2017 Mid-Season Invitational

2017 Mid-Season Invitational
2017
	The Rio Arena hosting the main event of the tournament
Tournament information
Sport	League of Legends
Dates	April 28, 2017–May 21, 2017
Administrator	Riot Games
Host(s)	Brazil
Venue(s)	CBLOL Studio; (São Paulo, Play-in stage); Jeunesse Arena; (Rio de Janeiro, Main Event)
Teams	13
Final positions
Champions	SK Telecom T1; (2nd title)
Runner-up	G2 Esports
MVP	Han "Peanut" Wang-ho; (SK Telecom T1)
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The 2017 Mid-Season Invitational (MSI) was a tournament for the MOBA video game League of Legends that started on April 28, 2017 in São Paulo, and ended on May 21, 2017 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.^[1] This was the third annual Mid-Season Invitational hosted by Riot Games, and the first time MSI had been extended. Each of 13 premier League of Legends leagues had a team that won the Spring Split represent them; Europe (EU LCS), 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 a "Play-in Stage" with the top 3 teams advancing to join the main event.^[2]

SK Telecom T1 from South Korea defended successfully their championship in last year after defeating G2 Esports from Europe 3-1 at the final.

Qualified teams and roster

Qualified team

Based on the result of the MSI and World Championship in 2 years before (2015-2016), 3 teams from Europe (EU LCS), South Korea (LCK), and China (LPL) are started in Main Group stage, 2 teams from North America and Taiwan/Hong Kong/Macau are started in Play-in round 2, and instead of the Mid-Season International Wildcard Invitational in 2015-2016, 10 teams from Wildcard regions are started in Play-in round 1.

Region	League	Team	ID
Start in Main Group stage
China	LPL	Team WE^[3]	WE
Europe	EU LCS	G2 Esports^[4]	G2
South Korea	LCK	SK Telecom T1^[5]	SKT
Start in Play-in round 2
North America	NA LCS	Team SoloMid^[6]	TSM
Taiwan/Hong Kong/Macau	LMS	Flash Wolves^[7]	FW
Start in Play-in round 1
Brazil	CBLOL	RED Canids^[8]	RED
CIS	LCL	Virtus.pro^[9]	VP
Japan	LJL	Rampage^[10]	RPG
Latin America North	LLN	Lyon Gaming^[11]	LYN
Latin America South	CLS	Isurus Gaming^[12]	ISG
Oceania	OPL	Dire Wolves	DW
Vietnam►Southeast Asia	VCS►GPL	GIGABYTE Marines	GAM
Turkey	TCL	SuperMassive eSports^[13]	SUP

