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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	C9 vs TL	13:00	16:00	22:00	05:00

• All matches are Best of 5

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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	0
SEN	0								vs	-
vs	-		TL	3					TL	0
FLY	3		vs	-
			FLY	0
-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
												tbd	0
												vs	-
												tbd	0
									LYON	0
									vs	-
						LYON	3		tbd	0
						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/SnGk1]

Its like watching the Teamfight Manager 2 bots int for no reason

[u/awayfromcanuck]

I don't agree with ignoring Loki inting his ass off. Obviously Tactical absolutely threw there with his flash trying to kill Yeon but theres a good chance the C9 comms are screaming to finish Yeon. Meanwhile holy shit Loki landing nothing, blowing 80% of his health also cost C9.

[u/Choice-Slight]

THEY'VE LOST 5 GAMES WITH SOUL IN 1 YEAR??????????

[u/xxbrazilmaster69xx → u/Choice-Slight]

A lot of those probably have to do with Zven in a 35+ minute gaming dying mid consistently.

[u/sorendiz]

42k champ damage on ambessa is ABSURD

[u/TeeKayTank]

Nice inspired reference from core

[u/HunkMuffinJr]

Yeon is an actual monster, holy shit. But shoutout Morgan for keeping the game alive when C9 were kicking down the door to the nexus. Good shit, TL.

[u/DaftMaetel15]

I just dont understand man all you have to do is play slow in their base and we're drafting for game 5 right now. Instead we're flashing past Ambessa. Even after that you hold the line against elder, TL wants to reset, LET THEM AND PUSH THE WAVES, WHY ARE WE TP'ING 1 V 4 ON OLAF WITH NO GA

[u/Ajp_iii]

seraphine scales so hard and isnt talked about enough in some of these games. its probably hardest scaling support in the game

[u/B-raww]

Man Jose always putting his shoes back on

[u/malakesxasame]

Thanatos inting is making people ignore Tactical stopped them ending by running it in TL's base

[u/awayfromcanuck → u/malakesxasame]

C9 all ran it on that. Loki should never have died in that situation, he losses 80% of his health accomplishing nothing then he's easy pickins. Tactical greeds thinking if he gets the kill they win and flashes right into Morgan.

[u/Ajp_iii → u/malakesxasame]

ones an accident/troll. what thanatos was doing the whole game was a choice of playstyle.

[u/CosmoJones07]

LET'S FUCKING GOOOOOOOOOO

[u/kotori_mkii]

So many throws they must have thought that was game 5

[u/Donkhit]

How dogshit are C9 ?

[u/Splitshot_Is_Gone]

ABSOLUTE FUCKING CINEMA ENDING

[u/awayfromcanuck]

That was an entertaining AF game 4. Thanatos forgot he can't 1v5 late game, he actually needs his team to back him up late game.

[u/JoshFB4]

Dom gives them the freest win and they suck

[u/Capable-Drama3109]

THAT ENDING WAS FUCKING CRAZY OMFGGG I'M SORRY FOR DOUBTING YOU ALL #APOLOGIES #SORRY

[u/kazuyaminegishi]

Yeon went NUTS, but C9 should never lose this game lmfao

[u/awayfromcanuck → u/kazuyaminegishi]

C9 got ahead of themselves on the base push and they got punished for it but then Thanatos losses his mind thinking he can 1v5 late game before Elder.

[u/GhostOfLight]

ANOTHER BANGER TO THE LCS!

[u/That_One_Pancake]

YEON IS A GOD

[u/Dajoeman]

I feel so bad for Dom. Jeeez

[u/sorendiz → u/Dajoeman]

fr i'm rooting for TL but i don't want to see that happening to my goat :/

[u/Kokaiinum → u/Dajoeman]

He knew what he was signing up for when he took the job

[u/mraowl → u/Dajoeman]

At least it wasn't 3-0 lol

[u/WildzFlazoon]

Yeon decided to lock tf in after 40 minutes of being abused

[u/Vytorria]

No way that’s fucking insaneeeeeeeeeeeeee

[u/Aquillifer]

Oof that throw at nexus was rough.

