2019 Mid-Season Invitational

2019 Mid-Season Invitational

The Heping Basketball Gymnasium in Taipei hosted the playoffs.
Tournament information
Sport	League of Legends
Location	Vietnam  Taiwan
Dates	1 May–19 May
Administrator(s)	Riot Games
Venue	Show list Play-in Stage VCS Studio (Ho Chi Minh City) Main event Group stage National Convention Center (Hanoi) Main event Playoffs Heping Basketball Gymnasium (Taipei)
Teams	13
Final positions
Champions	G2 Esports (1st title)
Runner-up	Team Liquid
3rd place	Invictus Gaming SK Telecom T1
MVP	Rasmus "Caps" Winther (G2 Esports)
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The 2019 Mid-Season Invitational was the fifth Mid-Season Invitational (MSI), a Riot Games-organised tournament for League of Legends, the multiplayer online battle arena video game. The tournament was the culmination of the 2019 Spring Split, the first part of season 9 of the game's competitive scene.

Each of the 13 premier League of Legends leagues have a team representing them; Europe (LEC), South Korea (LCK) and China (LPL) had their teams automatically admitted into the main event whereas the other 10 leagues will compete among each other in the Play-in Stage with the top three teams advancing to join the main event Group Stage. ^[1][2]

The tournament was hosted in Vietnam and Taiwan from 1 to 19 May 2019. Matches of the play-in were held in the VCS Studio in Ho Chi Minh City, matches of the group stage were held in the Vietnam National Convention Center in Hanoi, and playoffs took place in the Heping Basketball Center in Taipei.

G2 Esports from Europe defeated Team Liquid from North America 3–0 in the final and brought the region its first MSI championship.

Qualified teams and roster[]

Qualified teams[]

Number of regions is decreased from 14 of last year to 13, due to the merger of two professional leagues at the North (LLN) and the South (CLS) of Latin America into a single league (LLA) since 2019. The format is based on the 2017 MSI.

Based on the Regional results of the MSI and the World Championship in the two years prior (2017 and 2018), three teams from Europe (LEC), South Korea (LCK), and China (LPL) begin in the main group stage; two teams from North America (LCS) and Taiwan/Hong Kong/Macau (LMS) begin in the second round of the play-in stage; and the eight remaining teams begin in the first round of the play-in stage. Loser teams in the second round will play in a third final main group stage qualifying round.

Region	League	Teams[1]	ID
Start from Main event's Group stage
China	LPL	Invictus Gaming	IG
Europe	LEC	G2 Esports	G2
South Korea	LCK	SK Telecom T1	SKT
Start from Play-in stage round 2
North America	LCS	Team Liquid	TL
TW/HK/MO	LMS	Flash Wolves	FW
Start from Play-in stage round 1
Vietnam	VCS	Phong Vũ Buffalo	PVB
Brazil	CBLOL	INTZ e-Sports	ITZ
CIS	LCL	Vega Squadron	VEG
Japan	LJL	DetonatioN FocusMe	DFM
Latin America	LLA	Isurus Gaming	ISG
Oceania	OPL	Bombers	BMR
Southeast Asia	LST	MEGA Esports	MG
Turkey	TCL	1907 Fenerbahçe	FB

Roster[]

