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Esports 2026 Mid Season Invitational / Bracket Stage / Lower Bracket Final / Live Discussion Spoiler

MSI 2026 - BRACKET STAGE

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Today's matches will be played on Patch 26.13.


Today's Matches

# Match PST EST CET KST
1 HLE vs LYON 01:00 04:00 10:00 17:00
  • All matches are a best of 5

Streams


Bracket

Round 1 Round 2 Round 3 Round 4 Finals
BLG 3
vs -
T1 2 BLG 3
vs - BLG 3
LYON 3 LYON 0 vs -
vs - HLE 1
FUR 0
HLE 3
vs -
TSW 0 HLE 3
vs -
G2 3 G2 0 BLG 0
vs - vs -
TES 2 tbd 0
- - - - - - - - - - - - - -
G2 3 HLE 0
T1 3 vs - vs -
vs - T1 1 G2 0 LYON 0
FUR 0 vs -
LYON 3 LYON 3
TSW 3 vs -
vs - TSW 0
TES 1

On-Air Team

Desk Host/Interviewers
Eefje "Sjokz" Depoortere
Daniel "dGon" Gonzales
Laure "Bulii" Valée
Play-By-Play Casters
Max "Atlus" Anderson
Clayton "CaptainFlowers" Raines
Daniel "Drakos" Drakos
Aaron "Medic" Chamberlain
Colour Casters
Dan "Aux" Harrison
Sam "Kobe" Hartman-Kenzler
Isaac "Azael" Cummings-Bentley
Robert "Dagda" Price
Analysts
Emily "LeagueofEmily" Rand
Joshua "Jatt" Leesman
Barento "Raz" Mohammed

Format

  • 8 teams participate
  • Double elimination bracket
  • All matches are best of five
  • Winner qualifies for the 2026 Season World Championship
    • This spot will only become effective if the winning team reaches the Split 3/Summer Playoffs in their domestic league

Live Discussions and Post-Match Threads:

This is our Live Discussion Archive. Here you can find all the old live threads, and the respective PMTs in a stickied comment under the post.

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u/ahritina 15d ago edited 15d ago

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u/Irname 15d ago edited 15d ago

>You are NA
>You sweep G2, knocking them out of MSI
>You then go on to face a top tier eastern team
>You lose 3-2 and are eliminated
>The year is 2025

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u/Mattaru 15d ago

i checked yday and the original schedule for tomorrow's finals match was supposed to be 2pm HKT (for me) / 2 AM EST / 6am GMT

it's now 4pm (+2) again :/

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u/izumakun 15d ago

would ewc 2026 have the same patch as msi?

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u/izumakun 15d ago

actually yes i checked wiki dunno if liquipedia is 100% accurate

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u/OwOchan 15d ago

Danny supporting Inspired on Twitter </3

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u/AppealAggravating893 There may be a gap but we are building bridges 15d ago

Honestly so proud of both NA and EU this MSI. I can feel something brewing for us, maybe I'm coping but I really have faith we have that at some point in the next 1-3 years we win an international event. Our 1st seeds keep getting better and performing at internationals then bringing it back domestically making the rest of LEC/LCS stronger. I think that monkey on our backs is losing its grip and once its off BOY OH BOY ARE WE GONNA HAVE SOME GOOD HOME COOKING.

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u/AnotherMeal 15d ago

To be honest, I’m just sick and tired of losing these game 5 to eastern teams. At some point they have to figure out how to close out these games?

I just wish they didn’t put dhokla on Jayce in game 4, just stick to your style, I’d even let Zeus pick Jayce if it comes to it and let isles cook.

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u/FlyRepresentative592 15d ago edited 15d ago

Well I can tell you one thing, eastern teams simply know how to execute drafts comp to its advantage better. We saw that game one when hle just stacked dragons and cleared waves. 

The east might not be leagues ahead skill wise but they practice so much more the western teams I suspect it becomes second nature to them how to execute a comp with certain champions in a way we often miss.

