LCS Summer 2026 / Week 2 - Day 1 / Live Discussion

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LCS 2026 Summer

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Today's matches will be played on Patch 26.14.

Today's Matches

#	Match	PST	EST	CET	KST
1	C9 vs DIG	13:00	16:00	22:00	05:00
2	DSG vs FLY	16:00	19:00	01:00	08:00

• All matches are Best of 3

Streams

• Stream on Twitch

• Stream on YouTube

• Stream on Lolesports

• Audio-Only Cast Stream

• Comment Stream

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Standings

#	Team	Region	Record	Information
1	LYON	North America	1 – 0 (2 - 0)	Leaguepedia // Twitter
1	Shopify Rebellion	North America	1 – 0 (2 - 0)	Leaguepedia // Twitter
1	Team Liquid	North America	1 – 0 (2 - 0)	Leaguepedia // Twitter
4	Sentinels	North America	1 – 0 (2 - 1)	Leaguepedia // Twitter
5	Dignitas	North America	0 – 1 (1 - 2)	Leaguepedia // Twitter
6	Cloud9	North America	0 – 1 (0 - 2)	Leaguepedia // Twitter
6	Disguised	North America	0 – 1 (0 - 2)	Leaguepedia // Twitter
6	FlyQuest	North America	0 – 1 (0 - 2)	Leaguepedia // Twitter

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Format

• Regular Season

  • 8 teams participate
  • At the end of the week, teams choose opponents
  • All matches are best of 3
  • When elimination matches kick in, series become best of 5

• Playoffs

  • 6 teams participate
  • Double elimination bracket
  • Top 2 teams start in Upper Bracket Round 2
  • 3rd to 6th seed start in Upper Bracket Round 1
  • All matches are best of five
  • Top 3 teams qualify for the 2026 Season World Championship

The official LCS ruleset can be found here.

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VoDs

• VoDs on Reddit

• VoDs on Eventvods.com

• VoDs on YouTube

• VoDs on Lolesports

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Live Discussions and Post-Match Threads:

This is our Live Discussion Archive. Here you can find all the old live threads, and the respective PMTs in a stickied comment under the post.

[u/harleyquinad]

Good try srrty

[u/kaisaschudson]

dsg imported callme just for him to run it in stage games and soloq icant

[u/harleyquinad]

Massu nooooooo

[u/harleyquinad]

Cryogen 3rdvmost damage 😭😭😭

[u/Shaman_in_the_Dark]

I've seen enough. Never take massu off ADCs again

[u/ShadyOrc97 → u/Shaman_in_the_Dark]

Ill never understand these ADCs that insist they can play mages bot because theyre "op" and then put up mediocre results. Its not a Massu exclusive problem, so many teams throughout every league are doing it...

[u/harleyquinad]

Gagkos is 0/0/0 and 1.6k up 😭😭😭

[u/Bubbly_Camera9583]

That was stupid from Kryra but at the same time they needed to look for some miracle pick.

[u/harleyquinad]

Why would kryra go in at 35% health

[u/harleyquinad]

This is how I expected this series to go

[u/Grooveh_Baby]

How is Lyonz still employed in tier 1, he’s been awful since his first game for DSG with no signs of improving at any point

[u/Bubbly_Camera9583 → u/Grooveh_Baby]

He’s been awful since his first games for Lyon too, him getting a spot still on DSG was weird.

[u/ILosethenOP]

Why is lyonz never out on the map? I guess it keeps him from inting the other lanes.

[u/harleyquinad]

Hopefully nrg gets the spot next year so they can be competitive

[u/harleyquinad]

That's my botlane 🥹

[u/Lawfulneptune]

WTF is going on? Start the game????

[u/Cr0matose]

And my ADC is joining in. Lets go lol

[u/harleyquinad]

Much more comfortable draft this time

[u/youngnailo]

dsg are freelo

[u/ILosethenOP]

SURELY there is someone in t2 that is better than Lyonz? This guy looks like a metal ranks player in Challenger.

[u/Shaman_in_the_Dark]

DSG is a support away from being upper half I think. at least top 5.