Roster

Players					Coach
Top	Jungle	Mid	ADC	Support	Coach
Europe (LEC) - G2 Esports
Expect (Ki Dae-han 기대한)	Trick (Kim Gang-yun 김강윤)	Perkz (Luka Perković)	Zven (Jesper Svenningsen)	mithy (Alfonso Aguirre Rodríguez)	YoungBuck (Joey Steltenpool)
North America (LCS) - Team SoloMid
Hauntzer (Kevin Yarnell)	Svenskeren (Dennis Johnsen)	Bjergsen (Søren Bjerg)	Wildturtle (Jason Tran)	Biofrost (Vincent Wang)	Parth (Parth Naidu)
China (LPL) - Team WE
957 (Ke Changyu 柯昌宇)	Condi (Xiang Renjie 向人杰)	xiye (Su Hanwei 苏汉伟)	Mystic (Jin Seong-jun 진성준)	Ben (Nam Dong-hyeon 남동현)	Homme (Yun Seong-yeong 윤성영)
957 (Ke Changyu 柯昌宇)	Condi (Xiang Renjie 向人杰)	xiye (Su Hanwei 苏汉伟)	Mystic (Jin Seong-jun 진성준)	Zero (Yun Gyeong-seop 윤경섭)	Homme (Yun Seong-yeong 윤성영)
South Korea (LCK) - SK Telecom T1
Huni (Heo Seung-hoon 허승훈)	Peanut (Han Wang-ho 한왕호)	Faker (Lee Sang-hyeok 이상혁)	Bang (Bae Jun-sik 배준식)	Wolf (Lee Jae-wan 이재완)	kkOma (Kim Jeong-gyun 김정균)
Huni (Heo Seung-hoon 허승훈)	Blank (Kang Seon-gu 강선구)	Faker (Lee Sang-hyeok 이상혁)	Bang (Bae Jun-sik 배준식)	Wolf (Lee Jae-wan 이재완)	kkOma (Kim Jeong-gyun 김정균)
Taiwan/Hong Kong/Macau (LMS) - Flash Wolves
MMD (Yu Li-Hung 游立宏)	Karsa (Hung Hau-Hsuan 洪浩軒)	Maple (Huang Yi-Tang 黃熠棠)	Betty (Lu Yu-Hung 盧禹宏)	SwordArT (Hu Shuo-Chieh 胡碩傑)	Steak (Chou Lu-Hsi 周律希)
Vietnam►Southeast Asia (VCS►GPL) - GIGABYTE Marines
Stark (Phan Công Minh)	Levi (Đỗ Duy Khánh)	Optimus (Trần Văn Cường)	Slay (Nguyễn Ngọc Hùng)	Archie (Trần Minh Nhựt)	Tinikun (Dương Nguyễn Duy Thanh)
Brazil (CBLOL) - RED Canids
Robo (Leonardo Souza)	Nappon (Carlos Rücker)	tockers (Gabriel Claumann)	brTT (Felipe Gonçalves)	Dioud (Hugo Padioleau)	Brokenshard (Ram Djemal)
Robo (Leonardo Souza)	Nappon (Carlos Rücker)	YoDa (Felipe Noronha)	brTT (Felipe Gonçalves)	Dioud (Hugo Padioleau)	Brokenshard (Ram Djemal)
Commonwealth of Independent States (LCL) - Virtus.pro
Doxy (Rafael Adl Zarabi)	Kreox (Ilya Grom Илья Гром)	Paranoia (Ivan Tipuhov Іван Тіпухов)	Blasting (Daniel Kudrin)	SaNTaS (Aleksandr Lifashin Александр Лифашин)	Moo (Dmitry Sukhanov Дмитрий Суханов)
Japan (LJL) - Rampage
Evi (Shunsuke Murase 村瀬(むらせ) 俊介(しゅんすけ))	Tussle (Lee Mun-yong 이문용)	Ramune (Osamu Ozawa 小澤(おざわ) 統(おさむ))	YutoriMoyashi (Yuta Noguchi 野口(のぐち) 悠太(ゆうた))	Dara (Jeon Jeong-hun 전정훈)	34 (Kim Dong-hun 김동훈)
Latin America North (LLN) - Lyon Gaming
Jirall (Daniel del Castillo)	Oddie (Sebastián Niño)	Seiya (Édgar Bracamontes)	WhiteLotus (Matías Musso)	Genthix (Mariano Polonsky)	Yeti (Rodrigo del Castillo)
Latin America South (CLS) - Isurus Gaming
Pride (Franco Sanzana)	QQmore (Diego Apablaza)	Emp (Benjamín Ramírez)	Kindless (Benjamín Fuenzalida)	Newbie (Leandro Marcos)	Ukkyr (Markus Leuemberger)
Oceania (OPL) - Dire Wolves
Chippys (Ryan Short)	Shernfire (Shern Tai)	Phantiks (Richard Su)	k1ng (Calvin Truong)	Destiny (Mitchell Shaw)	Sharp (Curtis Morgan)
Turkey (TCL) - SuperMassive eSports
fabFabulous (Asım Cihat Karakaya)	Stomaged (İlyas Furkan Güngör)	Naru (Koray Bıçak)	Zeitnot (Berkay Aşıkuzun)	Dumbledoge (Mustafa Kemal Gökseloğlu)	Exorant (Daniel Hume)

Venues

São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro were the two cities chosen to host the competition.

Brazil
São Paulo	Rio de Janeiro
Play-in Stage	Main Event
CBLoL Studio	Jeunesse Arena
Capacity:	Capacity: 15,430
São Paulo Rio de Janeiro

Play-In Stage

Round 1

First place teams of each group advance to round 2 of the stage^[14]

Draw

Only 2 teams of each pool is drawn into a group.

