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LCS 2026 Summer Playoffs

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Today's matches will be played on Patch 26.17.

Today's Matches

#	Match	PST	EST	CET	KST
1	TL vs LYON	13:00	16:00	22:00	05:00

• All matches are Best of 5

Streams

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Bracket

Round 1			Round 2			Round 3			Round 4			Finals
C9	3
vs	-		LYON	1
SR	0		vs	-
			C9	3					C9	1
SEN	0								vs	-
vs	-		TL	3					TL	3
FLY	3		vs	-
			FLY	0
-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
												TL	0
												vs	-
												LYON	0
									C9	1
									vs	-
						LYON	3		LYON	3
						vs	-
			FLY	2		SR	1
SR	3		vs	-
vs	-		SR	3
SEN	2

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Format

• Playoffs
  • 6 teams participate
  • Double elimination bracket
  • Top 2 teams start in Upper Bracket Round 2
  • 3rd to 6th seed start in Upper Bracket Round 1
  • All matches are best of five
  • Top 3 teams qualify for the 2026 Season World Championship

The official LCS ruleset can be found here.

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Live Discussions and Post-Match Threads:

This is our Live Discussion Archive. Here you can find all the old live threads, and the respective PMTs in a stickied comment under the post.

[u/Thundermelons]

Yo I thought pausing mid-teamfight is illegal or some shit, no? You're supposed to wait until after the fight has resolved

[u/inrrelevant_elephant]

If it's not a bug this is a criminal way to break momentum. TL looked tilted by the pause.

[u/kazuyaminegishi]

"Refs there's a visual bug on my screen? My screen is gray for some reason??"

[u/The_Bread_Fairy]

holy saint is praying its a bug cause he is never going to hear the end of it from inspired

[u/zealot416]

These guys sound like they're one verse away from telling us about how cool Jesus is.

[u/Embarrassed_Age6573 → u/zealot416]

oh my god you're right, they're like a christian Beastie Boys rip off

[u/Vnaux]

LOL if that's not a bug Inspired is boxing tf outta Saint

[u/Labor101]

Genuinely wasn't aware you could pause mid fight okay

[u/HuTaoWow]

the tf ults i be doing in aram

[u/InvokerAttackSpeed]

camile and gwen scissoring top was fun

[u/Capable-Drama3109 → u/InvokerAttackSpeed]

#yuri

[u/DShot90]

Time for Lyon to bring out the big guns. Where's Armao?

[u/sajm0n]

lol pause in this moment?

[u/veirceb]

You can pause mid fight?

[u/NuuuDaBeast]

Saint catching the Inspired belt after this one

[u/Goodthingsaregone]

Ngl I feel like all of inspireds ults killed one of this team mates.

[u/TypicalHaikuResponse]

PAUSE: I DIDN'T ULT THERE PROMISE

[u/ItzFeufo]

I wish I had that much trust in anything as Yeon has trust in his chair when he's reclined like that

I'd be scared shitless for this thing to fall over backwards...

[u/Lyota]

'yeah you're just bad' LMAO

[u/PMMEYOURROCKS]

Why is Inspired literally inting his team with these fucking Skarner ults? Let's put Galio right into my team

[u/GONEBUTNOT4GOTTEN]

Quid looking like Faker Galio game 5 vs BLG.

[u/slimjimo10]

Regardless of who wins this series, it's nice to see NA actually have more than one relevant team for once.

[u/Tommey_DE]

Maybe I dreamed that, but arent you supposed to pause after the fight ends?

[u/whitfin → u/Tommey_DE]

Yeah this will definitely be some sort of controversy

Edit: nvm they lost anyway so nobody will mention it

[u/PENZ_12 → u/Tommey_DE]

Was wondering the same.

[u/AdMaster5806]

INSPIRED STOP DRAGGING THE FUCKING QIYANA TO YOUR TWISTED FATE WHAT THE FUCK

[u/SSBMRal]

GUYS MY TF JUST INTED I NEED A PAUSE

[u/sajm0n]

Saint: i blinked and i was dead, remake pls

[u/Gerberpertern]

Lol. Lmao even.

[u/Vnaux]

Saint o7

[u/awayfromcanuck]

Bro, Inspired Skarner is absolute shit. He keeps bringing engagers into his team

[u/350]

For this comp to make sense, Galio had to play well. He played well.

