NRG pull off a miracle run for the ages vs Cloud9: LCS Summer 2023 schedule, results & more

Against the odds, NRG have proven themselves to be North America’s best team. Despite Cloud9 coming in as the heavily-favored team, they weren’t able to reach their goal of 3 Championships in a row. Here’s everything you need to know about the 2023 LCS Summer Finals including the full schedule, results & more.

NRG isn’t the team most people would have bet on to win it all in Summer 2023. Though CLG looked promising in Spring before they were bought out by NRG ahead of Summer, the team didn’t look to be even in the top 3 teams in North America in the eyes of most.

However, they’d go on to prove everyone wrong and win the entire event. Cloud9 weren’t able to get it together after they won the first game, with NRG pulling off three wins in a row and sweeping the LCS Finals trophy right out from under them.

All three teams are already through to Worlds 2023, so their sole focus was on fighting for domestic glory. The placing at this final doesn’t affect Worlds seeding. However, Golden Guardians, who fell to Team Liquid in the lower bracket, will have to play the LEC’s fourth seed in the Worlds Qualifying Series for the chance to compete in the world championship.

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NRG’s win saw players on the team overcome with emotion, and elated that they managed to defeat Cloud9.

The Lower Bracket and Grand Final both played out in Newark, New Jersey at the Prudential Center in a stadium that held over 16,000 fans. Though many were rooting for Cloud9 at the start of the final, the stadium seemed to be won over by NRG’s sheer tenacity and their ability to give NA talent a chance to shine.

Here are all the details you need to know about the 2023 LCS Summer Championship Weekend, including all the latest results, the full schedule, and the rosters.

Contents

• Stream
• Schedule and results
• Regular season standings
• Teams & rosters

LCS Summer 2023: Stream

The LCS Summer split was streamed live on Twitch on the official LCS channel.

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

LCS Summer 2023: Schedule and results

The summer season was initially scheduled to begin on June 1, but Riot Games decided to postpone the starting date by two weeks because of the LCS player walkout.

Because of the delay, the regular season took place over six weeks, with matches being played on Wednesdays, Thursdays and Fridays.

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NRG are the surprise package of LCS Summer 2023

The top three teams of the Summer split will qualify for the 2023 World Championship, while the fourth-placed side will have to play the Worlds Qualifying Series.

Playoffs (July 27 — August 20)

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LCS Championship Weekend (August 19-20)

Day 11: August 19

Day 12: August 20

Playoffs at Riot Games Arena (July 27-August 13)

Day 1: July 27

Day 2: July 28

Day 3: August 3

Day 4: August 4

Day 5: August 5

Day 6: August 6

Day 7: August 10

Day 8: August 11

Day 9: August 12

Day 9: August 13

Regular season (June 14 — July 21)

LCS Summer 2023: Regular season standings

Darker Green = Qualified for playoffs’ upper bracket round 2. Light Green = Qualified for playoffs’ upper bracket round 1. Yellow = Qualified for playoffs’ lower bracket round 1. Red = Eliminated.

Week 1 results (June 14 — June 16)

Note: TSM announced that substitute mid laner Insanity would be playing instead of Ruby for Week 1 and Week 2.

Note 2: 100 Thieves announced that mid laner Quid would miss the first week of LCS due to visa issues. He was replaced by assistant coach Nukeduck. 

Week 2 results (June 21 — June 23)

Week 3 results (June 28 — June 30)

Ruby started over Insanity for the first time in the split during Week 3.

Week 4 results (July 5 — July 7)

Week 5 results (July 12 — July 14)

Note: Dignitas have completed the signing of support player poome, who is expected to start in Week 5 instead of Diamond.

Note 2: After subbing in Challengers mid laner Spirax in July 12’s match, FlyQuest announced that VicLa will return to the starting lineup

Week 6 schedule (July 19 — July 21)

Note: Evil Geniuses started Sheiden instead of Armao in the jungle against Immortals on July 19.

Tiebreakers:

LCS Summer 2023: Teams and rosters

The first two weeks of play have drastically shifted the power rankings, with EG’s new roster looking like an improvement over the previous one while FlyQuest languishes in last place. There have been a lot of substitutions and delays when it comes to teams fully building their rosters, but it seems that most of the chaos of the first two weeks has been sorted out.

However, TSM choosing to swap Insanity out for Ruby has been a controversial decision among fans. His consistently strong play with the team has surprised many, and Ruby will have to really stand out from the crowd if he wants to hold on to his spot.

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Insanity returned to TSM’s starting lineup for Week 4

100 Thieves’ fans will be curious to see how the team’s new mid laner, Lim ‘Quid’ Hyeon-seung, will perform. The Korean player, who came through Gen.G’s academy system, has big shoes to fill as he replaces Søren ‘Bjergsen’ Bjerg, who retired after the end of the Spring split.

That wasn’t the only change in the 100 Thieves camp, though, as the team also announced the return of top laner Kim ‘Ssumday’ Chan-ho after a split with Evil Geniuses.

On May 19, FlyQuest announced one change to their roster from the Spring Split with the signing of former Evil Geniuses player Philippe ‘Vulcan’ Laflamme as their starting support.

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