Pool 1	Pool 2
RED Canids	Isurus Gaming
Virtus.pro	Lyon Gaming
SuperMassive eSports	Rampage
GIGABYTE Marines	Dire Wolves

Group A

#	Team	~	SUP	RED	DW	RPG	W	L
1	SuperMassive eSports	SUP	~	1-1	2-0	2-0	5	1
2	RED Canids	RED	1-1	~	1-1	2-0	4	2
3	Dire Wolves	DW	0-2	1-1	~	1-1	2	4
4	Rampage	RPG	0-2	0-2	1-1	~	1	5

Group B

#	Team	~	GAM	LYN	VP	ISG	W	L
1	GIGABYTE Marines	GAM	~	2-0	1-1	2-0	5	1
2	Lyon Gaming	LYN	0-2	~	2-0	2-0	4	2
3	Virtus.pro	VP	1-1	0-2	~	1-1	2	4
4	Isurus Gaming	ISG	0-2	0-2	1-1	~	1	5

Round 2

Winners of the series advance to group stage. Losers drops to round 3.

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Round 3

GIGABYTE Marines advance to group stage by beating SuperMassive eSports 3-1. GPL of Southeast Asia gets directly spot in Main Group Stage for Summer Split winner and additional spot in Play-in Stage for Summer Split Runner-up at 2017 World Championship.^[15]

	Round 3

	GIGABYTE Marines		3

	SuperMassive eSports		1

Group stage

#	Team	~	SKT	WE	G2	FW	TSM	GAM	W	L
1	SK Telecom T1	SKT	~	1-1	2-0	1-1	2-0	2-0	8	2
2	Team WE	WE	1-1	~	2-0	2-0	1-1	1-1	7	3
3	G2 Esports^[A]	G2	0-2	0-2	~	2-0	1-1	1-1	4	6
4	Flash Wolves^[B]	FW	1-1	0-2	0-2	~	1-1	2-0	4	6
5	Team SoloMid^[B]	TSM	0-2	1-1	1-1	1-1	~	1-1	4	6
6	GIGABYTE Marines	GAM	0-2	1-1	1-1	0-2	1-1	~	3	7

	4th-place tie-break Match

	Flash Wolves		Win

	Team SoloMid		Loss

Notes

^ After the group stage G2 Esports was in a three way tie with Team Solo Mid & Flash Wolves. The tiebreaker procedure put G2 Esports in 3rd place as they had the best combined record(3-1) against the other two teams.
^ ^a ^b Flash Wolves and Team Solo Mid were forced into a tiebreaker game for the 4th place position. Flash Wolves won and advanced to the playoffs.

Knockout stage

Semi-finals		Final

May 19

SK Telecom T1	3
		May 21
Flash Wolves	0
		SK Telecom T1	3
May 20
		G2 Esports	1
Team WE	1

G2 Esports	3

Ranking

Place	Region	League	Teams	PS1	PS2	PS3	GS	SF	Final
1st	South Korea	LCK	SK Telecom T1				8-2	3-0	3-1
2nd	Europe	EU LCS	G2 Esports				4-6	3-1	1-3
3rd-4th	China	LPL	Team WE				7-3	1-3
3rd-4th	TW/HK/MO	LMS	Flash Wolves		3-1		4-6	0-3
5th	North America	NA LCS	Team SoloMid		3-2		4-6
6th	Vietnam►SEA	VCS►GPL	GIGABYTE Marines	5-1	2-3	3-1	3-7
7th	Turkey	TCL	SuperMassive e-Sports	5-1	0-3	1-3
8-9th	Brazil	CBLOL	RED Canids	4-2
8-9th	Latin America North	LLN	Lyon Gaming	4-2
10-11th	CIS	LCL	Virtus.pro	2-4
10-11th	Oceania	OPL	Dire Wolves	2-4
12-13th	Japan	LJL	Rampage	1-5
12-13th	Latin America South	CLS	Isurus Gaming	1-5

