format, removing autorelegation and making the number of teams that participate from the LCS and Challenger sides uneven. Five teams participate, two from Challenger and three from LCS, and three teams requalify for or are promoted to the LCS, while the other two teams stay in or are relegated to the Challenger Series for the next split.

While originally scheduled to occur between March 24th and March 27th, on March 21st a rescheduling was announced for the NA Promotion tournament only due to changing visa / work eligibility requirements, in order to allow the teams time to prepare necessary documents for their players.

Format

• Five teams attend
  • Bottom 3 teams from LCS Spring Season
  • Top 2 teams from NACS Spring Playoffs
• Round 1 - loser is eliminated, winner proceeds
  • 10th place LCS vs 2nd place CS (Match A)
• Round 2 - winners qualify for LCS Summer Season
  • Winner of Match A vs LCS 8th (Match B)
  • LCS 9th vs CS 1st (Match C)
  • Loser of matches B and C
• All matches Best of 5
• Teams that don't qualify for the LCS are seeded into the NACS Summer Season
• Official 2016 Season LCS Rulebook

Qualifying Teams

Place	Team
Q	Renegades
	Team Impulse
	Apex Gaming

Participants

Rosters

From LCS

Renegades  Seraph  Crumbz  Ninja  Freeze  Hakuho Team Dignitas  BillyBoss  Kirei  Shiphtur  Apollo  KiWiKiD Team Impulse  Feng  Procxin  Pirean  Mash  Gate

From Challenger

Team Dragon Knights  Flaresz  RF Legendary  Kez  Alex Ich  Ohq  Trance  Bischu Apex Gaming  Cris  Eve  Shrimp  Keane  Police  Xpecial

Results

	Elimination Round				Qualifying Round
	d	0			REN	3
	TDK	3			TDK	0
					TiP	3
					Apex	1
					TDK	0
					Apex	3

Series MVPs

Series	Player	Champs Played
d vs. TDK	Ohq	Caitlyn  Ezreal
REN vs. TDK	Seraph	Jayce  Ryze  Ekko
TiP vs. Apex	Procxin	Graves  Kindred
TDK vs. Apex	Keane	Graves  Twisted Fate

Schedule & VODs

Playoffs Schedule
Round	Match	Date	PDT	EDT	CEST	KST	Countdown	VoDs/Stream	Highlights	Discussion
Elim	d vs. TDK	2016-04-06	17:00	20:00	02:00	09:00		12345	--	Reddit
Qual	REN vs. TDK	2016-04-07	12:00	15:00	21:00	04:00		12345	--	Reddit
Qual	TiP vs. Apex	2016-04-07	17:00	20:00	02:00	09:00		12345	--	Reddit
Qual	TDK vs. Apex	2016-04-08	12:00	15:00	21:00	04:00		12345	--	Reddit

Additional Content

Interviews

• April 4th, Interview with KiWiKiD: "I remember coming into this being the newest person" with Dignitas
• April 4th, Interview with BillyBoss: "We've had a lot of very close games versus very good teams" with Dignitas
• April 6th, TiP’s Gate: “My expectation is that none of the LCS teams get relegated.” with Joe "Pistallion" Cannavino on Slingshot Esports
• April 7th, Xpecial: It’s ‘inevitable’ I’ll be called the best support in NA again with The DailyDot
• April 7th, Alex Ich on TDK vs DIG and why dynamic queue is damaging pro play with Yahoo!
• April 8th, Freeze on REN after TDK match, also says TSM can beat IMT on Sunday with Yahoo!
• April 9th, Gate on keeping TIP in the LCS and his plans to train in Korea with Yahoo!
• April 11th, Xpecial on Apex's entrance into LCS: 'It feels good to be back' with Yahoo!
• April 12th, DIG Kiwikid: 'It was the end of a good thing and I can move on' with Yahoo!

Articles

• April 5th, Dignitas hopes to regroup for promotion tournament with Joe "Pistallion" Cannavino on Slingshot Esports
• April 5th, TDK and Apex take their shot at the LCS by Emily Rand on theScore
• April 6th, Lineup changes spark Renegades by Joe "Pistallion" Cannavino on Slingshot Esports
• April 7th, Players to Track in the TDK vs Renegades Matchup by James "Obscurica" Chen on PVPLive
• April 8th, Returnof the Anti-Carry: Re-evaluating Keane in the LCS by Ryan Tang on Gamurs

Announcements

• January 13th, 2016 LCS Spring Split Rules Changes
• March 14th, The NA LCS Promotion Tournament is coming soon!
• March 21st, Upcoming Changes to NA Spring Promotion Tournament
• April 4th, The NA LCS Promotion Tournament is coming soon!