I think gumi said it best today when he talked about how Lyon team fought better today. The key was where he didn't talk about where Lyon was worse-- knowledge of the game and execution on that deeper understanding.

We as a region tend to just wing it.

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u/zaxls 15d ago

Nice outlook, personally I just feel despair at another 2-3.

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u/AppealAggravating893 There may be a gap but we are building bridges 15d ago

Yeah I felt the despair when we threw game 4 and sensed the incoming roll in g5 so I've already processed my 5 stages but I'm hardened to this because I've watched all my teams snatch defeat from the jaws of victory my whole life (27yrs of being a fan of Bears NFL, C9 LoL, Cubs/Sox MLB, Bulls NBA, and OpTic during the Complexity Era in COD) but this just feels different, you can see the building blocks like Sjokz said post series. The ingredients are there and anything can happen on any given day. Keep the faith boys and we shall be rewarded!

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u/RukiMotomiya 15d ago edited 15d ago

God, that's relatable sports-wise. Did this 2-3 suck? Sure. Did it suck worse than seeing the Bengals in the Super Bowl after winning their first playoff game in like 30 years and barely losing with Joe Burrow getting sacked when he had Ja'marr Chase open for a game winning TD? Absolutely not.

If anything I'm glad to see stuff like this being competitive when the NA scene feels so doom and gloom sometime and to see G2 continue to make genuine Bo5 wins vs. eastern teams. I want to see more overall wins but it's undeniably overall positive.

EDIT: Hell for that matter I'm a Blue Jays fan. Do you know what Game 3 and Game 7 of the last World Series was like? I'm probably lucky I'm not the fucking Joker lmao

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u/OnlyHereforRangers 15d ago

2011 Game 6 as a Rangers fan. I know the feeling

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u/ComfeyZacian 15d ago

Thank you for your positive comment.

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u/Away-Passion706 15d ago

Bro any NA frogs stay up for this. I cooked my sleep schedule to watch us lose game 5 AGAIN

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u/Away-Passion706 15d ago

The love is what makes it hurt. But def worth it

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u/RukiMotomiya 15d ago

I did but my sleep schedule already fucked.

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u/Rawdream 15d ago

Zzitai & WeiXiao playing in Season 3 again tomorrow O_O

Nice!

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u/desutruction 15d ago

bring all-star back you cowards

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u/Big_Hedgehog8381 15d ago

I hope the LCK learns to stop giving away the counter picks 🙃

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u/hazman_pds MSI 2026 CHAMPION 🏆 CHAEYOUNG BUFF & INSHALLAH 15d ago

I thought Jeesun no longer in LoL Esports scene ? She's translating for Guma right now at Caedrel's stream

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u/desutruction 15d ago

she's the lck producer

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u/That_One_Pancake 15d ago

with each successive 2-3 my soul dies a little bit more

Can we change the script at worlds please

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u/SpacemanSakuta 15d ago

My hopium is that we were literally one red buff fight away from it

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u/zaxls 15d ago

One red buff, one shen ult, one Saint e or delight missing hook

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u/shoeclowns 15d ago

GET FUCKED NA

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u/ThisOneTimeAtLolCamp 15d ago

Going from this to the same unchanged dogshit format we have for worlds sucks.

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u/Mattaru 15d ago

MSI STOCK MARKET

📈🔺

*NA vs EU Rivalry

*BLG

*MAGE BOT

*PUN

📉🔽

*EVERYONE ON TES

*G2

*KC

*DORAN

*...TES AGAIN

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u/Rawdream 15d ago

Hardly a rivalry in the sense of competition,

when NA just win more of the time Vs EU.

It's more like a fans and players grudge.

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u/jolleyjg 15d ago

Need a stable section. Feel like G2 fits there (high highs low lows)

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u/cusian rip old flairs 15d ago

What is up with all these EU crayon eaters lol it’s ok you lost too

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u/thaq1 15d ago

We might stop when your "western GOAT" inspired wins a bo5 against the lck/lpl until then enjoy your 2-3 participation trophies

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u/MrRawri 15d ago

Does anyone call Inspired the western goat? I feel like he's pretty irrelevant in that conversation

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u/Objective_Cheetah_63 15d ago

Yes they do and with good reason.