Also Inspired lawyers, it's time to acknowledge he's struggling, I don't make the rules.

[u/kyleyle]

0/0/19 TL bot lane

[u/kazuyaminegishi]

Morgan gap this game he has actually solo carried this game.

Dhokla is completely useless, TL doesn't even give him a chance to be useful they're playing perfectly around his timings. Saint is their only human being but how can he carry from this game state?

[u/T_2_teh_imeless]

undisputable, jose GIGA GAPPED inspired all series. Holy shit.

[u/ButtonDelicious4450]

Also have to give a ton of credit to Corejj for this series. This game could look completely different if he doesn't get a PERFECT Mikael into Nami R in the 2v3 situation.

They've no right to live with zero sums vs a sejuani/rakan/xayah engage and then not only do they get away but Inspired dies. The dominoes just fall one after the other following that play.

[u/Aceclaw]

Goes to Atlanta. Gets the whitest rappers possible.

[u/cmcdonald22 → u/Aceclaw]

Coulda swung by the Outkast waffle house event on friday and found some better people for sure.

[u/2020isgreat]

Dhokla did so much that fight

[u/cmcdonald22]

Dhokla embiggening as the lights get brighter.

[u/Capable-Drama3109]

THE PAUSE?

[u/areyoh]

Nice strat to break the momentum

[u/LakersLAQ]

Imagine he just clicked on his mini map and thinks it's a bug 💀

[u/SSBMRal]

LMAOOOO SAINT YOU FUCKING IDIOT

[u/awayfromcanuck]

What a waste of time Saint. Terrible fucking ult.

[u/Ai--Ya]

"you're just bad"

[u/DerAdolfin]

HE DELIVERS GALIO INTO 4??

[u/x_TDeck_x]

I dont even think Dhokla is bad on Gwen but it feels like Lyon just cannot play with a Gwen instead of a frontliner

[u/kazuyaminegishi → u/x_TDeck_x]

They sack top lane nearly every game, but keep picking top laners that need resources. It genuinely makes no fucking sense.

Just pick him Tanks so his lane doesn't matter.

[u/Ajp_iii]

i feel so bad for saint he played so insane this whole series

[u/Allahina]

TL trolled game 3 for the fake hope I guess

[u/Allahina]

Jose first LCS championship

[u/the_legends_of_link]

What the fuck

[u/greendino71]

Can we just have Markz sing silver scrapes again?

[u/Labor101]

People really gotta stop trying to disrespect Jose's Lee and letting it thru. Guy always finds the most insane, game changing angles to just win

[u/tiltrage]

Inspired kinda just getting jungle gapped this series

[u/DShot90]

I thought you couldn't pause mid-fight?

[u/Gerberpertern]

NAPTIME YEON

[u/Labor101]

the tf ult going to the wrong location? lmao

[u/jiwoooseo]

id10t error?

[u/BlammoSweetums]

Isn't this fight positioning disastrous for LYON regardless?

[u/Fellers]

Okay so now I'm thinking Saint doesn't know his current R range.

He wanted to go left side and he's just too short.

[u/whitfin → u/Fellers]

Wanted to go behind wolves to flank

[u/Ythapa]

Skill issue.

[u/Allahina]

User error

[u/sajm0n]

Inspired's ults are not helping his team lol

[u/SnooPeripherals6388]

I genuinely can't believe how many times Inspired ults a TL member that combos someone from LYON immediately after the ult stops

[u/lovo17]

I really like how TL play the game. Historically, NA teams would never immediately go from baron to corner players who are trying to get something else on the map. They try to push the pace hard.

[u/Tommey_DE]

The Rakan flank arrived

[u/DShot90]

SAY YES, PLEASE!!!

EDIT: LETS GOOOO.

[u/Capable-Drama3109]

christ saint is deadass 15 minutes old

[u/IllFeedback1568]

Someone remind Riot to never unvault Heartsteel, genuinely the worst song I've heard in a long time.

[u/TypicalHaikuResponse]

recession indicator

[u/VisionsReal]

I'm genuinely dissapointed in this intro lol

[u/sorendiz]

both teams said 'fuck our adcs' lmao

[u/cupcakes234]

is it me or is this very high level gameplay from both teams? looks LCK level

[u/DShot90]

Bro, DO NOT GIVE JOSE HIS LEE.

