Team Liquid improves to 4-0 at LCS Spring

Team Liquid won on Sunday to join Cloud9 atop the standings at 4-0 at the LCS Spring event in Los Angeles.

A 2-1 victory over the Sentinels moved Team Liquid into a tie with Cloud9, which competed on Saturday. In Sunday's other match, LYON swept Disguised 2-0 to improve to 3-1.

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

On Sunday, LYON downed Disguised, winning the first map in 37 minutes on red and the second in 30 minutes on blue.

Match MVPs for LYON were Kacper "Inspired" Sloma of Poland in Game 1 (match total 11-0-14 kill-death-assist ratio) and Kang "Saint" Seong-in of South Korea in Game 2 (match total 12-3-14 K-D-A).

Team Liquid topped the Sentinels, winning the first map in 24 minutes on blue and third map in 30 minutes on blue. The Sentinels won in 48 minutes on red in the second map.

Match MVPs were Team Liquid's Brandon "Josedeodo" Joel Villegas of Argentina in games 1 and 3 (match total 16-5-16 K-D-A), and the Sentinels' Choi "huhi" Jae-hyun of the United States and South Korea in Game 2 (5-12-21 K-D-A).

Week 5 schedule

May 2

--Cloud9 vs. Dignitas

--Team Liquid vs. Disguised

May 3

--LYON vs. Sentinels

--FlyQuest vs. Shopify Rebellion

Regular-season standings (Win-loss total, map differential)

1. Cloud9, 4-0, 8-2

2. Team Liquid, 4-0, 8-3

3. LYON, 3-1, 7-3

4. FlyQuest, 2-2, 6-4

5. Sentinels, 1-3, 5-7

6. Shopify Rebellion, 1-3, 2-6

7. Disguised, 1-3, 2-7

8. Dignitas, 0-4, 2-8

--Field Level Media