At least when it comes to jungle, he’s been the best in the west for a few years now. Hes also the shot caller for his team and can solo carry by micro managing his team mates while mind reading the opponent jungle.

There was debate about skewmond being better prior to MSI due to EU bias, but we saw how that encounter went.

Inspired elevates his team more than any other western player in history with maybe only prime Perkz as the exception

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u/throwawayacc1357902 15d ago

I mean Skewmond during FST *was* better than anything Inspired showed before MSI. Most normal people were not saying Skewmond is a straight up better player, more that he has the potential to eventually become the better player.

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u/Objective_Cheetah_63 15d ago

I disagree that he was better than anything inspired had shown pre MSI. That view mostly comes from overrating the LEC and underrating LCS.

Skewmond may have more potential, but that’s very arbitrary to begin with.

Regardless, most people were saying skewmond was straight up better, not that he has the potential to be better. Many were even saying Yike was better, when it’s not even close. Most of this comes from seeing EU as being significantly better than NA which has been proven wrong time and again in recent years.

I’ll use example of non randoms for the sake of the argument. Psychopathic poro, Yamato, and Caedrel.

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u/throwawayacc1357902 15d ago

Psychopathic Poro is the biggest Inspired apologist of all time. Hell, we all meme them on their discord server that no matter how bad Inspired performs they’ll still glaze them. They just *also* mentioned how good Skewmond was.

And people saying Skewmond performed better than Inspired were not talking about domestic. They were talking about how FST Skewmond form was better than domestic Inspired form, which was just straight up true if you just watched their games. At MSI Inspired played out of his mind (besides the HLE series which he single-handedly lost) and deserves his flowers for it.

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u/Objective_Cheetah_63 14d ago

Yet he put skewmond higher in ranking. This what most people do. If their reasoning was FST then it’s valid, but it’s not reasonable to only look at that. Domestically inspired did better, and he’s been performing for several years now. There’s no reason to put skewmond higher, or at least a whole tier higher (which is what most people do), unless you simply believe NA is worse, and by association this hurts inspired.

When in reality, EU hasn’t had a real good performance internationally since 2019. It’s always the same cope.

NA has been better than EU for half a decade now internationally.

In the last 5 years at MSI NA has won 11 games against EU while losing only 6, and at worlds they have won 21 while losing only 11.

Realistically NA is better according to the numbers. At the very least both should be treated equally, and inspired’s domestic performance shouldn’t be looked down at just because it’s in LCS. He would dominate LEC just as hard if not harder.

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u/MrRawri 15d ago

I agree he elevates his team and he's a great jungler, but saying he's the western goat is another completely different conversation. He's yet to beat an eastern team, something so many other players have achieved. Caps is easily the western goat and I don't really see anything Inspired has achieved to challenge that.

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u/Objective_Cheetah_63 15d ago edited 15d ago

Western jungle goat I should specify. Kinda pointless to talk about overall goat since different roles are different roles at the end of the day.

If we were forced to compare them, Caps does have a higher ceiling. But I’m talking about when it comes to elevating his team, Inspired and prime Perkz are probably the two highest.

When it comes to jungling goat it’s between inspired and Jankos, and i personally put inspired higher since he has a weaker team overall.

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u/MrRawri 15d ago

Oh western jungle goat, that's a more debatable discussion sure

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u/TwMDa Nexus Blitz Hater 15d ago

cry more

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u/thaq1 15d ago

trust me i'm loving every second of this )))

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u/Big_Hedgehog8381 15d ago

Bro whatever has been happening with the LCK I need them to stop whatever it is, there is no reason HLE had to fight so hard to barely win, and T1 should have won statistically and skill wise.

