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On August 19, the 2024 LCK Summer Season regular season has come to an end. Due to the late start of this year's LCK Summer Season and the Saudi Esports World Cup holiday for a week, it ended in mid-August. The final ranking of the LCK Summer Season is as follows. GEN ranked first in the league with a record of 17 wins and 1 loss, and the score was as high as 32 points. Their record is far ahead of other LCK fifth. HLE, DK and T1 also have a record of more than 11 wins, while KT and FOX barely made it to the playoffs.

Although GEN lost to KT and could not achieve a perfect record, they set a record for the small score in the LCK league, with a total record of 35 wins and 3 losses, and only lost 3 small games in the entire season. Even when T1 won the 2022 LCK Spring Split with a perfect record, it failed to reach this small score record, and the same was true in the SKT era. It can only be said that GEN's dominance in the league is indeed strong. They have won the first place in the regular season and the league championship for 4 consecutive times. This summer season, they want to challenge the fifth league championship.

The LCK League also has a unique list called the POG Player List. POG is the post-match MVP of the LPL League. Commentators, hosts, and staff vote for the best player of the game after each game. Each time a POG player gets 100 points, Peyz has won 11 POGs this season, followed by ShowMaker and Canyon with 10, and Bdd and Peanut with 8 each. The POG best player only looks at the points, so Peyz will get an extra bonus if he is elected as the POG player in the summer season.

LCK also has another regular season MVP award to distinguish it from POG players. It is selected based on various factors. The head coach, representative players, LCK staff, media reporters, and commentators are all eligible to vote for the best lineup and best player. Judging from the situation in this summer season, the five GEN players should directly take the first team. The second team may be Doran, Peanut, Zeka, Aiming and Delight. The third team may be Kingen, Oner, Showmaker, Viper and Keria. The best player of the season should be Peyz.

The playoffs will last from August 23 to September 8, with the loser finals and the grand finals being held offline in large venues. As the top two teams in the LCK regular season, GEN and HLE advance directly to the second round of the playoffs, and GEN has the right to choose its opponent in the second round. As the third place in the LCK regular season, DK has the right to choose its opponent in the first round, and they can choose KT or FOX as their opponent. In the end, DK chose FOX, which was ranked sixth, after all, KT has been in better competitive form recently.

Therefore, in the first round, DK played against FOX and T1 played against KT. The LCK official also specially arranged the news agency war on Saturday so that the audience could enjoy the show. The reason why it was not arranged on Sunday is because this Sunday will usher in the finals of the 2024 Valorant Global Championship. This competition will be held in Seoul and is the highest level event of the year for Valorant. EDG has already secured the top three. Taking into account the ratings and some dual-cultivation players, the LCK official adjusted the playoff schedule this week. The LCK playoffs will use version 14.16, and other regions will use version 14.15.

Four of the six playoff teams will become the representative teams of the LCK region in the 2024 World Championship this year. The other teams have lost the opportunity to compete for a place in the World Championship. As the runner-up team of the LCK Spring Split, T1 scored 20 more points than HLE and 40 more points than DK in the Spring Split. Since HLE has a guaranteed 50 points for the top four in the Summer Split, they can at least have 100 points. If GEN wins the LCK Summer Split championship, there are two possibilities for T1 to be guaranteed a place in the World Championship as the second seed. In other cases, they will have to play in the LCK qualifiers.

-T1 Summer Season runner-up (170 points)

-T1 Summer Season 3rd place (150 points), and the runner-up cannot be HLE