2016 Spring Promotion Tournament

Riot·Sep 1, 2015·1 votes·58,035 views

Who will join Renegades and Team Dignitas EU as part of the LCS next season? Will we see any more shake-ups between the Challenger and LCS scene? It’s time for LCS and Challenger teams to collide at the 2016 Spring Promotion Tournament.

What’s the format? Who’s competing?

The Promotion Tournament will be Best of 5 matches on September 5-6. The 8th and 9th place LCS teams will compete against the 2nd and 3rd place Challenger teams from Spring Split. The 8th place LCS team selected their opponent from the two opposing Challenger teams.

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Europe:

SK Gaming (EU LCS 9th place) vs. Gamers2 (EU CS 3rd place)
Gambit Gaming (EU LCS 8th place) vs. Mousesports (CS 2nd place)

North America:

Enemy Esports (NA LCS 9th place) vs. Team Coast (NA CS 2nd place)
Team 8 (NA LCS 8th place) vs. Team Imagine (NA CS 3rd place)

What’s on the line?

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Two LCS spots are up for grabs in North America and Europe. The winners of the Promotion Tournament will play in the 2016 LCS Spring Split in their region. If your favorite team is defeated, you’ll still be able to cheer them on as part of the Challenger scene. The losing teams of the Promotion Tournament will auto-qualify for 2016 CS Spring Split.

When is it all happening? How do I WATCH?

The Promotion Tournament kicks-off with all the European matches at 5:00am PDT/2:00pm CEST on Saturday, September 5. The tournament action will continue on with the North American matches on Sunday, September 6 at 12:00pm PDT/9:00pm CEST. To catch up on all the action from the EU and NA LCS and Challenger Series, head on over to the spoiler-free VODs page.

94 Comments

l PRIDE lSep 1, 201520 votes

i feel bad for tdk cause they were doing so good when they only had like 4 games left, if they could've played like that the whole split maybe even a chance at playoffs

ø Lívín Lifé øSep 1, 20152 votes

true

PogaSep 1, 20153 votes

they were doing quite good, i must agree, thus i believe they can win over team like coast

FreiSep 1, 201515 votes

Except TDK have already been auto-relegated for Renegades

FrigeoSep 2, 20151 votes

I think he meant that they will win over Coast in the challenger series next year. Implying that Coast won't beat NME.

NikolasMTZSep 1, 20151 votes

Yeah Your Right

iIIaoi BotSep 2, 20152 votes

werent they missing their real teammates so they had to use backups?

Thracia 776Sep 2, 20152 votes

Yeah they were missing their mid lane and top or jungle i believe for most of the split.

NsquiSep 2, 20152 votes

They were missing their Mid (Ninja) and their ADC (Emperor), both of whom returned on the second day of the fifth week.

NoobenSep 2, 20152 votes

To be fair, Alex Ich subbed in for their mid laner for a large amount of games. It's rumored that he's a big part of how they won their games to make it in LCS. I did like watching TDK but oh man, their early games were hard to watch.

BaddieBeSep 4, 20151 votes

http://www.spacehightech.com/2015/09/patch-518-vem-ai.html

aznPHENOMSep 5, 20151 votes

I don't feel bad for them at all. It was their arrogance and stubbornness that got them into such a big hole. They refused to practice with the subs.

MadDreamzNov 16, 20151 votes

If they weren't in the auto-relegation spot they definitely could've made a comeback.

PoehoesSep 1, 201510 votes

I wanna see Gamers2 at lcs <3 (wanna see kikis back in lcs)

CupNoodleSep 1, 201510 votes

I am so sad because Riot ignores Dominion. You can no longer see your score in Dominion since the HUD update. More bots than ever. I want 10-20% of the people working on other modes modes to work on Dominion. That is all I am asking for. Are there even people working on this mode at all right now? They even stopped the Dominion exclusive balance changes. And let us gain mastery points in Dominion already! Just give it it´s own system if you don´t want us to gain normal points there. And even TT has a ranked mode. I don´t need Dominion SoloQ, but at least let us play Dominion team-ranked. Right now it feels like Riot values Dominion lower than ARAM. They did more changes and fixes to that mode than to Dominion recently. The texture update was nice and all, but there many more things that need to be done. Dominion still has the old camera perspective from before the new SR for example. I really like what you guys do on SR, but I would really like some love for Dominion.

Red Malai KoftaSep 1, 20159 votes

Lol who cares it's dominion...

8laganum8Sep 2, 20154 votes

More people care about dominion than people who care about you you piece of crap XD

Soft TortoiseSep 2, 201511 votes

That kind of talk is not needed there. Perhaps try emailing your concerns yourself rather then act like a child... If you post anything on the internet then there will always be people who say stuff back that you do not like. Be the bigger man/kid/whatever you call yourself.

iG SparkSep 2, 201510 votes

Lol, Fuck dominion.