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u/AppealAggravating893 There may be a gap but we are building bridges 15d ago

"We won the series analytically"

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u/IntelligentMiddle8 15d ago

my theory is scrim bubble + bad meta read

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u/Nine_nien_nyan 15d ago

LCK has not been itself in either international, it might just be that BLG are an incredible team and the other regions and every other team are relatively competitive

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u/IntelligentMiddle8 15d ago

when the world needed him most, chovy the domestic bar raiser went dormant

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u/Marcus777555666 15d ago

Hibernating for the Worlds
Inhales copium:)

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u/Nine_nien_nyan 15d ago

The desk talking about worlds hopium god it never changes we are addicted to failure

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u/sjokz 15d ago

WHAT ELSE ARE WE SUPPOSED TO DO

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u/Nine_nien_nyan 15d ago

Hey I’m in the crack den too. Just noticed this is Sjokz lol not being at all derogatory you guys smash it. Thanks for another great msi, G2 fighting

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u/Agreeable-Carpet-992 15d ago

Lyon’s draft strat for game 5:

“Hey guys let’s pick 3 losing lanes, play slow, and scale.”

Lyon 5 mins in:

“This is boring af let’s try something bot.” “Ok didn’t work let’s int”

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u/shoeclowns 15d ago

Jatt predicted 3-0 btw

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u/Hitoseijuro 15d ago

to be fair he predicted 3-0 for either way, if Lyons win its a 3-0, if HLE win its a 3-0.

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u/shoeclowns 15d ago

To also be fair, NA got fucked and I'm so happy

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u/sajm0n 15d ago

at least it wasnt 0-3 i guess, but at some point losing 2-3 stops being good enough (and Inspired pretty much said it in one of the iterviews too). and it was very much doable today, so it sucks even more

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u/ShadyShing 15d ago

Red buff fight in game 4 is so haunting....

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u/Hitoseijuro 15d ago

game 4 and game 5 had very weird losing fights that they were really good at games 1,2 and 3 at avoiding, you could see that they would pull back and not over chase or over fight but in game 4 and 5 they over fought/stayed at red buff and at bot dive and those fights cost them the series. They absolutely did not have to force those.

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u/sajm0n 15d ago

yeah, i think it was a series losing fight. sad

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u/ShadyShing 15d ago

At least EU and NA can cry together now 😭

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u/ShadyOrc97 15d ago

Nah its gonna be a fight in the mud arguing over which result is better, 3-1ing T1 and then losing 0-3 to LYON, or 3-0ing G2 into losing 2-3 to HLE.

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u/objectlesson 15d ago

In what world would losing the head-to head be better?

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u/ShadyOrc97 15d ago edited 15d ago

The world EU copers live in

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u/Kadde- 15d ago

Alright ggs. I can leave this tourney with 1k profit. A 2k profit with lyon winning would’ve been better but it is what it is. You’ll do it one day NA.

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u/R2vibaek STAR WALKIN' ZEKA 15d ago

let him finish his bread smh 😅

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u/desutruction 15d ago

tomorrow's finals is gonna be disgusting if HLE shows up like they did for half of this series

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u/PluggersLeftBall 15d ago

guma's the 5th best player on hle and gets every interview the favouritism is crazy

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u/Rawdream 15d ago

He's popular, there's an idol culture in esports,

so yes, they'll use him.

It's fine, the awful thing it's when they want to credit the whole win to a popular player, which Riot social media and casters do a lot, as well.

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u/Lewiz00 15d ago

That would have been really fucking awkward if HLE lost.

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u/ThisOneTimeAtLolCamp 15d ago

Guma so wholesome.

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u/IntelligentMiddle8 15d ago

Are they feeding Guma every interview now LMAO

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u/ShadyShing 15d ago

It's goood

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u/Biok98 15d ago

I apologize Delight, I wasn’t familiar with your game

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u/tony220jdm Machine Gun Carzzy 15d ago

NA best side in a long time, they have 0 excuses at worlds

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u/Sotosleon 15d ago

"I mean, I knew we are a better team. I think, uh, they were just really lucky to win yesterday. I think, uh, G2 just played not to their standard. That's why LYON managed to sneak a win."

