LYON beat Cloud9 3-0 in the upper bracket final on June 7. The sweep sends LYON to the grand final on June 14 and locks an MSI spot in Daejeon, South Korea.
The result extends a pattern. Cloud9 went 7-0 in the regular season and beat LYON in both meetings. But LYON also beat Cloud9 in the Lock-In final to take the region's First Stand ticket. Different trophy, same opponent, same result. Cloud9 keep winning the games that don't decide an international spot — and losing the ones that do.
Kim "Berserker" Min-cheol carried the sweep — a dominant series capped by his game 3 Miss Fortune, against the org he won the 2022 LCS title with.
