2016 EU LCS season
The 2016 European League of Legends Championship Series (2016 EU LCS) was the fourth season of the European League of Legends Championship Series.
| 2016 EU LCS season | |
|---|---|
| League | EU LCS | 
| Sport | League of Legends | 
| Number of teams | 10 | 
| TV partner(s) | Twitch | 
| Spring | |
| Season champions | G2 Esports | 
| Runners-up | Origen | 
| Top seed | G2 Esports | 
| Summer | |
| Season champions | G2 Esports | 
| Runners-up | Splyce | 
| Top seed | G2 Esports | 
| Season MVP | Kim "Trick" Gang-yun | 
The Spring Split began on January 16, with a rematch of the 2015 EU LCS Summer playoff finals. Most matches were played at a film studio in Adlershof, Berlin. The finals were played in Rotterdam, Netherlands, at the Rotterdam Ahoy.[1]
The Summer Split was won by G2 Esports, with a roster of Expect, Trick, PerkZ, Zven, Mithy, Relinquished, Kikis, their first title. Most games were being played at Riot Games' studio in Adlershof, Berlin, Germany.[2] The finals were at the Tauron Arena Kraków in Kraków, Poland.[3]
Spring
    
    Rosters
    
| Team | Players | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| ID | |||
| Elements | 
 | ||
| Fnatic | |||
| G2 Esports | |||
| GIANTS! Gaming | |||
| H2k-Gaming | 
 | ||
| Origen | |||
| Splyce | 
 | ||
| ROCCAT | 
 | ||
| Team Vitality | |||
| Unicorns of Love | 
 | ||
Regular season
    
| Place | Team | Match record | Game record | Champ. points | 
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | G2 Esports | 15-3 | ||
| 2. | H2k-Gaming | 14-4 | ||
| 3. | Vitality | 13-5 | ||
| 4. | Origen | 11-7 | ||
| 5. | Unicorns of Love | 10-8 | ||
| 6. | Fnatic | 9-9 | ||
| 7. | Elements | 6–12 | ||
| 8. | Splyce | 5-13 | ||
| 9. | Team ROCCAT | 4-14 | ||
| 10. | GIANTS! Gaming | 3-15 | 
Playoffs
    
| Quarterfinals | Semifinals | Finals | ||||||||||||
| H2k-Gaming | 2 | |||||||||||||
| Vitality | 1 | Origen | 3 | |||||||||||
| Fnatic | 3 | Origen | 1 | |||||||||||
| G2 Esports | 3 | |||||||||||||
| G2 Esports | 3 | |||||||||||||
| Origen | 3 | Fnatic | 1 | |||||||||||
| Unicorns of Love | 0 | Third place | ||||||||||||
| H2k-Gaming | 2 | |||||||||||||
| Fnatic | 3 | |||||||||||||
Summer
    
    Rosters
    
| Team | Players | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| ID | Name | Role | |
| Fnatic | 
 | Noh Young-Jin | Top | 
| G2 Esports | 
 | Dae-han Ki (대한기) | Top | 
| GIANTS! Gaming | 
 | Lennart Warkus | Top | 
| H2k-Gaming | 
 | Andrei Pascu | Top | 
| Origen | 
 | Paul Boyer | Top | 
| ROCCAT | 
 | Sang-won Lee | Top | 
| Schalke 04 | 
 | Etienne Michels | Top | 
| Splyce | 
 | Martin Hansen | Top | 
| Unicorns of Love | 
 | Kiss Tamás | Top | 
Regular season
    
| Place | Team | Match record | Points | 
|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | G2 Esports | 10W-8T-0L | 38 | 
| 2. | Splyce | 9W-6T-3L | 33 | 
| 3. | Giants Gaming | 8W-3T-7L | 27 | 
| 4. | H2k-Gaming | 7W-6T-5L | 27 | 
| 5. | Fnatic | 7W-6T-5L | 27 | 
| 6. | Unicorns of Love | 6W-5T-7L | 23 | 
| 7. | Team Vitality | 3W-9T-6L | 18 | 
| 8. | FC Schalke 04 | 3W-9T-6L | 18 | 
| 9. | Origen | 2W-8T-8L | 14 | 
| 10. | ROCCAT | 2W-6T-10L | 12 | 
H2k finished above Fnatic after defeating them in a tiebreaker game
Team Vitality finished above Schalke 04 after defeating them in a tiebreaker game
Playoffs
    
- The semi-finals match between fnatic and H2k was delayed two days due to technical reasons.[4]
| Quarterfinals | Semifinals | Finals | ||||||||||||
| 1 | G2 Esports | 3 | ||||||||||||
| 3 | Giants Gaming | 1 | 6 | Unicorns of Love | 1 | |||||||||
| 6 | Unicorns of Love | 3 | 1 | G2 Esports | 3 | |||||||||
| 2 | Splyce | 1 | ||||||||||||
| 2 | Splyce | 3 | ||||||||||||
| 4 | H2k-Gaming | 3 | 4 | H2k-Gaming | 2 | |||||||||
| 5 | fnatic | 0 | Third place | |||||||||||
| 6 | Unicorns of Love | 1 | ||||||||||||
| 4 | H2k-Gaming | 3 | ||||||||||||
EU Regional Qualifiers
    
| Quarterfinals | Semifinals | Final | |||||||||||
| 3 | Unicorns of Love | 3 | |||||||||||
| 1 | Splyce | 3 | |||||||||||
| 4 | Giants Gaming | 0 | |||||||||||
| 2 | Fnatic | 0 | 3 | Unicorns of Love | 2 | ||||||||
| 3 | Unicorns of Love | 3 | |||||||||||
| 3 | |||||||||||||
| 4 | |||||||||||||
References
    
- "The EU LCS finals will be in Rotterdam | The Daily Dot". Archived from the original on 2016-08-20. Retrieved 2016-07-06.
- "A Game of Thrones: EU LCS breakdown". 25 May 2016.
- "LoL Esports".
- "Riot postpones EU LCS quarterfinals match after two-hour technical delays | The Daily Dot". Archived from the original on 2016-08-14. Retrieved 2016-08-15.
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