2019 Mid-Season Invitational
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.
| 2019 | |
 The Heping Basketball Gymnasium in Taipei hosted the playoffs. | |
| Tournament information | |
|---|---|
| Sport | League of Legends |
| Location |  Vietnam Taiwan |
| Dates | 1 May 2019–19 May 2019 |
| Administrator(s) | Riot Games |
| Venue | Show list
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| Teams | 13 |
| Final positions | |
| Champions |  G2 Esports(1st title) |
| Runner-up |  Team Liquid |
| MVP |  Rasmus "Caps" Winther(G2 Esports) |
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
Because of the removal of the 2 regional league Latin America North (LLN) and Latin America South (CLS) to form one whole Latin America (LLA) region of League of Legends competition, number of regions is decreased to 13. 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 | .svg.png.webp){kind=small} 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) |
 promisq(Hampus Abrahamsson) | |||||
| North America (LCS) - Team Liquid | |||||
| Impact (Jeong Eon-yeong 정언영) |
Xmithie (Jake Puchero) |
Jensen (Nicolaj Jensen) |
Doublelift (Yiliang Peter Peng) |
CoreJJ (Jo Yong-in 조용인) |
Cain (Jang Nu-ri 장누리) |
| MikeYeung (Michael Yeung) | |||||
| China (LPL) - Invictus Gaming | |||||
| TheShy (Kang Seung-lok 강승록) |
Ning (Gao Zhenning 高振宁) |
Rookie (Song Ui-jin 송의진) |
JackeyLove (Yu Wenbo 喻文波) |
Baolan (Wang Liuyi 王柳羿) |
Karam (Kim Ga-ram 김가람) |
| Duke (Lee Ho-seong 이호성) | |||||
| South Korea (LCK) - SK Telecom T1 | |||||
| Khan (Kim Ju-seong 김주성) |
Clid (Kim Tae-min 김태민) |
Faker (Lee Sang-hyeok 이상혁) |
Teddy (Park Jin-seong 박진성) |
Mata (Cho Se-hyeong 조세형) |
Zefa (Lee Jae-min 이재민) |
| Haru (Kang Min-seung 강민승) |
kkOma (Kim Jeong-gyun 김정균) | ||||
| Taiwan/Hong Kong/Macau (LMS) - Flash Wolves | |||||
| Hanabi (Su Chia-Hsiang 蘇嘉祥) |
Bugi (Lee Seong-yeop 이성엽) |
Rather (Shin Hyeong-seop 신형섭) |
Betty (Lu Yu-Hung 盧禹宏) |
ShiauC (Liu Chia-Hao 劉家豪) |
Sweet (Cheon Jeong-hee 천정희) |
| Enso (Liang En-Shuo 梁恩碩) | |||||
| 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) |
| BocaJR (Emerson Alencar) | |||||
| Commonwealth of Independent States (LCL) - Vega Squadron | |||||
| BOSS (Vladislav Fomin Владислав Фомин) |
AHaHaCiK (Kirill Skvortsov Кирилл Скворцов) |
Nomanz (Lev Yakshin Лев Якшин) |
 Gadget(Ilya Makavchuk Илья Макавчук) |
SaNTaS (Aleksandr Lifashin Александр Лифашин) |
Invi (Dmitrii Protasov Дмитрий Протасов) |
| Razly (Valerii Shishkin Валерий Шишкин) | |||||
| Japan (LJL) - DetonatioN FocusMe | |||||
| Evi (Shunsuke Murase |
Steal (Moon Geon-yeong 문건영) |
Ceros (Kyohei Yoshida |
Yutapon (Yuta Sugiura |
Gaeng (Yang Gwang-woo 양광우) |
Kazu (Kazuta Suzuki |
| Ramune (Osamu Ozawa | |||||
| Latin America (LLA) - Isurus Gaming | |||||
 Buggax(Mateo Aroztegui) |
 Oddie(Sebastián Niño) |
 Seiya(Édgar Bracamontes) |
 Warangelus(Fabián Llanos) |
Slow (Eduardo Garcés) |
Pierre (Misael Di Ciancia) |
| Emp (Benjamín Ramírez) | |||||
| Oceania (OPL) - Bombers | |||||
| Mimic (Min Ju-seong 민주성) |
BalKhan (Choi Hyeon-jin 최현진) |
ry0ma (Tommy Le) |
FBI (Victor Huang) |
Rogue (Jake Sharwood) |
Westonway (Scott Farmer) |
| Seb (Sebastian de Ceglie) | |||||
| Southeast Asia (LST) - MEGA Esports | |||||
| Rockky (Atit Phaomuang อธิศ เผ่าเมือง) |
Jjun (Kwon Jun-seok 권준석) |
G4 (Nuttapong Menkasikan นัฐพงษ์ เม้นกะสิการ) |
Lloyd (Juckkirsts Kongubon จักรกฤษณ์ คงอุบล) |
PoP (Ha Min-wook 하민욱) |
Bigfafa (Seo Min-seok 서민석) |
| WarL0cK (Pawat Ampaporn ภวัต อัมพาภรณ์) | |||||
| Turkey (TCL) - 1907 Fenerbahçe | |||||
| Ruin (Kim Hyeong-min 김형민) |
 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 |
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 |
References
- "2019 Mid-Season Invitational Event Overview". lolesports. 25 April 2019. Retrieved 22 January 2019.
- "MSI 2019 Format Summary". lolesports. 2018-04-23. Retrieved 2018-04-25.
- "Bracket". lolesports. Retrieved 25 April 2019.
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