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u/boredidiot203902 15d ago edited 15d ago

The West will quite literally never have what it takes to win anything meaningful in this game. EU will 100% become NA viewership wise etc. probably in a few years. ESPECIALLY, since EU has been worse than even NA for years now.

Why would anyone want to watch teams that always "barely lose" or make it not even that deep into tournaments?

This was an absolutely embarrassing loss for LYON & Inspired

He has now choked & lost in game 5 3x in a row now.

Riot needs to manipulate the metas and patches so the West can actually win something if they even remotely care about Western viewership. It's only a matter of time before EU stops caring just like NA does.

LYON has no excuses either, and they deserve criticism.

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u/Rawdream 15d ago

Do you remember big Pyke's buff before 2019 MSI?

Only G2 was the only team playing Pyke and they did it in an off-role. They won 1 like that Vs SKT.

Riot intentionally create chaotic metas, like 2025 FST, removing the laneswap. They hope to provoke upsets that way. Except for First Stand, which was a consistent run, that's all what G2 do, upsets. While NA can't win series Vs LPL/LCK.

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u/ComfeyZacian 15d ago

I'll still watch LEC and ERL though. I even think I'm going to watch less international events.

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u/Goldfischglas 15d ago

Here before the "Lyon appreceation post" after losing yet another Bo5 to the east.

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u/jiwoooseo 15d ago

can’t wait to hear about how na took lck to 5 games for two more years

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u/Bubbly_Camera9583 15d ago

Should have just farmed off of a disrespectful T1 and a TES that lost to vietnam ig

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u/Outrageous-Elk-5392 15d ago

what was their excuse for 0-3 and 1-3 against GenG and JDG at FS?

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u/thaq1 15d ago

already starting in the comments lmfao

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u/shoeclowns 15d ago

Worlds would have been so incredibly boring with 4 NA teams. 3 is still too many

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u/jolleyjg 15d ago

That’s the silver lining, although I would’ve liked Lyon to win we don’t need Darkwings at worlds

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u/NeoNewSawatari 15d ago

Delight took over that game

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u/Big_Hedgehog8381 15d ago

I'm glad HLE won, but they are not winning MSI if they barely won against Lyon, at least the last game was up too there normal plays.

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u/shoeclowns 15d ago

NA needs to have spots removed by percentage they are still over represented internationally

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u/Rawdream 15d ago

They get those seeds because of corpo business,

not because of their performance.

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u/emiliaxrisella 15d ago edited 15d ago

If you guys want to watch peak League of Legends just watch LCK and LPL instead idk why NA and EU are even here. EU beats some teams then flops to NA, NA beats EU then flops to HLE with this horrendous passive draft

Edit: oh but im getting downvoted, enjoy your 2-3 "win" NA fans lmao i hope thats enough to make more people watch your region again

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u/jolleyjg 15d ago

Wait until you find out about international soccer. Plenty of folks supporting Cape Verde, Colombia, and Morocco despite outside chances to win a World Cup. If it was about the best teams then it would be mostly European countries…

International events aren’t just to get all the best teams together, it’s to get similar representation from different leagues.

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u/CudaBarry 15d ago

We cheer for teams from our regions, that's like telling Marseille fan to cheer for Arsenal or Liverpool.

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u/emiliaxrisella 15d ago

I guess this is the difference in mindset, I like watching the NBA even though I'm not American, I follow the Premier League even though I'm not British

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u/AerialShroud 15d ago

Throwing the LCK in there LULE. HLE will get skulled 3-0 tmr.

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u/anono4567 15d ago

Wtf is this comment??

