Full list of MSI winners in League of Legends history

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The Mid-Season Invitational was added to League of Legends’ esports circuit in 2015 as Riot Video games regarded so as to add one other worldwide match to the calendar. Since then, numerous totally different groups have lifted the celebrated occasion. Discover out who they’re right here.

MSI has seen just a few totally different codecs and has expanded because the years have gone on to incorporate extra groups and matches. In its first iteration, solely the champions of the Spring Break up from the massive 5 areas in North America, Europe, China, South Korea and Taiwan/ Hong Kong, together with the winner of the Worldwide Wildcard Invitational, attended the primary occasion.

Since then, the match has grown to incorporate 13 groups from main and minor areas. It has additionally experimented with a number of codecs through the years, with the newest featuring a Play-In Stage that feeds into a Bracket Stage.

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T1 and RNG confronted off within the 2022 MSI grand last

Whereas the LCK has been the dominant area on the World Championships, the LPL has reigned supreme at MSI occasions. G2 Esports are the one Western workforce to have claimed an MSI trophy, with the LCS nonetheless winless after two last appearances, in 2016 and 2019.

The MSI champion could not go down within the historical past books in the identical approach because the Worlds winners, however the groups which have received the mid-season match have nonetheless earned worldwide acclaim.

MSI winners by 12 months

Observe: The 2020 Mid-Season Invitational was canceled due to the worldwide well being disaster.

MSI winners by variety of trophies

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G2 Esports took the MSI crown in 2019

With China’s domination of MSI, a number of gamers from the nation have repeated wins on the occasion. LCK giants T1 additionally received the match in two consecutive years, including much more trophies to the workforce’s cupboard.

MSI winners by nation

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LPL groups have received 4 of the seven MSI occasions thus far

With groups from China raking up MSI champion trophies, a lot of the gamers with an MSI title come from this nation. Nevertheless, South Korea additionally has a lot of winners due to T1’s wins and the success of Edward Gaming’s 2015 worldwide roster, which featured each Chinese language and Korean gamers.

It is usually price noting that, with out G2 Esports, this record would solely embody three nations: South Korea, China and Taiwan.

This text will proceed to be up to date as extra MSI winners are topped. Yow will discover the complete record of League of Legends World Championship winners here.