{"id":585072,"date":"2023-01-27T05:08:07","date_gmt":"2023-01-27T05:08:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/?p=585072"},"modified":"2023-02-06T05:05:00","modified_gmt":"2023-02-06T05:05:00","slug":"evil-geniuses-win-opener-in-lcs-spring-split","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/news\/evil-geniuses-win-opener-in-lcs-spring-split","title":{"rendered":"Evil Geniuses win opener in LCS Spring Split"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Reigning champion Evil Geniuses beat Golden Guardians on Thursday as the League Championship Series (LCS) Spring Split began. All 10 teams in the top North American League of Legends circuit were in action on the opening day of group-stage play. Each LCS team will play every other team twice through March 17. The first- through fourth-place teams will then head to the upper-bracket semifinals of the double-elimination playoffs. The fifth- and sixth-place teams will enter the playoffs in the lower bracket. The winner and runner-up in the playoff final will earn berths in the Mid-Season Invitational along with other teams for LoL leagues worldwide. The LCS Spring Split carries a $200,000 prize pool, with the champion earning $100,000. Evil Geniuses, playing on blue, needed 43 minutes to beat Golden Guardians. Australia&#8217;s Ian Victor &#8220;FBI&#8221; Huang paced Evil Geniuses with a 7-0-7 kill-death-assist ratio. South Korea&#8217;s Kim &#8220;River&#8221; Dong-woo led Golden Guardians at 7-3-5. Cloud9, competing on blue, got past 100<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reigning champion Evil Geniuses beat Golden Guardians on Thursday as the League Championship Series (LCS) Spring Split began. All 10<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,107],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-585072","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-video-games"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/585072","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=585072"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/585072\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=585072"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=585072"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=585072"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}