| 2017 NA LCS season | |
|---|---|
| League | NA LCS |
| Sport | League of Legends |
| Duration |
|
| Number of teams | 10 |
| TV partner(s) | Twitch, YouTube |
| Spring | |
| Champions | Team SoloMid |
| Runners-up | Cloud9 |
| Top seed | Team SoloMid |
| Season MVP | Noh "Arrow" Dong-hyeon |
| Summer | |
| Champions | Team SoloMid |
| Runners-up | Immortals |
| Top seed | Team SoloMid |
| Season MVP | Søren "Bjergsen" Bjerg |
| Regional finals | |
| Winner | Cloud9 |
The 2017 NA LCS season was the sixth season of the North American League of Legends Championship Series (NA LCS), a professional esports league for the video game League of Legends. The season was divided into two splits: Spring and Summer. The Spring Split began on January 20 and culminated with the playoff finals on April 23, 2017. The Summer Split began on June 2 and culminated with the Spring Split finals on September 3, 2017.
Team SoloMid won the spring split playoffs, qualifying them for the 2017 Mid-Season Invitational. Team SoloMid also won the summer split playoffs, directly qualifying them for the 2017 World Championship. Immortals and Cloud9 also qualified for the 2017 World Championship via Championship Points and winning the regional qualifier, respectively.
Spring
The Spring Split regular season began on January 20, 2017. The regular season followed a standard double round-robin format, where each team faced every other team twice.[1]
The bottom two teams from the regular season were relegated to the summer promotional tournament, where they competed with the top two teams from the League of Legends Challenger Series. The tournament was held from March 31 to April 2, 2017, and followed a double-elimination format. The top two teams advanced to the summer split.[2]
The top six teams from the regular season advanced to the playoffs, a single-elimination tournament, which ran from April 8 to April 23, 2017. Of the six teams, the top two started in the semifinals, while the bottom four started in the quarterfinals. All matches were in a best-of-five format. Unlike the previous year, the top seed in the semifinals would play the lowest seed that advanced from the quarterfinals.[3] The winner of the playoffs advanced to the 2017 Mid-Season Invitational.[4] The Spring Split playoffs third place match and final was played at the Pacific Coliseum in Vancouver, Canada.[5]
Regular season
| Pos | Team | Pld | W | L | PCT | Qualification or relegation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Team SoloMid | 18 | 15 | 3 | 0.833 | Advance to semifinals |
| 2 | Cloud9 | 18 | 14 | 4 | 0.778 | |
| 3 | Phoenix1 | 18 | 11 | 7 | 0.611 | Advance to quarterfinals |
| 4 | Counter Logic Gaming | 18 | 10 | 8 | 0.556 | |
| 5 | FlyQuest | 18 | 9 | 9 | 0.500 | |
| 6 | Dignitas | 18 | 9 | 9 | 0.500 | |
| 7 | Immortals | 18 | 8 | 10 | 0.444 | |
| 8 | Echo Fox | 18 | 6 | 12 | 0.333 | |
| 9 | Team Liquid | 18 | 5 | 13 | 0.278 | Promotion tournament |
| 10 | Team Envy | 18 | 3 | 15 | 0.167 |
Rules for classification: 1) Winning percentage; 2) head-to-head record; 3) tiebreaker match(es)
Promotion tournament
| Initial Round | First Qualification Match | |||||||
| A1 | Team Liquid | 3 | ||||||
| Winner to 2017 Summer | ||||||||
| B2 | eUnited | 0 | ||||||
| A1 | Team Liquid | 3 | ||||||
| B1 | Gold Coin United | 2 | ||||||
| A2 | Team Envy | 1 | ||||||
| B1 | Gold Coin United | 3 | ||||||
| Losers Match | Second Qualification Match | |||||||
