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Regions Represented
Tournament Structure
Prize Money
LOL MSI Dates
Previous MSI Champions
At the end of the first split of the League of Legends season is the Mid-Season Invitational, a tournament that takes place in July where the top teams of each region compete not only for a cash prize but also for global ranking.
From the top five regional leagues (LEC, LTA, LPL, LCK & LCP), 10 teams will compete at the 2025 Mid-Season Invitational. Players from several countries will represent their squad at the US$2 million event, with teams fighting for one automatic entry into the LoL World Championship at the end of the season.
Depending on the results for the past couple of years, Riot Games will decide which teams are automatically seeded and which teams will have to go through a play-in stage to book a spot in the main event.
Where will the League of Legends Mid-Season Invitational be held in 2025?
The Mid-Season Invitational moves around the world, much like the League of Legends World Championship, and in 2025 the best LoL teams in the world will congregate in Vancouver, Canada. 10 of the world’s best will make their way to Canada to compete over two weeks, with big crowds expected across the entirety of the tournament.
2025 Mid-Season Invitational teams
The League of Legends Mid-Season Invitational teams will be announced closer to the start of the event.
2025 Mid-Season Invitational Odds
Betting odds for the League of Legends Mid-Season Invitational are not available. ESB will update this page when they are released.
How to bet on the MSI 2025
The 2025 Mid-Season Invitational will again pit the best League of Legends regions around the world against each other. As with all the big eSports events there is an abundance of markets available to bet on in the lead-up and even more markets in the hours before. The following table is geo-targeted to only show sports betting sites you are eligible to sign up at. A few of our personal LoL bet sites are BetOnline.ag, Bet365 and Betway.
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Regions represented in MSI tournaments
The Mid-Season Invitational features some of the leading LoL teams from all over the world.
The regions that will be represented at MSI 2025 include:
- League of Legends Champions Korea (LCK) – 2 teams
- League of Legends Pro League (LPL) – 2 teams
- League of Legends Champions of The Americas (LTA) – 1 team from North & South
- League of Legends EMEA Championship (LEC) – 2 teams
- League of Legends Championship Pacific (LCP) 2 teams
MSI tournament structure
Qualification
- The top two teams from each region will participate in MSI 2025
- The 1st seed of each region and the 2nd seed of LCK (the winning region of First Stand) will get a bye into the Bracket Stage, while the other four teams will start from the Play-In.
Play-In
- Double-elimination bracket
- All matches are played in a best-of-five series, using Fearless Draft
- Top two teams qualify for the Bracket Stage
Bracket Stage
- Eight teams play in a double-elimination bracket
- All matches are best-of-five series, using Fearless Draft
- The winner of MSI qualifies for LoL World Championship and the second place region gets a fourth seed for its domestic league at Worlds
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League of Legends MSI prize money
The distribution of the prize pool has changed slightly each year depending on the number of teams participating and the structure of the tournament. This is how is the US$2,000,000 kitty will be doled out at MSI 2025:
| Position | Percentage share | Prize (USD) |
|---|---|---|
| Champion | 25% | $500,000 |
| 2nd | 15% | $300,000 |
| 3rd | 12% | $240,000 |
| 4th | 10% | $200,000 |
| 5th-6th | 8% | $160,000 |
| 7th-8th | 6.5% | $130,000 |
| 9th | 5% | $100,000 |
| 10th | 4% | $80,000 |
Regardless of the outcome for each team, there will be a minimum prize for each participant. These numbers are the bare minimum that each position will receive and are usually bolstered by the sale of a specially made skin for the event. In 2019, the initial $1 million prize pool was supplemented by 25 per cent of the revenue from sales of Conqueror skins.
This tournament is significant for global ranking as well. The top four teams from the MSI will have no.1 seeds for the four main groups at the LoL World Championship later in the year. In addition, the highest-ranking team from the eight teams in the MSI play-in group stage will secure a spot in the main group stage at that year’s LoL Worlds. MSI can be a tournament for an undiscovered region to finally be in the limelight and then continue that streak through international success.
When is the LoL Mid-Season Invitational?
The Mid-Season Invitational usually commences in the last week of June or the first week of July. The tournament is played in three phases – play-ins, group stage and knockout rounds – and runs for a little over two weeks in total.
Previous MSI Champions
| Year | Team | Runner-Up |
|---|---|---|
| 2015 | EDward Gaming | SK Telecom T1 |
| 2016 | SK Telecom T1 | Counter Logic Gaming (CLG) |
| 2017 | SK Telecom T1 | G2 Esports |
| 2018 | Royal Never Give Up | Kingzone DragonX |
| 2019 | G2 Esports | Team Liquid |
| 2020 | Event Cancelled | |
| 2021 | Royal Never Give Up | DAMWON Gaming |
| 2022 | Royal Never Give Up | T1 |
| 2023 | JD Gaming | Bilibili Gaming |
| 2024 | Gen.G | Bilibili Gaming |
| 2025 | Gen.G | T1 |
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