2017 Mid-Season Invitational


The 2017 Mid-Season Invitational was a tournament for the MOBA video game League of Legends that started on April 28, 2017 in São Paulo, and ended on May 21, 2017 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. This was the third annual Mid-Season Invitational hosted by Riot Games, and the first time MSI had been extended. Each of 13 premier League of Legends leagues had a team that won the Spring Split represent them; Europe, South Korea, and China had their teams automatically admitted into the main event whereas the other 10 leagues competed among each other in a "Play-in Stage" with the top 3 teams advancing to join the main event.
SK Telecom T1 from South Korea defended successfully their championship in last year after defeating G2 Esports from Europe 3-1 at the final.

Qualified teams and roster

Qualified team

Based on the result of the MSI and World Championship in 2 years before, 3 teams from Europe, South Korea, and China are started in Main Group stage, 2 teams from North America and Taiwan/Hong Kong/Macau are started in Play-in round 2, and instead of the Mid-Season International Wildcard Invitational in 2015-2016, 10 teams from Wildcard regions are started in Play-in round 1.

Roster

Venues

and Rio de Janeiro were the two cities chosen to host the competition.

Play-In Stage

Round 1

First place teams of each group advance to round 2 of the stage
Draw
Only 2 teams of each pool is drawn into a group.
Pool 1Pool 2
RED Canids Isurus Gaming
Virtus.pro Lyon Gaming
SuperMassive eSports Rampage
GIGABYTE Marines Dire Wolves

Group A
#Team~SUPREDDWRPGWL
1 SuperMassive eSportsSUP~1-12-02-051
2 RED CanidsRED1-1~1-12-042
3 Dire WolvesDW0-21-1~1-124
4 RampageRPG0-20-21-1~15

Group B
#Team~GAMLYNVPISGWL
1 GIGABYTE MarinesGAM~2-01-12-051
2 Lyon GamingLYN0-2~2-02-042
3 Virtus.proVP1-10-2~1-124
4 Isurus GamingISG0-20-21-1~15

Round 2

Winners of the series advance to group stage. Losers drops to round 3.

Round 3

GIGABYTE Marines advance to group stage by beating SuperMassive eSports 3-1. GPL of Southeast Asia gets directly spot in Main Group Stage for Summer Split winner and additional spot in Play-in Stage for Summer Split Runner-up at 2017 World Championship.

Group stage

;Notes

Knockout stage

Ranking