Team Liquid Alienware are LCS champions. They beat LYON three-one in the LCS 2026 Summer Playoffs grand final.
TL took the first two games and moved to championship point. LYON fought back in Game three to avoid the sweep. Liquid then closed it out in Game four.
The opening games belonged to Josedeodo. LYON left Lee Sin open in Game one, one of his best champions, and he made them pay. His pressure across the map gave Liquid an early lead in the series.
Game two followed the same script. Josedeodo went to Qiyana against Inspired’s Skarner and again controlled the game. After a pause mid-game, a LYON fight went wrong, and TL took a two–zero lead.
LYON refuses to go quietly
Game three was LYON’s turn. Inspired made a string of early plays, including pressure on the bottom side, which gave his team a good start. Josedeodo played Maokai, a tankier pick built around utility rather than carry power.
Liquid clawed back into the game and threatened to end the series. A late fight went badly, though, and LYON took the map to make it two–one.
Morgan shuts the door
Game four was the Morgan show. TL’s top laner had the upper hand on Dhokla’s Gnar and kept showing up across the map. Liquid stayed aggressive and kept making plays with their lead instead of sitting on it.
Near the end, a fight around Baron decided the title. An attempted flank from Isles came to nothing, and Liquid pushed through for the win.
Yeon also had a strong series. His Lucian mechanics and teamfighting gave TL extra damage in big fights. CoreJJ kept the team organized from the support role.
Trophy shelf gets crowded
For Quid, this is his first LCS title. He joined 100 Thieves in 2023 and was named regular-season MVP in the 2024 Spring Split. Now he finally has a trophy to go with the award.
Josedeodo’s win completes a long journey. The Argentine jungler played at Worlds 2020 with Rainbow7, then spent time with FlyQuest in North America before returning to Latin America. He came back to the LCS and is now a champion. If the record books hold, he is also the first South American player to win the league.
Morgan, who previously played for BRION in the LCK, adds a North American title to his career. CoreJJ, a 2017 world champion with Samsung Galaxy, has another domestic trophy with the team he joined in 2019.
The win extends a long history of success for Team Liquid, which won four LCS titles in a row across 2018 and 2019.
LYON finish as runners-up. They had plenty of experience in the lineup, with Inspired (2022 Spring champion with Evil Geniuses) and Dhokla (2023 Summer champion with NRG), but couldn’t match Liquid over four games.
