2016 Mid-Season Invitational
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| Sport | League of Legends | ||
| Location |  China |
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| Dates | 4 May–15 May | ||
| Administrator(s) | Riot Games | ||
| Venue(s) | Shanghai Oriental Sports Center (Pudong New Area, Shanghai) | ||
| Teams | 6 | ||
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| Champions |  SK Telecom T1(1st title) |
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| Runners-up |  Counter Logic Gaming |
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| MVP | Lee "Faker" Sang-hyeok (SK Telecom T1) |
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The 2016 Mid-Season Invitational was the second event of the Mid-Season Invitational (MSI), a League of Legends tournament by Riot Games. It took place from March 4 to March 15, 2016, in Shanghai Oriental Sports Center, Pudong, Shanghai, China.[1][2][3][4][5] The participants were 6 winning teams of the Spring Seasons in their respective regions: 5 teams from North America (NA LCS), Europe (EU LCS), China (LPL), South Korea (LCK), Taiwan/Hong Kong/Macau (LMS) and a team from Wildcard regions (Brazil, CIS, Japan, Latin America, Oceania, Southeast Asia) that won the Mid-Season International Wildcard Invitational (IWCI).
SK Telecom T1 from South Korea won their first MSI title after defeating Counter Logic Gaming from North America 3–0 in the final.
Contents
Qualified teams and roster
Qualified team
- Royal Never Give Up (2016 LPL Spring winner)
- SK Telecom T1 (2016 LCK Spring winner)
G2 Esports (2016 EU LCS Spring winner)
Flash Wolves (2016 LMS Spring winner)- Counter Logic Gaming (2016 NA LCS Spring winner)
SuperMassive eSports (2016 TCL Winter winner, Mid-Season International Wildcard Invitational winner)
Roster
| Players | Coach | ||||
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| Top | Jungle | Mid | ADC | Support | |
| Europe (LEC) – G2 Esports |
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 Kikis(Mateusz Szkudlarek) |
Trick (Kim Gang-yun) |
 Perkz(Luka Perković) |
Emperor (Kim Jin-hyeon) |
 Hybrid(Glenn Doornenbal) |
YoungBuck (Joey Steltenpool) |
| North America (LCS) – Counter Logic Gaming |
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 ZionSpartan(Darshan Upadhyaya) |
 Xmithie(Jake Puchero) |
Huhi (Choi Jae-hyeon) |
Stixxay (Trevor Hayes) |
Aphromoo (Zaqueri Black) |
Zikzlol (Tony Gray) |
| China (LPL) – Royal Never Give Up |
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| Looper (Jang Hyeong-seok) |
mlxg (Liu Shiyu) |
Xiaohu (Li Yuanhao) |
Wuxx (Wang Cheng) |
Mata (Cho Se-hyeong) |
Fly (Kim Sang-cheol) |
| South Korea (LCK) – SK Telecom T1 |
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| Duke (Lee Ho-seong) |
Bengi (Bae Seong-woong) |
Faker (Lee Sang-hyeok) |
Bang (Bae Jun-sik) |
Wolf (Lee Jae-wan) |
kkOma (Kim Jeong-gyun) |
| Taiwan/Hong Kong/Macau (LMS) – Flash Wolves |
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| MMD (Yu Li-hung) |
Karsa (Hung Hau-hsuan) |
Maple (Huang Yi-tang) |
NL (Hsiung Wen-an) |
SwordArT (Hu Shuo-chieh) |
Fluidwind (Shih Yi-hao) |
| Wildcard – SuperMassive eSports |
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| Thaldrin (Berke Demir) |
Stomaged (İlyas Furkan Güngör) |
Naru (Koray Bıçak) |
 Achuu(Nicolaj Ellesgaard) |
Dumbledoge (Mustafa Kemal Gökseloğlu) |
hatchý (Adrian Widera) |
| fabFabulous (Asım Cihat Karakaya) |
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Group stage
- Double Round Robin, all matches are Best-of-one.
- Top 4 teams advance to Play-off. Bottom 2 teams are eliminated.
| # | Team | ~ | RNG | CLG | FW | SKT | G2 | SUP | W | L | ||
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| 1 | Royal Never Give Up |
RNG | ~ | 1–1 | 2–0 | 1–1 | 2–0 | 2–0 | 8 | 2 | ||
| 2 | Counter Logic Gaming |
CLG | 1–1 | ~ | 2–0 | 1–1 | 2–0 | 1–1 | 7 | 3 | ||
| 3 | Flash Wolves |
FW | 0–2 | 0–2 | ~ | 2–0 | 2–0 | 2–0 | 6 | 4 | ||
| 4 | SK Telecom T1 |
SKT | 1–1 | 1–1 | 0–2 | ~ | 2–0 | 2–0 | 6 | 4 | ||
| 5 | G2 Esports |
G2 | 0–2 | 0–2 | 0–2 | 0–2 | ~ | 2–0 | 2 | 8 | ||
| 6 | SuperMassive eSports |
SUP | 0–2 | 1–1 | 0–2 | 0–2 | 0–2 | ~ | 1 | 9 |
Knockout stage
- The 1st-place team plays with the 4th-place team, The 2nd-place team plays with the 3rd-place team in semifinals.
- Matches are Best-of-five
| Semifinals | Finals | ||||||||
| 1 | Royal Never Give Up |
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| 4 | SK Telecom T1 |
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| SK Telecom T1 |
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| Counter Logic Gaming |
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| 3 | Flash Wolves |
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| 2 | Counter Logic Gaming |
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References
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Final standings
| Place | Team | Prize money |
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| 1st | SK Telecom T1 |
$250,000 |
| 2nd | Counter Logic Gaming |
$100,000 |
| 3rd–4th | Flash Wolves |
$50,000 |
| Royal Never Give Up |
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| 5–6th | G2 Esports |
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| SuperMassive eSports |
