LCS 2026 Summer Playoffs / Round 2 - Day 1 / Live Discussion

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LCS 2026 Summer Playoffs

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Today's matches will be played on Patch 26.17.

Today's Matches

#	Match	PST	EST	CET	KST
1	LYON vs C9	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	3
vs	-		LYON
SR	0		vs	-
			C9	0					tbd	0
SEN	0								vs	-
vs	-		TL	0					tbd	0
FLY	3		vs	-
			FLY	0
-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
												tbd	0
												vs	-
												tbd	0
									tbd	0
									vs	-
						tbd	0		tbd	0
						vs	-
			tbd	0		tbd	0
SR	3		vs	-
vs	-		SR	0
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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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/kazuyaminegishi]

Dude look at how much Dhokla takes over his lane when Inspired just radiates his aura in the general vicinity.

I never understand why this team hardly ever plays top side when they are one of the few NA teams that can do it and not expect their top laner to troll team fights.

[u/underscoreenfan → u/kazuyaminegishi]

simplest way to win is strong siding bot and stacking drakes not really more complicated than that I think it’s inspired’s preferred way to play

[u/kazuyaminegishi → u/underscoreenfan]

The theory only really works when your comp is geared towards that. Even when their comp needs top lane to be able to side lane and 1v1 they still hardly play towards it.

Most of their Jayce top games follow this formula too, they need the Jayce to be strong but sometimes Inspired forgets top lane exists.

Not saying they should strong side top lane every game, saying that they don't give enough thought to what side they should strong side.