Players					Coach
Top	Jungle	Mid	ADC	Support
Europe (LEC) – G2 Esports
Wunder (Martin Hansen)	Jankos (Marcin Jankowski)	Caps (Rasmus Winther)	Perkz (Luka Perković)	Mikyx (Mihael Mehle)	GrabbZ (Fabian Lohmann)
North America (LCS) – Team Liquid
Impact (Jeong Eon-yeong)	Xmithie (Jake Puchero)	Jensen (Nicolaj Jensen)	Doublelift (Yiliang Peter Peng)	CoreJJ (Jo Yong-in)	Cain (Jang Nu-ri)
China (LPL) – Invictus Gaming
TheShy (Kang Seung-lok)	Ning (Gao Zhenning)	Rookie (Song Ui-jin)	JackeyLove (Yu Wenbo)	Baolan (Wang Liuyi)	Karam (Kim Ga-ram)
South Korea (LCK) – SK Telecom T1
Khan (Kim Dong-ha)	Clid (Kim Tae-min)	Faker (Lee Sang-hyeok)	Teddy (Park Jin-seong)	Mata (Cho Se-hyeong)	Zefa (Lee Jae-min)
Taiwan/Hong Kong/Macau (LMS) – Flash Wolves
Hanabi (Su Chia-Hsiang)	Bugi (Lee Seong-yeop)	Rather (Shin Hyeong-seop)	Betty (Lu Yu-Hung)	ShiauC (Liu Chia-Hao)	Sweet (Cheon Jeong-hee)
Vietnam (VCS) – Phong Vũ Buffalo
Zeros (Phạm Minh Lộc)	Meliodas (Hoàng Tiến Nhật)	Naul (Võ Thành Luân)	BigKoro (Đặng Ngọc Tài)	Palette (Nguyễn Hải Trung)	Ren (Nguyễn Văn Trọng)
	XuHao (Bùi Hoàng Sơn Vương)
Brazil (CBLOL) – INTZ e-Sports
Tay (Rodrigo Panisa)	Shini (Diogo Rogê)	Envy (Bruno Farias)	Mills (Guilherme Conti)	RedBert (Ygor Freitas)	Maestro (Lucas Pierre)
Commonwealth of Independent States (LCL) – Vega Squadron
BOSS (Vladislav Fomin)	AHaHaCiK (Kirill Skvortsov)	Nomanz (Lev Yakshin)	Gadget (Ilya Makavchuk)	SaNTaS (Aleksandr Lifashin)	Invi (Dmitrii Protasov)
Japan (LJL) – DetonatioN FocusMe
Evi (Shunsuke Murase)	Steal (Moon Geon-yeong)	Ceros (Kyohei Yoshida)	Yutapon (Yuta Sugiura)	Gaeng (Yang Gwang-woo)	Kazu (Kazuta Suzuki)
Latin America (LLA) – Isurus Gaming
Buggax (Mateo Aroztegui)	Oddie (Sebastián Niño)	Seiya (Édgar Bracamontes)	Warangelus (Fabián Llanos)	Slow (Eduardo Garcés)	Pierre (Misael Di Ciancia)
Oceania (OPL) – Bombers
Mimic (Min Ju-seong)	BalKhan (Choi Hyeon-jin)	ry0ma (Tommy Le)	FBI (Victor Huang)	Rogue (Jake Sharwood)	Westonway (Scott Farmer)
Southeast Asia (LST) – MEGA Esports
Rockky (Atit Phaomuang)	Jjun (Kwon Jun-seok)	G4 (Nuttapong Menkasikan)	Lloyd (Juckkirsts Kongubon)	PoP (Ha Min-wook)	Bigfafa (Seo Min-seok)
Turkey (TCL) – 1907 Fenerbahçe
Ruin (Kim Hyeong-min)	Kirei (Thomas Yuen)	Bolulu (Onur Can Demirol)	Hades (Volkan Dinçer)	Japone (Bahadır Çolak)	Turkinator (Aykut Emre Başkal)
				Only35 (Mehmet Emin Aydın)

Venues[]

Ho Chi Minh City, Hanoi, Taipei were the three cities chosen to host the tournament.

Vietnam		Taipei, Taiwan
Ho Chi Minh City	Hanoi
Play-in Stage	Group Stage	Play-off Stage
VCS Studio (GG Stadium)	Vietnam National Convention Center	Heping Basketball Gymnasium
Capacity: 120	Capacity: 3,700	Capacity: 6,958
Hanoi Ho Chi Minh City		Taipei

Play-in stage[]

Round 1[]

Only two teams of each pool is drawn into a group.^[3] Double Round Robin. First place teams from each group advance to Round 2.

