Our fourth and final competitive League of Legends season to cover is the LCS 2021 Spring Season. By no means inferior to the other leagues, this league will actually be the last one kick off. Running from the 5th February to the 14th March, we’ve gathered all the details you need for a complete and educated viewership experience!
Event Background
Like many of the other leagues, this is the ninth year for competitive League of Legends in the region. Notably, this time around, performances within the LCS 2021 Spring event will carry on to Summer to, in terms of weight. With so much on the line across this first leg of regular season, here are the 10 teams fighting for dominance:
- 100 Thieves
- Cloud9
- Counter Logic Gaming
- Dignitas
- Evil Geniuses
- FlyQuest
- Golden Guardians
- Immortals
- Team Liquid
- TSM
No changes in terms of names here, the same 10 teams are back for this upcoming season. That’s great – old rivalries will continue to fluorish as teams establish long term relationships.
Format
The schedule of the LCS Spring Season is identical to that of the LEC. Accordingly, the 10 aforementioned teams will be thrown into a double round robin, where teams will play one another for a total of two times. This, as I’ll reiterate, opens the door for clever preparation for rematches and allows for teams to adapt to one another and truly build storylines.
With each match taking place as a best-of-one, it makes upsets that much more potential. Each game, teams will have to be at their 100% as one slip up could result in an immediate and irreversible loss. Each match will count – any number of points could make the difference!
What exactly are the teams playing for? Naturally, yes, there’s a bracket stage. How do teams get to the Mid-Season Showdown? Only the top 6 teams will qualify for the event, with the top 4 seeding directly in the upper bracket and 5th and 6th bringing up the lower bracket.
Basically, you don’t want to be finishing lower than 6th at all costs.
Schedule for the LCS 2021 Spring Season (CET)
As of right now, the full schedule for the LCS 2021 Spring season is not currently available. This article will be updated in due time once it becomes available.
Watch the LCS 2021 Spring stream on esportsguide.com
You can also watch the LCS 2021 Spring live stream via our very own website. Providing an extensive list of the biggest esports together with streams for each esports match live today or upcoming matches.
Predictions
Besides the rebranding of the league and the passing of time – is this the same LCS we all treasure?
Something tells me that we don’t have to worry about that. The LCS 2021 Spring season looks to pack the same fire and intense competition which made it so enjoyable last year. In the 2020 season, the world witnessed Team Liquid’s journey to the top from the bottom – could something like that happen this year?
However, the league may need to step up in terms of international competition. At Worlds 2020, the LCS teams failed to make it quite far. This year, it’s a whole new game. Together with some new rosters, the LCS could make the most of this and perhaps shift the tides in their favour.
Until then, I’d like to say that the favourites are Team Liquid and TSM, but bearing in mind what I’ve just stated, it could be anybody’s season.
We’ll be keeping up to date with updates to see how the leaderboard progresses. Before then, the LCS lock-in event should be fun!
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