The competitive League of Legends community is gearing up for the international summer split events for the multiple franchised leagues. In this How To Watch article, we’ll be diving into the LEC 2020 Summer Split and everything you need to know in order to enjoy it to the full.
The LEC, or League of Legends European Championship, ever since its conception, has always taken place across two seasons, those of Spring and Summer, culminating in the yearly Championship to determine the best teams in the world. Seasonally, each period will end with Playoffs following a season of matches in order to accumulate points and earn a placing for the final event. There are a total of 140 points on the line once again.
Format and Schedule
The official second season of the franchised European league will kick off on the 12th of June and run-up to the 9th of August, running through summer. The format involves ten teams in a Double Round Robin with best-of-one matches. The ten teams will be fighting the six available spots at the LEC Summer Playoffs 2020 – it’s here that teams may qualify for the Worlds 2020 Main Event at the end of the season.
The following are the ten teams that will be competing:
- Excel Esports
- FC Schalke 04
- Fnatic
- G2 Esports
- MAD Lions
- Misfits Gaming
- Origen
- Rogue
- SK Gaming
- Team Vitality
With regards to production, the League of Legends European Championship has decided to restore the live production through the LEC Studio, with a live crew. Although as of right now, matches will be played online from training facilities with further plans to get everybody back to the live stage by the end of the summer.
Regardless of whether it will be online or not, the set schedule will be followed for 8 weeks, with each week offering up two to three match-days. The first week will run from the 12th to the 14th of June, according to the following schedule:
Friday 12th June
- MAD Lions vs G2 Esports (18:00)
- Team Vitality vs FC Schalke 04 (19:00)
- Origen vs SK Gaming (20:00)
- Rogue vs Excel Esports (21:00)
- Misfits Gaming vs Fnatic (22:00)
Saturday 13th June
- FC Schalke 04 vs SK Gaming (17:00)
- Rogue vs Misfits Gaming (18:00)
- Excel Esports vs MAD Lions (19:00)
- Fnatic vs Team Vitality (20:00)
- G2 Esports vs Origen (21:00)
Sunday 14th June
- SK Gaming vs MAD Lions (17:00)
- FC Schalke 04 vs Rogue (18:00)
- Origen vs Misfits Gaming (19:00)
- G2 Esports vs Team Vitality (20:00)
- Fnatic vs Excel Esports (21:00)
Each match will be separated by one hour, though this may vary depending on the length of the matches, which rarely go upwards of one hour.
Here you can find the full schedule: https://lol.gamepedia.com/LEC/2020_Season/Summer_Season#Match_Schedule
Streams
Riot Games will be broadcasting the event through both Twitch and YouTube:
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Predictions
The best outlook we have on the outcome of the season is through the placings of the LEC 2020 Spring Playoffs. The following six teams qualified for the LEC Spring Playoffs 2020 and seem to be the most threatening competition at the event, placed in the following way:
- 1. G2 Esports
- 2. Fnatic
- 3. MAD Lions
- 4. Origen
- 5. Rogue
- 6. Misfits Gaming
With that being said, G2 may look to be the favourite, though they aren’t untouchable. At the event, they did fall out early due to a loss against MAD Lions, followed by a run through the Losers’ Bracket to make an epic run through the event. Since then, the players of ‘Perkz” and ‘Caps’ have indeed swapped roles to potentially look even stronger.
Throughout the LEC Spring 2020 season, Fnatic constantly sat beneath G2 Esports fighting head-to-head for a second-place finish together with Origen as both teams earned a scoreline of 13-5. Fnatic has constantly been outperformed by G2, despite their own changes to the roster.
In terms of underdogs, the organizations of MAD Lions and Excel Esports are worth considering. Excel Esports was formed by the ex-Fnatic coach of Joey “YoungBuck” Steltenpool who wanted to build up young talent. Despite a poor Spring Split, they followed up with transfers of ‘Special’ and ‘Kryze’ and now their ceiling looks higher than ever.
Meanwhile, MAD Lions are off the back of a powerful Spring Split showing, being the only team that managed to beat out G2 Esports.
So, while G2 Esports may seem like the favourite, there are other contenders out there waiting to surprise the community. How To Watch the 2020 LEC Summer Split
That’s everything about the 2020 LEC Summer Season one would need to know. Keep up with all the latest news through https://www.esportsguide.com/.
