The 2017 NA LCS season was the sixth season of the North American League of Legends Championship Series (NA LCS), a professional esports league for the video game League of Legends. The season was divided into two splits: Spring and Summer. The Spring Split began on January 20 and culminated with the playoff finals on April 23, 2017. The Summer Split began on June 2 and culminated with the Spring Split finals on September 3, 2017.

Team SoloMid won the spring split playoffs, qualifying them for the 2017 Mid-Season Invitational. Team SoloMid also won the summer split playoffs, directly qualifying them for the 2017 World Championship. Immortals and Cloud9 also qualified for the 2017 World Championship via Championship Points and winning the regional qualifier, respectively.

Spring

The Spring Split regular season began on January 20, 2017. The regular season followed a standard double round-robin format, where each team faced every other team twice.

The bottom two teams from the regular season were relegated to the summer promotional tournament, where they competed with the top two teams from the League of Legends Challenger Series. The tournament was held from March 31 to April 2, 2017, and followed a double-elimination format. The top two teams advanced to the summer split.

The top six teams from the regular season advanced to the playoffs, a single-elimination tournament, which ran from April 8 to April 23, 2017. Of the six teams, the top two started in the semifinals, while the bottom four started in the quarterfinals. All matches were in a best-of-five format. Unlike the previous year, the top seed in the semifinals would play the lowest seed that advanced from the quarterfinals. The winner of the playoffs advanced to the 2017 Mid-Season Invitational. The Spring Split playoffs third place match and final was played at the Pacific Coliseum in Vancouver, Canada.

Regular season

PosTeamPldWLPCTQualification or relegation
1Team SoloMid18153.833Advance to semifinals
2Cloud918144.778
3Phoenix118117.611Advance to quarterfinals
4Counter Logic Gaming18108.556
5FlyQuest1899.500
6Dignitas1899.500
7Immortals18810.444
8Echo Fox18612.333
9Team Liquid18513.278Promotion tournament
10Team Envy18315.167

Promotion tournament

Initial RoundFirst Qualification Match
A1Team Liquid3
Winner to 2017 Summer
B2eUnited0
A1Team Liquid3
B1Gold Coin United2
A2Team Envy1
B1Gold Coin United3
Losers MatchSecond Qualification Match
Winner to 2017 Summer
B1Gold Coin United2
B2eUnited1A2Team Envy3
A2Team Envy3

Source: ( January 23, 2018, at the Wayback Machine)

Playoffs

QuarterfinalsSemifinalsFinal
1Team SoloMid3
3Phoenix135FlyQuest0
6Team Dignitas01Team SoloMid3
2Cloud92
2Cloud93
4Counter Logic Gaming23Phoenix10Third place
5FlyQuest3
3Phoenix13
5FlyQuest2

Source: ( January 23, 2018, at the Wayback Machine)

Awards

  • Most Valuable Player: Arrow, Phoenix1
  • Rookie of the Split: Contractz, Cloud9
  • Coach of the Split: Reapered, Cloud9
  • 1st Team All-Pro: T Hauntzer, Team SoloMid J Lira, Team Envy M Bjergsen, Team SoloMid B Arrow, Phoenix1 S Smoothie, Cloud9
  • 3rd Team All-Pro: T Ssumday, Dignitas J Meteos, Phoenix1 M Ryu, Phoenix1 B Stixxay, Counter Logic Gaming S Olleh, Immortals

Summer

The Summer Split regular season ran from June 2 to August 6, 2017.

The bottom two teams from the regular season were relegated to the promotion tournament, where they competed with the top two teams from the Challenger Series. The tournament was held from August 11 to 13, 2017, and followed a double-elimination format. The top two teams advanced to the 2018 spring split.

The top six teams from the summer regular season secured spots in the Summer Split playoffs, which ran from August 19 to September 3, 2017. The playoffs were a single-elimination tournament, with top two teams starting in the semifinals and the following four starting in the quarterfinals. All matches were in a best-of-five format. The winner of the summer playoffs directly qualified for the 2017 World Championship. The Summer Split playoffs third place match and final were played at the TD Garden in Boston, Massachusetts.

Regular season

PosTeamPldWLPCTQualification or relegation
1Team SoloMid18144.778Advance to semifinals
2Immortals18144.778
3Counter Logic Gaming18126.667Advance to quarterfinals
4Cloud918126.667
5Dignitas18117.611
6Team Envy18810.444
7FlyQuest18612.333
8Echo Fox18513.278
9Team Liquid18414.222Promotion tournament
10Phoenix118414.222

Playoffs

QuarterfinalsSemifinalsFinal
1Team SoloMid3
3Counter Logic Gaming35Team Dignitas1
6Team Envy11Team SoloMid3
2Immortals1
2Immortals3
4Cloud913Counter Logic Gaming0Third place
5Team Dignitas3
3Team Dignitas0
5Counter Logic Gaming3

Source: ( January 30, 2018, at the Wayback Machine)

Promotion tournament

Initial RoundFirst Qualification Match
A1Team Liquid3
Winner to 2018 Spring
B2eUnited0
A1Team Liquid3
A2Phoenix12
A2Phoenix13
B1Gold Coin United2
Losers MatchSecond Qualification Match
Winner to 2018 Spring
A2Phoenix13
B1Gold Coin United0B2eUnited0
B2eUnited3

Source: ( January 23, 2018, at the Wayback Machine)

Awards

  • Most Valuable Player: Bjergsen, Team SoloMid
  • Rookie of the Split: MikeYeung, Phoenix1
  • Coach of the Split: Ssong, Immortals
  • 3rd Team All-Pro: T Flame, Immortals J Lira, Team Envy M Huhi, Counter Logic Gaming B Sneaky, Cloud9 S Aphromoo, Counter Logic Gaming

Worlds qualification

Championship Points

PosTeamSprSumTotalQualification
1Team SoloMid90AQAQ2017 League of Legends World Championship
2Immortals09090
3Cloud9702090Advance to regional qualifier
4Counter Logic Gaming107080
5Dignitas104050
6FlyQuest30030
7Team Envy02020
8Phoenix15000
9Echo Fox000
10Team Liquid000

Regional qualifier

Round 1Round 2Finals
3Cloud93
4Counter Logic Gaming34Counter Logic Gaming1
5FlyQuest35FyQuest1
6Team Dignitas0

Source: ( January 14, 2018, at the Wayback Machine)

Broadcast

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