| Winner to 2017 Summer | ||||||||
| B1 | Gold Coin United | 2 | ||||||
| B2 | eUnited | 1 | A2 | Team Envy | 3 | |||
| A2 | Team Envy | 3 | ||||||
Source: LoL Esports (Archived January 23, 2018, at the Wayback Machine)
Playoffs
| Quarterfinals | Semifinals | Final | |||||||||||
| 1 | Team SoloMid | 3 | |||||||||||
| 3 | Phoenix1 | 3 | 5 | FlyQuest | 0 | ||||||||
| 6 | Team Dignitas | 0 | 1 | Team SoloMid | 3 | ||||||||
| 2 | Cloud9 | 2 | |||||||||||
| 2 | Cloud9 | 3 | |||||||||||
| 4 | Counter Logic Gaming | 2 | 3 | Phoenix1 | 0 | Third place | |||||||
| 5 | FlyQuest | 3 | |||||||||||
| 3 | Phoenix1 | 3 | |||||||||||
| 5 | FlyQuest | 2 | |||||||||||
Source: LoL Esports (Archived January 23, 2018, at the Wayback Machine)
Awards
- Most Valuable Player: Arrow, Phoenix1[6]
- Rookie of the Split: Contractz, Cloud9[6]
- Coach of the Split: Reapered, Cloud9[6]
Summer
The Summer Split regular season ran from June 2 to August 6, 2017.[7]
The bottom two teams from the regular season were relegated to the promotion tournament, where they competed with the top two teams from the Challenger Series. The tournament was held from August 11 to 13, 2017, and followed a double-elimination format. The top two teams advanced to the 2018 spring split.[8]
The top six teams from the summer regular season secured spots in the Summer Split playoffs, which ran from August 19 to September 3, 2017. The playoffs were a single-elimination tournament, with top two teams starting in the semifinals and the following four starting in the quarterfinals. All matches were in a best-of-five format. The winner of the summer playoffs directly qualified for the 2017 World Championship.[9] The Summer Split playoffs third place match and final were played at the TD Garden in Boston, Massachusetts.[10]
Regular season
| Pos | Team | Pld | W | L | PCT | Qualification or relegation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Team SoloMid | 18 | 14 | 4 | 0.778 | Advance to semifinals |
| 2 | Immortals | 18 | 14 | 4 | 0.778 | |
| 3 | Counter Logic Gaming | 18 | 12 | 6 | 0.667 | Advance to quarterfinals |
| 4 | Cloud9 | 18 | 12 | 6 | 0.667 | |
| 5 | Dignitas | 18 | 11 | 7 | 0.611 | |
| 6 | Team Envy | 18 | 8 | 10 | 0.444 | |
| 7 | FlyQuest | 18 | 6 | 12 | 0.333 | |
| 8 | Echo Fox | 18 | 5 | 13 | 0.278 | |
| 9 | Team Liquid | 18 | 4 | 14 | 0.222 | Promotion tournament |
| 10 | Phoenix1 | 18 | 4 | 14 | 0.222 |
Rules for classification: 1) Winning percentage; 2) head-to-head record; 3) tiebreaker match(es)
Playoffs
| Quarterfinals | Semifinals | Final | |||||||||||
| 1 | Team SoloMid | 3 | |||||||||||
| 3 | Counter Logic Gaming | 3 | 5 | Team Dignitas | 1 | ||||||||
| 6 | Team Envy | 1 | 1 | Team SoloMid | 3 | ||||||||
| 2 | Immortals | 1 | |||||||||||
| 2 | Immortals | 3 | |||||||||||
| 4 | Cloud9 | 1 | 3 | Counter Logic Gaming | 0 | Third place | |||||||
| 5 | Team Dignitas | 3 | |||||||||||
| 3 | Team Dignitas | 0 | |||||||||||
| 5 | Counter Logic Gaming | 3 | |||||||||||
Source: LoL Esports (Archived January 30, 2018, at the Wayback Machine)
Promotion tournament
| Initial Round | First Qualification Match | |||||||
| A1 | Team Liquid | 3 | ||||||
| Winner to 2018 Spring[lower-alpha 1] | ||||||||
| B2 | eUnited | 0 | ||||||
| A1 | Team Liquid | 3 | ||||||
| A2 | Phoenix1 | 2 | ||||||
| A2 | Phoenix1 | 3 | ||||||
| B1 | Gold Coin United | 2 | ||||||
| Losers Match | Second Qualification Match | |||||||