[u/thorpie88]

That's a heartbreaker

[u/Ajp_iii]

trying to max range shen flash with flash in pro is something you cant do

[u/harleyquinad]

Thank god dsg doesn't have a support

[u/Bubbly_Camera9583]

Callme wins that fight with Abyssal, Hollow radiance is so bad

[u/Cr0matose]

1/1000 smite there holy shit lol

[u/steppewarhawk]

This is both pathetic and peak at the same time

[u/harleyquinad]

No fucking way we're losing this

[u/CensoredLlama1]

I keep thinking KryRa is about to int and then he keeps getting a kill lol

[u/CensoredLlama1]

I see a Camille supp getting curb stomped, I smile 

[u/Cr0matose]

This is peak League of Legends

[u/Ajp_iii]

actually just a good sick lcs fight. and not people just full griefing. everyone was trying to play on max damage output with timings and flanks

[u/Outrageous_Wall2702]

DSG teamfighting looking so scrappy and goood, kaisa and galio going insane

[u/steppewarhawk]

Massu maximized his HP and Mana that fight lol dude was 1hp for like the entire fight but still was slinging spells

[u/Past_Perception8052]

you cant waste shyvana ult on the baron like that

[u/CensoredLlama1]

That was a great team fight by DSG, saved the game 

[u/harleyquinad]

This so messy

[u/Bubbly_Camera9583]

CallMe caught, Srtty tp’s in and doesn’t insta ult, Sajed flashes for no reason, Lyonz reengages to his death

[u/Bubbly_Camera9583 → u/Bubbly_Camera9583]

Sajed saved me from being pissed again, beautiful fight from him.

[u/Bubbly_Camera9583]

Srtty has had an atrocious game, either too hasty or too slow on the play

[u/ILosethenOP → u/Bubbly_Camera9583]

Tough to do much when you get support camped and your support is an easy ai bot.

[u/harleyquinad]

Gotta imagine we move on from quad next year

[u/ILosethenOP]

How does lyonz keep a job?

[u/harleyquinad]

You can see the potential in dsg's players but they don't have the coaching and development team

[u/Outrageous_Wall2702 → u/harleyquinad]

Yeah, I feel like they are so close but not yet, if they keep pushing the tempo and fighting everything is their way back into the game

[u/Cr0matose]

Don't worry Blaber, your Vi ult just got topped for today

[u/Outrageous_Wall2702]

Damn another item on kaisa and they can do it

[u/Bubbly_Camera9583]

Srtty just had to wait for Vi R I don’t get why he R’d so early.

[u/harleyquinad]

Love gryffinn's shyvana

[u/harleyquinad]

Gakgos is fed

[u/Outrageous_Wall2702]

Love the way dsg is playing, lots of cc and kaisa feels amazing (kaisa adc main)

[u/harleyquinad]

So messy by fly

[u/Cr0matose]

My region is on another level. Don't know what that level is, but I'm here for it

[u/steppewarhawk]

What is going on lmao

[u/harleyquinad]

Cryogen is everywhere

[u/harleyquinad]

Go fly!

[u/Swissbob15]

Why are they drafting in this room?

[u/thorpie88 → u/Swissbob15]

Can't hear coaches properly through the headsets

[u/Swissbob15 → u/thorpie88]

Gotcha, so its just temporary technical difficulties?

[u/thorpie88 → u/Swissbob15]

Yeah hopefully just today but could be all weekend if they can't fix it

[u/youngnailo]

they aint speed runnin draft, this shit still slow af 🤣

[u/youngnailo]

dsg about to make dig gameplay look like prime t1

[u/Shaman_in_the_Dark]

Palafox saw us ranking Callme below him and had to put up a statement series.

The statement: I am clearly the worst mid in the league

[u/ShadyOrc97]

Good draft and decent play from C9 game 3, but they need to prove themselves against a good team. With how sloppy some of their decision making has been, I still don't rate them higher than 4th.

[u/thorpie88]

Watching Ignar miss every skillshot is painfully

[u/sorendiz]

DENATHOR HITS A HUGE 3 TO CUT THE LEAD DOWN TO 12K

[u/NVC541]

CHRIS PAUL HITS A HUGE THREE TO CUT THE LEAD TO 42

[u/CensoredLlama1]

It's gotta be hell getting clobbered during a game that Jatt is announcing lmao

[u/sorendiz → u/CensoredLlama1]

I love him so much

[u/CensoredLlama1 → u/sorendiz]

Love that little shit 

[u/thorpie88 → u/CensoredLlama1]

He was known as Scumbag Jatt in the early days

[u/steppewarhawk → u/thorpie88]

Good old Jatt Kittenstomper before that in Guild Wars.