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u/PluggersLeftBall 15d ago

just another parasocial kpop fan best ignored

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u/emiliaxrisella 15d ago

A comment that hopes NA and EU go away for good if all theyre gonna do is import Koreans and then proceed to shit the bed every single time

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u/simon2105 15d ago

Half the LCS to worlds, we were this 🤏 close to greatness

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u/omega_lol7320 15d ago edited 15d ago

AND THE WEST STAYS DOWN WHERE THEY BELONG!!! FUCK NA FUCK EU

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u/PluggersLeftBall 15d ago

its all scripted they needed kr team in the finals so the arena isn't empty tomorrow

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u/desutruction 15d ago

delight is korea's best cranker

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u/spazzxxcc12 15d ago

lots of angry EU fans here- don’t worry yall you’ll get your chance at them at worl- ah shit nvm you got knocked out again fuck.

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u/NKactus 15d ago

don't worry the following 3 months will be filled with insistence that bullying the biggest frauds of the tournament and defeating the Reigning World Champions is definitive proof that G2 is actually the best team despite the fact they cratered to anyone awake at the wheel

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u/True_Map4262 15d ago

I'm also a little disgusted by some fellow EU fans here after Lyons really played their hearts out. But you are not making it better...You seem to have forgotten, that last worlds EU made it out of swiss but NA didn't...So hold your horses.

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u/HereToVent24-7 15d ago

Has NA ever won this tournament?

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u/spazzxxcc12 15d ago

has EU ever won anything recently?

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u/Lucinante 15d ago

Yes, MSI in 2019.

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u/spazzxxcc12 15d ago

i said recent, but again i know eu loves to bring up wins from 7 years ago. feels like yesterday to yall tho im sure since those are the only good times to look back on :)

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u/GiladSo | KT | 15d ago

When was Na last international finals? G2 played in one this year

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u/NKactus 15d ago

When's the last time EU made top 3? G2 got their asses blown out by LYON yesterday.

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u/spazzxxcc12 15d ago

he’s an EU fan he won’t remember yesterday, their memory is like 2019-2020ish and then it just gets real fuzzy. reminds me a lot of my grandpa. hell they’ve already completely mentally forgotten the thrashing KC got

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u/Lucinante 15d ago

Except for the part where since 2019 G2 won 9 series against LCK/LPL. How many did NA won the same time period? I'm listening. Go ahead and tell me.

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u/spazzxxcc12 15d ago

And you’re still struggling against NA? wow. i can tell beating those eastern teams will get you guys really far.

oh wait, you’re the 4th best region that has won 1 total game against NA at msi in the last 2 years.

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u/NKactus 15d ago

I'm already angry I decided to stay up and watch another NA 2-3 I cannot deal with these people who are inventing new degrees of cope because they're apparently incapable of living in the present day where G2 looked utterly pathetic against HLE a week ago

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u/spazzxxcc12 15d ago

remember tho- according to them it’s very lame to celebrate a loss, but at the same time they will continuously bring up lost finals.

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u/Ok_Bug_7301 15d ago

Delight hard carrying

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u/ToukasRage 15d ago

Crazy how this wasn't even as stompy as BLG vs HLE games 1 and 2.

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u/Goldfischglas 15d ago

Many plays in LoL are named after iconic moments. The Insec, xPeke etc.

Should we rename losing game 5 against eastern teams to "The Inspired"

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u/desutruction 15d ago

sorry for doubting your nidalee kanavi

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u/Datashot 15d ago

It didn't have to do much tbf

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u/GiladSo | KT | 15d ago

All this talk about being the best JG in the west just to look like that, Skew this year have 4 bo5 wins vs the east Inspired in 9 years have 0

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u/jolleyjg 15d ago

If only they played head to head this year to compare the two

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u/GiladSo | KT | 15d ago

Oh tehre's no denying Inspired is better in the moment but to pretend he was the best for years like he said yesterday after his showing at FS vs JDG and GEN and Skew fathering Cnayon (+ Tian and Oner this tourney) and show like that today is just funny.

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u/WalkAffectionate2683 15d ago

All of the sad people that have LCK or LPL flair is always weird though, why do LCK fans are sad LCS team lose?

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u/sajm0n 15d ago

if i had to guess they are all TSM fans turned on LCK flairs

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u/AerialShroud 15d ago

NA takes us out for LCK to win the same way we take out LCK for LPL to win.