LegitosaurusRexSep 2, 20153 votes

Lol... While I'm sure a few people might enjoy that, can you imagine the queue times for ranked teams dominion? How many people out there who like dominion would be able to find 4 other friends who also like dominion, and all 5 of them would have to want to play ranked, and get on at the same time.

3s has a much larger playerbase than dominion, and they only have to find 2 friends to join them for ranked, and you can still get some pretty ridiculous queue times around plat-diamond rank.

SergiHeladoSep 1, 20156 votes

Gamers2 beating SK gaming would be awesome, ocelote's team vs his old team, also jesiz as adc where he replaced ocelote in the midlane for sk ... and he reached worlds. I think im the only interested in this match lol

Cripple OracleSep 1, 20156 votes

I just want Kikis back!

Flash WardSep 1, 20155 votes

LMAO If you do not like LCS why are you blogging on the League of Legends site and spending time to comment on things you don't even care about!? two words... NOOOBS!! hehehe

As for the related article I'm voting for NME and IMAGINE. IMO (in my opinion) Coast was trash all LCS season and does not deserve to get back in. Mash was all talk and no walk. Sheep was decent support.... but try carrying your team as support in solo que... yeah, it's hard. (What SHE Said).

No matter what the outcome I sure am glad up to 3 teams can rotate in fresh blood each and every split!

LegitosaurusRexSep 2, 20156 votes

I think you missed the reply button...

Malevolent MetalSep 1, 20154 votes

Am I the only one who doesnt give a damn about the LCS ?

TurquoiseYoshiSep 1, 201515 votes

If you don't like it, then leave.

EleshakaiSep 2, 201516 votes

no you're not, the rest of them just aren't stupid enough to go to the esports section of the lol website and post about how they don't care... because they don't care so they just don't read articles about it at all.

I don't care about cars. You don't see me going to car appreciation websites and saying 'am I the only one who doesn't give a damn about cars'

pattyrockSep 2, 20153 votes

rofl...nailed it.

Drunk DaWgSep 2, 20154 votes

logged in just to upvote

l Sampai lSep 1, 20154 votes

Does anyone know what the first place cs team gets, because the article only mentioned that the second and third place teams get a chance to win a spot in the lcs.

UltraHoboLordSep 1, 20153 votes

They get an lcs spot kicking out the lowest ranked team in lcs the previous split

l Sampai lSep 1, 20154 votes

That's good to know. Thank's for the info.

TrollFan01Sep 1, 20153 votes

I'm hoping that Imagine and Coast make it in. For the first time ever a complete overhaul/clean sweep for Promotions.

ShadowFiend812Sep 1, 20152 votes

That's an interesting prospect I'm so tied between coast and enemy though I have players from both teams I like so idk who to choose. But for imagine and T8 I'll go imagine all the way! Steelback!!!!!

TrollFan01Sep 2, 20151 votes

Who do you like on NME?

ShadowFiend812Sep 5, 20151 votes

Trashy and otter

TrollFan01Sep 5, 20151 votes

{quoted}

Trashy and otter

Yeah they're cool. Trashy came here after things didn't work out with H2K and Otter has been a sub for so long getting to be a starter was nice.

TurquoiseYoshiSep 1, 20153 votes

Predictions: Gamers2 > SK (SK is ded. Their entire organization is in shambles, from what I've heard) Gambit > Mousesports (Gambit was one bad week away from the playoffs)

Coast > Enemy (Coast pubstomps CS, goes to LCS, gets pubstomped, rinse and repeat) Team8 > Imagine (Team 8 showed serious quality near the end of the summer split)

EleshakaiSep 2, 20151 votes

I think your EU predictions aren't far off the mark, but I think your NA ones are likely to prove wrong.

TurquoiseYoshiSep 2, 20152 votes

Eh, anyone with half a brain can figure out the EU ones. The NA ones are more likely to be odd, with how up-and-down the teams are.

KikitoSep 2, 20153 votes

Another 1-17 Dream????

IzonzSep 1, 20152 votes

I really wish xpeke didn't leave lcs

xDom1999Sep 1, 20155 votes

He didn't, he plays for Origen in the EU LCS.

PogaSep 1, 20152 votes

i heard he is willing to retire after this season

cheeze64Sep 1, 20157 votes

No he stated he isn't. link to interview

season is doomedSep 2, 20152 votes

Go team8!

DouyuJahjahningSep 1, 20151 votes

6666

antidotcbSep 1, 20159 votes

what does this mean?

mr rayfSep 4, 20151 votes

Azir would be very high used champ on EUW due to his old roaming skills but now, because they removed his E when he knocks up people he is less used in LCS because less roaming............

FurankiSep 4, 20151 votes

Hopefully Coast loses. They may have a new roster but it's still Coast. 1/17 in the Spring with 16 straight losses? We don't need a freebie-win team in the competition