This Week In Esports [June 27th - July 3rd]

With the 2016 LCS Summer finishing Week 5, we're back with a new edition of This Week in eSports!

[Warning: This post contains event spoilers!]

Continue reading for details on current LCS Spring Split standings, regional standings, various team & player news, roster updates, as well as news on the EU Summer Finals in Krakow!

Current Standings:

The 2016 LCS Summer Season is well underway as we finish Week 5! Friendly reminder that both EU & NA are running on different schedules than previous splits.

The brackets and standings below are up to date as of Sunday, July 3rd and, as always, VODs can be found here.

[NA] LCS:

• Standings after Week 5:

• Top Three (W/L)

• TSM (10 - 0)

• Immortals (9 - 1) 

• Cloud 9 (6 - 4) 

• Schedule  - LoL eSports //Esports Wikis

[EU] LCS:

• Standings after Week 5:

• Top Three (W/T/L) - Points

• G2 Esports (5 - 5 - 0) - 20 Pts 

• Fnatic (5 - 2 - 3 ) - 17 Pts

• H2K (3 - 6 - 1 ) - 15 Pts

•  Schedule  - LoL eSports //Esports Wikis
• EU LCS Week 6 will start on FRIDAY instead of SATURDAY! 

[Korea] LCK:

• Top Four (W/L)

• ROX Tigers (7 - 2)

• KT Rolster (7 - 2)

• Samsung Galaxy (6 - 3)

• SKTelekom T1 (6 - 3)

Schedule/Teams/Standings - Esports Wiki

[China] LPL:

• Top Four (W/L) - Groups A & B

• Edward Gaming (8 - 0)

• Royal Never Give Up (7 - 1) 

• Game Talents (5 - 3)

• I MAY (5 - 3)

Schedule/Teams/Standings - Esports Wikis

[TW/HK/MO] LMS: 

• Top Three (W/T/L) - Points

• Flash Wolves (5 - 0 - 0 ) - 15 Pts 

•  J Team (3 - 1 - 0) - 10 Pts 

• ahq e-Sports Club (3 - 0 - 1 ) - 9 Pts

Schedule/Teams/Standings - Esports Wiki

Set your sights on Kraków for the EU Summer Finals 

Riot has announced Krakow, Poland as the location for the EU LCS Summer Finals!

"The EU Summer Finals are making their way to Kraków, Poland, where the top four teams from the Summer Split will fight to be crowned the EU Champions, in addition to earning their place at the 2016 World Championship. Who will survive this trial? The final battle for Summer Split will be held at the TAURON Arena Kraków on August 27 - 28. 

The team earning the Summer champions title will represent Europe at the 2016 World Championship in North America, followed by the team with the most championship points throughout the split. The third and final place will go to the winners of the EU Regional Qualifiers, scheduled for the week after finals at the EU LCS Arena. Seeding will be determined by championship points, so every game counts. 

Eager to support your favorites on their way to victory? Here’s more information on how you can get involved below: 

DETAILS 

Venue: TAURON Arena Kraków 

Dates: 

• August 27 (3rd place vs. 4th place) at ~5:00 PM CEST
• August 28 (1st place vs. 2nd place) at ~5:00 PM CEST 

Tickets: Tickets will go on sale soon. We’ll share more information before tickets go live on Lolesports. 

Teams: The top four EU LCS teams from the Summer Playoffs 

Format: Best of 5 

Points: 

• 1st place - will represent EU at the 2016 World Championship
• 2nd place - 90 points
• 3rd place - 70 points
• 4th place - 50 points 

Based on the final results of EU LCS Spring Split, so far the EU LCS teams have the following Championship Points allocations: 

• G2 Esports - 90 pts;
• Origen - 70 pts;
• Fnatic - 50 pts;
• H2K - 30 pts;
• Team Vitality - 10 pts;
• Unicorns of Love - 10 pts;
• FC Schalke 04 - 0 pts;
• Splyce - 0 pts;
• Roccat - 0 pts;
• Giants - 0 pts 

We’re excited to see which team will battle their way through to conquer the Kraków stage and who’ll be representing Europe at Worlds this year. The fires beckon. Who will answer?"

Information on tickets available here.

Team, Player, Event & Organization News

EU:

• Ilyas "Shook" Hartsema back to Team Vitality's starting roster and MightyBear moves to sub.
• DoubleG has joined Fnatic as a sub. 

LPL: 

• LoveLing rejoins OMG as jungler.

LCK: 

• Steal joins KT Rolster.
• Lee "Flame" Ho-Jong and Kim "Frozen" Tae-il rejoin Longzhu Gaming.
• Firetrap joins Ever.

Riot:

• DT Papa Chau, ENX k3soju, and ENX Impactful are being penalized for Elo Boosting.

• [REMINDER] The NA LCS Summer Finals will be coming to Toronto on August 27th & 28th. The Rift Walk experience will also be headed to Toronto! 

• [REMINDER] Riot has announced the location for the 2016 World Championship -  2016 World Championship will be held across North America September 29th - October 29th!

• [REMINDER] Riot has announced the location for the 2016 All-Star Event - 2016 All Stars will be held in Barcelona, Spain, from December 8th-11th.