Sentinels and Disguised earned victories as the bottom four teams in the standings were in action on the opening day of Week 6 of the regular season of the LCS Spring event in Los Angeles on Saturday.
Sentinels remained locked into a top-five spot with a 2-0 sweep of Shopify Rebellion, and Disguised kept Dignitas winless in regular-season play with a 2-0 triumph.
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.
Sentinels swept its match with a pair of victories on red in 39 and 32 minutes.
Jeong “Impact” Eon-young and Cho “Rahel” Min-seong of South Korea split MVP honors, posting kill-death-assist ratios of 6-4-8 and 10-2-12, respectively, in the match. Australia’s Ibrahim “Fudge” Allami led Shopify Rebellion’s charge with a 5-6-6 K-D-A ratio.
Disguised’s sweep of Dignitas came via a 26-minute win on red followed by a 43-minute victory on blue.
Christian “KryRa” Rahaian of Canada was the MVP of both wins, posting a 4-4-26 K-D-A ratio in the match. Australian Ian Victor “FBI” Huang was Dignitas’ most effective player with a 6-3-7 K-D-A ratio.
The penultimate week of the regular season concludes Sunday with the top four teams in the standings in action. Cloud9 takes on FlyQuest and Team Liquid faces LYON.
Regular-season standings (Win-loss total, map differential)
T1. Cloud9, 5-0, 10-3
T1. Team Liquid, 5-0, 10-3
3. LYON, 4-1, 9-3
4. FlyQuest, 3-2, 8-5
5. Sentinels, 2-4, 7-9
6. Disguised, 2-4, 4-9
7. Shopify Rebellion, 1-5, 3-10
8. Dignitas, 0-6, 3-12
–Field Level Media
