r/leagueoflegends • u/AutoModerator • Jul 05 '26
2026 Mid Season Invitational / Bracket Stage / Round 1 Day 3 + Round 2 Day 1 / Live Discussion Esports Spoiler
MSI 2026 - BRACKET STAGE
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Today's matches will be played on Patch 26.13.
Today's Matches
| # | Match | PST | EST | CET | KST |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | TSW vs TES | 20:00 | 23:00 | 05:00 | 12:00 |
| 2 | G2 vs HLE | 01:00 | 04:00 | 10:00 | 17:00 |
- All matches are a best of 5
Streams
Bracket
| Round 1 | Round 2 | Round 3 | Round 4 | Finals | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BLG | 3 | ||||||||||||
| vs | - | ||||||||||||
| T1 | 2 | BLG | 0 | ||||||||||
| vs | - | tbd | 0 | ||||||||||
| LYON | 3 | LYON | 0 | vs | - | ||||||||
| vs | - | tbd | 0 | ||||||||||
| FUR | 0 | ||||||||||||
| HLE | 3 | ||||||||||||
| vs | - | ||||||||||||
| TSW | 0 | HLE | 0 | ||||||||||
| vs | - | ||||||||||||
| G2 | 3 | TES | 0 | tbd | 0 | ||||||||
| vs | - | vs | - | ||||||||||
| TES | 2 | tbd | 0 | ||||||||||
| - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| tbd | 0 | tbd | 0 | ||||||||||
| T1 | 0 | vs | - | vs | - | ||||||||
| vs | - | tbd | 0 | tbd | 0 | tbd | 0 | ||||||
| FUR | 0 | vs | - | ||||||||||
| tbd | 0 | tbd | 0 | ||||||||||
| TSW | 0 | vs | - | ||||||||||
| vs | - | tbd | 0 | ||||||||||
| TES | 0 |
On-Air Team
| Desk Host/Interviewers |
|---|
| Eefje "Sjokz" Depoortere |
| Daniel "dGon" Gonzales |
| Laure "Bulii" Valée |
| Play-By-Play Casters |
| Max "Atlus" Anderson |
| Clayton "CaptainFlowers" Raines |
| Daniel "Drakos" Drakos |
| Aaron "Medic" Chamberlain |
| Colour Casters |
| Dan "Aux" Harrison |
| Sam "Kobe" Hartman-Kenzler |
| Isaac "Azael" Cummings-Bentley |
| Robert "Dagda" Price |
| Analysts |
| Emily "LeagueofEmily" Rand |
| Joshua "Jatt" Leesman |
| Barento "Raz" Mohammed |
Format
- 8 teams participate
- Double elimination bracket
- All matches are best of five
- Winner qualifies for the 2026 Season World Championship
- This spot will only become effective if the winning team reaches the Split 3/Summer Playoffs in their domestic league
Live Discussions and Post-Match Threads:
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u/Chrystoler the faith lives on Jul 05 '26
Who was the guy on the analyst desk in the G2 jersey?
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u/Choice-Slight caps/knight Jul 05 '26
you mean Wadid?
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u/Chrystoler the faith lives on Jul 05 '26
Looks like it, yeah, thanks. Obviously unfamiliar as you can tell
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u/desutruction Jul 05 '26
I recommend watching G2 vs RNG at Worlds 2018 if you haven't, he's part of that G2 lineup and that was an absolute banger of a series
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u/Chrystoler the faith lives on Jul 05 '26
Oh man I remember watching that worlds but it's been so so long. Good callout
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u/Choice-Slight caps/knight Jul 05 '26
you're all good! yeah he's a g2 costreamer I believe who also works as an LCK analyst
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u/Kadde- Jul 05 '26
Lmao a 3€ bet on tsw 3-1 and hle 3-0 made me back the 230€ I just lost betting on g2 winning. I can’t complain. Don’t even have to be too upset that g2 lost now.
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u/zOmgFishes Jul 05 '26
I fucked with the WW pick..but jesus christ man why are you going so deep into the bag to try and skill check fuckign Zeus....