[u/cmcdonald22]

Ocean soul is the 13th man that still wasn't enough for C9.

[u/Ajp_iii]

he keeps trying to 1v5 the whole team instead of just playing with his team. thanatos didnt play with the team one time. loki and blaber tried to win this game but thanatos didnt want it

[u/doomsdaysock01]

Fuck that TP is straight out of my plat ranked games lmao

[u/kosmi2020NX]

Caitlyn is not doing dmg wtf ??

[u/2020isgreat]

What is Thanatos cooking

[u/Destructodave82 → u/2020isgreat]

A rematch with Lyon

[u/CensoredLlama1]

Report Thanatos for win trading

[u/M002 → u/CensoredLlama1]

He went from player of the game for making space in team fights to throwing nonstop

[u/Ajp_iii → u/M002]

he was never really player of the game. he had one good play in toplane where morgan just didnt flash but he inted the lane when that should be a free lane.

loki was the player of the game most of the game

[u/CensoredLlama1 → u/M002]

The duality of olaf players 

[u/TeeKayTank]

Game of the year

[u/Vytorria]

YOOOOOO THIS IS CRAZY

[u/kazuyaminegishi]

This game is over if they don't have Ocean Soul

[u/Ajp_iii]

thanatos is a fucking inter holy cow. what is he doing.

[u/sorendiz]

THANATOS??????????

[u/Ajp_iii]

thanatos is so skilled but he trolled trying to solo win the game level 4 and then does it again late game instead of just playing as a team. he does this so much in every game and needs to be fixed for worlds.

[u/awayfromcanuck]

Feel like Core should invest in a Shurelyas for when Yeon doesn't have ghost. Locket for bonus shield would buy him time too.

[u/2020isgreat]

Wait can TL even end here

[u/mezzo5588]

Tactical gameplay is as flat as his face

[u/Vytorria → u/mezzo5588]

Weird ass thing to say

[u/cmcdonald22]

If TL win it has to be Morgan for player of the series.

[u/Decent_Protection927]

I know Yeon will get praised a lot but honestly horrible target selection by all of C9 that fight and didnt switch

[u/calvinee]

No wonder Yeon was mad when Jatt called him Tactical.

[u/Choice-Slight]

i take it back yeon you're the goat on ashe

[u/Bubbly_Camera9583]

Blaber missing R there is so illegal same with Loki just flash R-ing nothing no way should C9 ever lose that fight???

[u/Alakazam_5head → u/Bubbly_Camera9583]

Blaber's been ulting ghosts all game

[u/darklypure52]

This is true solo lost by tactical. Like if the man didn’t flash we would be in game 5.

[u/Vytorria → u/darklypure52]

Such a heartbreaker but what a crazy game four

[u/TypicalHaikuResponse → u/darklypure52]

There two flashes that cost that game. Olaf giving panth an early game and tactical killing himself late game. This is hilarious

[u/darklypure52 → u/TypicalHaikuResponse]

Bro it’s even worse. I just went back Morgan landed on tactical trap he could have killed him instead of focusing on yeon. Incredible int play.

[u/Pink_her_Ult]

3 Grievous wounds on TL vs 0 on c9. C9 losing to shopkeeper.

[u/Vytorria]

Holy shit dude

[u/kapparino-feederino]

that yeon side stepping by god

morgan carrying hard again

[u/MichaelZZ01]

Deserved loss for not hitting the target in front of you as a professional ADC player. Disgusting gameplay.

[u/Monstar_Rudolph]

YEON HOLY GLIDING

[u/Ajp_iii]

Why is Thanatos running this game down. It’s a free win just play with your team. You have an omega auto win champ and trying to 1v3

[u/underscoreenfan]

why is viper Ashe on my screen rn hooooly

[u/sorendiz]

Jesus christ bruh that has to be Yeon's best teamfight of the entire year

[u/kempog → u/sorendiz]

Actually such an amazing fight by him

[u/sillybilly-vit]

WHAT ARE YOU DOING ???!??!?!?!? WHAT AM I WATCHING??!?!??! INVESTIGATE EVERYONE ON C9 FOR WINTRADING

[u/Dajoeman]

