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.
 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
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| 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) |
Each of the 13 premier League of Legends leagues sent a team to represent them; Europe (LEC), South Korea (LCK) and China (LPL) had their teams automatically admitted into the main event whereas the other 10 leagues competed among each other in the Play-in Stage, with the top three teams advancing to join the main event Group Stage. [1][2]
"Bring Home The Glory" was the tournament's theme song, put together by Sara Skinner.[3]
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 Taipei Heping Basketball Gymnasium 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
The total number of participating regions decreased in 2019, from 14 last year to 13, due to the merger of two professional leagues, the North (LLN) and the South (CLS) of Latin America into a single league (LLA). The format was based on the 2017 Mid-Season Invitational.
Because of the Regional success in MSI and the World Championship in the two years prior (2017 and 2018), three teams from Europe (LEC), South Korea (LCK), and China (LPL) began 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. Losing 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) |
| 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 |
Play-in stage
Round 1
Only two teams of each pool is drawn into a group.[4] 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[4]
| # | 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[4]
| # | 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.
Knockout stage
- 1st place team of Group Stage chooses between 3rd and 4th place to be their semifinal opponent (IG chose TL).
- Single elimination, 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 | |||||||
Match 1
- Date and time: 17 May, 11:00 UTC.
| Team | ID | Result | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Invictus Gaming |
IG | 1 |
| 4 | Team Liquid |
TL | 3 |
| Game | Blue side | Result | Red side | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | IG |
L | W | TL |
| 2 | IG |
L | W | TL |
| 3 | TL |
L | W | IG |
| 4 | IG |
L | W | TL |
| 5 | X | - | - | X |
Match 2
- Date and time: 18 May, 08:00 UTC.
| Team | ID | Result | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | SK Telecom T1 |
SKT | 2 |
| 3 | G2 Esports |
G2 | 3 |
| Game | Blue side | Result | Red side | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | SKT |
W | L | G2 |
| 2 | G2 |
W | L | SKT |
| 3 | SKT |
W | L | G2 |
| 4 | G2 |
W | L | SKT |
| 5 | SKT |
L | W | G2 |
Finals
- Date and time: 19 May, 08:00 UTC
- The members of the winning team will lift the MSI trophy, earning their title as the League of Legends 2019 Mid-Season Invitational Champions.
| Team | ID | Result |
|---|---|---|
| Team Liquid |
TL | 0 |
| G2 Esports |
G2 | 3 |
| Game | Blue side | Result | Red side | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | G2 |
W | L | TL |
| 2 | TL |
L | W | G2 |
| 3 | G2 |
W | L | TL |
| 4 | X | - | - | X |
| 5 | X | - | - | X |
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.
- "Riot Games releases theme song for MSI 2019". DotEsports. 18 April 2019. Retrieved 25 March 2022.
- "Bracket". lolesports. Retrieved 25 April 2019.
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