The 2016 LPL playoffs will be played on April 13-18, and the finals will be on the 23rd, which is also the first playoffs of the LPL after the reform of the competition system.

Each team's position in the regular season will determine the straight promotion round in the playoffs, while the teams that finish third or fourth in their group will have to fight their way through to the finals, and the group winners will advance directly to the second round of the playoffs.

The playoffs are all played in a BO5 format, and the specific matchups are determined by the ranking of each team in the group.

According to the rules, the playoffs are divided into two halves, the first of Group A and Group B automatically enter the second round of the playoffs, A1 enters the upper half, and B1 enters the bottom half.

A2 and B2 automatically advance to the first round of the playoffs, with B2 going to the top half and A2 going to the bottom half.

A3 and B4 play BO5, A3 leads by one point, and the winner enters the first round of the playoffs to face B2 in the top half.

B3 and A4 play BO5, B3 leads by one point, and the winner enters the first round of the playoffs to face A2 in the bottom half.

So according to the regular season standings, the matchups are as follows:

Upper Half:

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Lower Half:

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The bottom team will play all the way up, and finally one team from each half of the region will enter the finals of the playoffs and compete for the spring championship!

This time the playoffs and the relegation game are intersected, the playoffs are played one day and one day off, and the day of rest is the relegation game.

Relatively speaking, this arrangement is quite good, so that the players can have a day of rest and will not be so tired.

The first round of the playoffs starts on April 13, with VG vs. WE at 1 p.m., 5 p.m. and snake vs. IG.

LGD's game is on April 17th, just sit back and wait for the following team to play and win this game, it is the final, and there are only 2 BO5 away from the championship!

Just before the start of the playoffs, a matter about NB sparked heated discussions on the Internet, because a statement by doinb's girlfriend on Weibo attracted the attention of many people, and Tang Xiaoyou's Weibo was suspected of accusing NB of not giving her boyfriend doinb a play.

In the last few games at the end of the regular season, NB did replace doinb, and the substitute mid laner was on the bench, and there are rumors that NB is recalling the substitute mid laner dade signed at the beginning of the season.

Tang Xiaoyou's Weibo posted a Weibo in early April:

'May the heavens be gentle with the kind people, and the reincarnation of heaven will be rewarded. ‘

At this time, doinb is not like the original time and space, only the runner-up in the summer competition in 15 years, and the current doinb is the champion of last year's summer competition and the top 4 in the S competition.

NB replaced doinb at the end of the season and replaced it with a substitute, and the external statement was that doinb was unwell, so the audience and fans didn't say anything at that time, and many people wished doinb an early recovery on NB's official blog.

At the beginning of the ninth week, NB replaced the doinb and replaced the substitute midlaner, and until the end of the regular season, a total of 3 games were played, with a record of 1 win and 2 losses, and only won WOA 2:1.

The first game without doinb lost 1:2 against GT, and then in the second game of the ninth week against WOA, NB replaced UZI, and finally won 2:1 against WOA, but then in the closing game of the tenth week, facing the stronger WE, although the first game won the game with UZI's excellent performance, but then was let by WE chase two.

That's what made things blow out completely.

Just when everyone was talking about it, the day before the start of the playoffs, NB released an official blog, declaring that everything was a rumor, and at the same time announcing the starting lineup for the playoffs:

Top laner V, jungler swift, mid laner doinb, ADCuzi, auxiliary mor.

With this announcement, the discussion about NB has come to an end for the time being, but many people know that there must be a conflict within NB, but I want the management to intervene to solve it, after all, it will be the playoffs soon.

Others don't know the inside story, but Su Yi, who has always been in contact with Doinb, knows something, and Doinb complained to Su Yi when he was replaced as a substitute, and also asked Su Yi about some things.

From the situation revealed by doinb, swift and he did have conflicts and quarrels, but due to the poor results after NB replaced doinb, NB management intervened, and Haosheng persuaded the two to let the two abandon their personal wishes and play the playoffs first.

But Su Yi didn't know what would happen in the end, because in his impression, in the original time and space, Doinb seemed to not come before the start of the final playoff game, and then Dade didn't report it, and was finally directly judged by the referee.

So Su also persuaded Doinb a lot as a friend during this time, telling him that for the sake of his own career, the competition is important, and he must not make any impulsive moves.

That's all Su Yi can do, he can only hope that Doinb will listen, otherwise there is nothing he can do.

Before the start of the playoffs, the shocking news is not only NB, but also the surprising thing is that in the Snakevs IG game that will be played at 5 pm today, retired veteran Tabe will replace the former IG support Kitties as the auxiliary position.

IG then also confirmed the playing lineup for the IG playoffs on its official Weibo.

Top laner - Zzitai, mid laner - Rookie, jungler - Kid, ADC - rain, support - Tabe, subs - Kitties, Time.

As soon as the heated discussion about NB subsided, IG's substitution caused a heated discussion again.

'IG: What's going on?' ’

'What did Kitties get substituted for?' There is also a contradiction internally? ’

'Runner-up auxiliary joins, IG takes off? ’

At the same time, word broke that the 2016 MSI Mid-Season Championship will use version 6.8.

Here's the thing, recently the designers gave a simple answer to the questions that players have been concerned about recently on the official forums, mainly related to MSI and mage changes.

For mage changes, which are expected to be available in version 6.9, such as the Vampire's balance, including the vampire book and tech gun's lifesteal, will have no effect on him.

MSI is planned to use version 6.8, if it doesn't work, the previous version will be used, but the later version will not be used.

With the turmoil, the playoffs came as scheduled, and Su Yi and Zhou Xiang both sat in front of the screen that day, one was concerned about possible opponents, and the other wanted to see how other teams understood the current version, or if they had any big moves.

In the second half, VG played against WE, and in the end, VG won two cities in a row, plus its own 1:0 start, and directly advanced to the next round 3:0.

Then there is the first half of the Su-Yi relationship, snake vs. IG.

Tabe returned to the battlefield, but in the end, IG still said goodbye to the arena 0:3, snake faced IG, and won the two games without changing the lineup.

On the BP side, both sides are playing around the middle lane, and there are 5 mid-laner heroes in 6 ban positions! Then the top laner and the popular heroes of the jungler have been released.

Ike is still the focus, IG took down Ike directly, but this Ike was used to hit the mid laner in the end!

The problem of the hero pool of the posture is undoubtedly exposed, and IG doesn't dare to put Ike to the other side, but there is no way to give the posture to play a single Ike, so I can only give it to rookie.

But just as Godv answered Su Yi at that time, Ike really can't be a midlaner, Snake directly took out the Tsar in the face of Ike, and then got the Leopard Girl Jungler to suppress the rhythm in the early stage, and Brother Saint Spear also got his own quite skilled Bobby!