Accordingly, while the LCS franchised league goes on, there’s another competition under the surface. Indeed, Riot Games is hosting the LCS Proving Grounds Summer 2022 – read on how to watch this League of Legends event below!
Event Background
For those unaware, the LCS Proving Grounds is a circuit devised by Riot Games to nurture young talent. Inviting teams on the basis of qualification, 20 teams have been invited to compete for the prize of $100,000.
Running from the 3rd of August, the competition will continue up until the 31st August, hosted online in the North American region.
The following are the competing teams:
Main Stage Teams
- 100 Thieves Academy
- Cloud9 Academy
- CLG Academy
- Dignitas Academy
- FlyQuest Academy
- Team Liquid Academy
- 100 Thieves Next
- AOE Ginger Turmeric
- AOE Esports
- Cincinnati Fear
- Taco Gaming
- Team Pending
Play-In Teams
- Evil Geniuses Academy
- GGS Academy
- Immortals Academy
- TSM Academy
- CLG Faith
- DK Crew
- Evil Geniuses Prodigies
- Maryville University
Furthermore, let’s dive deeper into the event!
Format
With regards to the format, there are two stages of competitino to bear in mind.
Accordingly, first we have our Play-In stage. Here, the bottom 4 LCS Acaemy teams and the 7-10 teams from LCS Proving Grounds Points will compete in a single elimination series of matches.
Each winner of the BO3 matches will progress ot the Playoffs – here are the matches:
Upper Round 1
- EG Prodigies vs GG Academy
- EG Academy vs CLG Faith
- IMT Academy vs DK Crew
- Maryville Uni vs TSM Academy
Once these matches are completed. we’ll have our Playoffs to look forward to. Here, the final teams will compete with those who made it from the Play-Ins. Accordingly, a double elimination bracket will sort out the competition.
Specifically, all matches up to the Losers’ Round 4 and Winners’ Finals will be BO3, while those matches onwards will be BO5.
As a reminder, for those unaware, a double elimination bracket means that each team has two lifelines. One loss kicks them to the Losers’ bracket, but a second loss eliminates the team from the competition.
Schedule for the LCS Proving Grounds Summer 2022
With regards to the schedule, we highly recommend visiting the official Riot Games League of Legends esports page here.
Watch the LCS Proving Grounds Summer 2022 on esportsguide
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Predictions
Firstly, the favoured teams at this point are in fact those seeding from the LCS Academy League Summer 2022 event. Here are the standings from the event which only concluded on July 29th:
- #1st – Liquid Academy
- #2nd – 100 Thieves Academy
- #3rd – Cloud9 Academy
- #4th – Dignitas Academy
Naturally, we also have the standings from the Proving Grounds Spring event:
- #1st – Liquid Academy
- #2nd – 100 Thieves Academy
- #3rd – GGS Academy
- #4th – Immortals
Without hesitation, we can safely say that Liquid Academy are the favourites for the event followed by 100 Thieves Academy.
However, we’d love to see if any team can surprise at this exciting event – it would have been great to see the event take place offline.
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