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LCK 2026
The opening weekend of the LCK Road to MSI gave Dplus Kia a high and a low inside two days. The young roster swept Hanjin BRION 3-0 on Saturday, then went out to KT Rolster on Sunday after leading the series. KT advance; Dplus are out.
Dplus KIA sweep BRION as Showmaker steps up
Dplus opened the bracket in control. They swept HANJIN BRION 3-0, with Showmaker that made a clear difference — he took the series apart and left LoL Park with the MVP, capping a turnaround for a player who had struggled to hit his prime level all split.
Little of that form had shown during the regular season. Dplus went 11-7 across Rounds 1-2 without ever settling — a young, talented roster that rarely put it together. They finished top three at the LCK Cup 2026, missed qualification for First Stand, and at one point benched Lucid for a full series in favour of the academy jungler. The sweep set up a Round 2 meeting with KT Rolster.
KT Rolster reverse-sweep Dplus to advance
KT lost the first two games of the Round 2 BO5, then won three in a row to take it 3-2 and knock Dplus out. Siwoo's coinflip top lane was where much of the damage started — his high-risk plays kept handing KT the openings that swung tempo, and the slides snowballed from there. KT did not need anything fancy. They steadied and let Dplus undo themselves.
The result followed a familiar pattern. KT have owned this matchup — a 2-0 in last year's Round 2, the 2-1 tiebreaker that followed, a 3-0 elimination in the 2025 Road to MSI, and both 2026 meetings. The reverse sweep extended a streak Dplus still cannot break.
KT march on to Gen.G
KT now advance to a Round 4 BO5 against Gen.G at Wonju DB Promy Arena on June 13. It is no gift — Gen.G took the most recent meeting between the two 2-0, after KT had won the earlier one 2-1.
The bigger headline lands the day before. On June 12, T1 and Hanwha Life meet in Round 3 for the LCK's number one seed — and a direct route to the MSI main stage in Daejeon, skipping the Play-In entirely.
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