2015 Mid-Season Invitational

The 2015 Mid-Season Invitational is the first event of the Mid-Season Invitational (MSI) - a League of Legends tournament organized by publisher Riot Games that was held after Spring Season, from May 7–10, 2015 at the Florida State University Donald L. Tucker Civic Center in Tallahassee, Florida.[1] The participants is 6 winner teams of the Spring Season: 5 teams from North America (NA LCS), Europe (EU LCS), China (LPL), South Korea (LCK), Taiwan/Hong Kong/Macau (LMS) and a team from Wildcard regions that won the Mid-Season International Wildcard Invitational (IWCI).[2][3]

2015 Mid-Season Invitational
Tournament information
LocationTallahassee, Florida, United States
DatesMay 7, 2015–May 10, 2015
Administrator(s)Riot Games
Tournament
format(s)
6 team round-robin group stage
4 team single-elimination bracket
Host(s) United States
Venue(s)Donald L. Tucker Civic Center
Teams6
Purse$200,000
Final positions
Champions Edward Gaming
(1st title)
Runner-up SK Telecom T1

EDward Gaming from China won the first ever MSI title after defeating SK Telecom T1 from South Korea 3-2 at the final.[4][5][6]

Qualified teams and roster

Qualified team

Roster

Region China (LPL) South Korea (LCK) TW/HK/MO (LMS)
Team EDward Gaming (EDG) SK Telecom T1 (SKT) ahq e-Sports Club (AHQ)
Position ID Name ID Name ID Name
Top Koro1 Tong Yang (童扬) MaRin Jang Gyeong-hwan (장경환) Ziv Chen Yi (陳奕)
Jungle Clearlove Ming Kai (明凯) Bengi Bae Seong-woong (배성웅) Mountain Xue Zhao-Hong (薛兆鴻)
Mid Pawn Heo Won-seok (허원석) Faker
Easyhoon
Lee Sang-hyeok (이상혁)
Lee Ji-hun (이지훈)
westdoor Liu Shu-Wei (劉書瑋)
ADC Deft Kim Hyeok-kyu (김혁규) Bang Bae Jun-sik (배준식) AN Chou Chun-An (周俊諳)
Support Meiko Tian Ye (田野) Wolf Lee Jae-wan (이재완) Albis Kang Chia-Wei (康家維)
Coach Aaron
Reapered
Ji Xing (姬星)
Bok Han-gyu (복한규)
Kkoma Kim Jeong-gyun (김정균) Backstairs Chen Yan-Fu (陳彥甫)
Region Europe (EU LCS) North America (NA LCS) Wildcard (IWC)
Team Fnatic (FNC) Team SoloMid (TSM) Beşiktaş e-Sports Club (BJK)
Position ID Name ID Name ID Name
Top Huni Heo Seung-hun (허승훈) Dyrus Marcus Hill Thaldrin Berke Demir
Jungle Reignover Kim Ui-jin (김의진) Santorin Lucas Larsen Theokoles Muhammed Işık
Mid Febiven Fabian Diepstraten Bjergsen Søren Bjerg Energy Isak Pettersen Fjell
ADC Steeelback Pierre Medjaldi WildTurtle Jason Tran Nardeus Tomáš Maršálek
Support YellOwStaR Bora Kim Lustboy Ham Jang-sik (함장식) Dumbledoge Mustafa Kemal Gökseloğlu
Coach Deilor Luis Sevilla Petit Locodoco Choi Yun-seop (최윤섭) Lethilion İbrahim Onur Aksu

Group Stage

  • Single Round Robin, all matches are Best-of-one.
  • Top 4 teams advance to Knock-out Stage.
# Teams W L SKT EDG AHQ FNC TSM BJK
1 SK Telecom T1 5 0 SKT W W W W W
2 Edward Gaming 4 1 EDG L W W W W
3 ahq e-Sports Club 3 2 AHQ L L W W W
4 Fnatic 2 3 FNC L L L W W
5 Team SoloMid 1 4 TSM L L L L W
6 Beşiktaş e-Sports Club 0 5 BJK L L L L L

Knock-out Stage

  • The 1st-place team plays with the 4th-place team, The 2nd-place team plays with the 3rd-place team in semifinals.
  • All matches are Best-of-five.
Semifinals Final
      
1 SK Telecom T1 3
4 Fnatic 2
SK Telecom T1 2
Edward Gaming 3
2 Edward Gaming 3
3 ahq e-Sports Club 0

Top four

Place Team Players[7] Prize money
ID Name
1st EDward Gaming

Koro1
Clearlove
Pawn
Deft
Meiko
Aaron(coach)

$100,000
2nd SK Telecom

MaRin
Bengi
Faker
Easyhoon (sub*)
Bang
Wolf
kkOma (coach)

$50,000

References

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