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 | |
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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 | ||
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ID | |||
Elements |
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Fnatic | |||
G2 Esports | |||
GIANTS! Gaming | |||
H2k-Gaming |
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Origen | |||
Splyce |
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ROCCAT |
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Team Vitality | |||
Unicorns of Love |
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Regular season
Place | Team | Match record | Game record | Champ. points |
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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
Quarterfinals | Semifinals | Finals | ||||||||||||
H2k-Gaming | 2 | |||||||||||||
Vitality | 1 | Origen | 3 | |||||||||||
Fnatic | 3 | Origen | 1 | |||||||||||
G2 Esports | 3 | |||||||||||||
G2 Esports | 3 | |||||||||||||
Origen | 3 | Fnatic | 1 | |||||||||||
Unicorns of Love | 0 | Third place | ||||||||||||
H2k-Gaming | 2 | |||||||||||||
Fnatic | 3 |
Summer
Rosters
Team | Players | ||
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ID | Name | Role | |
Fnatic |
Gamsu |
Noh Young-Jin |
Top |
G2 Esports |
Expect |
Dae-han Ki (대한기) |
Top |
GIANTS! Gaming |
SmittyJ |
Lennart Warkus |
Top |
H2k-Gaming |
Odoamne |
Andrei Pascu |
Top |
Origen |
sOAZ |
Paul Boyer |
Top |
ROCCAT |
Parang |
Sang-won Lee |
Top |
Schalke 04 |
Steve |
Etienne Michels |
Top |
Splyce |
Wunderwear |
Martin Hansen |
Top |
Unicorns of Love |
Vizicsacsi |
Kiss Tamás |
Top |
Regular season
Place | Team | Match record | Points |
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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 | Finals | ||||||||||||
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 | |||||||||
5 | fnatic | 0 | Third place | |||||||||||
6 | Unicorns of Love | 1 | ||||||||||||
4 | H2k-Gaming | 3 |
EU Regional Qualifiers
Quarterfinals | Semifinals | Final | |||||||||||
3 | Unicorns of Love | 3 | |||||||||||
1 | Splyce | 3 | |||||||||||
4 | Giants Gaming | 0 | |||||||||||
2 | Fnatic | 0 | 3 | Unicorns of Love | 2 | ||||||||
3 | Unicorns of Love | 3 | |||||||||||
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.