2020 PCS season

The 2020 PCS season is the first year of the Pacific Championship Series (PCS), a professional esports league for the MOBA PC game League of Legends. The PCS was created in late 2019 as a merger between the League of Legends Master Series (LMS) and League of Legends SEA Tour (LST).[1]

2020 PCS season
LeaguePacific Championship Series
SportLeague of Legends
Duration29 February – 3 May (Spring)
20 June – 30 August (Summer)
Number of teams10
Spring
Season champions Talon Esports
Runners-up Machi Esports

The spring regular season was initially set to begin on 8 February, but was postponed until further notice on 29 January due to the COVID-19 outbreak.[2][3] It was later announced on 18 February that the 2020 season would officially begin on 29 February.[4]

Spring

Teams and rosters

G-Rex was originally announced as one of the PCS' ten franchise partners,[5][6] but on 25 September 2019 it was announced that the team had disbanded and forfeited its spot in the PCS as a result of internal restructuring by their parent company Emperor Esports Stars.[7] Five days later, Machi Esports was announced as G-Rex's replacement.[4]

Teams Players Coach
Top Jungle Mid Bot Support
ahq eSports Club Ziv Kongyue Uniboy Wako Ysera GreenTea
Alpha Esports Rock CatJug Assassin Atlen Kino Radiance
J Team Rest Hana Nestea Lilv Woody Coldicee
Machi Esports PK Gemini M1ssion Bruce Koala Dreamer
Hong Kong Attitude 3z Holo Chase MnM Wing Skywalk
Kabuu JimieN
Talon Esports Hanabi River Candy Unified Kaiwing Bigfafa
Berjaya Dragons Azhi Enso Maoan K2 Chilly Paul
Minji
Liyab Esports Kaigu DoeDoii Rex Exosen Hamez Cabbage
Kurd
Nova Esports Rockky Ryan G4 MixcrosS PoP Warlock
Resurgence Shinsekai Epic Raven Mexi Dennis Crowe
Gengar Do1u1u
Source: LoL Esports

Regular season standings
  • Format: Double round robin, best-of-one
Pos Team W L Pts Qualification
1 Machi Esports 15 3 12 Advance to winners' bracket second round
2 ahq eSports Club 14 4 10
3 Talon Esports 13 5 8 Start in winners' bracket
4 Berjaya Dragons 10 8 2
5 Alpha Esports 8 10 −2
6 Nova Esports 7 11 −4
7 J Team[lower-alpha 1] 6 12 −6 Start in losers' bracket
8 Hong Kong Attitude[lower-alpha 1] 6 12 −6
9 Liyab Esports[lower-alpha 1] 6 12 −6
10 Resurgence 5 13 −8
Source: Leaguepedia
Notes:
  1. Hong Kong Attitude, J Team, and Liyab Esports were in a three-way-tie for seventh place at the end of the regular season. Because all three teams had a tied record (1–1) with the other two, placement in the subsequent tiebreaker matches were determined by the combined game time of each team's wins. J Team was awarded a bye to the second match for having the shortest total, and auto-qualified for playoffs.
  Seventh place tiebreaker (Match 1)     Seventh place tiebreaker (Match 2)
                 
    J Team W
  Liyab Esports L     Hong Kong Attitude L
  Hong Kong Attitude W  

Playoffs
  • Format: Double elimination

Winners' bracket
Round 1 (BO3)   Round 2 (BO5)   Semifinals (WB, BO5)
                   
    Machi Esports 3  
Berjaya Dragons 2     Berjaya Dragons 0  
Alpha Esports 1       Machi Esports 3
    Talon Esports 2
    ahq eSports Club 2
Talon Esports 2     Talon Esports 3  
Nova Esports 0  

Losers' bracket
  Round 1 (BO3)     Round 2 (BO3)     Round 3 (BO3)
                           
      LB Alpha Esports 1  
  LB J Team 1     WB ahq eSports Club 2    
  WB Alpha Esports 2         LB ahq eSports Club 2
      LB Hong Kong Attitude 0
      LB Hong Kong Attitude 2    
  LB Hong Kong Attitude 2     WB Berjaya Dragons 0  
  WB Nova Esports 0  
Semifinals (LB, BO5)
   
