With the Team Dragon Knights' victory over the fallen Winterfox, the 2015 NA LCS Spring season has officially come to an end. We now know which nine teams will join back-to-back defending champions Team SoloMid in the Summer season, as they vy for one of the three NA tickets to the 2015 World Championships.

We already know the story of how TSM went on to become champions, but what about the bottom of the table? Here are a few things we learned from the epilogue of the Spring season and the new teams hoping to dethrone the top dogs next split.

The North American Devils

Enemy eSports, the new LCS team that didn't need to participate in this weekend's closing Spring ceremonies, were without a doubt the strongest Challenger team in North America this season. With a roster made up of five players from three different countries (USA, Canada and Denmark), Enemy were primed to make it into the Summer NA LCS season from the start. They went 9-1 in the regular season, only dropping their game against Team Fusion.

As the top seed in the Challenger Playoffs, Enemy played the recently revamped Final Five roster in the first round. F5 were bought by Team Coast before the end of the regular season, with two of CST's starters, Impaler and Sheep, infused into the roster to give the Challenger team a better chance to qualify for the Summer season. Their plan didn't work out, as the Devils swept the Frankenstein F5/Coast hybrid en route to the finals.

Enemy booked their ticket into the NA LCS with a 3-1 win against Team Dragon Knights in the Challenger Grand Finals, capping their newfound promotion with a 48 minute marathon victory to take home the title and spot in the new season.

The men in red are an all-around squad with LCS quality players at every position. While you shouldn't expect them to catch fire right out of the gate and contend for a title in their rookie season in the vain of Cloud9 or even the Unicorns of Love, don't be too stunned if Enemy eSports can steal a Top 6 and a postseason berth.

Dignitas Holds

Team Dignitas went through a disjointed season this Spring, saying goodbye to a long-time face in Crumbzz and trying to find a suitable replacement. Atop of all that, they had to interject two Korean imports who were new to the United States and figure out how to acclimate them into the new team.

Oh, and they didn't have a head coach to put all these pieces together until the last weeks of the season.

Still, Dignitas persevered, rumbling to a decent stretch to end the season and heading into the promotional tournament with a bit of optimism. Azingy, the solo queue jungler they decided to put their faith in as a starter, was starting to pick up steam and improving weekly. Talent was never an issue for Dignitas, they had plenty of that. It was more a question of how to utilize that talent to make a cohesive team that could stand up to the best in NA.

Their do-or-die promotional match with Team Fusion was a lot like their regular season — good, at moments in time even great, but in the end just barely good enough to hold their spot.

Fusion pushed them to the limit, coming back from a 0-2 hole to force a deciding climactic game five, and it was a battle of conflicting comp. The Challenger team sided with a late-game composition, hoping that their reliance on star player and AD Carry Nien on Jinx would lead them to a third consecutive victory. The old guard went with a more early-to-mid-game focused squad, putting their ace Shiphtur on a carry assassin with LeBlanc.

The game, predictably, swung in favor of Dig to start. Their early-game composition jumped on Fusion's late scaling lineup, getting out to a 5k+ gold lead before their opponents knew what hit them. But, in Dignitas fashion, the game started to slip away from them in the latter stages of the game, Fusion's late-game carries Jinx and Kassadin getting the farm and gold needed to become threats.

Dig's winning strike came with the clutch play of often criticized support Kiwikid, landing a five-man knock-up from Alistar to put Fusion's entire team on a silver platter for his squad's carries to clean up. After squandering their sizable gold lead and going into that fight even, that single highlight play was able swing the gold heavily back into Dig's favors and let them close out the series.

On paper, this is a team that could challenge for a Top 6 or even Top 4 spot next season given some better cohesion and consistency. They have three viable carries in the top, middle and bottom lanes, and if Kiwkid and Azingy can bring the utility needed to support those three, Dig could make some noise in the Summer season.

Four Dragons and a Russian Assassin

Team Dragon Knights were the surprise of the weekend, eliminating Winterfox, the organization with four straight promotional victories to to their name, to get the final spot in the Summer season.

An unorthodox team where their play is a lot of the time based around the action in the top lane with their ace Seraph, TDK weren't given much of a chance against Winterfox. Well, that was until it was announced that starting mid-laner Kyle, a Jayce main with a floundering champion pool, was retiring from professional play and moving back to Korea before the match. To replace him, the former Moscow 5 and Gambit Gaming star Alex Ich joined the team, fulfilling his role as a substitute on the roster.

This move opened up everything for TDK. Instead of being limited in their compositions due to the narrow selection their mid-laner possessed, they were able to play a more wide style with a more experienced and diverse champion selector in the starting role.

The big question for TDK was if they would get the Alex Ich that people perceived as over-the-hill in terms of his impact starting, or if they'd get the Alex that was one of the best mid-laners of the past three years in Europe. That was answered quickly in the series, Alex holding up and even pressuring WFX's Pobelter in lane, helping the Dragons get off to a quick start against the established LCS team.

Team Dragon Knights took the series in four, which Alex Ich starred in most of the games alongside Seraph. Winterfox were a team that is either going to give you a good or bad turnout depending on the week, and unforgettably for them, it was one of their bad weeks the promotional tournament landed on.

The Head of the Dragon

Compared to Enemy, TDK's position in the Summer season will come down to who they slot in as their starting mid. Alex Ich played to the level that you'd expect from an above average starter in the NA LCS, but the prevailing opinion is that he'll stick with his Challenger team Misfits and try to qualify for LCS with them next year.

If that happens, it leaves a glaring hole in the middle of TDK's roster and a precious LCS spot for a mid-laner currently not in the league. With Seraph being one of the few top-laners in NA that sees himself as the ace of the team and a main carry, TDK can pick up a player who doesn't need to put everything upon himself. Instead of looking for a high scoring Bjergsen or XWX-type player, they could be better off finding a mid-laner who can hold his own in lane and bring the team together through his utility play.

The obvious candidate is the mid-laner from the team TDK eliminated out of the LCS, Pobelter. Hyped up since he was a kid and too young to even play professionally, Pobelter is the ultimate case of not knowing where his ceiling is. His accolades online, in solo queue, and certain games in the LCS make you believe he has all the talent to be at the level of the best players in the West, but then you see how he's repeatedly placed in the bottom spots in the premiere league.

Some say it's maybe management or the team put around him, and if he was put on a better team in a different environment he'd strive, but we're still waiting on what his potential really is.

Outside of Pobelter or getting Alex Ich to stay as the starting mid-laner, TDK could always look into solo queue with players like Cloud9 Tempest's Yusui or even Fusion's Huhi.

The Dragons right now have a solid nucleus that gives them the potential not to be the new whipping boy of the NA LCS, yet it all comes down to who they get as their starting mid laner. Alex Ich and the Dragons looked like a team that could, with some serious practice and chemistry building, fight for a playoff spot, but who knows what impact a Pobelter or Huhi would have?

With a month before the Summer season kicks off, all eyes will be on who will takeover Hai's role as C9's new starting mid-laner, but don't be surprised if the decision for C9 starts a domino effect that works its way down to the Dragon Knights and their roster dilemma.

Tyler "Fionn" Erzberger is a staff writer for The Score eSports. Devils and Dragons — what a time to be alive covering the NA LCS. You can follow him on Twitter.