Welcome to Day Two of the North American Promotion Tournament for the League of Legends Championship Series. I’ll be bringing you play-by-play of the remainder of the tournament’s matches. The live blog should auto refresh right before your eyes, but feel free to refresh the page yourself for the latest updates.
The tournament, held at LCS Studios in Los Angeles, California, consists of the 3 lowest placed LCS teams and the 2 highest placed Challenger teams throughout the Spring Split. The 5 teams will battle it out to gain entry to the LCS Summer Split.
PLAYOFF BRACKET
-Bracket determined by seeding
SCHEDULE
| Day 1 | April 6 | Match A (Team Dignitas vs. Team Dragon Knights) | TDK WIN | |
| Day 2 | April 7 | Match B (Renegades vs Team Dragon Knights) | TBD | |
| Day 2 | April 7 | Match C (Team Impulse vs. Apex) | TBD | |
| Day 3 | April 8 | Match D (Match 2 loser vs. Match 3 loser) | TBD |
Day Two
Team Dragon Knights, who finished 2nd in the Challenger series, will be hoping to replicate the same performance they displayed yesterday against LCS team Dignitas. The 3-0 victory by TDK over Dignitas, eliminated the former LCS team from the Promotion tournament and ultimately knocked them out of the LCS Summer Split.
The later game, starting after the Renegades v TDK match, sees the top Challenger seed Apex face off against Team Impulse.
The winner of both games will guarantee themselves a spot in the LCS Summer split, whilst the losers will face each other tomorrow to see who will grab the last LCS spot.
DAY TWO LIVE BLOG (refreshes automatically):
Picks and Bans
Renegade Bans: Poppy, Azir, Janna.
TDK Bans: Lulu, Graves, Kindred.
Renegade Picks: Jayce (Top), Gragas (Jungle), Ekko (Mid), Corki (ADC), Morgana (Support)
TDK Picks: Ryze (Top), Elise (Jungle), Karma (Mid), Lucian (ADC), Alistar (Support)
Here we go, the game is underway.
1min
Renegades jungler Crumbz on Gragas misses his bodyslam on Gromp, so then has to flash back over the wall to smite it.
Twitch chat goes wild. Casters are slightly confused.
4min
FIRST BLOOD
CrumbZ kills Kez in TDK’s jungle.
Nobody will remember that early mistake anymore, will they? No, they definitely will.
4min
FIRST BLOOD
CrumbZ kills Kez in TDK’s jungle.
Nobody will remember that early mistake anymore, will they? No, they definitely will.
9MIN
11MIN
12MIN
14MIN
19MIN
The stats at the 20 minute mark
22MIN
24min
27min – RENEGADES WIN
Game one recap
Game one stats
Game 2’s pick and bans to come shortly.
SUBSITUTION
Game 2 – Bans
Game 2 – Picks
Game 2 now underway
4MIN
5MIN
8MIN
10MIN
13MIN
19MIN
TDK: 0 Dragons, 2 Towers, 33.5k gold, 6 kills.
22MIN
24MIN
25MIN
27MIN – BARON
29MIN
TDK have to dust themselves off heading into Game 3. They look completely devoid of any sort of confidence gained from their impressive 3-0 win over Dignitas yesterday. Picks and bans will be with us shortly.
Flaresz, who was certainly on tilt last game has been substituted for RF Legendary in the top lane.
Game 3 – Bans
Game 3 – Picks
Game 3 Start
6MIN – FIRST BLOOD
10MIN – Update
These are the stats 10 minutes into the game. It’s been a good start by TDK.
15MIN
An overextension by RF Legendary sees Seraph take the kill with help from Crumbz.
18MIN
A fight explodes in the midlane. RF Legendary goes down early – they take a dragon and take back control of this game.
20MIN
The sub that TDK made hasn’t worked out for them. RF Legendary again finds himself dead. The Seraph and Crumbz combo has been unstoppable – either of them are the MVP’s of this series if Renegades go on to win.
25MIN UPDATE
Here’s your 25minute update. Renegades have a 5k gold lead.
26-28MIN
FIGHTS EXPLODE EVERYWHERE! TDK catch 2 Renegade members bot in Ninja and Crumbz and try push baron. They’re halted by 3 Renegade members, but manage to kill Seraph. A minute later they have a chance to do baron…
29 MIN – RENEGADES WIN
RENEGADES QUALIFY FOR THE LCS SUMMER SPLIT
Renegades 3 – 0 TDK
Crumbz and the rest of the Renegades team put in a hell of a performance in this series – but I’d have to give the MVP to Seraph. He put impressive numbers in all 3 games – forcing TDK to make a substitution in Game 3.
Alex ich and TDK will face the loser of TIP v Apex for a chance to make it into the LCS tomorrow.
TIP vs Apex
And this game starts in less than a minutes time. The winner of this will guarantee themselves a spot in the LCS Summer Split. The loser will face Alex ich and TDK tomorrow.
Game 1
Game 1
Game 1: Picks and Bans
Here we go, Game 1 of Apex vs TIP is now underway. Here are your picks and bans.