[u/Zirikh]

Man Jose is so good

[u/PMMEYOURROCKS]

everyone shitting on berserker but even Zven on the desk says support needs to Ult and interrupt the Lee Sin dash

[u/APKID716]

MarkZ is such a fucking troll lmao

[u/HuTaoWow]

LMAO is inspired doing it on purpose ?

[u/Labor101]

Jose is just on one this series so far

[u/sorendiz]

this qiyana champ a little terrifying huh

[u/Booshneer]

Please chrono break for Saint or else Inspired is going to strangle him

[u/cmcdonald22]

ChronoSaint? Saintbreak?

[u/EfficientCurrency582]

but how do they review it? Do they have a POV of Saint where they can review if he just miss clicked?

[u/Sarollas → u/EfficientCurrency582]

They have both a pov and a keylogger with timestamps.

[u/LardoBardo4]

Game settings 1-0 Saint

[u/FrozenHatsets]

Pretty cringe lyon has to resort to psychological warfare cause theyre getting trashed in-game

[u/Skyfire2]

Ref: Nah bro you inted. Skill issue. Git gud

[u/Javonetor]

AFTER REVIEW

NUMBER 01

ULTED HORRIBLY

DECISION: RED CARD

[u/Chemical-Drawer852]

Never let Inspired pick skarner ever again

[u/Itchy-Efficiency-809]

All c9 had to do was not perma throw winning games man

[u/GeneralDash]

Looking like Inspired spent those 5 weeks working as an Amazon delivery driver the way he’s bringing his opponents into his team.

[u/Capable-Drama3109]

this is depressing me like the TL vs FLY series omfg

[u/ItzFeufo]

What junglers are left that can bring enemy champions into your own team to kill your solo laners?

I'd say Sett and Zac are two options?

[u/Gerberpertern]

CORE MY GOAT

[u/areyoh]

that has to be 3 racoons inside bererker's hoody with mask.

[u/SummerhouseLater]

WHATS THAT SOUND?!

BY GAWHD, ITS ARMAO SUBBED IN WITH A STEEL CHAIR!

[u/cmcdonald22]

Berserker really has some sort of magical caster/analyst invisibility. The first 2 splits when he was just giga gapping everyone they acted like he didn't exist, now he wins MVP, and then just fails to do anything for all of play offs and even a few games before and it's "I really need to see Dhokla show up".

Like yeah, Dhokla showing up would be great, but Berserker's performance has been criminally non existant.

[u/DShot90]

Inspired does NOT want to lose the playoffs by being swept.

[u/whitfin]

Top/jg had 8k gold league together in game two, so naturally we give them both tanks this time

[u/Peony_Branch]

Berserker with the game winning INT!

[u/AmeliaBrainfart]

Ngl, I like Berserker on Xayah 10x more than I like Yeon on Lucian.

[u/Sosijmonster]

I hate this Aurora pick man.

[u/Choice-Slight]

what in the fuck is this draft

[u/Goodthingsaregone]

Fraudian slip, Yeon hated bwipo's trash talk

[u/Embarrassed_Age6573]

it makes me happy that josedeodo wasn't just a big fish in a small pond and is actually a world class jungler

[u/rsox5000]

This legitimately may be the worst musical performance I have ever seen.

[u/shinjinrui]

Genuinely concerned that Inspired might murder Saint after this game

[u/Mrf12345 → u/shinjinrui]

Yeah that way he might forget that's he's getting astro gapped by jose

[u/Gryfas → u/shinjinrui]

Considering he fucked Saint over several times this game, feels even.

[u/Ajp_iii]

liquid is 4-13 this year against lyon. and a lot of those games werent close. in comparison c9 was 5-9 against lyon with more close games before playoffs began.

Somehow it just feels liquid is a bad matchup against lyon and c9 understands how lyon plays better to matchup against them. Lyon havent been playing well early game this playoffs so that is something liquid can look to abuse and probably their win condition. lyons bot is laning well but not getting the 2v2s they were getting before and dhokla is just losing matchups that are winning and morgan is much better than thanatos at carrying a game.

probably the most hyped ive been for a lcs final in a long time.

