2024 Mid-Season Invitational

The 2024 Mid-Season Invitational was the ninth Mid-Season Invitational (MSI), a Riot Games-organised tournament for League of Legends, a multiplayer online battle arena video game. The tournament was hosted in Chengdu, China, from May 1 to 19, 2024. All stages of the tournament were played at the Chengdu Financial City Performing Arts Center [zh].

2024 Mid-Season Invitational

Tournament information
Sport	League of Legends
Location	Chengdu, China
Dates	May 1–19, 2024
Administrator	Riot Games
Venue(s)	Chengdu Financial City Performing Arts Center [zh]
Teams	12
Final positions
Champions	Gen.G
Runner-up	Bilibili Gaming
MVP	Son "Lehends" Si-woo[1] (Gen.G)
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JD Gaming from China were the defending champions, but failed to qualify for the event after losing to Top Esports in the lower bracket final of the 2024 LPL Spring Playoffs.^[2]

The event was won by Gen.G of South Korea after defeating the previous years' finalist, Bilibili Gaming of China, in the final with a score of 3–1.^[3] Gen.G became the second Korean team (after T1) to win an MSI title, and their win marked the first time a non-LPL (Chinese) team has won the event after three consecutive years of prior Chinese winners.^[a][5][6]

Format

Eight of the twelve teams started in the play-in stage, with the second seeds from the League of Legends Pro League (LPL), League of Legends Champions Korea (LCK), League of Legends EMEA Championship (LEC), and League Championship Series (LCS) facing the top seeds from Liga Latinoamérica (LLA), Campeonato Brasileiro de League of Legends (CBLOL), Vietnam Championship Series (VCS), and Pacific Championship Series (PCS). The play-in stage is split into two double-elimination brackets, where each match is in a best-of-three format. The top four teams from the play-in stage advance to the bracket stage, where they will face off against the top seeds from the LCS, LEC, LCK, and LPL. This stage will consist of four matches, each being a best-of-five series, forming a double-elimination bracket.^[7]

For the first time, the winner of the MSI will automatically qualify for the 2024 World Championship, provided that they qualify for the playoffs during the 2024 Summer Split in their respective domestic league.^[8]

Qualified teams

A total of twelve teams have qualified for the event. The LPL, LCK, LEC and LCS have two teams each represented in event, with one team from each league qualifying directly to the bracket stage. The remaining four teams have qualified for the play-in stage, along with one team each from the PCS, VCS, LLA, and CBLOL.^[2][9]

Region	League	Path	Team	Pool
Starting in the bracket stage
China	LPL	Spring champion	Bilibili Gaming	1
South Korea	LCK	Spring champion	Gen.G
EMEA	LEC	Spring champion	G2 Esports	2
North America	LCS	Spring champion	Team Liquid
Starting in the play-in stage
China	LPL	Spring runner-up	Top Esports	1
South Korea	LCK	Spring runner-up	T1
EMEA	LEC	Championship points[b]	Fnatic	2
North America	LCS	Spring runner-up	FlyQuest
Asia-Pacific	PCS	Spring champion	PSG Talon	3
Vietnam	VCS	Spring champion	GAM Esports
Brazil	CBLOL	Split 1 champion	LOUD	4
Latin America	LLA	Opening Split champion	Estral Esports

Venue

Chengdu was the city chosen to host the competition, marking the second time that China will host the tournament, having held the event in 2016. All stages of the tournament will be held at the Chengdu Financial City Performing Arts Center [zh].^[10]

Chengdu, China
Chengdu Financial City Performing Arts Center
Chengdu

Play-in stage

• Date and time: 1–5 May, began at 16:00 CST (08:00 UTC)^[11]
• Eight teams would be drawn into two groups.
• Pool 1 team would play with pool 4 team, while pool 2 team would play with pool 3 team in upper bracket round 1.
• Double elimination; all matches are best-of-three.
• The four teams consisting of the winners and runners-up of each group advance to the Bracket Stage as pool 3 and pool 4. Remaining four teams are eliminated.

