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 (Brazil, CIS, Japan, Latin America, Oceania, Southeast Asia) that won the Mid-Season International Wildcard Invitational (IWCI).[2]

2015 Mid-Season Invitational
Tournament information
Location United States
Dates7 May–10 May
Administrator(s)Riot Games
Venue(s)Donald L. Tucker Civic Center
(Tallahassee, Florida)
Teams6
Purse$200,000
Final positions
Champions Edward Gaming
(1st title)
Runner-up SK Telecom T1
3rd place ahq e-Sports Club
Fnatic

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

Qualified teams and roster

Qualified team

Roster
Region China (LPL) South Korea (LCK) Taiwan/Hong Kong/Macau (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 MaRin Jang Gyeong-hwan Ziv Chen Yi
Jungle Clearlove Ming Kai Bengi Bae Seong-woong Mountain Xue Zhao-hong
Mid Pawn Heo Won-seok Faker
Easyhoon		 Lee Sang-hyeok
Lee Ji-hun		 westdoor Liu Shu-wei
ADC Deft Kim Hyeok-kyu Bang Bae Jun-sik AN Chou Chun-an
Support Meiko Tian Ye Wolf Lee Jae-wan Albis Kang Chia-wei
Coach Aaron
Reapered		 Ji Xing
Bok Han-gyu		 Kkoma Kim Jeong-gyun Backstairs Chen Yan-fu
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 Dyrus Marcus Hill Thaldrin Berke Demir
Jungle Reignover Kim Eui-jin 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 Dumbledoge Mustafa Gökseloğlu
Coach Deilor Luis Sevilla Petit Locodoco Choi Yun-seop Lethilion İbrahim Onur Aksu

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

Knock-out Stage
Some members of Edward Gaming with their championship medals
  • 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

References
  1. Bishop, Rollin (May 15, 2015). "Why Tallahassee? Scenes From The League of Legends Mid-Season Invitational". Paste Magazine. Retrieved November 26, 2021.
  2. Miller, Brian (May 8, 2015). "League of Legends gamers occupy Civic Center". Tallahassee Democrat. Retrieved November 26, 2021.
  3. Zacny, Rob (May 11, 2015). "SK Telecom yield League of Legends MSI title to China's EDG as Faker falls short". PCGamesN. Retrieved December 12, 2021.
  4. Bishop, Rollin (May 11, 2015). "EDward Gaming Wins the 2015 League of Legends Mid-Season Invitational". Paste Magazine. Retrieved December 12, 2021.
  5. Deesing, Jonathan. "Edward Gaming Beats SKT in Mid-Season Invitational". Red Bull. Retrieved December 12, 2021.
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