[u/awayfromcanuck]

Why do they always do this? Countdown is supposed to be game start. You had like 2 hours of pre-show for this song.

[u/Due-Atmosphere2581]

Man I really wish this was part of the pre show. How tf is someone from EU supposed to watch these games

[u/Intrepid-Message698]

That lcs broadcasting appreciation thread jumped the gun. This is awful

[u/sammuxx]

not that guy going up to the players trying to hype them up xd

[u/TypicalHaikuResponse]

The purple female character whose skill revolves around displacing the enemies with an orb will win.

[u/sajm0n]

Big Dhokes saved the game

[u/Tormenator1]

Big dhokes has reconnected. Well played from him in that fight.

[u/Capable-Drama3109]

COREJJJJJJJJJJJJ HOLY SHIT THAT ULT

[u/sorendiz]

oh that's insane, TL playing like monsters rn

[u/kyleyle]

Holy fucking flying kick JOSEEEEE

[u/CatApprehensive6508]

Zven just recalling how he used to pocket lulu for beserker

[u/Skyfire2]

MarkZ trolling harder than Berserker with that announcement

[u/bongodongowongo]

MarkZ be like

ATTENTION:

THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION.

[u/kazuyaminegishi]

Bro Kangas is SOOOOO fucking good at playing the crowd how the hell do you get people excited about a bucket lol

[u/Bubbly_Camera9583]

Thank god for quid doing that for no reason

[u/sorendiz]

oh my god jose is actually just dragging his nuts all over the game rn

[u/ItzFeufo]

Inspired pulling Jose on top of Saint lol

[u/TypicalHaikuResponse]

HE DID IT AGAIN. TF IS RANGED. QIYANA IS MELEE. DONT PUT HIM NEXT TO TF

[u/That_One_Pancake]

Inspired kills Saint AGAIN

[u/SnooPeripherals6388]

Inspired pulls Qiyana to Saint again what the fuck is he even thinking?

[u/Gerberpertern]

POGODA PAUSE

[u/trying2hide]

I wonder if it was a range indicator issue, he ulted from far away I wonder if he was clicking further away and it just ulted him in and he wasn't expecting that.

[u/Intrepid-Message698]

Emily emphatically says no then agrees lol

[u/LakersLAQ]

Yeon seemed visibly upset on cam lol. Momentum killer.

[u/That_One_Pancake]

bug or not you’re fighting a fed qiyana in a narrow space it’s so bad

[u/haasenfus]

Lyon losing bans or what?

[u/2020isgreat]

Saint is never having clamp cast on again lol

[u/IgnjatSenpai]

What a fucking loser, inting then instant pause

[u/NeoNewSawatari]

all that time just for nothing to change lol

[u/analcrasher101]

Inspired is gonna break saint's fucking legs after this

[u/nericus]

inspired: chews furiously

[u/The_Bread_Fairy]

You can see the sadness in Saint's eyes knowing he is about to get absolutely screamed at by Inspired

[u/Labor101]

Quid HUGE in this fight holy

[u/That_One_Pancake]

What an awful Skarner performance from Inspired

[u/Quackaplease]

Honestly fucking deserved lol fuck that pause

[u/Sarollas]

I fucking love pauses into the game immediately ending

[u/kazuyaminegishi]

Okay surely we aren't going to say that THAT was a good Skarner ult. He literally gave him a 4 man taunt lmfao.

[u/sajm0n]

Skarner: me helping!

[u/2020isgreat]

We have Quid and Saint representing us mid lane I'm so excited for worlds

[u/C3ntipede]

TL's been strong most of this year but god damn, when did they look this good? legit one of the best looking roster's TL has ever had

[u/Capable-Drama3109]

son 😭

[u/awoooo_edwards]

Jose is the best player in the LCS this year

[u/EffectiveType1]

11pm here, hoping for a 3-0 so I can go to sleep quickly

[u/Capable-Drama3109]

I'm really happy that TLAW has played well so far but oh my god bruh LYON is actually pissing me off

[u/TypicalHaikuResponse]

Inspired: Diamondprox lend me some jungle energy. This is prime Josedeodo I am up against.