References

^ "Где пройдут матчи турнира MSI и чемпионата мира по League of Legends". Championat.com. Retrieved 14 May 2017.
^ "What is the 2017 Mid-Season Invitational?". 24 April 2017. Retrieved 10 May 2017.
^ "Team WE, 2017 LPL Spring 우승 - LOL 인벤 실시간유저정보 게시판". Retrieved 14 May 2017.
^ "На Весеннем сплите 2017 EU LCS одержал победу коллектив G2 Esports". Archived from the original on 2017-04-25. Retrieved 14 May 2017.
^ "SK Telecom T1 dominuje wiosenny finał LCK!". Retrieved 14 May 2017.
^ "Голубь и другие важные новости с американского финала LoL". Retrieved 14 May 2017.
^ "Тайваньская Flash Wolves выиграла LMS Spring 2017". Retrieved 14 May 2017.
^ "Com elenco afiado, Red domina Keyd, fatura o CBLoL e vai ao MSI no Brasil". Retrieved 14 May 2017.
^ "Континентальная лига. Virtus.pro победила Vaevictis и стала чемпионом". Retrieved 14 May 2017.
^ "Primeira equipe se classifica para o MSI 2017 no Brasil". Retrieved 14 May 2017.
^ "Lyon Gaming extiende hegemonía y consigue octavo título de LLN". Retrieved 14 May 2017.
^ "Isurus Gaming se consagró campeón de la CLS 2017". Retrieved 14 May 2017.
^ "Kış Mevsimi'nin şampiyonu SuperMassive". Retrieved 14 May 2017.
^ "2017 MSI Play-In". LoL Esports. Retrieved 13 May 2017.
^ "Marines avança no MSI e garante vaga extra no Mundial para a GPL". mycnb.uol.com.br. Archived from the original on 9 May 2017. Retrieved 14 May 2017.

[tie-16] After the group stage G2 Esports was in a three way tie with Team Solo Mid & Flash Wolves. The tiebreaker procedure put G2 Esports in 3rd place as they had the best combined record(3-1) against the other two teams.

[tie2-17] Flash Wolves and Team Solo Mid were forced into a tiebreaker game for the 4th place position. Flash Wolves won and advanced to the playoffs.

[1] "Где пройдут матчи турнира MSI и чемпионата мира по League of Legends". Championat.com. Retrieved 14 May 2017.

[2] "What is the 2017 Mid-Season Invitational?". 24 April 2017. Retrieved 10 May 2017.

[lplqual-3] "Team WE, 2017 LPL Spring 우승 - LOL 인벤 실시간유저정보 게시판". Retrieved 14 May 2017.

[euqual-4] "На Весеннем сплите 2017 EU LCS одержал победу коллектив G2 Esports". Archived from the original on 2017-04-25. Retrieved 14 May 2017.

[lckqual-5] "SK Telecom T1 dominuje wiosenny finał LCK!". Retrieved 14 May 2017.

[na_qual-6] "Голубь и другие важные новости с американского финала LoL". Retrieved 14 May 2017.

[lmsual-7] "Тайваньская Flash Wolves выиграла LMS Spring 2017". Retrieved 14 May 2017.

[cbqual-8] "Com elenco afiado, Red domina Keyd, fatura o CBLoL e vai ao MSI no Brasil". Retrieved 14 May 2017.

[vpqual-9] "Континентальная лига. Virtus.pro победила Vaevictis и стала чемпионом". Retrieved 14 May 2017.

[ljlqual-10] "Primeira equipe se classifica para o MSI 2017 no Brasil". Retrieved 14 May 2017.

[llnqual-11] "Lyon Gaming extiende hegemonía y consigue octavo título de LLN". Retrieved 14 May 2017.

[clsqual-12] "Isurus Gaming se consagró campeón de la CLS 2017". Retrieved 14 May 2017.

[tclqual-13] "Kış Mevsimi'nin şampiyonu SuperMassive". Retrieved 14 May 2017.

[14] "2017 MSI Play-In". LoL Esports. Retrieved 13 May 2017.

[15] "Marines avança no MSI e garante vaga extra no Mundial para a GPL". mycnb.uol.com.br. Archived from the original on 9 May 2017. Retrieved 14 May 2017.

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