We've already broken down what's at stake this weekend across the rest of the LoL world, with MSI tickets on the line in every major regions but the LCK. But the South Korean league is far from quiet — its own Road to MSI gauntlet kicks off this Saturday, with Dplus KIA facing Hanjin Brion at LCK Arena in Seoul. HLE, T1 and Gen.G are already waiting in Wonju; one of the three remaining sides — BRO, Dplus, or KT Rolster — will be joining them.

Dplus Kia enter as favourites against BRO. The fifth seed has been the LCK's most reliable killer of bottom-half teams this season, dropping virtually no series against the so-called "Eastern Division" sides — and they hold a 3-0 lead in head-to-head meetings against BRO across the 2026 LCK Cup and regular season. BRO, meanwhile, are the gauntlet's biggest unknown. A team that looked dead at 0-6 to start the split, they reeled off a club-record five-match win streak from Week 5 onwards and have shown they can take maps off mid-table sides — though four losses in their final five regular-season series have raised doubts about their current form.

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The winner moves on to Sunday's Round 2 BO5 (best-of-five) against KT Rolster, with one Wonju spot on the line. KT finished the regular season fourth at 12-6 after a roaring 8-0 start that eventually gave way to inconsistent form in Round 2 — including losses to BRO, BNK FearX and others outside the title race.

There is a tactical wrinkle in the matchup logic. Despite Dplus being the higher seed, they are the matchup KT would actually prefer on paper: KT have built up a clear edge over Dplus over the past year, sweeping them 2-0 in last year's regular season Round 2, winning the tiebreaker 2-1, and then eliminating them 3-0 in the 2025 Road to MSI Round 1. The two head-to-head meetings in 2026 have also both gone KT's way. BRO, by contrast, took a 2-0 from KT in the Week 5 meeting that broke KT's early-season run, and the season series split 1-1.

The team that emerges from the Seoul leg this week-end travels to Wonju DB Promy Arena on June 13 for a Round 4 BO5 against Gen.G. The bigger headliner comes the day before, on June 12, when HLE and T1 meet in Round 3 with the LCK's number one seed — meaning a direct route to the MSI main stage in Daejeon, bypassing the Play-In — on the line.