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Mid-Season Invitational The Mid-Season Invitational (MSI) is an annual ''League of Legends'' international tournament hosted by Riot Games in the middle of years, since 2015. It is the second most important international ''League of Legends'' tournament aside from the ...

(MSI) tournament, hosted by

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. The tournament was held from April 28 to May 21, 2017, in

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. This was 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 (EU LCS), South Korea (

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), and China ( LPL) 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.

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from South Korea successfully defended their championship from the previous year, defeating

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3–1 in the final.

Qualified teams

Based on the result of the MSI and World Championship in 2 years before (2015–2016), 3 teams from Europe (EU LCS), South Korea (LCK), and China (LPL) are started in Main Group stage, 2 teams from North America (NA LCS) and Taiwan/Hong Kong/Macau (LMS) are started in Play-in round 2, and instead of the Mid-Season International Wildcard Invitational in 2015–2016, 8 teams from Wildcard regions are started in Play-in round 1.

Venues

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and

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were the two cities chosen to host the competition.

Play-In Stage

Groups

First place teams of each group advance to round 2 of the stage ;Group A ;Group B

Knockouts

Winners of the series advance to group stage. Losers drops to round 3. GIGABYTE Marines advance to group stage by beating SuperMassive eSports 3–1.

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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

Knockout stage

* The 1st-place team plays with the 4th-place team, The 2nd-place team plays with the 3rd-place team in semifinals. * All matches are Best-of-five.

Ranking

References

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