LCS 2026 Lock-In Playoffs Bracket

The LCS Lock-In 2026 playoffs will begin on February 14 with Sentinels facing Disguised at 1 PM PST; the entire phase will be played in BO5 and run until March 1, when the final determines the LCS champion headed to First Stand in São Paulo, Brazil.

The LCS Lock-In 2026 regular season saw two teams eliminated: Shopify Rebellion and Dignitas, with the latter forced into a BO1 tiebreaker against Team Liquid. The four teams with 3-0 and 2-1 records start in the Upper Bracket, where the 3-0 Cloud9 picks FlyQuest as their Round 1 opponent; Sentinels thus face DSG, while LYON and TL are put in the Lower Bracket awaiting the losers.

Only one team finished the regular season at 0-3, and it wasn't necessarily the one everyone expected. Shopify Rebellion had an ambitious offseason, retaining nearly the same roster that achieved top 3 in Split 2 last year, while adding one of South Korea's biggest prospects, Yoo "Zinie" Baek-jin. Across their three BO3 matches, it didn't work at all for them, as they failed to take down a single Nexus.