WB Talon Esports 3
LB ahq eSports Club 2

Finals
Finals (BO5)
   
WB Machi Esports 2
LB Talon Esports 3

Ranking
Place Team Prize (USD) Prize share Qualification
1st Talon Esports $30,000 42.25% 2020 Mid-Season Showdown
2nd Machi Esports $14,000 19.72% 2020 Mid-Season Showdown
3rd ahq eSports Club $10,000 14.08%
4th Hong Kong Attitude $7,000 9.86%
5th–6th Alpha Esports $4,500 6.34%
Berjaya Dragons
7th–8th J Team $3,000 4.23%
Nova Esports
9th Liyab Esports $2,000 2.82%
10th Resurgence

Summer

Teams and rosters

Prior to the start of the summer split, Talon Esports announced that its League of Legends team had partnered with PSG Esports and would henceforth compete as PSG Talon.[8][9]

Teams Players Coach
Top Jungle Mid Bot Support
ahq eSports Club Leaky Kongyue Uniboy Wako Ysera GreenTea
Ziv Zero
Alpha Esports Bush World6 Chen9 WeiLun Yursan Xiaoya
YourRiver
J Team Rest Hana Nestea Lilv Woody Coldicee
Ratis
Machi Esports PK Gemini M1ssion Bruce Koala Dreamer
Mountain
Hong Kong Attitude Kartis Holo MoonBlack MnM Tak Skywalk
Wing
PSG Talon Hanabi River Candy Unified Kaiwing Bigfafa
Tank Saroo
Berjaya Dragons Azhi Enso Maoan K2 Do1u1u Axin
Paul
Liyab Esports Kanji Doedoii Rex Dawn Mocha Cabbage
Tgee
Nova Esports Rockky Ryan G4 Coldenfeet PoP DeuL
WarL0cK
Resurgence Shinsekai Epic Raven Mexi BoxeR Jensen
Quake Kusuo OMO

Regular season standings
  • Format: Double round robin, best-of-one
Pos Team W L Pts Qualification
1 J Team 15 3 12 Advance to winners' bracket second round
2 ahq eSports Club 14 4 10
3 PSG Talon 14 4 10 Start in winners' bracket
4 Machi Esports 13 5 8
5 Alpha Esports[lower-alpha 1] 7 11 −4
6 Nova Esports[lower-alpha 1] 7 11 −4
7 Hong Kong Attitude[lower-alpha 1] 7 11 −4 Start in losers' bracket
8 Berjaya Dragons 6 12 −6
9 Liyab Esports 4 14 −10 Drop to promotion tournament
10 Resurgence 3 15 −12
Source: Leaguepedia
Notes:
  1. Alpha Esports, Hong Kong Attitude, and Nova Esports were in a three-way-tie for fifth place at the end of the regular season. Alpha Esports was awarded a bye to the second tiebreaker match for having the best head-to-head record with the other two teams.
  Fifth place tiebreaker (Match 1)     Fifth place tiebreaker (Match 2)
                 
    Alpha Esports W
  Nova Esports W     Nova Esports L
  Hong Kong Attitude L  
Second place tiebreaker
ahq eSports Club W
PSG Talon L

Playoffs
  • Format: Double elimination

Winners' bracket
Round 1 (BO3)   Round 2 (BO5)   Semifinals (WB, BO5)
                   
    J Team 1  
Machi Esports 2     Machi Esports 3  
Alpha Esports 1       Machi Esports
    PSG Talon
    ahq eSports Club 1
PSG Talon 2     PSG Talon 3  
Nova Esports 0  

Losers' bracket
  Round 1 (BO3)     Round 2 (BO3)     Round 3 (BO3)
                           
      LB Nova Esports  
  LB Hong Kong Attitude 0     WB J Team    
  WB Nova Esports 2         LB
      LB
      LB Berjaya Dragons    
  LB Berjaya Dragons 2     WB ahq eSports Club  
  WB Alpha Esports 0  

Ranking
Place Team Qualification
1st TBD 2020 World Championship main event
2nd TBD 2020 World Championship play-in stage
3rd TBD
4th TBD
5th–6th TBD
TBD
7th–8th Alpha Esports
Hong Kong Attitude
9th Liyab Esports
10th Resurgence
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References
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