2016 Mid-Season Invitational

2016 Mid-Season Invitational
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Tournament information
Sport	League of Legends
Location	China
Dates	4 May–15 May
Administrator	Riot Games
Venue(s)	Shanghai Oriental Sports Center (Pudong New Area, Shanghai)
Teams	6
Final positions
Champions	SK Telecom T1; (1st title)
Runner-up	Counter Logic Gaming
3rd place	Flash Wolves; Royal Never Give Up
MVP	Lee "Faker" Sang-hyeok; (SK Telecom T1)
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The 2016 Mid-Season Invitational was the second event of the Mid-Season Invitational (MSI), a League of Legends tournament by Riot Games. It took place from March 4 to March 15, 2016, in Shanghai Oriental Sports Center, Pudong, Shanghai, China.^[1]^[2]^[3]^[4]^[5] The participants were 6 winning teams of the Spring Seasons in their respective regions: 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).

SK Telecom T1 from South Korea won their first MSI title after defeating Counter Logic Gaming from North America 3–0 in the final.

Qualified teams and roster

Qualified team

Royal Never Give Up (2016 LPL Spring winner)
SK Telecom T1 (2016 LCK Spring winner)
G2 Esports (2016 EU LCS Spring winner)
Flash Wolves (2016 LMS Spring winner)
Counter Logic Gaming (2016 NA LCS Spring winner)
SuperMassive eSports (2016 TCL Winter winner, Mid-Season International Wildcard Invitational winner)

Roster

Players					Coach
Top	Jungle	Mid	ADC	Support	Coach
Europe (LEC) – G2 Esports
Kikis (Mateusz Szkudlarek)	Trick (Kim Gang-yun)	Perkz (Luka Perković)	Emperor (Kim Jin-hyeon)	Hybrid (Glenn Doornenbal)	YoungBuck (Joey Steltenpool)
North America (LCS) – Counter Logic Gaming
ZionSpartan (Darshan Upadhyaya)	Xmithie (Jake Puchero)	Huhi (Choi Jae-hyeon)	Stixxay (Trevor Hayes)	Aphromoo (Zaqueri Black)	Zikzlol (Tony Gray)
China (LPL) – Royal Never Give Up
Looper (Jang Hyeong-seok)	mlxg (Liu Shiyu)	Xiaohu (Li Yuanhao)	Wuxx (Wang Cheng)	Mata (Cho Se-hyeong)	Fly (Kim Sang-cheol)
South Korea (LCK) – SK Telecom T1
Duke (Lee Ho-seong)	Bengi (Bae Seong-woong)	Faker (Lee Sang-hyeok)	Bang (Bae Jun-sik)	Wolf (Lee Jae-wan)	kkOma (Kim Jeong-gyun)
Taiwan/Hong Kong/Macau (LMS) – Flash Wolves
MMD (Yu Li-hung)	Karsa (Hung Hau-hsuan)	Maple (Huang Yi-tang)	NL (Hsiung Wen-an)	SwordArT (Hu Shuo-chieh)	Fluidwind (Shih Yi-hao)
Wildcard – SuperMassive eSports
Thaldrin (Berke Demir)	Stomaged (İlyas Furkan Güngör)	Naru (Koray Bıçak)	Achuu (Nicolaj Ellesgaard)	Dumbledoge (Mustafa Kemal Gökseloğlu)	hatchý (Adrian Widera)
fabFabulous (Asım Cihat Karakaya)	Stomaged (İlyas Furkan Güngör)	Naru (Koray Bıçak)	Achuu (Nicolaj Ellesgaard)	Dumbledoge (Mustafa Kemal Gökseloğlu)	hatchý (Adrian Widera)

Group stage

Double Round Robin, all matches are Best-of-one.
Top 4 teams advance to Play-off. Bottom 2 teams are eliminated.

#	Team	~	RNG	CLG	FW	SKT	G2	SUP	W	L
1	Royal Never Give Up	RNG	~	1–1	2–0	1–1	2–0	2–0	8	2
2	Counter Logic Gaming	CLG	1–1	~	2–0	1–1	2–0	1–1	7	3
3	Flash Wolves	FW	0–2	0–2	~	2–0	2–0	2–0	6	4
4	SK Telecom T1	SKT	1–1	1–1	0–2	~	2–0	2–0	6	4
5	G2 Esports	G2	0–2	0–2	0–2	0–2	~	2–0	2	8
6	SuperMassive eSports	SUP	0–2	1–1	0–2	0–2	0–2	~	1	9

Knockout stage

The 1st-place team plays with the 4th-place team, The 2nd-place team plays with the 3rd-place team in semifinals.
Matches are Best-of-five

Semifinals			Finals

1	Royal Never Give Up	1

4	SK Telecom T1	3
			SK Telecom T1	3

			Counter Logic Gaming	0
3	Flash Wolves	1

2	Counter Logic Gaming	3

References

^ "SK Telecom lose four games in a row in crazy MSI group stage". The Daily Dot. Archived from the original on 2016-05-09. Retrieved 2016-05-07.
^ "This might be the most embarrassing moment in competitive Counter-Strike history | The Daily Dot". The Daily Dot. Archived from the original on 2016-06-01. Retrieved 2016-05-07.
^ "G2 on poor MSI performance: 'We are doing our best to improve each game'". The Daily Dot. Archived from the original on 2016-05-08. Retrieved 2016-05-07.
^ "League Midseason Invitational day one recap | The Daily Dot". The Daily Dot. Archived from the original on 2016-10-10. Retrieved 2016-05-07.
^ "MSI Day Two Recap: A panic in the Shanghai Oriental Center". ABC News.

Final standings

Place	Team	Prize money
1st	SK Telecom T1	$250,000
2nd	Counter Logic Gaming	$100,000
3rd–4th	Flash Wolves	$50,000
3rd–4th	Royal Never Give Up	$50,000
5–6th	G2 Esports
	SuperMassive eSports

[1] "SK Telecom lose four games in a row in crazy MSI group stage". The Daily Dot. Archived from the original on 2016-05-09. Retrieved 2016-05-07.

[2] "This might be the most embarrassing moment in competitive Counter-Strike history | The Daily Dot". The Daily Dot. Archived from the original on 2016-06-01. Retrieved 2016-05-07.

[3] "G2 on poor MSI performance: 'We are doing our best to improve each game'". The Daily Dot. Archived from the original on 2016-05-08. Retrieved 2016-05-07.

[4] "League Midseason Invitational day one recap | The Daily Dot". The Daily Dot. Archived from the original on 2016-10-10. Retrieved 2016-05-07.

[5] "MSI Day Two Recap: A panic in the Shanghai Oriental Center". ABC News.

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