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Riot releases full schedule for 2023 LCS Championship

Paving the way to the World Championship.
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Published: Jul 18, 2023 12:32 pm

Only one week remains until the 2023 LCS Summer Split reaches the postseason, with multiple North American League of Legends teams still battling at the top of the regular season standings. As we wind down the final three days of the split, Riot Games finally shared the schedule for the upcoming LCS Championship today.

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Starting on Thursday, July 27, the playoffs will kick off with the third and sixth seeds facing off in a best-of-five series, while the fourth and fifth seeds will follow suit on the next day. A whole week will pass before the seventh seed faces off against the loser of the first match, while the loser of the second match will take on the eighth seed in the lower bracket.

The 2023 LCS Championship format.
The road to Worlds continues for the LCS. Screengrab via Fandom

Supporters won’t get to see the top two seeds in action until Aug. 5 and 6, when they take on the winners of the first two matches of the postseason. This also means that the first and second seeds will have two weeks to rest and prepare for their opponents, while the others will be playing almost non-stop from the end of regular season competition.

Related: 2023 LCS Summer Split: Scores, standings, and schedule

The rest of the playoff bracket will kick off on Thursday, Aug. 10, with the final showdown between the winner of the upper bracket and lower bracket taking place on Sunday, Aug. 20 at the Prudential Center in Newark, New Jersey to crown a new king of the LCS.

The top three LCS teams will qualify for the 2023 World Championship in South Korea, while the fourth-best team will have to fight the fourth-best team from Europe to earn a spot at the play-in stage.

Here is the full schedule.

2023 LCS Championship complete schedule

Playoffs week one

  • Match one – Thursday, July 27: No. 3 seed vs. No. 6 seed
  • Match two – Friday, July 28: No. 4 seed vs. No. 5 seed

Playoffs week two

  • Match three – Thursday, Aug. 3: No. 7 seed vs. loser of match one
  • Match four – Friday, Aug. 4: No. 8 seed vs. loser of match two
  • Match five – Saturday, Aug. 5: No. 1 or No. 2 seed vs. winner of match two
  • Match six – Sunday, Aug. 6: No. 1 or No. 2 seed vs. winner of match one

Playoffs week three

  • Match seven – Thursday, Aug. 10: winner of match four vs. loser of match five
  • Match eight – Friday, Aug. 11: winner of match three vs. loser of match six
  • Match nine – Saturday, Aug. 12: winner of match six vs. winner of match five
  • Match 10 – Sunday, Aug. 13: winner of match eight vs. winner of match seven

LCS Championship weekend

  • Day one – Saturday, Aug. 19
  • Day two – Sunday, Aug. 20

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Lead League of Legends writer for Dot Esports. Forever an LCS supporter, AD carry main, with more than five years in the industry. Sometimes I like clicking heads in Call of Duty or VALORANT. Creator of the Critical Strike Podcast.
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