MSI LoL 2025: Schedule, Teams, Shocking Upsets & How to Watch the Mid-Season Invitational Live

VANCOUVER, Canada — The 2025 League of Legends Mid-Season Invitational (MSI 2025) has reached its decisive weekend at the Pacific Coliseum, and the event is delivering on every storyline fans hoped for. Gen.G punch first ticket to Grand Final Korea’s Gen.G swept their way through the upper bracket, eliminating Anyone’s Legend 3-2 and edging out domestic rival T1 3-2 to secure a guaranteed top-two finish and a $500,000 share of the $2 million prize pool. Star AD carry Ruler is now tied for the tournament lead in Player-of-the-Series awards, while top-laner Kiin has posted the highest average damage per minute among all solo-laners so far. Lower bracket chaos: T1 await the winner of BLG vs AL • Lower-bracket Round 3 (July 11, 00:00 UTC): Bilibili Gaming vs Anyone’s Legend • Lower-bracket Final (July 12, 00:00 UTC): T1 vs Round 3 winner T1’s Faker is chasing his third international trophy in 12 months, but the LPL squads stand in his way. Bilibili Gaming’s top-side duo of Bin and Knight have already sent G2 and FlyQuest home, while Tarzan’s revamped Anyone’s Legend stunned FlyQuest and CTBC Flying Oyster in elimination matches. Key stats & milestones so far • Average concurrent viewers: 2.1 million across official streams and co-streams (up 14 % YoY). • Champion diversity: 87 unique picks in 79 games; Maokai (jungle) holds the highest win rate at 72 %. • Patch 25.13 meta: Early game snowballing—eight-minute Rift Herald fights are deciding 62 % of matches. How to watch the final three best-of-fives All matches stream live on the official Riot Games Twitch and YouTube channels, with multilingual broadcasts for Korean, Mandarin, Vietnamese, Spanish and more. Doors open in Vancouver at 17:00 local (00:00 UTC) each night, and remaining tickets are still available through Ticketmaster. What’s at stake beyond the trophy The MSI champion locks a direct slot to Worlds 2025 — provided the team also reaches Summer Split playoffs in its domestic league. The runner-up’s region also earns an extra Worlds seed, intensifying the ongoing LCK-LPL rivalry. Remaining schedule (UTC) • July 11 – Lower Bracket R3: BLG vs AL • July 12 – Lower Bracket Final: T1 vs BLG/AL winner • July 13 – Grand Final: Gen.G vs Lower Bracket champion Search interest for “MSI LoL schedule,” “Gen.G vs T1,” and “MSI Vancouver tickets” has spiked this week as fans gear up for the climax of League of Legends’ mid-season spectacle.