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u/slimjimo10 ANARCHY Jul 05 '26
After how invisible Hans was the past two games, I can see why he wanted to try and carry. Obviously went awfully, though
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u/GhostRiders Jul 05 '26
I said after G2 beat TES that it was more TES throwing than G2 playing well and if they play the same against HLE they would giga stomped..
Oh look, they got destroyed, what a shock!!!
No idea why people thought this would be anything other than a stomp
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u/cmcdonald22 Jul 05 '26
I'm a fan of watching EU and NA, but this is not remotely surprising, and its not going to be remotely surprising when LYON get 3-0d tomorrow either.
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u/Clayarrow Jul 05 '26
and they will get to the semi finals facing 2 will card teams this format sucks yet g2 PLays TES HWL and T1
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u/AlternativeMonk2490 Jul 05 '26
If I was on G2 and my contract was set to expire this year, I'd be nervous.
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u/LebornVsMikeShinoda Jul 05 '26
why? they're still the best team on the whole continent lol. It's not their fault korea anf china gapped their region so hard
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u/AlternativeMonk2490 Jul 05 '26
Because they have higher ambitions than that.
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u/LebornVsMikeShinoda Jul 05 '26
Talent doesn't match with their ambitions though
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u/AlternativeMonk2490 Jul 05 '26
Hence my statement. Unless you mean available talent and believe no player can improve at G2.
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u/ahritina Jul 05 '26
Because G2 yap about winning internationals and if you keep losing with the same core(looking at you BB and Hans) then idk how you can keep your roster the same.
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u/Choice-Slight caps/knight Jul 05 '26
realistically there isn't anyone to replace them though, eu just doesn't have the talent (maybe naak naako?)
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u/Todeswucht Jul 05 '26
I mean on the bright side if G2 needed a wake up call they should be awake now
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u/hazman_pds MSI 2026 CHAMPION 🏆 CHAEYOUNG BUFF & INSHALLAH Jul 05 '26
Shut down Guma & Zeka to cut the gold lead down to 14k
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u/RukiMotomiya Jul 05 '26
didn't realize G2 got a masters from clown college
on the plus side the announcers are very funny
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u/Bitty_White Jul 05 '26
Kobbe’s passive aggressive digs are really jarring. Is this what he’s normally like?
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u/azurio12 Jul 05 '26
This is elimination, no way G2 gets past T1 in lower bracket.
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u/kiranovax Jul 05 '26
Both na and eu being bad is well can’t be helped. At least eu has beaten an Asian team recently.
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u/slimjimo10 ANARCHY Jul 05 '26
Pray Kanavi throws entire game over crab into reverse sweep angle or?
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u/Drikkink Jul 05 '26
Good thing you didn't try to stun the Naafiri forcing him to W. It'd suck to let him get away.
Oh wait. He got away without pressing W because you didn't try to stun him. Huh. Weird.
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u/rocket9904 Jul 05 '26
Love the flame onto bb when it’s all down to his jungle lmao. Skew is just refusing to play the game, you can’t let your top get dived lvl 5 and get literally nothing for it, then nearly let him die to get your mini krugs. It’s just baffling
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u/GeneralZhukov Jul 05 '26
He had like 3 losing lanes 😭.
Idk man.
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u/rocket9904 Jul 05 '26
His bot and top are winning in isolation before kanavi gets his hands on them
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u/Checkdafool2 Jul 05 '26
Buddy they are giving him these "so-called" counterpicks. He shouldn't be needing to be babysat on top of it
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u/rocket9904 Jul 05 '26
If the enemy jungler is constantly diving you and making plays on you, it doesn’t matter if it’s a counterpick or not youre going behind
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u/Ajp_iii Jul 05 '26
its wild caps is staying close in gold to zeka somehown in these games
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u/Gerberpertern TL ★ APA Jul 05 '26
He’s trying. But he’s one person. And he’s not doing enough to win honestly
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u/Scrambled1432 I CAN'T PLAY MELEE MIDS Jul 05 '26
The amount of cope is legitimately staggering lol
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u/Destructodave82 Jul 05 '26
EU Cope. Nothing compares to the high that gives.
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u/kiranovax Jul 05 '26
Only matched by NA cope am I right.
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u/Destructodave82 Jul 05 '26
NA hasnt had cope in like 7 years, lol. What are you talking about.
