The LCS is back, starting with the preseason Lock In tournament in January — here’s everything you need to know about the first North American event of the 2022 competitive calendar, including teams, streams, schedule, and more.
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The preseason LCS Lock In tournament is finally here, and that means North American League of Legends is back underway for another competitive year.
NA’s most recent representative trio — TL, C9, and 100 Thieves — failed to make a major splash at Worlds in Iceland last season, and return to the domestic arena looking to make up for their international failings. Behind them waiting Evil Geniuses and TSM, both of whom missed Worlds entirely.
Lock In is a chance to wash all that away though.
The preseason event begins on Friday, January 14, and will see all ten LCS orgs duke it out for the year’s first silverware. Here’s everything you need to know.
LCS 2022 Lock In streams
The official broadcast for the preseason LCS event will go live on the league’s Twitch channel below once the first matchday begins. The same stream can also be accessed on YouTube on the LCS channel, and on Riot’s dedicated LoL Esports website.
All three streams will go live around 12pm PDT on Friday, January 14.
LCS 2022 Lock In groups
The North American preseason Lock In tournament sees the league’s ten franchised teams split into two five-org groups. They then play a single round-robin to eliminate one team from each group and determine knockout seedings.
Here’s the group draws:
Group A — 100 Thieves, Cloud9, TSM, FlyQuest, Golden Guardians
Group B — Team Liquid, Evil Geniuses, Immortals, CLG, Dignitas
LCS 2022 Lock In schedule & results
The opening round of matches take place on Friday, January 14. Riot has yet to reveal the Lock In scheduling, but we will update this article as soon as they do.
LCS 2022 Lock In teams
All ten competing LCS teams have now submitted 메이저사이트 their starting Lock In lineups, though some teams may field Academy players in the preseason event too.
Team Top Jungle Mid AD Carry Support
100 Thieves Ssumday/Tenacity Closer Abbedagge FBI Huhi
Cloud9 Summit Blaber Fudge Berserker Winsome/Isles
CLG Jenkins Contractz Palafox Luger Poome
Dignitas FakeGod River Blue Neo Biofrost
Evil Geniuses Impact Inspired Jojopyun Danny Vulcan
FlyQuest Kumo Josedeodo Toucouille Johnsun Aphromoo
Golden Guardians Licorice Pridestalkr Ablazeolive Lost Olleh
Immortals Revenge Xerxe PowerOfEvil WildTurtle Destiny
Team Liquid Bwipo Santorin Bjergsen Hans Sama CoreJJ
TSM Huni Spica Keaiduo Tactical Shenyi