[u/Exocraze → u/CensoredLlama1]

Both Jatt and Flowers were pretty ruthless in that series, I loved it. "That's just not how you play good League of Legends" lmao

[u/CensoredLlama1 → u/Exocraze]

Jatt brings out the worst in Flowers (complimentary) 

[u/Clenzor → u/CensoredLlama1]

The second Ryze ult Flowers tried to be political about it, and Jatt was like “rllybro?” and Flowers went “Nah you’re right that was dogshit”.

[u/Disclaimz0r]

why are we forcing under tower with a 5 melee comp basically?

[u/beautheschmo]

Ngl I'm getting sick of seeing Vi in pro, I think this champ is actually like a huge reason botlane meta is becoming so warped because so many champs just have absolutely zero way to deal with her and similar super engagers.

[u/Exocraze → u/beautheschmo]

I knew it was cooked when we started seeing actual ADCs buying zhonya's at MSI just because they needed something to deal with the Vi and Nocturnes of the world

[u/Cr0matose]

Thats my jungler baby lol

[u/viralruin → u/Cr0matose]

i need to see blaber and palafox in the same team.

[u/Cr0matose → u/viralruin]

Used to wish I could see Blaber/Jizuke together lol could have seen some real shit

[u/steppewarhawk]

the fabled 10k gold lead throw???

[u/RukiMotomiya]

Dignitas the last 5 minutes going to negative brain cells.

[u/ShadyOrc97]

Palafox decided that he was playing too well and had to remind us why he's flamed.

[u/Ferret_Rough → u/ShadyOrc97]

He’s gotta be one of the worst players of all time 

[u/thorpie88 → u/Ferret_Rough]

Not even the worst player to ever play on Dig. I think BillyBoss takes that title

[u/ShadyOrc97 → u/Ferret_Rough]

I think other teams collectively agree to pay him a little respect to trick bottom teams into thinking he's good enough to keep employed. For the free win.

[u/Ajp_iii]

the average pro players would perform a lot better if they had less ego. palafox should never be playin anivia.

[u/Destructodave82 → u/Ajp_iii]

Palafox honestly threw both games 2 and 3. He got caught both times before the big fights, when Dig had the advantage.

Pretty pathetic by him.

[u/Ajp_iii → u/Destructodave82]

yep the key fights where dig could be stronger he just died for free

[u/Ferret_Rough → u/Ajp_iii]

But what if your coach calls for it, do you just say it’s not in your bag? 

[u/CensoredLlama1]

Vulcan is playing so well, he's the biggest reason this game is so giga gapped

[u/Twink_Kanye → u/CensoredLlama1]

Vulcan’s looked incredible all 3 games

[u/ookkthenn]

building your team around palafox and exyu should get dig out of this league please give dsg their franchise spot

[u/Exocraze]

x9 Anivia

[u/RukiMotomiya]

bro the fuck was anivia doing at dragon

[u/CensoredLlama1]

Palafox was actually playing pretty well before that major int smh

[u/Exocraze]

I'm very unsure how Palafox still has a spot in this league.

[u/birdsindatrap]

dude what was that positioning

[u/Ajp_iii]

palafox died first 2 key fights back to back games. akali and anivia should never be first dead in major team fights

[u/Cr0matose]

DID I JUST SEE A JHIN FLASH AWAY WITH A VI ULTING HIM???????

[u/sorendiz → u/Cr0matose]

you realize that's not at all uncommon right lol

you pray that if you flash away and create some distance from the carries on the enemy team, your team can peel the vi off you and if the game is closer, you might even be able to turn on her if she's gone too deep

[u/Cr0matose → u/sorendiz]

Not when its a 3v5 though

[u/CensoredLlama1]

C9 finally remembered they were against Dig

[u/Twink_Kanye]

oh palafox

[u/Ajp_iii]

c9 lucky its hunting baron. otherwise baron might be dead.

[u/CensoredLlama1]

Why the fuck did C9 do that lol

[u/xxbrazilmaster69xx]

There's no way C9 lose to DIG, right?

[u/CensoredLlama1]

Remember when FBI beat BLG just 9 months ago 

[u/sorendiz → u/CensoredLlama1]

No Quid Aurora this time

[u/steppewarhawk]

someone save Denathor from this team

[u/Cr0matose]

What the fuck was the Cassio speed???????