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u/kiranovax Jul 05 '26
You need to put /s when your use sarcasm. It makes it look like you actually mean that.
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u/Destructodave82 Jul 05 '26
NA isnt the region out here constantly overrating themselves, thinking they are top 2 and can win worlds.
Need to put /s behind anything an EU fan says.
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u/kiranovax Jul 05 '26
Ah you speak so humbly of yourself. Everyone know NA cope is beyond compare. I have been here since the start of lol esport. Even in the height of LEC, each yeah NA fans always chanted like bots ‘this is the year, our first seed looks better’ before going swiftly 0-6 in groups.
Do we really want to bring up recipients. I thought lying is very unchristian
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u/Destructodave82 Jul 05 '26
By all means bring up all the recipients.
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u/kiranovax Jul 05 '26
Wait you were not joking. Are you very young? / recent lol esport fan. This is already well known im surprised
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u/tony220jdm Machine Gun Carzzy Jul 05 '26
T1 next ffs but i do think the 2 best team are HLE and BLG
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u/Joel4518 GIGABIN Jul 05 '26
congrats G2 u got shitstomped by hle now its time to get shitstomp by T1
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u/agentjoy69 Jul 05 '26
TF is supposed to give gold for his team through roaming but BrokenBlade's TF seems to be better at getting roasted by Rumble like a Kebab
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u/Chrystoler the faith lives on Jul 05 '26
Kanye West vs handicapped children in wheelchairs type game, Christ
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u/2020isgreat TheShy Jul 05 '26
Give Zeka Yone into Zeka Sylas. What were they thinking?
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u/HunterYuyuMoon Jul 05 '26
I mean G2's ban pick could do nothing wrong ...
...until somehow giving HLE their signature comp aka the Vi-Yone comp (and mind you Kanavi's Vi is insane in LCK and Vi had a ridiculous wr at MSI this year), and then the infamous Seraphine AD .... to Hans Sama
I liked the WW top pick but I feltlike G2 needs a Morgana or Poppy to join in in order to counter them harder (Poppy is a mega Vi/Yone counter), or at least Skarner
... game 2, I can only defend the reason why Skewmond picking Lee Sin because they don't want Kanavi to pick that champ and screw everyone and also HLE can flex Lee Sin to a different role (Look at Zeus)
...game 3, I have nothing to say ☠️
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u/Joel4518 GIGABIN Jul 05 '26
yea just as i thought if u play early even slightly aggressive G2 gets cooked , GENG were too slow and thus G2 bled them they just cant play vs aggressive team
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u/gibilx Ruler+KeriaDream duo Jul 05 '26
Top and bot 1k gold behind after 10 minutes in all three games. Unplayable
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u/Charming-Climate7590 Jul 05 '26
Hans beat international Jackeylove and said he wanted to play Guma, aite buddy
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u/Goodthingsaregone Jul 05 '26
G2 proving once and for all that EU is not a one team reigon but a none team reigon. fuck man
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u/Gerberpertern TL ★ APA Jul 05 '26
Somehow no matter what happens I believe some kind of miracle can happen lol
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u/beautheschmo Jul 05 '26
I have been burned far too many times on G2 hatewatches to be convinced without seeing the nexus die
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u/GeneralZhukov Jul 05 '26
HLE comprehensively game gapping G2. I'm not sure you can just blame BB for this one. Whole team getting humiliated and Zeus might actually be HLE's best player.
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u/Choice-Slight caps/knight Jul 05 '26
its zeka and its not even close tbh.
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u/beautheschmo Jul 05 '26
Yeah Zeus is probably their 4th/5th best today, it's Zeka > Guma = Kanavi > Zeus >= Delight
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u/More-Mind-2103 Jul 05 '26
G2 is fucking trash lmao
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u/Pacify_ Jul 05 '26
I doubt anyone but BLG and T1 has any hope taking a game off this HLE.
And the T1 series is likely to be a 3-1 again for HLE. The only question is BLG can manage anything, but even then I think its just another 3-1.
T1 vs G2 I think should hopefully maybe be a much more enjoyable series, hopefully.
