LYON advances to upper-bracket final at LCS Spring playoff

Field Level Media|published: 05/25/2026, 1:52am EDT

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No. 2 seed LYON pulled off a 3-2 comeback win over No. 3 seed Team Liquid in an upper-bracket semifinal Sunday at the LCS Spring event in Los Angeles.

With the victory, LYON will face Cloud9 in the upper-bracket final on June 6. Team Liquid will next take on Shopify Rebellion in a lower-bracket quarterfinal on May 31.

Eight teams competed in the best-of-three matches in the round-robin regular season with the top six advancing to the playoffs of the League of Legends event. The playoffs will be contested in best-of-five matches in a double-elimination format. The top two teams will qualify for the Mid-Season Invitational.

Team Liquid jumped out to the lead with a 34-minute win on blue, but LYON rebounded with back-to-back wins on red (38 minutes) and blue (31 minutes) and had a chance to close out the victory. Team Liquid, however, bounced back with a 30-minute triumph on red. In the decisive fifth game, Lyon won in 36 minutes on red to seal the victory.

South Korea native Seong-in "Saint" Kang was the MVP of the match for LYON, finishing with a combined kill-death-assist ratio of 15-10-26. Sean "Yeon" Sung of the United States led Team Liquid with a 15-9-12 K-D-A ratio.

Next week's schedule (Lower-bracket quarterfinals)

Saturday

FlyQuest vs. Sentinels

Sunday

Team Liquid vs. Shopify Rebellion

--Field Level Media