Korea VS Europe, China VS USA... MSI quarterfinals ‘East against West’
The 2024 MSI (Mid-Season Invitational), the first international League of Legends (LoL) e-sports competition hosted by Riot Games, will enter the bracket stage, the finals, starting on the 7th.
In the bracket, a total of eight teams compete in a double-elimination format.
All teams will be given the opportunity to recover from the loss, and the match will be played in a best-of-five format. 온라인카지노
Gen.G Esports and T1 will compete in the domestic league LCK.
Gen.G starts the schedule with the bracket as the winning team from last LCK spring.
T1, the runner-up team, passed the play-in stage, which is like a preliminaries, with 2 wins, 0 losses, and no losses.
Bilibili Gaming (BLG) and Top Esports (TES) will compete in the LPL, the Chinese league that has won MSI for the past three years.
Additionally, G2 Esports and Fnatic Dutam will participate in the European League LEC.
In addition, Liquid (TL), a team from the North American League's LCS, and PSG Talon (PSG) from the Pacific Coast League's PCS will participate.
What is noteworthy is that the MSI matchup was structured to pit the East against the West.
First, today, LCS team Liquid and LPL's top esports team will face off.
Also, Gen.G will face Fnatic on the 8th and T1 will face G2 on the 10th.
All Korean teams will compete against teams from European leagues.
On the 9th, Bilibili Gaming will face PSG Talon.
This is an interesting situation that arose when the Korean and Chinese teams were divided as a rule was applied to prevent teams from the same regional league from belonging to the same bracket (group).
Gen.G's first opponent, the 1st seed in the LCK, is Fnatic, a team that finished runner-up in both the LEC Winter and Spring.
Fnatic's bottom duo is comprised of Korean ADCs Hyun-taek 'Noah' Oh and support Se-jun 'Jun' Yoon.
Fnatic is also a historic team that won the inaugural championship at the 1st League of Legends World Championship (hereinafter referred to as Worlds) held in 2011.
Gen.G is expected to have the upper hand in terms of individual player skills, but one must not let down their guard.
In particular, mid laner Marek ‘Humanoid’ Brazda and jungler Ivan ‘Razok’ Martin are the ones to watch out for.
The two players performed well in the play-in match against Top Esports and achieved a set victory.
T1's opponent, who passed the play-in and advanced to the bracket, is G2.
G2 is a leader in Europe, having won the LEC four times in a row from the 2023 Summer Split to this year's Spring.
G2 also has a record of winning the 2019 MSI by defeating T1 in the semifinals.
From T1's perspective, they faced a difficult enemy from the start of the finals.
Keeping G2 mid laner Rasmus ‘Caps’ Bülter in check appears to be the key to winning the game.
Caps performed well in the 2024 LEC Spring Finals and was selected as Final MVP.
Even in the regular league, he is showing consistent performance by taking second place overall in POG (Player of the Game).
After making his debut in 2016, he is also famous for his nickname ‘Baby Faker’ among domestic fans.
To date, he has won the LEC championship 12 times and is considered the best mid laner in Europe.
In particular, his strength is his wide range of champions, so much so that he has changed his position to a long-distance dealer in the past.