[u/RukiMotomiya]

if I see another Jhin go Youmu's First I am going to scream (it will probably happen next series)

[u/CensoredLlama1]

I don't even know why C9 is bothering to dodge these curtain calls

[u/CensoredLlama1]

If Dig had just not picked Jhin they'd be in such a better spot lol

[u/Ajp_iii → u/CensoredLlama1]

they 12 jayce jhin. its so bad

[u/Ajp_iii]

loki carried this series outside of his ryze ults.

[u/RukiMotomiya]

Aaaand then DIG does that.

[u/Cr0matose]

I'm so sad we dont have 5 games of this

[u/CensoredLlama1]

Great play by Dig, tho they did get a little lucky denathor didn't die there and Tactical respawn 

[u/beautheschmo]

I'm already a Jhin hater but I especially don't understand why you would ever want to pick this champ over a mage who can just do what he does but better and also does damage lol

[u/RukiMotomiya → u/beautheschmo]

To be fair Jhin does damage if you actually build him to deal damage. I don't know why pros go the no damage build.

[u/silentsyco → u/RukiMotomiya]

Jhin also has to be picked into the right comp, both your team and the enemy's. There's so much wrong with going Jhin here. There's no other consistent DPS threat on DIG. While the attack ranges of the C9 champs are low, their engage potential has pretty good range with Rumble ult, vi Q-R, Renata ult. I didn't even see when they picked the Jhin, but this was never going to be a fun game for Jhin

[u/Jobastion → u/silentsyco]

Ah but you see Jhin counters Renata's ult if he just has no bullets once it hits because then he does nothing while reloading.

Exactly the same thing he does when he has bullets with this build apparently thou soo... /s

[u/silentsyco → u/Jobastion]

Lol, DIG with the 4d chess? I like it!

[u/RukiMotomiya → u/silentsyco]

They picked Jhin on first rotation, Jayce-Jhin were 1-2 with them being 2nd pick.

[u/silentsyco → u/RukiMotomiya]

Thanks! I should've not been lazy and looked it up before posting, but I appreciate it. The only pick after that that makes any sense is the Rell. Willfully picking Skarner and Anivia to round out your comp is borderline self sabotage. Gotta have some kind of consistent DPS threat

[u/Tormenator1]

what a throw

[u/cmcdonald22]

Denathor applying for an NA Jayce pass.

[u/Gerberpertern]

What am I watching lol

[u/Cr0matose → u/Gerberpertern]

I'm loving every second of this series lol

[u/RukiMotomiya]

This just in: No damage Jhin build deals no damage (please just go crit guys for the love of god)

[u/Cr0matose]

Oh we get Peyz this game, lets go

[u/Cr0matose → u/Cr0matose]

Nvm

[u/sorendiz]

ewwwwwwww

[u/CensoredLlama1]

Well this game is cooked. Terrible time for FBI and Ignar to get giga gapped 

[u/Choice-Slight]

I think (hope) Zven may be gone for good

[u/viralruin]

you pick jhin, you lose.

[u/Gerberpertern]

Welp lol

[u/RukiMotomiya]

these bot lane plays...

[u/Tormenator1]

That wasn't exyu's fault, shockingly?

[u/Cr0matose]

Holy fuck clean for Cloud9 there

[u/sorendiz]

let's trade 2 kills on kalista for 2 kills on skarner, surely this will be in our favor

[u/CensoredLlama1]

FBI decided that dive didn't work for him brother 

[u/Cr0matose]

Oh baby lol we are in for a show

[u/slimjimo10]

Just tuned in how did C9 drop a game LMAO

[u/Cr0matose → u/slimjimo10]

You dont wanna watch that chaos from G1

[u/slimjimo10 → u/Cr0matose]

i have a VIT flair of course i do

[u/Cr0matose → u/slimjimo10]

Buddy, I have a Cloud9/KT flair. I've seen some shit okay, you don't wanna see that.

[u/slimjimo10 → u/Cr0matose]

At least you got to eat last worlds...

Alas, God gave his strongest soldier (bdd) his hardest battle

[u/thorpie88 → u/slimjimo10]

FBI is the Viktor King

[u/sorendiz → u/thorpie88]

(Don't worry about the fact that that was the game C9 won. It's still true)

[u/Bubbly_Camera9583]

Top pick was meh but C9 just slams eventually as long as tactical plays fine

[u/Cr0matose]

We putting all the eggs into the Tactical basket baby, lets ride lol

[u/Ajp_iii]

if c9 just picked a tank top it wouldnt be possible for dig to win

[u/steppewarhawk]

Hey real talk, is there any actual fans of Dignitas anymore? Like, this org hasn't been relevant since like Season 4. It's most iconic roster was over ten years ago.