5MIN
Quick reactionary play by TiP sees them take an early 3 kill start over #1 Challenger seed Team Apex. Bright start by the LCS team.
10MIN
11MIN
16MIN
24MIN
26MIN – BARON
TiP secure baron. 3 members get over the back of the Baron pit and slay the Baron. Apex had no vision and certainly wasn’t expecting that. The Baron buff causes turrets to fall all over the map in TiP’s favour.
29MIN
Dragon 4 taken for TiP. They continue to pick off members of Apex and are now closing in on the inhibitor towers. This game is close to being over, Apex do not have an answer.
36MIN: TiP WIN
TiP finally end the game after toying with Apex for the last 5 minutes, securing Baron and Dragon 5 in the process. A statement of a performance by TiP – a landslide victory.
Game 2 – Apex vs TiP
Game 2 – Apex vs TiP
Apex will be hoping TiP’s Procxin will not have as much success in Game 2 as he did in Game 1, going 9/1/5 as Kindred.
Game 2 – Picks and Bans
10MIN
17MIN
Apex take dragon…but then nearly get aced in the ensuing team fight! Disaster for Apex, after what looked like a very calm and controlled start.
20MIN
24MIN
A scruffy 1-0 team fight in favour for TiP in the mid lane sees them take their 2nd dragon of the game and extend their gold lead to nearly 4K.
30MIN – TiP WIN
Game 2 – TiP up 2-0 in the series
Game 3 – Substitution
Game 3 – Picks and Bans
4MIN
Apex’s fans and the League of Legends community still believing the #1 Challenger team, Apex, can pull off a reverse sweep here.
10MIN
15MIN
18MIN
Feng’s being bullied this game. Apex yet again target the Ekko and succeed.
24MIN
27MIN
29MIN
The final throw of the dice for Apex, they have to do something now…and they do! Cris catches out TiP’s Lulu and the rest of the team runs havoc on a Baron buffed TiP. TiP lose 3 members, Apex lost nobody.
Apex aren’t down and out just yet.
32MIN
Yet another huge team fight for Apex! TiP keep on splitting in these fights and Apex take full advantage of this. They take 3 kills and push on to take down the bot tier 2 tower. Apex now have a gold lead and momentum on their side.
34MIN – Baron
Apex continuing to punish TiP now, and this game looks like it could be coming towards an end real soon.
Apex secure the baron, 2 inhibs, and are now up 5K.
38MIN – APEX WIN
Apex secure an amazing victory in Game 3 to keep their LCS dreams alive. Keanes Twisted fate and Shrimp, who was subbed in for this game, were major factors in Apex winning this game.
Game 4 – Picks and Bans
5MIN
5 minutes into Game 4, and you can tell both teams are nervous to make a mistake. Nothing’s happened yet and CS in all lanes are quite close.
9MIN
A fight finally breaks out. Cris overextends in lane and is caught in a 2 v 1 situation. Keane teleports to his safety and Cris manages to get first blood on Fang. Procxain responds with a kill onto Keane.
11MINS
Fights happen all over the map, and they all are in Apex’s favour! Police manages to earn himself a triple kill after a skirmish in TiP’s red side jungle – and Cris solo kills Feng in the top lane. Advantage Apex.
16MIN
Apex continue to apply pressure over the map and a fight breaks out between Baron and mid. The fight looks to be going in Apex’s favour, but the chokehold in which Apex are fighting in is a place where Azir and his soldiers excells. Pirean picks up a quadrakill. The pentakill was on, but Mash stole it. Scumbag Mash.
21MIN
With TiP in the lead, Apex bait baron. Instead of waiting it out and calling Apex’s bluff, TiP try to contest it – huge mistake. Apex collapse on the Azir that was such a huge factor in the last team fight and take 3 kills to tie the game up on gold.
25MIN
TiP catch 2 members of Apex and take Dragon. Police has…one of those moments – trying to assasinate Procxin and fails – surely gifting TiP baron. Game changer?
25MIN
Yep, TiP take Baron. They’ll look to use this to their advantage and they’ll be many seizes and team fights I predict in the next couple of minutes.
31MIN – TiP WIN AND TAKE THE SERIES 3-1
TiP use their gold lead to push in and take the win. TiP will be rejoining the LCS for the Summer Split.
NA Promotion Tournament – Day 3
Keane’s Jarven pick didn’t pay off for Apex, but they looked good in their series against TiP. The loss means that they’ll face TDK tomorrow, at 19:00 GMT. The winner of that game will join Renegades and TiP in the LCS in the Summer Split.
Thanks for joining me for NA Promotion tournament Day 2, and i’ll see you tomorrow for another great game!
Here we go then, Day 2 is about to start.
The first game of the day involves Renegades (Blue side start) and Team Dragon Knights (Red side start).
TDK, who won yesterday against Team Dignitas, will be hoping to carry on the momentum gained but will have to overcome a resurgent Renegades, who won 5 of their last 7 games in the LCS.
Picks and bans to come shortly.