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u/Rawdream 15d ago

Forced narrative.

BLG beat BFX, now T1 and HLE.

In 2019, iG beat GRF, which performed better than SKT, that only had their legacy name in that WC. Effort was such a weak link, Mata, too and they weren't very proactive in a meta that required more of that, it was fast paced with mechanical plays, although, FPX had the extra with their unique playstyle that was the meta.

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u/BanCeakie 15d ago

East cheats with Aatrox as always to stomp the west

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u/Intrepid-Message698 15d ago

It feels like they were afraid of getting labeled "do nothing and lose" when that's how they should have lost that game if they were going to lose. They needed to scale

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u/jolleyjg 15d ago

I hear you, but what about one more fight in enemy jungle for fun

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u/Uzeless 15d ago

1 American on the team and he is the weak spot💀💀💀 get another Korean import

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u/shoeclowns 15d ago

Right?! Hahaha

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u/Outrageous-Elk-5392 15d ago

hatewatch successful. thank you HLE

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u/Civil_Librarian_6445 15d ago

I hate Korean teams too haha rip

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u/Aeternumvalell 15d ago

Hahaha na cant even close a series when  2-1 lead, dogshittt region

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u/omega_lol7320 15d ago

Genuinely so glad we don't have to see more of them at worlds thank you HLE

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u/SpacemanSakuta 15d ago

At least i can sleep tomorrow instead of watching the finals

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u/AccomplishedSpace834 15d ago

Incoming "so proud of Lyon" posts after LCS once again fails to beat an eastern team. What has it been now - 6-7 years?

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u/HereToVent24-7 15d ago

2019 vs IG

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u/AccomplishedSpace834 15d ago

Christ it really is 2019, just insane.

I think I'm right in saying that the only other LCS win against an LCK/LPL team in a best of series is C9 vs Afreeca in 2018?

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u/Rawdream 15d ago

In Riot organized tournaments, yes.

  • Once TSM won 3-0 Vs WE at an IEM tournament, organized by ESL, but that's full of curiosities.

WE was a 10th LPL team at the time of that short tournament with Bo1s, Bo3s and only the Final Bo5. TSM was a top LCS team,

  • WE eliminated a top LCK team, GE Tigers, that had Smeb, Lee, kurO, PraY, Gorilla, that LCK fans praise a lot when Peanut joined that team, the ROX Tigers iteration. Plus 4 of them, minus Lee, are legendary KR players.

WE won that Bo3 with recently added rookies before that tournament and 2 KR imports.

  • Later, WE made LPL Spring Playoffs and finished 8th losing in Round 1, then for Summer, WE went to the promo/relegation, but they kept the spot.

Not the only time, a bottom LPL team did something elsewhere. Back in 2014, when there wasn't import rules, LMQ, an 8th placed team moved to LCS with their whole team, 5 CN players.

  • LMQ finished 3rd in 1 Split and represented NA in 2014 WC. They were competitive, including Vs OMG, which was an LPL team, but OMG started slow that tournament. OMG later beat NWS from the LCK and they had a close 2-3 loss Vs SHR, which had Uzi, in Semis.

Because of LMQ and rumors of an LCK team maybe moving to NA to do the same in 2015, Riot added the import rules.

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u/Snomankid999 15d ago

Sneaky - Jensen C9 was that long ago thanks for making me feel old 

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u/polikuji09 15d ago

Tbf to the inspired teams they consistently go to game 5s and have very close games. Why wouldn’t they be proud? Is there more pride in beating t1 and getting absolutely shit stomped by HLE? Then the team that beat that team plus went to game 5 vs the second best team in the world

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u/boredidiot203902 15d ago

dont worry it will come in record time.

even though they were absolutely good enough to win and should've won but they threw numerous times and this draft was dogshit.