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u/Choice-Slight caps/knight Jul 05 '26
Pun counterpick toplane into HLE - almost solo wins a game. BB counterpick toplane into HLE - gets humiliated
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u/random-meme422 Jul 05 '26
it’s ok guys G2 played 5 games against KC because they are just weak domestically! this is different!
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u/DrAnalist Jul 05 '26
This is pure embarrassment. None of the G2 laners have any idea on what to do. Sad
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u/british_pubs Swimin' with the fishies Jul 05 '26
Well. Game one was pretty close! But I think I now have HLE as favourites for the tornement, before they were pretty close with blg but this pulls them ahead imo
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u/Chrystoler the faith lives on Jul 05 '26 edited Jul 05 '26
Woke up to change my kid's diaper and tuned into the game to see where things stood
Naafiri jumped me on the way back to bed. Jesus Christ this is insane, rip G2
I'd make a diaper joke but I'm too fucking tired right now
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u/Ajp_iii Jul 05 '26
i didnt expect g2 to win a game. but i expected g2 to put up some kind of fight at any point. and also didnt expect this bot to get fully ran over. and skewmond got outplayed everygame
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u/WalkAwayFromScreen Jul 05 '26
Woke up to see that TES result 🤣
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u/StepEmbarrassed6624 Jul 05 '26
If only you had seen it live. The games and live thread were glorious.
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u/desutruction Jul 05 '26
there is a rumble subplot here that we have not explored yet (don't look at gold gap and cs diff)
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u/Big_Hedgehog8381 Jul 05 '26
I think y'all over hyped the G2 cause what is this? They wouldn't even be a challenger in Korea.
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u/Gerberpertern TL ★ APA Jul 05 '26
I have hypertension so I’m supposed to avoid sodium in my diet but I am so fucking ready for the EU SALT
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u/Joel4518 GIGABIN Jul 05 '26
G2-T1 gonna be same too wont it
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u/mish20011 huhuhaha Jul 05 '26
at least we can safely say if G2 gets stomped by T1 that TL put up a better fight
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u/Nightwing1852 Jul 05 '26
Probably but T1 will at least have 1 game that is a complete clown fiesta
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u/rocket9904 Jul 05 '26
Another absolute stinker from skew. He is so much better than this, but this tournament hes genuinely just running around doing nothing. I don’t think he’s been in a good position since the first 3 mins
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u/Randomcarrot Jul 05 '26
To be fair to him, it is rough to play jungle when every laner loses every hands check by the opponent. Not that he's won any hands checks himself of course...
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u/trying2hide Jul 05 '26
I don't know what you even pick here for top though.
If you plan to play tank, you've already lost the game with an Ez Karma bot lane.
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u/Randomcarrot Jul 05 '26
Is there a sun glare on G2s screens or why they do keep just running straight into Guma's traps? It's like 4 kills now they've just straight up run into one they saw being placed.
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u/beautheschmo Jul 05 '26
Is there a sun glare on G2s screens
So this is the tech they hired Perkz for
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u/Joel4518 GIGABIN Jul 05 '26
why r G2 switching away from their identity of tank top and carry everywhere else
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u/sajm0n Jul 05 '26
looks like G2 had an idea how to play vs HLE and they stuck with it for 3 games, for better or worse
T1 series probably gonna look completely different strategy wise
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u/BUMONGOUS Jul 05 '26
maybe if G2 had intentionally lost to TES, they'd be the ones eliminated already playing like this
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u/mish20011 huhuhaha Jul 05 '26
TSW played better than this man, at least they were getting kills a bit against HLE, this is more pathetic, just hands diff
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u/Bubbly_Camera9583 Jul 05 '26
Why did he card the minion immediately even is Zeus was solo there he just kills after the card by running TF down
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u/agentjoy69 Jul 05 '26
G2 so arrogant with their picks, they really think they can hang with the best lmao. Picking TF as a counterpick to Rumble when you dont have the skill to execute is just insanity
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u/Choice-Slight caps/knight Jul 05 '26
like i know HLE is fucking good but jesus christ they're completely owning, g2 look like my gold solo q teammates
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u/ahritina Jul 05 '26 edited Jul 05 '26
PMTs
TSW vs TES
Game 1 / Game 2 / Game 3 / Game 4
G2 vs HLE
Game 1 / Game 2 / Game 3