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NA LCS 2016 Summer Promotion
| Overview | Spring Promotion | Spring Split | Spring Playoffs | Summer Promotion | Summer Split | Summer Playoffs | Regional Finals |
| 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.[1]
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
From Challenger
Results
| Elimination Round | Qualifying Round | |||||||
 DIG
|
0 |  REN
|
3
| |||||
 TDK
|
3 | TDK
|
0 | |||||
 TiP
|
3
|
|||||||
 Apex
|
1 | |||||||
| TDK
|
0 | |||||||
| Apex
|
3
| |||||||
Series MVPs
| Series | Player | Champs Played |
|---|---|---|
| dig 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 | DIG vs. TDK
|
2016-04-06 | 17:00 | 20:00 | 02:00 | 09:00 | 12345 | -- | |||
| Qual | REN vs. TDK
|
2016-04-07 | 12:00 | 15:00 | 21:00 | 04:00 | 12345 | -- | |||
| Qual | TiP vs. Apex
|
2016-04-07 | 17:00 | 20:00 | 02:00 | 09:00 | 12345 | -- | |||
| Qual | TDK vs. Apex
|
2016-04-08 | 12:00 | 15:00 | 21:00 | 04:00 | 12345 | -- | |||
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!
References
- ↑ Upcoming Changes to NA Spring Promotion Tournament lolesports.com