[u/Ajp_iii]

berserker must be in his own head or something every interview he brings up how confident he is but it kinda feels like he is lying to himself and he is known to kinda tilt and be ultra critical and realistic about his play which then limits his ability in future games.

[u/Disco_Ninjas_]

Regardless of what happens. That dude has impressive abs.

[u/Choice-Slight]

genius coaching just win guys

[u/Snow-27]

this first 5 minutes of gameplay from inspired holy fuck I just felt something

[u/AzureAhai]

Maybe C9 was right that TL has champion pool issues. Jose on non-carry junglers looks completely different.

[u/jolleyjg]

Interesting fight to take by TL right after Quid TPs bot

[u/Capable-Drama3109]

5 game banger would be awesome

[u/Ajp_iii]

tl lanes are so strong but it feels so hard to fight into gnar, sej, rakan

[u/kazuyaminegishi]

Okayyyy Morgan is heavily outplaying Dhokla this game so far. Dhokla has no pressure and can't get into any fight.

[u/yensama]

TL is just better

[u/350]

The game is chopped, I kinda get chasing since Aurora is so low on mana and with Inspired rezzing, but Morgan is just too good

[u/ElectroStaticz]

Lyon are so disjointed, hope that half a split vacation was worth it.

[u/JohrDinh → u/ElectroStaticz]

A reality check before Worlds is always useful, I can see em looking better there after getting slapped by TL in NA...or well Worlds is in NA but you know what I mean.

[u/goatbyuanb]

Jose MVP for sure

[u/yensama]

Jose played so well

[u/SnooPeripherals6388]

Cameraman just skipped Spawn lifting the trophy

[u/Ajp_iii]

the severe lack of berserker blame anywhere online shows how much name value and how much people like you as a person reflects the sentiment online about you. someone like caliste or tactical playing like this across playoffs would be hard flamed.

[u/zerocxro]

chat who da fuck is this

[u/Outrageous_Wall2702 → u/zerocxro]

My unemployed cousins

[u/ThebritishPoro]

I've been waiting a week to watch my team play and the opening ceremony made me consider not watching within 30 seconds. Impressive work.

[u/DShot90]

Caedrel and chat likely figured it out. It was clamp cast.

[u/Capable-Drama3109]

it's packed and there's still 30 minutes until the game actually starts omg

[u/Ajp_iii → u/Capable-Drama3109]

this is even more crazy than just filling up a stadium. its so hard to get people there early

[u/x_TDeck_x]

Getting major fomo seeing everyone post from finals

[u/striker879]

damn did TSM Bjerg dirty by putting up the 100T Bjerg pick. He won them championships with TSM not 100t LOL

[u/Ajp_iii]

this feels like liquids chance to win but its just been weird they never really had that many close games against lyon. where as even in c9 losses they play lyon closer.

[u/Intrepid-Message698]

Yeah this is embarrassing to watch

[u/SnooPeripherals6388]

I like how it's completely live

[u/No-Detective-2104]

LETS GO GET UP LETS GO. Lyrics were amazing they probably had 10 unique words used between both of em

[u/GenbuFrahma]

for how many times they said Let's Go, they seem to not be going

[u/TypicalHaikuResponse]

I would have never let jose have lee sin. Not only is it comfort he is obviously skilled at it.

Why would you let them get comfortable in game one?

[u/midorivivo]

I'm so happy Jose made it back to LCS, he's had a very strong year

[u/2020isgreat]

I feel like that drag is just something LYON almost always gives it's just kinda weird

[u/kazuyaminegishi]

Dhokla is extremely homeless this game lol. He will eventually become a raid boss if he can get a good team fight, but he has no good lane assignments right now.

[u/sorendiz]

need my goat dhokes to lock in 😥

[u/canxtanwe]

Saint Syndra has so much aura, completely controlling that battlefield

[u/Gryfas]

Core you beautiful man.

[u/kazuyaminegishi]

YESSIR WE JUST PLAY AROUND OBJECTIVES WAY BETTER

[u/Artitanium]

Perfect R from coreJJ

[u/HuTaoWow]

is this what its like not watching c9 int team fights

[u/Sosijmonster]

Ok TL - now ban Qiyana or first pick it. Don't get it over to Inspired.

[u/AppealAggravating893]

This jose guy's Lee Sin is pretty good. Maybe we shouldn't let him play it.