| Winner to 2018 Spring[lower-alpha 1] | ||||||||
| A2 | Phoenix1 | 3 | ||||||
| B1 | Gold Coin United | 0 | B2 | eUnited | 0 | |||
| B2 | eUnited | 3 | ||||||
Source: LoL Esports (Archived January 23, 2018, at the Wayback Machine)
Awards
- Most Valuable Player: Bjergsen, Team SoloMid[11]
- Rookie of the Split: MikeYeung, Phoenix1[11]
- Coach of the Split: Ssong, Immortals[11]
- 1st Team All-Pro:[11]
- T Ssumday, Dignitas
- J Xmithie, Immortals
- M Jensen, Cloud9
- B Doublelift, Team SoloMid
- S Olleh, Immortals
Worlds qualification
Championship Points
| Pos | Team | Spr | Sum | Total | Qualification |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Team SoloMid | 90 | AQ | AQ | 2017 League of Legends World Championship |
| 2 | Immortals | 0 | 90 | 90 | |
| 3 | Cloud9 | 70 | 20 | 90 | Advance to regional qualifier |
| 4 | Counter Logic Gaming | 10 | 70 | 80 | |
| 5 | Dignitas | 10 | 40 | 50 | |
| 6 | FlyQuest | 30 | 0 | 30 | |
| 7 | Team Envy | 0 | 20 | 20 | |
| 8 | Phoenix1 | 50[lower-alpha 2] | 0 | 0 | |
| 9 | Echo Fox | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| 10 | Team Liquid | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Rules for classification: 1) Championship points; 2) Summer Split points; 3) Summer Split regular season winning percentage; 4) Head-to-head record
Regional qualifier
| Round 1 | Round 2 | Finals | |||||||||||
| 3 | Cloud9 | 3 | |||||||||||
| 4 | Counter Logic Gaming | 3 | 4 | Counter Logic Gaming | 1 | ||||||||
| 5 | FlyQuest | 3 | 5 | FyQuest | 1 | ||||||||
| 6 | Team Dignitas | 0 | |||||||||||
Source: LoL Esports (Archived January 14, 2018, at the Wayback Machine)
Broadcast
Notes
- 1 2 Team Liquid and Phoenix1 both won the promotion tournament, and would normally retain their spots in the NA LCS, however due to league-wide changes to a franchised model, they were no longer guaranteed a spot.
- ↑ Phoenix1 lost Spring Split points due to placing in a relegation position during the Summer Split
References
- ↑ Volk, Pete (January 9, 2017). "Here is the NA LCS schedule for Spring 2017". The Rift Herald. Polygon. Retrieved November 15, 2023.
- ↑ Goslin, Austen (March 31, 2017). "NA LCS Promotion Tournament 2017: Schedule, bracket and live scores". The Rift Herald. Polygon.
- ↑ Goslin, Austen (April 8, 2017). "NA LCS 2017 Spring Split Playoffs: Schedule, bracket and live scores". The Rift Herald. Polygon. Retrieved November 15, 2023.
- ↑ Newell, Adam (April 3, 2017). "NA LCS event schedule and playoff bracket | Spring 2017". Dot Esports. Retrieved November 15, 2023.
- ↑ Chouadria, Adel (January 17, 2017). "NA LCS Spring Finals to be held in Vancouver". ESPN. Retrieved November 15, 2023.
- 1 2 3 4 5 6 "2017 NA LCS Spring Split Award Winners". League of Legends Esports. April 7, 2017. Retrieved November 15, 2023.
- ↑ Kim, Byungho (May 26, 2017). "NA LCS 2017 Summer Split starts on June 2". InvenGlobal. Retrieved November 15, 2023.
- ↑ Goslin, Austen (August 11, 2017). "Follow the star-studded NA LCS Promotion Tournament here". The Rift Herald. Polygon.
- ↑ Goslin, Austen (August 17, 2017). "NA LCS Playoffs schedule, preview and results". The Rift Herald. Polygon. Retrieved November 15, 2023.
- ↑ Lee, Julia (June 20, 2017). "NA LCS Summer Finals will be in Boston". The Rift Herald. Polygon. Retrieved November 15, 2023.
- 1 2 3 4 5 6 "2017 NA LCS Summer Split Award Winners". League of Legends Esports. August 15, 2017. Retrieved November 15, 2023.
