YMCA member Austin Manengu works the keyboard as he plays a game of Fortnite during the unveiling of the new gaming lab at the Maplewood Family YMCA in Rochester Thursday, June 20, 2024. YMCA of Greater Rochester in partnership with Metro Sports & Entertainment Group will open two gaming labs for youth and teens this year. Team Liquid swept Cloud9 in the lower-bracket final on Saturday to advance to the grand final in the LCS Spring playoffs in Los Angeles.
LYON await Team Liquid in Sunday’s best-of-five championship round. LYON had pushed Cloud9 to the lower bracket with a 3-0 win on June 7 in the upper-bracket final.
Team Liquid lost to LYON 3-2 in the upper-bracket semifinals on May 24 to open the playoffs. Liquid fought their way back with lower-bracket victories over Shopify Rebellion (3-0), FlyQuest (3-1) and Cloud9 (3-0).
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 double-elimination playoffs are all best-of-five matches in a double-elimination format.
The top two teams will qualify for this summer’s Mid-Season Invitational in Daejeon, South Korea, while the winner also gets a trip to the Esports World Cup in Paris in July.
On Saturday, Team Liquid won 32, 24 and 29 minutes on the three maps.
Lim “Quid” Hyeon-seung led Team Liquid with an 11-2-24 kills-deaths-assists ratio, while fellow South Korean Park “Morgan” Ru-han posted a 10-0-14 K-D-A. Jo “CoreJJ” Yong-in, also of South Korea, had a 6-2-28. None of the Cloud9 players had a positive K-D ratio.
–Field Level Media