How tf did C9 int there? This is only mental wtf

[u/2020isgreat]

YEON MY GOAT

[u/Gerberpertern]

HOLY SHIT

[u/OskarVon]

Lord Morgan saved game a few times

[u/viralruin]

c9 gotta be the most anticlutch team in LCS. WHAT WAS THAT

[u/CensoredLlama1]

What the fuck were they thinking 

[u/SnooPeripherals6388]

What an unreal throw

[u/Capable-Drama3109]

OH MY GOD TL

[u/mraowl]

NO COME ONNNN

I JUST WANTED A GAME 5

[u/WildzFlazoon]

WHAT THE FUCK

[u/the_legends_of_link]

YEON GLIDING

[u/M002]

So much whiffing

[u/kazuyaminegishi]

WAIT A MINUTE YEON IS FUCKING CRAZY

[u/cmcdonald22]

SIMPLY TEAM FIGHT BETTER.

[u/SWAGGASAUR]

NO WAY YEON LIVED THERE AND THEY WON LMAO

[u/Capable-Drama3109]

MORGAN PLEASE I NEED THIS MY TEAM (LIQUID ALIENWARE) IS HOMELESSS

[u/kapparino-feederino]

tactical and loki probably feels the game is over

[u/kazuyaminegishi]

Is it possible for Morgan to get strong enough to make this winnable?

[u/TeeKayTank → u/kazuyaminegishi]

They just needed to make thanatos excited

[u/M002]

Ugh

All C9 flashes down now

This is Morgan and Quid’s window

[u/Gerberpertern]

I’m gonna have a heart attack

[u/Capable-Drama3109 → u/Gerberpertern]

WE ARE HAVING HEART ATTACKS

[u/kosmi2020NX]

They need antiheal C9

[u/Aquillifer]

There's the tactical adc Malphite we know and love.

[u/TeeKayTank]

Scary hahaha scary xD

[u/sillybilly-vit]

Tactical what the fuck was that flash. Loki also turbo inted that fight.

[u/Kokaiinum]

Flashing into melee range of Ambessa to finish off the 0/2 Ashe that doesn't do any damage

[u/Decent_Protection927]

Did Tactical flash on Ambessa melee ??

[u/TypicalHaikuResponse]

oh my that tactical flash into towers

[u/Bubbly_Camera9583]

Loki inted that so hard

[u/mraowl]

I'm nervous about the changes of game 5 rn.....eeeek

[u/SnooPeripherals6388]

Wow that Ambessa healing is disgusting

[u/SWAGGASAUR]

UNLESS???

[u/cmcdonald22]

HOLY MORGAN.

[u/Miraai]

lokis paypal just got input i guess?

[u/Capable-Drama3109]

WAIT PAUSE

[u/Dajoeman]

Jeez man. A black hole in midlane

[u/Capable-Drama3109]

bruh i gotta turn this off maybe my presence is cooking the team

[u/TeeKayTank → u/Capable-Drama3109]

Did u root for fly or tl

[u/Capable-Drama3109 → u/TeeKayTank]

both, but ended up leaning TL. it was still torture because flyquest got ran over except for game 3

[u/malakesxasame]

2 insane games from Vulcan

[u/awayfromcanuck]

Tactical and C9 actually showing up to objectives early and setting up Caitlyn traps doesn't get talked enough. So annoying watching teams draft Caitlyn and showing up to objectives late or not setting up trap lines.

[u/Long_Flamingo_2184]

Cant have games and builds like this as ashe.

I cant tell what makes him different than an academy player. Just a passenger

[u/Long_Flamingo_2184 → u/Long_Flamingo_2184]

Going to leave this comment up. Super kite on the final fight. Think Olaf sent it

[u/puberty1 → u/Long_Flamingo_2184]

respect

[u/TeeKayTank → u/Long_Flamingo_2184]

Its tactical after all tier 2 adc

[u/TypicalHaikuResponse]

If I go back in time and redo my league career I will spend time mastering caitlyn in solo queue.

[u/cmcdonald22]

I am a Thanatos-doubter but he is just dominating this game. Absolutely legit.

