Cloud9 win LCS Spring 2023: Final placements and recap

The LCS Spring Finals Weekend has concluded, and Cloud9 are the back-to-back winners of the LCS title. Though Golden Guardians had a historic run that made for the best showing in the organization’s history, they weren’t able to take down the reigning champs.

The LCS Spring split has come to an end. Cloud9 bested Golden Guardians, only dropping a single game in their best of 5 set. The finals took place at the PNC Arena in Raleigh, North Carolina, and both teams competing in the Grand Finals have qualified for MSI. Though Golden Guardians lost, it’s hard to be disappointed about their performance overall after their 3-2 win over FlyQuest in the lower bracket finals.

FlyQuest, who were no match for Cloud9 in the upper bracket final, made a roster change before the trip to Raleigh, bringing in Challengers support Kim ‘Winsome Dong-keon to replace Bill ‘Eyla’ Nguyen. Unfortunately, their last minute substitution didn’t pay off, and the heavily favored LCS team won’t be going to MSI.

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The PNC Arena hosted the LCS Spring Finals

Golden Guardians have never made it to an international event in the history of their organization until now. Now that the LCS Spring 2023 finals have wrapped up, we’ll be seeing both these teams in London soon.

Here are all the details you need to know about LCS Spring 2023 Finals Weekend.

Contents

• Stream
• Schedule & results
• Standings
• Teams & players

LCS Spring 2023: Stream

The LCS Spring Finals Weekend were streamed live on Twitch on the official LCS channel. We have embedded it below for your convenience. The matches took place Saturday, April 8 at 2 pm PT/5pm ET and Sunday, April 9 at 3 pm PT/ 6pm ET.

Miss the games? Catch up with VODs on the LoL Esports channel.

LCS Spring 2023: Schedule & results

The ten LCS teams faced each other twice throughout the eight-week regular season. There were be two Super Weeks, in rounds 4 and 8.

The top six teams qualified for the LCS playoffs. The teams ranked first through fourth were seeded into the upper bracket semi-finals, while the fifth and sixth-placed teams had to battle their way through the lower bracket. The LCS Spring Finals will take place on April 8-9 at PNC Arena in Raleigh, North Carolina.

LCS Spring Finals Weekend (April 8 — April 9)

Day 1: April 8

Day 2: April 9

LCS Spring 2023 standings:

Online Playoffs (March 23 — March 31)

Day 1: March 23

Day 2: March 24

Day 3: March 25

Day 4: March 26

Day 5: March 30

Day 6: March 31

Regular season (January 26 — March 17)

Super Week (March 15 — March 17)

Week 1 schedule (January 26 — January 27)

Notes: Due to visa issues, Dignitas played with Biofrost instead of IgNar in Week 1, FlyQuest with Winsome instead of Eyla, and Golden Guardians with Young instead of Gori.

Week 2 schedule (February 2 — February 3)

Week 3 schedule (February 9 — February 10)

Super Week (February 15 — February 17)

Week 5 schedule (February 23 — February 24)

Note: In week 5, Tomo took Spawn’s place on Dignitas as their starting ADC. Elya also had his first week of play with FlyQuest after a series of VISA issues kept him from playing on stage with the team. This was also EMENES’ first week of play with Cloud9 where he replaced Diplex.

Week 6 schedule (March 2 — March 3)

Note: Wildturtle will be starting for TSM in place of Neo, and Bolulu will be playing on Immortals for the forseeable future while Ablazeolive takes a break for personal reasons.

Week 7 schedule (March 9 — March 10)

LCS Spring 2023: Regular season standings

Green = Qualified for playoffs’ upper bracket. Yellow = Qualified for lower bracket. Red = Eliminated.

LCS Spring 2023: Teams & players

There were quick a few interesting storylines to keep track of during the off-season as most LCS teams overhauled their rosters ahead of the 2023 season. Team Liquid’s acquisition of 2022 Worlds winner Hong ‘Pyosik’ Chang-hyeon to finalise a Korean-speaking roster and 100 Thieves’ signing of veterans Søren ‘Bjergsen’ Bjerg and Yiliang ‘Doublelift’ Peng were among the most discussed moves during the off-season.

100 Thieves

Doublelift makes LCS return after a two-year absence

Meanwhile, FlyQuest have put together one of the most ambitious rosters in the organization’s history, while Evil Geniuses and Cloud9 have held on to the majority of the lineup with which they won last year’s Spring and Summer titles, respectively.

You can find the full list of players and teams competing in LCS Spring 2023 below: