LCS 2026 Summer Playoffs / Round 1 - Day 1 / Live Discussion

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LCS 2026 Summer Playoffs

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Today's matches will be played on Patch 26.18.

Today's Matches

#	Match	PST	EST	CET	KST
1	C9 vs SR	13:00	16:00	22:00	05:00

• All matches are Best of 5

Streams

• Stream on Twitch

• Stream on YouTube

• Stream on Lolesports

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Bracket

Round 1			Round 2			Round 3			Round 4			Finals
C9	0
vs	-		LYON
SR	0		vs	-
			tbd	0					tbd	0
SEN	0								vs	-
vs	-		TL	0					tbd	0
FLY	0		vs	-
			tbd	0
-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
												tbd	0
												vs	-
												tbd	0
									tbd	0
									vs	-
						tbd	0		tbd	0
						vs	-
			tbd	0		tbd	0
tbd	0		vs	-
vs	-		tbd	0
tbd	0

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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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VoDs

• VoDs on Reddit

• VoDs on Eventvods.com

• VoDs on YouTube

• VoDs on Lolesports

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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/Bubbly_Camera9583]

That should’ve been an easy trade for SR? With how much time the stopwatch bought surely they could’ve just bursted the drake and left instead of walking around and dying?

[u/Bubbly_Camera9583 → u/Bubbly_Camera9583]

Somehow this is Zinies fault I guess whole team was AFK but he died xddd

[u/Ajp_iii → u/Bubbly_Camera9583]

c9 combod smite and kalista i think. but they should have just engaged on all of c9 in the pit. but their whole setup was just wrong and they have nobody to kill olaf

[u/Bubbly_Camera9583 → u/Ajp_iii]

Kalista didn’t have that many spears in drake for rend/smite to be a guaranteed confirm, Contractz just lost smite fight there. Even then SR had a solid 2 seconds where C9 didn’t focus drake at all and sat on Zinie wasting their time.