Brackets

Group A

Upper round 1

Upper final

Advance to bracket stage

Match 1 – 1 May

PSG Talon

1

Match 3 – 3 May

FlyQuest

2

FlyQuest

0

Match 2 – 1 May

T1

T1

2

Estral Esports

0

T1

2

Lower round 1

Lower final

Match 5 – 5 May

Match 4 – 4 May

FlyQuest

0

PSG Talon

PSG Talon

2

PSG Talon

2

Estral Esports

0

Source: LoL Esports

Group B

Upper round 1

Upper final

Advance to bracket stage

Match 1 – 2 May

Fnatic

2

Match 3 – 3 May

GAM Esports

0

Fnatic

1

Match 2 – 2 May

Top Esports

Top Esports

2

Top Esports

2

LOUD

0

Lower round 1

Lower final

Match 5 – 5 May

Match 4 – 4 May

Fnatic

2

Fnatic

GAM Esports

2

GAM Esports

0

LOUD

1

Source: LoL Esports

Bracket stage

• Date and time: 7–19 May, began at 17:00 CST (09:00 UTC).^[11]
  • Exlcuding games played on 11–12 May, which began at 12:00 CST (04:00 UTC).
• Teams from the same pool will be drawn into different sides of the bracket, with pool 1 teams facing pool 4 teams, and pool 2 teams playing against pool 3 teams in upper quarterfinals.
• Teams of the same region could not face each other in upper quarterfinals.
• Double elimination; matches are best-of-five.
• Notation: "W1" and "L1" indicate the winner and loser from Match 1, respectively. "W2" and "L2" indicate the winner and loser from Match 2, respectively, and so on.

Upper quarterfinals

Upper semifinals

Upper final

Final

Match 1 – 7 May

Team Liquid

0

Match 6 - 11 May

Top Esports

3

W1

Top Esports

2

Match 2 – 8 May

W2

Gen.G

3

Gen.G

3

Match 11 - 16 May

Fnatic

0

W6

Gen.G

3

Match 3 – 9 May

W8

Bilibili Gaming

1

Bilibili Gaming

3

Match 8 - 12 May

PSG Talon

2

W3

Bilibili Gaming

3

Match 4 – 10 May

W4

T1

1

G2 Esports

2

Match 14 - 19 May

T1

3

W11

Gen.G

3

W13

Bilibili Gaming

1

Lower round 1

Lower quarterfinals

Lower semifinal

Lower final

Match 9 - 15 May

Match 5 - 11 May

L8

T1

3

Match 13 - 18 May

L1

Team Liquid

3

W5

Team Liquid

1

Match 12 - 17 May

L11

Bilibili Gaming

3

L2

Fnatic

1

W9

T1

3

W12

T1

2

Match 10 - 14 May

W10

G2 Esports

0

Match 7 - 12 May

L6

Top Esports

0

L3

PSG Talon

0

W7

G2 Esports

3

L4

G2 Esports

3

Source: LoL Esports

Ranking

Team ranking

Place	Region	Team	Prize (%)	Prize (USD)
1st	LCK	Gen.G	20%
2nd	LPL	Bilibili Esports	16%
3rd	LCK	T1	12%
4th	LEC	G2 Esports	10%
5th–6th	LCS	Team Liquid	8%
	LPL	Top Esports
7th–8th	PCS	PSG Talon	6%
	LEC	Fnatic
9th–10th	VCS	GAM Esports	4%
	LCS	FlyQuest
11th–12th	CBLOL	LOUD	3%
	LLA	Estral Esports

Notes

1. There was no MSI event held in 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic.^[4]
2. Due to G2 Esports winning both the LEC Winter and Spring splits, Fnatic qualified by having the second-highest number of championship points after the LEC Spring split.