From the 2015 Summer NA LCS, as the team with the worst record Team Dragon Knights was automatically relegated to the NA Challenger Series. As the 8th and 9th places, Enemy eSports and Team 8 were obligated to play qualification matches against the 2nd and 3rd place CS teams, who were Team Coast and Team Imagine, respectively. Enemy was relegated after losing to Coast 3–0, but Team 8 beat Imagine 3–1 to remain in the LCS. The two teams that won the Promotion matches both sold their spots to other teams before the start of the Spring Split. LA Renegades were automatically promoted by winning the NA Challenger Series.
A total of three, Team Coast, Team 8, and Gravity Gaming sold their spots, all to new eSports organization that had been created for the sole purpose of being in the LCS. Coast sold their spot to NRG eSports,[4] Team 8 sold theirs to Immortals,[5] and Gravity to Echo Fox.[6]Team Impulse had announced their intentions to sell their spot,[7] but failed to do so by the (unknown) deadline,[8] but after playing in the Spring Split eventually sold to Phoenix1 just before the Summer split.[9]
