League of Legends LEC Summer Split 2022: All participating teams and format explained
The League of Legends LEC Summer Split 2022 will officially begin in a few days' time, with Team Vitality and MAD Lions kicking things off this Friday, June 17, 2022.
Ten of the best teams in Europe will be taking each other on to win a spot at the 2022 Worlds Championship event, which is set to take place later this year.
With just three spots available for the event, the competition will be fierce this time around, and fans will be quite excited to see if the 2022 Spring Split winners, G2 Esports, will be able to hold on to their crown.
Today’s article will go over all the teams participating in the League of Legends LEC 2022 Summer Split and lay out the format in which the competition will be held.
The League of Legends LEC Summer Split 2022 will be playing host to the following teams:
The format of the competition as well as the team selections for the Worlds Championship appearance, will be played out in three different phases:
1) Regular split
The Regular Split is the initial stage of the competition, where all ten teams will be facing off against each other in a double round-robin format with best-of-one matches.
Once the second round-robin is complete, only the top six ranked teams on the table will move on to the playoffs phase. The League of Legends LEC 2022 Regular Split is expected to last for eight weeks. However, Riot Games has yet to provide official details on the matter.
2) The Playoffs stage
The six qualified teams from the regular split will be moving on to the final stage of the competition, where one will be crowned the Summer Split champions.
Like the previous Split iterations, the playoffs are expected to have a winners’ and losers’ bracket. While Riot is yet to provide any details on the matter, this is
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