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The NA LCS Promotion Tournament is coming soon!

Riot·3/14/2016, 5:39:59 PM·0 votes·77,295 views

The scrappiest battle in competitive League is about to take place in the NA Promotion tournament!

With the 2016 NA Challenger Series and NA LCS Spring Splits coming to a close, it's time for the spotlight to shift to next season's rising stars. The best teams in Challenger have one final boss to face before securing a spot in the LCS, while existing LCS teams need to prove they belong with the best. Five teams in total will be thrown into the ring -- the three lowest ranked NA LCS teams and the two highest ranked teams from NA Challenger -- but only three can earn a coveted position in the 2016 NA LCS Summer Split!

Schedule

The NA Promotion tournament consists of four separate Best of 5 matches. Here's the schedule:

ROUND DATE GAME TIME (Pacific) MATCHUPS WINNER
Day 1 April 6 5 PM Match A (Team Dignitas vs. Team Dragon Knights) TDK
Day 2 April 7 12 PM Match B (Renegades vs. Team Dragon Knights) REN
Day 2 April 7 5 PM Match C (Team Impulse vs. Apex) TIP
Day 3 April 8 12 PM Match D (Team Dragon Knights vs. Apex) TBD

The winners of Match B, Match C, and Match D will qualify for the 2016 NA LCS Summer Split!

What it looks like

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You can tune into the Promotion action live on Lolesports and come back to this article for updates as the tournament progresses!

Congratulations to Renegades and Team Impulse for qualifying for the 2016 NA LCS Summer Split!

The EU LCS Promotion Tournament will take place on March 24, 26, and 27. For more information on the EU LCS Promotion tournament click here.

This article was updated on March 21 to reflect the changes outlined in the NA Spring Promotion Tournament announcement. 

34 Comments

ArcaneEmperor3/30/2016, 9:44:18 AM5 votes

So is there any chance this tournament will be supported on this site unlike the EU counterpart? would really like to see a vods page for EU promotional tournaments and NA promotional tournaments. Riot could even lump every region's English broad casted promotion/relegation/etc tournaments under this new tab if the reason for not having done it would simply be the added clutter from too many new pages added to the selection drop down menu.

QuartzGolem3/24/2016, 2:26:36 AM2 votes

Rip Dignitas, was a good run, but prepare for relegation...

Doge the alt3/24/2016, 9:54:58 PM2 votes

Hoping for REN,APX and TDK.

TrollFan013/14/2016, 10:47:43 PM2 votes

Wouldn't it be something if REN ends up facing TDK?

Count Buffon3/22/2016, 1:44:35 AM1 votes

Typo: The summary of the bracket structure uses Match 1, 2, 3, 4 interchangeably with Match A, B, C, D. The correspondence is predictable and easy to guess, but it's best to pick one and stick with it just to be 100% clear. The overall trend in the article is to label them as letters otherwise.

tyson73/22/2016, 7:09:37 AM1 votes

There is a typo in the matches chart, match b. Day 2 April 7 12 PM Match B (Renegasdes vs. Match 1 winner) TBD Renegasdes should be Renegades.

Nog Nog Nog3/23/2016, 8:23:06 PM1 votes

I disagree with the bracketing. Bracket B is clearly the best place to be and it's been awarded to a team that WAS in the LCS and now has to fight for its life. The #1 CS team has done everything to earn the best spot. Meanwhile the #8 LCS team didn't earn anything. If they had performed better their reward would be to not even be here. This tournament is a punishment for insufficient performance, no LCS team facing relegation should get the best bracket spot, it hasn't been earned.

Miror B3/14/2016, 8:01:50 PM1 votes

Was a bit confused as to how this thing would work (thought for sure there was no "loser's match", leaving 9 teams for the next split instead of 10). With TDK and renegades swapping solo lanes, things could get incredibly interesting should they meet in the tournament. Not saying TDK would stand zero chance of winning, but, yeah.

Skatch4/6/2016, 1:22:33 AM1 votes

[slayer-pantheon-popcorn] [slayer-pantheon-rainbows] [slayer-pantheon-thumbs]

YeehawMan3/14/2016, 10:57:07 PM1 votes

Really think the CS 3rd place should be playing for a spot... item 3070 item 3070

TrollFan013/15/2016, 4:26:51 AM1 votes

What does everyone think of TDK and Apex's chances are against REN and maybe DIG in match A and C?

Toa of Death3/21/2016, 5:02:37 PM1 votes

since there's 3 LCS teams, wouldn't it have made more sense to have 3 challenger teams as well? 1st CS vs 8th LCS, 2nd cs vs 9th LCS, and 3rdCS vs 10th LCS?