{"id":743,"date":"2016-06-09T19:45:04","date_gmt":"2016-06-09T19:45:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gamegnome.com\/esports\/?p=743"},"modified":"2016-06-09T19:45:04","modified_gmt":"2016-06-09T19:45:04","slug":"2016-na-cs-summer-split-primer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gamegnome.com\/esports\/2016\/06\/09\/2016-na-cs-summer-split-primer\/","title":{"rendered":"2016 NA CS Summer Split primer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BY LOL Esports<\/p>\n<p>Six teams are ready to make it the Summer of Challenger. Join them as they face off in Best of 2 (Bo2) matches during the NA Summer Split regular season starting on June 8. North America, are you ready for the Summer of Challenger?<\/p>\n<p>Schedule<\/p>\n<p>Regular Season<br \/>\n\u2022Week 1: June 8<br \/>\n\u2022Week 2:  June 15<br \/>\n\u2022Week 3: June 22<br \/>\n\u2022Week 4: June 29<br \/>\n\u2022Week 5: July 6<\/p>\n<p>Playoffs<\/p>\n<p>Summer Playoffs will take place on:<br \/>\n\u2022Semis: July 13 (2nd vs. 3rd, Bo5) and July 14 (1st vs. 4th, Bo5)<br \/>\n\u2022Finals: July 20 (Bo5)<\/p>\n<p>Promotion Tournament<\/p>\n<p>In Spring, Apex Gaming fought their way into the NA LCS during the Promotion Tournament. Will the next two NA CS teams continue their success during the upcoming Promotion Tournament on August 4-6?<\/p>\n<p>Teams<\/p>\n<p>The six teams participating in the NA CS Summer Split regular season are:<br \/>\n\u2022Apex Pride<br \/>\n\u2022Cloud9 Challenger<br \/>\n\u2022Dream Team<br \/>\n\u2022Eanix<br \/>\n\u2022Nova<br \/>\n\u2022Team Liquid Academy<\/p>\n<p>How do I catch the NA CS action?<\/p>\n<p>As with Spring, we\u2019ll be broadcasting four regular season games per week on Wednesdays starting at 6PM PT  &#8211; one full match, and Game Twos from the other two series. All games will be available as VODs.<\/p>\n<p>Are there any updates to the NA CS rules for Summer?<\/p>\n<p>We\u2019ve made a few minor rule changes (including the introduction of Reserve Roster spots, change to  tiebreaker seeding, and clarification of certain policies) that you can <a href=\"https:\/\/esports-assets.s3.amazonaws.com\/production\/files\/rules\/2016_Summer_NACS_Changelog_V3_02.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">review in the NA CS changelog<\/a>, or by reading the full <a href=\"https:\/\/esports-assets.s3.amazonaws.com\/production\/files\/rules\/2016_Summer_NACS_RuleSet_V3_02.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">NA CS Summer Split ruleset<\/a>. Also, in accordance with NA LCS and other leagues, NA CS will be adopting a <a href=\"https:\/\/esports-assets.s3.amazonaws.com\/production\/files\/rules\/NACS_Fine_Tracker.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">penalty tracker<\/a> that will be updated throughout the Summer.<\/p>\n<p>Don\u2019t miss any of the NA CS action as we kick off the Summer of Challenger on Wednesday, June 8 at 6PM PT with Team Liquid Academy vs. Cloud9 Challenger.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BY LOL Esports Six teams are ready to make it the Summer of Challenger. Join them as they face off in Best of 2 (Bo2) matches during the NA Summer Split regular season starting on June 8. North America, are you ready for the Summer of Challenger? Schedule Regular Season \u2022Week 1: June 8 \u2022Week &hellip; <\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link btn\" href=\"https:\/\/gamegnome.com\/esports\/2016\/06\/09\/2016-na-cs-summer-split-primer\/\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-743","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-esports-news","item-wrap"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gamegnome.com\/esports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/743","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gamegnome.com\/esports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gamegnome.com\/esports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gamegnome.com\/esports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gamegnome.com\/esports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=743"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gamegnome.com\/esports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/743\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":744,"href":"https:\/\/gamegnome.com\/esports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/743\/revisions\/744"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gamegnome.com\/esports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=743"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gamegnome.com\/esports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=743"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gamegnome.com\/esports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=743"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}