The League of Legends Mid-SEASON INVITAL 2025 (also referred to as MSI 2025) of the League of Legends alliance officially started, bringing together the leading electronic sports teams from 5 main areas globally to compete for glory, pride and important advantage before entering the 2025 World Final event.
As the second largest international event in the annual League of Electronic Sports route, MSI is where two representatives from each regional tournament will participate in the tense competition to challenge their bravery in the middle of the season. Not only is the title of waiting, the area of the championship team and the second highest achievement will win the World Championship 2025, making MSI more important. This year, the MSI tournament will take place from June 28 at Pacific Coliseum Gymnasium in Vancouver, Canada. Be ready for debt confrontation, the return as well as the classic handling when the leading League of Legends players in the world entered the challenge of “lighting glory fire”.
This year, MSI has a total bonus of up to 2 million USD (estimated at more than 52 billion VND), 8 times higher than the previous year. The MSI 2025 champion will receive 500 thousand USD (more than 13 billion VND).
MSI 2025 consists of 2 rounds: Rounds (28.06 – 30.06) and branching round (07.07 – 06.07, 08.07 – 13.07), with the following schedule:
Start round
– Saturday, June 28 & Sunday, June 29 – 02:00 (Vietnam Time)
– Monday, 30.06 – 07:00 (Vietnam Time)
Branch
(All matches begins at 07:00 am Vietnam time, unless other notes are available)
– Wednesday, 02.07 & Thursday, 03.07 – 07:00 (Vietnam Time)
– From Friday, 04.07 to Sunday, 06.07 – 02:00 (Vietnam time)
– From Tuesday, July 8 to Saturday, 12.07 – 07:00 (Vietnam Time)
– Sunday, 13.07 (final final) – 07:00 (Vietnam time)
10 teams of League of Legends from each area will participate in MSI 2025 including:
– China (LPL): Anyone's Legend (AL) – Bilibili Gaming (BLG)
– Korean region (LCK): Gen.g (Gen) – T1 (T1)
– Europe (LEC): G2 Esports (G2) – Movistar Koi (MKOI)
– America (LTA): Flyquest (Fly) – Furia (Fur)
– Asia Pacific (LCP): CTBC Flying Oyster (CFO) – GAM ESPORTS (GAM)
In which the Gen.G team is currently the MSI 2024 champion, while the eSports is the only representative of Vietnam's electronic sports at the tournament and will start MSI since the starting round.
After the boot round ends, the attention of the audience will turn to the branch. The branches of the branching ring will be paired based on the drawing level determined from the results of the First Stand event. The teams in the same area must be classified as different branches. The draws are arranged as follows:
– Level 1: No. 1 seeds in LCK and LEC areas
– Level 2: Seed No. 1 in LCP and LPL areas
– Level 3: The No. 1 seed of LTA area and No. 2 seed LCK
– Level 4: Two teams overcome the starting round
The MSI 2025 will gather the largest live broadcast in the history of the tournament. BTC is expected to have more than 75 bronze streamers broadcast live, giving global fans new and diverse ways to interact with the event in many different languages and styles.
This approach contributes to bringing familiar League of Legends streamer faces on the global stage, giving fans the opportunity to experience the tournament with their favorite characters. Particularly, Vietnam will contribute 5 streamer, including BLV Hoang Luan – Optimus – BLV Van Tung – BLV Hoang Sama and BLV Tung Lam.
In addition, all teams that won the right to attend the MSI 2025 are invited to broadcast live the entire event and are encouraged to cooperate with content creators that are officially linked. In addition to the list of co -broadcast live broadcast online, the list of bronze streamers broadcast live at the venue (Vancouver, Canada) will also be announced by Riot Games in the time near the last week of MSI 2025.