Pool 1	Pool 2
1907 Fenerbahçe	Bombers
MEGA Esports	DetonatioN FocusMe
Phong Vũ Buffalo	INTZ e-Sports
Vega Squadron	Isurus Gaming

Group A^[3]

#	Team		~	PVB	FB	ISG	BMR		W	L	±
1	Phong Vũ Buffalo		PVB	~	1–1	2–0	1–1		4	2	2
2	1907 Fenerbahçe		FB	1–1	~	1–1	2–0		4	2	2
3	Isurus Gaming		ISG	0–2	1–1	~	1–1		2	4	−2
3	Bombers		BMR	1–1	0–2	1–1	~		2	4	−2

	Group A 1st-place tie-break match
	Phong Vũ Buffalo		W
	1907 Fenerbahçe		L

Group B^[3]

#	Team		~	VEG	DFM	MG	ITZ		W	L	±
1	Vega Squadron		VEG	~	2–0	1–1	2–0		5	1	4
2	DetonatioN FocusMe		DFM	0–2	~	2–0	2–0		4	2	2
3	MEGA Esports		MG	1–1	0–2	~	1–1		2	4	−2
4	INTZ e-Sports		ITZ	0–2	0–2	1–1	~		1	5	−4

Round 2[]

Team Liquid plays against Group A 1st-place. Flash Wolves plays against Group B 1st-place. Winners of the series advance to Group stage. Losers will be dropped to Round 3.

	Round 2
	1	Team Liquid	3
	2	Phong Vũ Buffalo	0
	1	Flash Wolves	3
	2	Vega Squadron	1

Round 3[]

Winner of the series advances to Group stage. Loser is eliminated.

	Round 3
	Phong Vũ Buffalo		3
	Vega Squadron		2

VCS of Vietnam gets directly spot in Main Group Stage for Summer Split winner and additional spot in Play-in Stage at 2019 League of Legends World Championship.

Group stage[]

Double Round Robin. Top 4 teams advance to the knock-out stage. Bottom 2 teams are eliminated.

#	Team		~	IG	SKT	G2	TL	FW	PVB		W	L	±
1	Invictus Gaming		IG	~	1–1	2–0	2–0	2–0	2–0		9	1	8
2	SK Telecom T1		SKT	1–1	~	0–2	2–0	2–0	2–0		7	3	4
3	G2 Esports		G2	0–2	2–0	~	1–1	2–0	0–2		5	5	0
4	Team Liquid		TL	0–2	0–2	1–1	~	1–1	2–0		4	6	-2
5	Flash Wolves		FW	0–2	0–2	0–2	1–1	~	2–0		3	7	-4
6	Phong Vũ Buffalo		PVB	0–2	0–2	2–0	0–2	0–2	~		2	8	-6

China, South Korea, Europe and North America get pool 1 in Main Group Stage at 2019 League of Legends World Championship for Summer Split winner. TW/HK/MO and Vietnam get pool 2.

Knock-out stage[]

• 1st place team of Group Stage chooses between 3rd and 4th place to be their semifinal opponent (IG chooses TL).
• Matches are best of five

	Semifinals					Finals
	1	Invictus Gaming	1
	4	Team Liquid	3
						Team Liquid		0
						G2 Esports		3
	2	SK Telecom T1	2
	3	G2 Esports	3

Ranking[]

(*) Not including tie-break games.

Place	Region	League	Teams	PS1	PS2	PS3	GS	SF	Final
1st	Europe	LEC	G2 Esports				5–5	3–2	3–0
2nd	North America	LCS	Team Liquid		3–0		4–6	3–1	0–3
3rd–4th	South Korea	LCK	SK Telecom T1				7–3	2–3
	China	LPL	Invictus Gaming				9–1	1–3
5th	TW/HK/MO	LMS	Flash Wolves		3–1		3–7
6th	Vietnam	VCS	Phong Vũ Buffalo*	4–2	0–3	3–2	2–8
7th	CIS	LCL	Vega Squadron	5–1	1–3	2–3
8th–9th	Japan	LJL	DetonatioN FocusMe	4–2
	Turkey	TCL	1907 Fenerbahçe*	4–2
10th–12th	Latin America	LLA	Isurus Gaming	2–4
	Oceania	OPL	Bombers	2–4
	Southeast Asia	LST	MEGA Esports	2–4
13th	Brazil	CBLOL	INTZ e-Sports	1–5

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