Just a question (I'm new to this whole LCS thing)
So after the regular spring split season, 7th place team to 10th place team either stay in the league or play relegations.
So do the standings after the regular season for the 6th to 1st place team matter? Or are the standings after playoffs the only thing that counts for 6th-1st?
Thanks!
For 1-6th only the playoff results matter (they decide how many points each team gets for worlds / guantlet seeeding).
The winner of the summer split goes to worlds as does the team with the most points from the spring and summer split combined.
Then the 3rd worlds spot is determined by a guantlet tournament (6th seed plays 5th, winner plays 4th, winner of that plays 3rd, winner of that goes to worlds). So the points from the spring split do matter a lot in terms of your chances of going to worlds.
Last years guantlet tournament was amazing.
I think the 8th Top team get to stay in the LCS for the summer split and the bottom 2 are put in Regulation or something where they have to compete to get their spot back into the LCS by playing against Challenger Teams that is also fighting for the spot into LCS like Origen in the EU region in 2015 where they play for their spot into the Summer LCS.
