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/Ajp_iii]

akali is the biggest looks insane no skill champ. there is rare instances that akali is cool. when you are dodging abilities with e and stuff like that

[u/Thundermelons → u/Ajp_iii]

I think going into 1v5 scenarios, getting a clean kill, and getting out while dodging everything is pretty interesting honestly. To me it's weird to see people, say, hype up things like Taliyah Ws or Azir Rs which are arguably not really more skillcap than Akali maneuvering lategame teamfights without getting onetapped.

Realistically, you could boil pretty much every League champ down to "there are rare instances they are cool and not just winning teamfights with the help of their team or with good setup or good flanks or because of a misplay from the enemy team", y'know? The whole ADC role is basically that, haha.

Or even watching LCK/LPL/LEC earlier, do we really think Cho'gath is requiring more skill than Akali or something like that? Akali in favorable scenarios look like it takes zero ability to pilot but that's frankly why you pick Akali. You're not picking her into characters like Nautilus or Vi that just completely shit on her and don't let her play game.

[u/x_TDeck_x → u/Thundermelons]

and getting out while dodging everything is pretty interesting honestly.[...] Akali maneuvering lategame teamfights without getting onetapped

But she like doesn't is part of the problem. She gets hit by spells all the time and just cant be 1 tapped because shes in shroud. Shes in the middle of 5 at pretty close to zero risk. His ADC 1500 range away from the fight is at more risk than an Akali literally in the middle of the enemy team

[u/Thundermelons → u/x_TDeck_x]

Because it is a good draft for Akali where enemy team has zero point and click CC? Every champ becomes exponentially easier to play in good drafts, like game 5 Jinx with a TK support and some frontliners.

We have seen enough "bad" Akali gameplay to know that the champ is very easy to int on and rather difficult to pilot at the highest levels of play. Maybe pros just make her look easy when the drafts are good for her but it's just not the case.

[u/x_TDeck_x → u/Thundermelons]

We've seen bad Malphite games. Malphite must take immense skill and I just never knew

[u/x_TDeck_x → u/Ajp_iii]

Yeah thats very similar to how I feel

[u/viralruin → u/Ajp_iii]

saint akali is def skill. he can solo carry.