2022 LCS Spring Split

Lore & Background

The 2022 Spring Split arrived in a North American scene hungry for a new voice. After years of the same handful of rosters cycling through the top of the standings, the arrival of Sentinels into the LCS conversation brought a different energy to the regular-season schedule. The double round-robin format meant every opponent was met twice, and the margin for error was razor-thin. A single lost series in the first half could ripple through the entire standings by the time the playoffs arrived.

For the Sentinels faithful, the split became a story of incremental belief. Early regular-season matches carried the weight of establishing credibility against teams with deeper LCS pedigrees. Each win, particularly against higher-seeded opponents, was treated as a milestone. The fanbase coalesced around the team's identity on screen—aggressive early-game pressure, disciplined teamfights, and a willingness to take risks that the more conservative North American meta often punished. The Spring Split was not just a schedule; it was the narrative arc that turned casual viewers into season-long followers.

The playoff bracket, with its single-elimination brutality, crystallized everything the regular season had built. A single loss ended the run, and the pressure of that format tested the roster's composure in ways that a 14-week grind never could. The 2022 Spring Split playoffs became a touchstone in Sentinels' club history—a moment where the gap between potential and realized performance was measured in best-of-five series under the lights of the LCS broadcast stage.

In Their Own Story

The arena hummed with a low, electric buzz before the first pick was locked in. Behind the stage, the Sentinels players sat in a row of identical monitors, the blue glow catching the edges of their jerseys. The crowd noise was a wall of sound, half-cheering, half-anxious, the kind that makes your ears ring even through noise-cancelling headphones. The coach leaned in, voice low and steady, running through the draft strategy one final time. On screen, the enemy team had already locked in their picks, the camera panning across their faces with that familiar broadcast polish. The Sentinel on point shot a quick glance at his teammates, nodded once, and the room settled into that particular silence—the one where twelve people hold their breath and the entire season's worth of scrim notes, VOD reviews, and late-night strategy sessions compresses into the next forty minutes of gameplay. The caster's voice crackled through the speakers: "And we are live." The first minion wave spawned. The split was on.

Reader's Guide

The 2022 LCS Spring Split unfolded across roughly fourteen weeks of regular-season play, structured as a double round-robin where each of the eight LCS teams faced every other team twice. The first half of the schedule saw Sentinels establishing their baseline against the full field, with early results setting the tone for seeding into the playoff bracket.

The regular season carried the weight of every series. Wins against top-seeded opponents carried disproportionate narrative weight, while losses to lower-ranked teams threatened to derail playoff positioning. Mid-season, roster and strategic adjustments were common across the league, and Sentinels' coaching staff used the back half of the schedule to refine the compositions and pick/ban strategies that would carry into the postseason.

The playoffs, structured as a single-elimination bracket, compressed weeks of regular-season tension into a handful of best-of-five series. The main event of the split—the grand final—drew the largest broadcast audience of the season and became the cultural touchstone for the Sentinels fanbase. For the club, the Spring Split's conclusion defined the summer's trajectory: a strong finish built momentum and confidence; a disappointing exit forced a reckoning heading into the off-season. Either way, the 2022 Spring Split remains the foundational chapter of Sentinels' LCS story, the split where the club's competitive identity in North America was first written in public.

Did You Know?

• The 2022 LCS Spring Split used a double round-robin regular season, meaning every team faced each opponent twice before the single-elimination playoffs began.
• The single-elimination playoff format meant a single lost best-of-five series ended a team's entire split, making every game in the bracket carry maximum stakes.
• The Spring Split served as the first competitive window of the 2022 LCS season, with the Summer Split following as a second full cycle before the year concluded.
• For Sentinels, the 2022 Spring Split represented a key chapter in establishing the club's competitive presence and fanbase within the North American LCS ecosystem.