Team list for MSI 2023 LOL
Mid Seasonal Invitational (MSI) is the second largest Esports tournament of the year for the game League of Legends. This year, MSI 2023 will be held in London, England with a big change in the format of the competition.
List of 12 teams participating in MSI 2023:
The throne at LEC 2023 Winter brought the first ticket to MSI 2023 for the G2 Esports boys. Certainly, the G2 clowns will bring joy to the audience and interesting surprises in the second biggest Esports tournament of the year of LoL.
G2 Esports is currently making their name in the warm-up round of MSI, but they continue to win the LEC 2023 Spring (LEC Spring 2023), caPs and their teammates will advance to the group stage of the tournament.
After a year of absence, Cloud 9 has officially returned to the MSI arena with a 3-0 victory over FlyQuest. "Cuu Van Bang" will also have the opportunity to regain the throne of North American League of Legends after winning the right to reach the finals of the 2023 LCS Spring Split.
With a convincing victory over GEN in the final of the LCK Spring Split 2023, T1 once again returned to the MSI arena. With 19 consecutive wins throughout the group stage, Faker and his teammates are the No. 1 candidate for the MSI 2023 championship.
T1 is extremely hungry to reclaim the debt at MSI 2022, the tournament where they lost the throne right at home. In this season, T1's roster has become more and more complete, both in terms of picks and bans, laning and macro. Will there be the next title for Faker and his juniors?
With a 3-1 victory over KT Rolster in the losing bracket final, Gen.G became the next LCK team to appear at MSI 2023. This is also the first time GEN has appeared at the Mid-Season Invitational when the tournament changed. format change, allowing large areas with 2 representatives to participate.
From the losing bracket, the Golden Guardians made a spectacular progress, especially winning 3-2 against Flyquest to be in the finals of the 2023 LCS Spring Split. The reward for GG is a place to attend MSI 2023. Will they continue their magical journey by defeating Cloud 9 in the final?
The finals of the LPL Spring Split 2023 ended with an overwhelming victory for JDG, when Ruler and his teammates dominated in all aspects against EDward Gaming. JDG was excellent at the 2023 LPL Spring Split Finals to defend their championship with a ticket to the upcoming MSI 2023 in London.
After the defeat in the summer of 2022, PSG Talon regained their status as the king of the PCS region with the PCS Spring 2023 championship. They easily defeated Frank Esports with a score of 3-0 in the final to post the title. optical.
PSG will return to MSI with a completely new roster, without veteran players like Hanabi, Kaiwing, Unified or Maple. Instead, there will be young talents like Azhi, Pretender, HongSuo and especially JunJia, EDward Gaming's reserve jungler who won Worlds 2021.
A close 3-2 victory over EDward Gaming made BLG the second representative of the LPL region at MSI 2023. They will also face JD Gaming in the grand finals.
Bin will also be the only player to have a chance to defend the title from MSI 2022, after Xiaohu, GALA, Ming and Wei no longer have the opportunity to participate in this tournament.
DFM will continue to be a familiar guest of MSI 2023 from the Japanese region. In this season, DFM will still have the presence of familiar names like Yutapon, Aria and new faces like Steal, tol2.
The 5 members who once represented the Brazilian region competing at Worlds 2022 continued to show their dominance over the rest of the CBLOL 2023 Split 1. 3 consecutive victories in the Playoffs made it easy for LOUD to have a ticket to come. with MSI 2023.
After the failures in the 2021 and 2022 seasons, Movistar R7 changed the squad and added two Korean elements, Bong and Mireu. These investments have paid off when R7 has returned to the international arena after 2 years.
Once again, GAM Esports has successfully defended the throne in the VCS arena. With a convincing 3-1 victory over SBTC, GAM will be the representative of VCS at MSI 2023.
The Lions of Madrid have completed their magical journey by defeating G2 Esports, Vitality and BDS respectively to become the champions of LEC Spring 2023. They will qualify for MSI 2023 as the champions. 1st seed of the LEC region and went straight to the Playoffs.
In 2023, MSI 2023 will increase from 11 teams to 13 teams and compete in a new format consisting of 2 rounds: Play-ins (Swiss format) and Playoffs (win-lose bracket format). The 4 major regions LCK, LPL, LEC and LCS will have more places to compete for the 2nd seeds.