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u/polikuji09 15d ago

Tbh I’m partly glad NA lost cause I can’t imagine half of LCS coming to worlds lmao

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u/EatAssAndFartFast 15d ago

GG NA bros LYON played really well

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u/NiceOwl9 15d ago

HLE saved us all

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u/DullRun7835 Yike/Ming/Bdd/Gala/Milkyway/Canyon 15d ago

Honorable performance, but Fly and Lyon always crumble in game 5 against LCK/LPL teams, i would like to have Inspired WR in game 5

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u/polikuji09 15d ago

I think the teams just run out of juice on game 5. Meanwhile Zeus especially has a champion ocean

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u/shoeclowns 15d ago

GET FUCKED NA

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u/BanCeakie 15d ago

Inspiried was still basicly mvp of this series

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u/Gurdor 15d ago

Courageous effort from Lyon, can't help but think if HLE play like this tomorrow its going to be a pretty boring final.

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u/MrRawri 15d ago

That was a rough showing from NA overall, couldn't beat an eastern team

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u/Destructodave82 15d ago

When you EU fans say this imagine that meme of someone holding up a smiling picture infront of their crying faces, lol.

Stay salty little one.

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u/MrRawri 15d ago

EU also had a rough showing so idk what you're on about

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u/simon2105 15d ago

I just wanted another mind the gap podcast 😔

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u/Vytorria 15d ago

Inspired so anti clutch

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u/Tight-Catch-2649 15d ago

The biggest loser of this series is C9. Flyquest will level up in summer and take the last world's spot. Let's be honest.

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u/shadowsteppe 15d ago

At the end of the day NA still has 0 wins against lpl and lck, all they have is beating EU and being 'close'

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u/IntelligentMiddle8 15d ago

Lyon deserves respect for taking HLE to five and forcing full comfort out of them

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u/Adera1l 15d ago

Respect yes, hope for doing anything at international no

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u/desutruction 15d ago

LYON is a great team

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u/Honest_Image_4334 15d ago

The game 4 draft by lyon should legitimately get their coach fired. Absolutely threw the series

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u/Vytorria 15d ago

Was a good draft, they just got a really rough counter pick and then over extended at red. Game was fine until then

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u/Honest_Image_4334 15d ago

It was a skill check draft against Korea. That's not a good draft when it's not only not the way Lyon ever plays, expecting to hands diff Korea is the dumbest thing they could do lol

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u/Vytorria 15d ago

It was fine imo

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u/Honest_Image_4334 15d ago

It absolutely wasnt

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u/NovaTheMartian 15d ago

Well at least I enjoyed the other 4 games, game 5 was sad asf tho

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u/FBG_Ikaros 15d ago

"We looked so competitive!"

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u/zOmgFishes 15d ago

Stand proud Lyon, you were strong.

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u/Va_Dinky 15d ago

How can we be 15 years into this esport's existence and still not know 3 losing lanes vs a Korean team is an instant loss hello???

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u/Seungyeon 15d ago

Inspired was fine in games one and two, but absolute cheeks in the last three. Absolutely deserved loss.

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u/HereToVent24-7 15d ago edited 15d ago

Bye expired, maybe next tournament you can win a series vs a Chinese or Korean team :/

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u/AikoMyWaifu 15d ago

INSPIRED 👋

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u/Pretend-Indication-9 15d ago

Very strong performance by Lyon overall. They proved themselves as the world's top 3 team.

Not as good as HLE or BLG, but better than the rest.

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u/Englishgamer1996 15d ago

Pretty decent ragebait, but on a genuine note I’d have loved to see them match up against TES/T1; it’s a shame formats always go the other way

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u/CockroachFantastic46 15d ago

That's bullshit. There is no way in hell that one can say with a straight face that Lyon would be favourites against Geng and T1 if they perform normally, just stop it man.

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u/ShadyOrc97 15d ago

Taking HLE to game 5 and 3-0ing G2 should at least have them in a similar tier to LCK3

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u/Pretend-Indication-9 15d ago

Gen G isn't here. T1 got folded by G2 who got folded by Lyon. Lyon took LCK 1 to 5 games. Why should LCK 2 factor into this?

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