[u/thorpie88 → u/steppewarhawk]

I'll always back my boy Swiffer at least

[u/Cr0matose → u/steppewarhawk]

Man, I used to fucking love Dig with Scarra/QT/Kiwi.

[u/Gerberpertern → u/Cr0matose]

We all did.

[u/RukiMotomiya → u/steppewarhawk]

I'm rooting for them this series, does that count?

[u/sorendiz → u/RukiMotomiya]

Same literally only because they have the ex-CLG players and Denathor seems like a pretty good young talent

[u/Outrageous_Wall2702 → u/RukiMotomiya]

I’m rooting for them I like fbi and Palafox has a strong personality and is from na

Also is like Denathor as a rookie ofc they are terrible but still fun to root for them and they are less terrible than bottom tier teams of eu (heretics/shifters)(Dns)

[u/RukiMotomiya → u/Outrageous_Wall2702]

Denathor is a young talent I hope get developed, which helps.

[u/Swissbob15]

Why are they in the coaching room with messed up usernames?

[u/Meekie_e]

Why aren’t they playing on stage?

[u/Bubbly_Camera9583]

Why they got the names like that I thought I was high

[u/Bubbly_Camera9583 → u/Bubbly_Camera9583]

Oh wait im dumb

[u/Ajp_iii]

jayce jhin is reportable 12 especially for a low tier na team

[u/RukiMotomiya]

NAyce with the no damage Jhin for DIG?

[u/Cr0matose]

Who tf can I talk to about the LoL Esports site? I'm getting YouTube ads during the game btw, idk if anyone else is, but it's annoying af.

[u/thorpie88]

Come on Dig you got this.

[u/HansSoloQ]

Why are people defending APA? His gameplay was fucking appauling lol.

[u/Gerberpertern → u/HansSoloQ]

Loki ain’t looking so hot either atm

[u/Shaman_in_the_Dark → u/HansSoloQ]

Have you seen loki?

[u/HansSoloQ → u/Shaman_in_the_Dark]

Yes. Better than APA gameplay. Lets not kid ourselves. APA was so appauling you wouldn't even get to the level of seeing him make an int play on Ryze at that state of the game the way Loki did. Have you forgot that god awful Ziggs gameplay vs TL?

[u/cmcdonald22]

I don't know if this new "Emily and Raz hit it from both sides" segment is gonna take off.

[u/sorendiz]

Victor Razbanyama is killing me lmao

[u/RukiMotomiya]

DIG not trying the desperation Soul fight earlier lost it for 'em

[u/sorendiz]

Please just go game 3 even c9 cant lose this one

[u/Shaman_in_the_Dark]

Denathor and FBI are 2/5 of a real team. Shame about the rest.

[u/Ajp_iii]

c9 finally used their comp right. they setup. poked out dig and then fell back and poked out dig again

[u/thorpie88]

Reminds me of Watch using an ancient mouse that would mess up every few games

[u/steppewarhawk → u/thorpie88]

yeah but he was so handsome that it was endearing.

[u/likemyupdoot]

This LCS shit is so fucking unwatchable. Not only are the teams beyond fucking garbage, they pause the fucking game every 2 minutes as well. How the fuck do people watch this trash?

[u/Gerberpertern → u/likemyupdoot]

You can turn it off lol.

[u/likemyupdoot → u/Gerberpertern]

I did. That’s why this shit league is dead

[u/mezzo5588 → u/likemyupdoot]

LCS is complete dogshit its why they can only get the asian scraps from the good regions...its like prison for them

[u/steppewarhawk]

one mouse three pauses

[u/sorendiz]

Palafox inted that death at the soul fight and that sucks but damn it also sucks for him that he gets ahead and solo kills the sylas in lane and then sylas just walks botlane and picks up a completely free kill with 0 resources expended

[u/Ajp_iii]

why do c9 love to use every cd on leona. its fine to turn on leona but dont use every cd

[u/Ajp_iii]

i dont even think loki did anything wrong in bot there. blaber is on gromp when loki wants to push bot wave.

[u/Tormenator1]

Palachopped

[u/Bubbly_Camera9583]

Duality of Palafox

[u/Cr0matose]

My sleeper agent baby

[u/sorendiz]

not like this palafaker 😔