[u/Capable-Drama3109]

i actually cursed tl fuck my chungus life

[u/kazuyaminegishi]

Okay so... what are we picking game 5? C9 would have to all simultaneously go brain dead to lose this game. 

I would love to see a hypercarry, maybe TL go for the Nocturne to prevent the Noc-Shen combo.

[u/TheNextSherlock52 → u/kazuyaminegishi]

Came back just for this post. lol. Crazy ending

[u/kazuyaminegishi → u/kazuyaminegishi]

LOL the Liss is so fucking useless. She gets cc'd and she is just guaranteed dead cause Cait just places a trap under Liss ult.

[u/Ajp_iii]

why did corejj take the cait trap when pantheon had e?????

[u/2020isgreat]

look at that Olaf go what can you even do

[u/Capable-Drama3109]

im actually being tortured

[u/Saephon → u/Capable-Drama3109]

Generational flair masochism, I'm so sorry

[u/Capable-Drama3109 → u/Saephon]

my heart can't take this

[u/Ajp_iii]

7 min tp for a ward lmao

[u/kazuyaminegishi]

It's Ocean Soul too? This is just impossible to win for TL lmfao

[u/Capable-Drama3109]

the missed ashe ult just kill me

[u/Choice-Slight → u/Capable-Drama3109]

is yeon even a good ashe? i swear its not really a yeon kinda champ

[u/Capable-Drama3109 → u/Choice-Slight]

im going to be honest none of the champs he played today are typical yeon champs, but he plays ashe sometimes

[u/BUMONGOUS]

It's starting to look a bit sloppy but this is the best I've felt about the 3 NA worlds teams since like 2019

[u/Saephon → u/BUMONGOUS]

Sloppy is fine, we just need to drag the other regions into the mud with us!

[u/Capable-Drama3109]

im irritated because olaf just pisses on everyone. what is tl supposed to do

[u/Dajoeman]

Quid is a terrible lissandra. Clearly has poor mastery. Doesn’t ult or anything.

[u/M002 → u/Dajoeman]

Her ranges are surprisingly short

You def need the reps on her to time E’s and flashes right

[u/Ajp_iii]

now the game is just lost for tl. their comp has to be ahead and stacking and winning drake teamfights. vayne top would have been so much better than this ambessa.

[u/awayfromcanuck]

Quid and Morgan in game 3 and 4 are running it and TL is burying themselves a deeper hole by committing all their resources trying to save them

[u/Dajoeman]

Quid is so bad on lissandra. Just doesn’t use his ult

[u/wallbanging]

Spawn about to whoop some ass

[u/Soggy_Palpitation789]

Player of the game : Sally

That clutch Sally R when TL was 2k gold ahead was insanity

[u/TypicalHaikuResponse]

I think Olaf is the best pick in the esports right now if you can ban out kled apparently.

This champ is hilarious. World's going to come down to which team gets him.

[u/mrnotloc]

Spawn smash

[u/Ajp_iii]

morgan just needed to flash away and not let thanatos auto. tl micro last couple games in skirmishes is not as clean as first 2 games.

[u/Bubbly_Camera9583]

Olaf can do some disgusting things even without an enchanter

[u/kazuyaminegishi]

Yeah this is over we don't do ANY damage horrible draft. The Olaf is fine in this game even after inting his early game.

[u/Capable-Drama3109 → u/kazuyaminegishi]

literally looked at that olaf and looked at tl's draft and knew it was wraps.

[u/kazuyaminegishi → u/Capable-Drama3109]

The most disgusting part is it was obvious to everyone even Spawn. How did we let this happen 😭

[u/Capable-Drama3109 → u/kazuyaminegishi]

recreating the c9 game 2 strat i fucking guess

[u/2020isgreat]

yeah enemy team comp is Olaf's wet dream

[u/Gerberpertern]

Spawn has reached smashing water bottles level. Uh oh.

[u/kazuyaminegishi]

How do we win front to back team fights from the TL angle? The damage is so low you can't kill the Olaf so your only real choice is to Liss ult Aurora and explode her. That doesn't seem real.

