Regular season's end: LCS Week 8, Day 3 recap
Counter Logic Gaming, FlyQuest, Team Liquid, Dignitas and 100 Thieves won on March 17, the third day of Week 8 of the 2023 League of Legends Championship Series (LCS) Spring Split at Riot Games Arena in Santa Monica, Calif., United States.
Cloud9 beat FLY in a tiebreaker for first place, and 100T won tiebreakers against Evil Geniuses (fifth place) and CLG (fourth place) to finish in third place.

Counter Logic Gaming vs. Cloud9
Counter Logic Gaming upset C9 31-8 in 37:51. CLG jungler Juan Arturo "Contractz" Garcia earned Player of the Game honors for his 7/1/17 Sejuani performance; mid laner Cristian "Palafox" Palafox went 8/3/13 on Taliyah; and bot laner Fatih "Luger" Güven finished 11/0/8 on Zeri. C9's mid-jungler duo of Jang “EMENES” Min-soo and Robert "Blaber" Huang combined for eighteen deaths. LCS Player of the Game: CLG Contractz, 2nd

FlyQuest vs. TSM
FlyQuest beat TSM 12-6 in 30:30. FLY bot laner Lee "Prince" Chae-hwan went 8/0/1 on Zeri and scored a penta kill, and jungler Mingyi "Spica" Lu finished 2/1/4 on Vi. TSM only managed to take one major objective: a lone drake. LCS Player of the Game: FLY Spica, 3rd

Evil Geniuses vs. Team Liquid
Team Liquid upset Evil Geniuses in 42:09 while trailing 22-15 in kills. TL bot laner Sean "Yeon" Sung went 5/4/4 and was POTG, and top laner Park "Summit" Woo-tae finished 5/3/6 on Fiora. On the losing side, EG top laner Kim "Ssumday" Chan-ho and bot laner Ian Victor "FBI" Huang were 6/2/6 on K'Sante and 9/2/5 on Aphelios. LCS Player of the Game: TL Yeon, 4th

Dignitas vs. Golden Guardians
Dignitas upset Golden Guardians 16-10 in 40:24. DIG top laner İrfan Berk "Armut" Tükek went 5/1/5 on K'Sante and led in kills; jungler Lucas "Santorin" Tao Kilmer Larsen found a 3/1/10 Vi score; mid laner Nicolaj "Jensen" Jensen was 5/3/5 on Veigar; and bot laner Frank "Tomo" Lam's Zeri finished 3/2/8. LCS Player of the Game: DIG Santorin, 1st

100 Thieves vs. Immortals
100 Thieves beat Immortals 19-5 in 30:17. 100 bot laner Yiliang "Doublelift” Peng finished 5/2/10 on Jinx; mid laner Søren "Bjergsen" Bjerg notched a 5/0/11 Annie performance; and jungler Can "Closer" Çelik went 6/0/11 on Wukong. IMT only found three towers in the loss. LCS Player of the Game: 100 Doublelift, 6th

Tiebreakers
FlyQuest vs. Cloud9
Cloud9 secured first place with a 19-3 victory over FlyQuest in 29:25. C9 bot laner Kim "Berserker" Min-cheol went 12/1/2 on Draven and scored a quadra kill; jungler Blaber's Elise was 5/4/9; and support Jesper "Zven" Svenningsen finished 0/2/14 on Thresh.

Evil Geniuses vs. 100 Thieves
100 Thieves beat Evil Geniuses 22-13 in 40:31, putting EG at fifth place. 100 Closer went 10/2/11 on Viego; Doublelift found a 7/4/11 Kai'Sa KDA; Bjergsen finished 2/2/13 on Lissandra; and top laner Milan "Tenacity" Oleksij's Sion was 2/1/17. EG FBI finished 6/3/6 on Varus in the loss.

Counter Logic Gaming vs. 100 Thieves
100 Thieves beat Counter Logic Gaming 26-11 in the battle for third place. 100 Doublelift went 13/2/8 on Kai'sa and led all players on the day in kills; Bjergsen's Lissandra was 4/0/14; and Closer finished 7/2/11 on Wukong.
Strafe Player of the Day: 100 Closer (23/4/33), 2nd
Featured photos courtesy of Colin Young-Wolff/Riot Games.

