Regular season's end: LCS Week 8, Day 3 recap

Regular season's end: LCS Week 8, Day 3 recap

James Domizio

18 Feb, 2023, 13:30

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Last updated: 12 May, 2025, 13:36

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.

Regular season's end: LCS Week 8, Day 3 recap

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

Regular season's end: LCS Week 8, Day 3 recap

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

Regular season's end: LCS Week 8, Day 3 recap

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

Regular season's end: LCS Week 8, Day 3 recap

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

Regular season's end: LCS Week 8, Day 3 recap

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

Regular season's end: LCS Week 8, Day 3 recap

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.

Regular season's end: LCS Week 8, Day 3 recap

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.

Regular season's end: LCS Week 8, Day 3 recap

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.

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