2016 EU LCS season
The 2016 European League of Legends Championship Series (2016 EU LCS) was the fourth season of the European League of Legends Championship Series.
| 2016 EU LCS season | |
|---|---|
| League | EU LCS |
| Sport | League of Legends |
| Number of teams | 10 |
| TV partner(s) | Twitch |
| Spring | |
| Season champions | G2 Esports |
| Runners-up | Origen |
| Top seed | G2 Esports |
| Summer | |
| Season champions | G2 Esports |
| Runners-up | Splyce |
| Top seed | G2 Esports |
| Season MVP | Kim "Trick" Gang-yun |
The Spring Split began on January 16, with a rematch of the 2015 EU LCS Summer playoff finals. Most matches were played at a film studio in Adlershof, Berlin. The finals were played in Rotterdam, Netherlands, at the Rotterdam Ahoy.[1]
The Summer Split was won by G2 Esports, with a roster of Expect, Trick, PerkZ, Zven, Mithy, Relinquished, Kikis, their first title. Most games were being played at Riot Games' studio in Adlershof, Berlin, Germany.[2] The finals were at the Tauron Arena Kraków in Kraków, Poland.[3]
Spring
Rosters
| Team | Players | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| ID | |||
| Elements |
| ||
| Fnatic | |||
| G2 Esports | |||
| GIANTS! Gaming | |||
| H2k-Gaming |
| ||
| Origen | |||
| Splyce |
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| ROCCAT |
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| Team Vitality | |||
| Unicorns of Love |
| ||
Regular season
| Place | Team | Match record | Game record | Champ. points |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | G2 Esports | 15-3 | ||
| 2. | H2k-Gaming | 14-4 | ||
| 3. | Vitality | 13-5 | ||
| 4. | Origen | 11-7 | ||
| 5. | Unicorns of Love | 10-8 | ||
| 6. | Fnatic | 9-9 | ||
| 7. | Elements | 6–12 | ||
| 8. | Splyce | 5-13 | ||
| 9. | Team ROCCAT | 4-14 | ||
| 10. | GIANTS! Gaming | 3-15 |
Playoffs
| H2k-Gaming | 2 | ||||||||||||
| Vitality | 1 | Origen | 3 | ||||||||||
| Fnatic | 3 | Origen | 1 | ||||||||||
| G2 Esports | 3 | ||||||||||||
| G2 Esports | 3 | ||||||||||||
| Origen | 3 | Fnatic | 1 | Third place | |||||||||
| Unicorns of Love | 0 | H2k-Gaming | 2 | ||||||||||
| Fnatic | 3 | ||||||||||||
Summer
Rosters
| Team | Players | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| ID | Name | Role | |
| Fnatic |
|
Noh Young-Jin |
Top |
| G2 Esports |
|
Dae-han Ki (대한기) |
Top |
| GIANTS! Gaming |
|
Lennart Warkus |
Top |
| H2k-Gaming |
|
Andrei Pascu |
Top |
| Origen |
|
Paul Boyer |
Top |
| ROCCAT |
|
Sang-won Lee |
Top |
| Schalke 04 |
|
Etienne Michels |
Top |
| Splyce |
|
Martin Hansen |
Top |
| Unicorns of Love |
|
Kiss Tamás |
Top |
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Regular season
| Place | Team | Match record | Points |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | G2 Esports | 10W-8T-0L | 38 |
| 2. | Splyce | 9W-6T-3L | 33 |
| 3. | Giants Gaming | 8W-3T-7L | 27 |
| 4. | H2k-Gaming | 7W-6T-5L | 27 |
| 5. | Fnatic | 7W-6T-5L | 27 |
| 6. | Unicorns of Love | 6W-5T-7L | 23 |
| 7. | Team Vitality | 3W-9T-6L | 18 |
| 8. | FC Schalke 04 | 3W-9T-6L | 18 |
| 9. | Origen | 2W-8T-8L | 14 |
| 10. | ROCCAT | 2W-6T-10L | 12 |
H2k finished above Fnatic after defeating them in a tiebreaker game
Team Vitality finished above Schalke 04 after defeating them in a tiebreaker game
Playoffs
- The semi-finals match between fnatic and H2k was delayed two days due to technical reasons.[4]
| Quarterfinals | Semifinals | Final | |||||||||||
| 1 | G2 Esports | 3 | |||||||||||
| 3 | Giants Gaming | 1 | 6 | Unicorns of Love | 1 | ||||||||
| 6 | Unicorns of Love | 3 | 1 | G2 Esports | 3 | ||||||||
| 2 | Splyce | 1 | |||||||||||
| 2 | Splyce | 3 | |||||||||||
| 4 | H2k-Gaming | 3 | 4 | H2k-Gaming | 2 | Third place | |||||||
| 5 | fnatic | 0 | 6 | Unicorns of Love | 1 | ||||||||
| 4 | H2k-Gaming | 3 | |||||||||||
EU Regional Qualifiers
| Quarterfinals | Semifinals | Final | |||||||||||
| 3 | Unicorns of Love | 3 | |||||||||||
| 4 | Giants Gaming | 0 | 1 | Splyce | 3 | ||||||||
| 2 | Fnatic | 0 | 3 | Unicorns of Love | 2 | ||||||||
| 3 | Unicorns of Love | 3 | |||||||||||
| 3 | |||||||||||||
| 4 | |||||||||||||
References
- "The EU LCS finals will be in Rotterdam | The Daily Dot". Archived from the original on 2016-08-20. Retrieved 2016-07-06.
- "A Game of Thrones: EU LCS breakdown". 25 May 2016.
- "LoL Esports".
- "Riot postpones EU LCS quarterfinals match after two-hour technical delays | The Daily Dot". Archived from the original on 2016-08-14. Retrieved 2016-08-15.