The 2024 LCS season was the 12th season of the League Championship Series (LCS), a North American professional esports league for the video game League of Legends. The season was divided into two splits: Spring and Summer. The Spring Split ran from January 20 to March 31, and the Summer Split ran from June 15 to September 7, 2024. For the first time since 2014, the league had eight teams competing instead of 10.
The LCS was initially succeeded by the North Conference of the League of the Americas (LTA), but would only have one season in 2025. On 28 September 2025, Riot Games announced that the LCS would be reinstated starting in 2026.
League changes Teams Following the 2023 season, TSM sold their LCS franchise slot to Shopify Rebellion. In addition, on November 19, 2023, Golden Guardians and Evil Geniuses exited the LCS, as their third-party administrator agreement with Riot Games was terminated. With not enough time to fill the two vacancies, the league announced that they would continue with eight teams for the 2024 season. The 2024 season marks the first time in a decade that the LCS had only eight teams competing in the league.
Commissioner On December 13, 2023, Riot Games has announced that Mark "MarkZ" Zimmerman would be the new commissioner for the LCS. His appointment followed the departure of Jackie Felling, who stepped down from the commissioner position in summer 2023 due to health-related complications.
Spring The Spring Split regular season ran from January 20 to March 10, 2024. The regular season followed a double round-robin tournament format, with each team playing each other twice. All matches were best-of-one. The top six teams from the regular season advanced to the playoffs, with the top four teams starting in the upper bracket, and the following two starting in the lower bracket. The Spring Split Finals took place on March 31 at the Riot Games Arena in Los Angeles.
Regular season
Playoffs
Final standings Team Qualification 1 Team Liquid 2024 Mid-Season Invitational bracket stage 2 FlyQuest 2024 Mid-Season Invitational play-in stage 3 Cloud9 4 100 Thieves 5–6 NRG Esports Dignitas
Summer Regular season
Playoffs
Final standings Team Qualification 1 FlyQuest 2024 World Championship Swiss Stage 2 Team Liquid 3 100 Thieves 2024 World Championship Play-In Stage 4 Cloud9 5 Dignitas 6 NRG
Awards Spring Most Valuable Player: Quid, 100 Thieves Coaching Staff of the Split: 100 Thieves
1st Team All-Pro: Bwipo, FlyQuest River, 100 Thieves Quid, 100 Thieves Bvoy, Shopify Rebellion Busio, FlyQuest
2nd Team All-Pro: Impact, Team Liquid Inspired, FlyQuest Jojopyun, Cloud9 Berserker, Cloud9 Eyla, 100 Thieves
3rd Team All-Pro: Sniper, 100 Thieves Blaber, Cloud9 Jensen, FlyQuest Massu, FlyQuest Vulcan, Cloud9
Summer Most Valuable Player: Impact, Team Liquid Coaching Staff of the Split: Team Liquid Most Improved Player: APA, Team Liquid Rookie of the Year: Massu, FlyQuest
1st Team All-Pro: Impact, Team Liquid Blaber, Cloud9 APA, Team Liquid Yeon, Team Liquid CoreJJ, Team Liquid
2nd Team All-Pro: Thanatos, Cloud9 Inspired, FlyQuest Jojopyun, Cloud9 Berserker, Cloud9 Vulcan, Cloud9
3rd Team All-Pro: Bwipo, FlyQuest UmTi, Team Liquid Quad, FlyQuest Massu, FlyQuest Busio, FlyQuest
Broadcast The LCS will return to Saturday and Sunday broadcasts after a year of weekday broadcasts. Riot Games announced the decision to revert to the original Saturday and Sunday broadcast days in response to widespread feedback from the North American League of Legends community. The move to Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday broadcasts in the previous year faced backlash from fans, contributing to a decline in overall viewership. The previous year saw a notable decrease in LCS viewership, reaching its lowest levels in peak viewership and average viewer counts over the last six seasons.
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