2019 League of Legends Mid-Season Invitational Viewing Guide
By Wyatt Fossett ·
The best teams from every region around the globe seek international glory during the 2019 Mid-Season Invitational. Here is your guide to all the action.
At the beginning of this week, Riot Games hosted the Play-In Draw for the 2019 Mid-Season Invitational, and we now have all the information we could possibly get heading into MSI in just under a week.
Riot also finally released the details regarding their in-game MSI celebration for League of Legends. The update brings Rift map, and the Alistar Skin, Ward Skin, and bundle you can purchase to help support the teams and winner of the tournament.
Who’s Playing
CBLOL’s INTZ eSports – Brazil (BR)
LEC’s G2 Esports – Europe (EU)
LST’s MEGA Esports – Thailand, Southeast Asia Region (SEA)
LCK’s SK Telecom T1 – Korea (KR)
LCL’s Vega Squadron – Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS)
LCS’s Team Liquid – North America (NA)
LJL’s DetonatioN FocusMe – Japan (JPN)
LLA’s Isurus Gaming – Latin America (LATAM)
LMS’s Flash Wolves – Chinese Taipei, Hong Kong, and Macau (LMS)
LPL’s Invictus Gaming – China (CH)
OPL’s Bombers – Oceania (OCE)
TCL’s 1907 Fenerbahçe Esports – Turkey (TUR)
VCS’s Phong Vũ Buffalo – Vietnam (VN)
What is the Format of MSI 2019?
The Play-In Stage consists of a few different stages in and of itself. 8 teams will play in a best-of-one double round-robin based on their groups assigned during the Play-In draw show (embedded above). The winner of each of these two groups will advance and will go into the Play-In Knockout Stage. Here they will meet one of the two Knockout seeded teams.
Team Liquid from the LCS, and the Flash Wolves from the LMS await the winners of this group stage. The winners between these two teams and the two that win out of the group stage will advance to the main group-stage at MSI. The losers will play each other and the winner of that game will also advance to Groups.
Those three groups will join the three teams that were seeded into the Group Stage. These teams are the European Champions in G2 Esports from the LEC, Korea’s SK Telecom T1, and the LPL’s Invictus Gaming (who won Worlds 2018 just a half-year ago).
These top-tier six will play each other once in a best-of-one double round-robin, and the bottom two teams of this stage will be eliminated. The top four teams from the group stage will advance to the final round of the Mid-Season Invitational.
Lastly, the Knockout-Stage will consist of these top four teams and will play a best-of-five bracket. The Champions will have to make their way through two best-of-five head-to-head battles.
When is MSI 2019?
Play-In Stage - Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
May 1st - May 7th
Group Stage - Hanoi, Vietnam
May 10th - May 14th
Knockout Stage - Taipei, Taiwan
May 17th - May 19th
How to Watch?
When:
The large time-zone difference between North America and the Taiwan/Vietnam regions means that all of the games will take place very early in the morning Pacific Time. Almost every play day begins at either 3:00 AM Pacific Time, or 12:00 AM Pacific Time. So it’s not going to be easy.
Where:
All of the action from the 2019 Mid-Season Invitational will be streamed live on the lolesports YouTube channel, or the Riot Games Twitch channel.
Watch live video from Riot Games on www.twitch.tv
Who do you think is going to win it all and claim international glory for their respective region? For updates on the League of Legends tournament results as it happens, make sure to check Twin Galaxies.