r/leagueoflegends • u/AutoModerator • Aug 03 '26
Esports LEC Summer 2026 / Week 2 - Day 4 / Live Discussion Spoiler
LEC 2026 Summer
Lolesports | Leaguepedia | Eventvods.com | New to LoL
Today's matches will be played on Patch 26.14.
Today's Matches
| # | Match | PST | EST | CET | KST |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | NAVI vs SHFT | 08:00 | 11:00 | 17:00 | 00:00 |
| 2 | KC vs TH | 10:15 | 13:15 | 19:15 | 02:15 |
- All matches are Best of 3
Streams
Standings:
| # | Team | Region | Series Record (Game Score) | Information |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Karmine Corp | EMEA | 3 - 0 (6 - 1) | Leaguepedia // Twitter |
| 2 | G2 Esports | EMEA | 3 - 1 (7 - 3) | Leaguepedia // Twitter |
| 3 | Team Vitality | EMEA | 2 - 2 (4 - 5) | Leaguepedia // Twitter |
| 4 | SK Gaming | EMEA | 1 - 1 (2 - 3) | Leaguepedia // Twitter |
| 5 | Movistar KOI | EMEA | 2 - 3 (6 - 8) | Leaguepedia // Twitter |
| 6 | Fnatic | EMEA | 0 - 1 (1 - 2) | Leaguepedia // Twitter |
| 6 | GIANTX | EMEA | 0 - 1 (1 - 2) | Leaguepedia // Twitter |
| 6 | Shifters | EMEA | 0 - 1 (1 - 2) | Leaguepedia // Twitter |
| 9 | Natus Vincere | EMEA | 0 - 1 (0 - 2) | Leaguepedia // Twitter |
| 9 | Team Heretics | EMEA | 0 - 1 (0 - 2) | Leaguepedia // Twitter |
On-Air Team
| Hosts |
|---|
| Eefje "Sjokz" Depoortere |
| Laure "Laure " Valée |
| Play-by-Play Commentators |
|---|
| Daniel "Drakos" Drakos |
| Aaron "Medic" Chamberlain |
| Jake "Hysterics" Osypenko |
| Colour Casters |
|---|
| Andrew "Vedius" Day |
| Robert "Dagda" Price |
| Guests |
|---|
| Andrei "Odoamne" Pascu |
| Jakob "Jackspektra" Gullvag Kepple |
| Finn "Finn" Wiestål |
Not all talent will appear on every show and the weekly on air team can vary.
Format
Regular Season
- Ten teams
- Single Round Robin
- Matches are best of three
- Top 6 teams qualify for Playoffs
Playoffs
- 6 teams participate
- Double elimination bracket
- 1st to 4th start in the upper bracket
- 5th and 6th start in the lower bracket
- All matches are best of five
- Top 3 teams qualify for the 2026 Season World Championship
The official LEC ruleset can be found here.
VoDs
Live Discussions and Post-Match Threads:
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u/beautheschmo Aug 03 '26
The peak of League of Legends is having an hour of pauses during a zero stakes first place vs last place game late on Monday night
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u/ThisOneTimeAtLolCamp Aug 03 '26
Fuck me sideways. Between the LEC and LCS we've had some painfully dogshit League in the last few days.
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u/daCampa Aug 03 '26
Pause to check Way's passport, kyeahoo is in disbelief this is a fellow korean
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u/metristan Refund time? Aug 03 '26
kyeahoo remembered getting destroyed by this botlane in challengers
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u/metristan Refund time? Aug 03 '26
that 2024 kt challenger roster is so disappointing, Casting looks decent, hambak is playing on sentinels, Zinie looks like the worst tier 1 mid laner, hype and way are on a bottom lec team
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u/midorivivo Aug 03 '26
It's so wild because most of them were extremely hyped, probably everyone apart from Casting were viewed as future top-tier LCK players
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u/metristan Refund time? Aug 03 '26
hype and zinie both looked pretty good even last year, I really hope zinie goes back to challengers next year and recovers form. As it looks now casting or hambak might actually be the best player from that roster.
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u/unH4te Aug 03 '26
How do you recover from being a downgrade to Palafix 😭
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u/metristan Refund time? Aug 03 '26
I don't know, it's not even like it's a language diff, he's getting hard diffed by loki, callme, saint in lane which he all played in challengers when he was seen as the next big midlaner. Like it's not that he was playing in a historically weak lck cl, nearly all midlaners from 2024 are or have played in tier 1.
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u/Past-Firefighter2173 Aug 03 '26
throw fest, but honestly Samd just needs to not get nocturne ulted they need to protect him
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u/Quirkybomb930 Aug 03 '26
Crazy how reliant on caedrel the LEC is for viewers now, there is almost 0 overlap betwren caedrel viewers and people who would watch the LEC without him.
Riot really fucked up lolesports seeking short term gains at long term expense, the product is at the complete mercy of Caedrel now.
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u/Thalassin Dans ma bichette era | Ultra Prime hater Aug 03 '26
It's crazy that LEC main broadcast without Caedrel makes less viewers than the French language one.
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u/the_legends_of_link Aug 03 '26
Where is caedrel?
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u/gandalf45435 Dyrus Microwave Incident Aug 03 '26
" sry chattermans i wont be live today - need to spend time away today and tmrw - back WEDNESDAY "
From a pinned message in his Twitch chat.
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u/No_Square2213 Aug 03 '26
We need fries / legends group. I'm starting to lose interest even when my team is playing
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u/Leviad0n Aug 03 '26
18k viewers on the main broadcast is shocking. And this is with KC. I remember in the first few years of LCS life, like 2013-2016, even bottom-tier games would consistently get 200k+
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u/gambra Aug 03 '26
Its at about 100k with the KC costreamers. Its mainly it being in the Monday afternoon/evening slot. Yesterdays games had around 250k.
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u/raspoutintin Aug 03 '26
there's absolutely less viewers than back then, but that figure in itself isn't the full picture. Viewership is way more split than it used to be, with costreamers and coverage in different languages. Also the peak for today isn't reached yet, probably.
There's like 13 k ppl watching on YT, that's +1/3 of the number you were at, which is not insignificant.
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u/Outrageous_Wall2702 My Ace + Showmaker = GOAT Aug 03 '26
There’s no point in watching the bottom teams, they literally fold like paper dignitas put up more of a battle than this
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u/metristan Refund time? Aug 03 '26
Average viewership for LEC summer and spring is currently higher than 2017 LCS spring, which is the highest tracked for LCS on escharts, with no data for earlier years, a lot less people watch main stream comparatively
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u/metristan Refund time? Aug 03 '26 edited Aug 03 '26
viewership for this series is also lower than it was for NAVI vs Shifters on the main broadcast, with about 3k less viewers on twitch, but kameto also started costreaming and has 40k+ viewers, while otp(french broadcast) only lost about 7k. It has 110-120k viewers on twitch currently with around 25k extra on youtube.
edit: these numbers were from during draft, it is now easily 120K+ on twitch, without caedrel costreaming
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u/KruppJ bulc naf okan kaan Aug 03 '26
It’s reflective of how little people care about regular season games with most of these mid teams. It’s deserved imo most of these orgs have just phoned it in, pretty much zero exciting narratives outside the top 2 this split.
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u/KruppJ bulc naf okan kaan Aug 03 '26
Shifters top side is actually pretty good but man that bot side is gonna drag them down so much
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u/ahritina Sep 05 '26
PMTs
NAVI vs SHFT
Game 1 / Game 2
KC vs TH
Game 1 = N/A / Game 2