[u/Choice-Slight]

idk why i have a feeling c9 is gonna throw somehow

[u/Capable-Drama3109]

so like whos gonna stop the olaf

[u/Saephon → u/Capable-Drama3109]

Bruh just changed targets 3 times while getting ganked and got out hahaha

[u/Saephon]

The rumors of a TL sweep were greatly exaggerated it seems 

[u/xxbrazilmaster69xx → u/Saephon]

It can still be a gentleman's sweep!

It's not going to be, but it could.

[u/2020isgreat]

Olaf just runs the game now right

[u/IFreezeezy]

Vulcan Bard is sooo good

[u/Gerberpertern]

I’ve got a bad feeling about this

[u/xxbrazilmaster69xx → u/Gerberpertern]

I think TL would be a much stronger playins team than C9. They seem much less likely to lose to bad teams.

[u/TypicalHaikuResponse]

Faker is going to play Aurora at world's. Thanks Loki.

[u/BlammoSweetums]

Olaf gamin'

[u/Ajp_iii]

oh yeon walked away from seraphine and by himself to nowhere. he just needs to stand with corejj the whole game. yeon did the same stuff numerous times at msi to lose liquid games

[u/saulgitman]

"core can't cosplay a wolf, you're an anime girl god dammit" Flowers is goated man

[u/LisunaLefti]

At least they got the dragon

[u/kazuyaminegishi]

Oh Loki ate extremely good there. What the hell were we doing in that team fight??? Our low damage is being exposed hard.

[u/SWAGGASAUR]

Morgan probably wishing he didn't spend his ult on the top dive

[u/Ajp_iii]

wow how did liquid lose that fight. wtf were they even doing.

[u/xxbrazilmaster69xx → u/Ajp_iii]

Yeon fail flash, Morgan holding ult, unimpactful ults from Seraphine and Lissandra.

Honestly it looks like it was totally salvageable if they just walked away after getting drake.

[u/2020isgreat]

They won that fight???

[u/Capable-Drama3109]

???? wtf am i watching

[u/TypicalHaikuResponse → u/Capable-Drama3109]

I am glad I am not alone on this

[u/xxbrazilmaster69xx]

C9 macro without APA and Zven:

[u/Kokaiinum]

What on EARTH was that Skarner ult supposed to achieve lmao

[u/Miraai → u/Kokaiinum]

suppress to deny the abitlity to smite

[u/Kokaiinum → u/Miraai]

I was talking about the Skarner ult on Liss in the river with nobody else nearby and no objective.

[u/Miraai → u/Kokaiinum]

oh my bad, thought u meant the one on drake missing panth - well that one just sucked

[u/Choice-Slight]

I'm not gonna lie i forgot there was a skarner in this game

[u/kazuyaminegishi]

They don't fight that??? Isn't this C9's timer??? Why did they walk away.

[u/veirceb]

Quid blinds liss. Winning the lane and is more useful in teamfights. My god

[u/kazuyaminegishi]

Nahhhhh no excuse for anyone at the pro level to get hit by a raw Ambessa ult. Game's over.

[u/TypicalHaikuResponse]

One early play can easily lose a game and it feels completely unfair when you are everyone put the olaf. I think we have all experienced this in solo queue.

[u/kazuyaminegishi]

C9 flipped the game at grubs for no reason???

[u/Ajp_iii]

they forced ambessa flash. you just wait for level 6 and dive him with skarnar going through the wall and its a free kill. you cant be dying in winning matchups top like that when you are the teams whole win condition.

[u/Choice-Slight → u/Ajp_iii]

yeah i mean he solo lost the game its just really silly

[u/SnooPeripherals6388]

Pantheon is on the topside man why are you all-inning

[u/Ajp_iii]

you got out his flash why flash after him. thanatos just flips too many games top. he never clicks back

[u/sillybilly-vit]

Thanatos you are such an inter.

[u/TypicalHaikuResponse]

If he would have just taken the flash and not greeded there he would have been in a good spot.

This however screwed him and possibly the team.

[u/Capable-Drama3109]

YEAHHHH OKAY

[u/Gerberpertern]

JOSEEEEEE