Esports News UK MSI 2023 Coverage Powered by SideQuest Gamers Hub; Photo by Colin Young-Wolff/Riot Games
Korean esports powerhouse T1 put themselves in a dominant position at MSI 2023 London today after narrowly beating Gen.G 3-2.
The T1 League of Legends team were leading fellow Korean side Gen.G 2-0, before the latter fought back to level the series 2-2. But Faker and co took game five in 26 minutes thanks to a top display by jungler Oner.
There were some cool moments, including this escape by Faker and stopwatch by Chovy.
This win sent T1 into the upper bracket final at MSI London, making them the first team to progress so far in this tournament.
Esports Charts reported that the T1 Gen.G match today received 1.93m peak viewers, just behind the most-watched MSI match (T1 vs RNG, 2.19m peak viewers in 2022).
T1 will face the winner of BLG and JDG, who go head-to-head with one another on Sunday May 14th.
Meanwhile, Gen.G have been sent down to the lower bracket, where they will go up against the victor from the all-NA match-up between Cloud9 and Golden Guardians, which also takes place on May 14th.
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G2 become EU’s last hope at MSI 2023
In the other match taking place today at MSI London, G2 Esports smashed fellow EU team Mad Lions 3-0.
This result means Mad Lions have been eliminated from the competition. While Mad had a tough couple of match-ups in T1 and G2, they ultimately failed to win a game at MSI.
The win for G2 has sent them to round two of the lower bracket, where they will prepare to play the loser of BLG vs JDG on Tuesday May 16th.
G2’s League of Legends general manager Romain Bigeard said he was really happy about the win today:
Stay tuned for lots more content from Esports News UK powered by SideQuest Gamers Hub at MSI 2023 London, including TikTok clips, tweets and more.
For more, see our latest interview with G2 Esports bot laner Hans Sama from MSI 2023 here.
Dom is an award-winning writer and finalist of the Esports Journalist of the Year 2023 award. He graduated from Bournemouth University with a 2:1 degree in Multi-Media Journalism in 2007.
As a long-time gamer having first picked up the NES controller in the late ’80s, he has written for a range of publications including GamesTM, Nintendo Official Magazine, industry publication MCV and others. He worked as head of content for the British Esports Federation up until February 2021, when he stepped back to work full-time on Esports News UK and offer esports consultancy and freelance services. Note: Dom still produces the British Esports newsletter on a freelance basis, so our coverage of British Esports is always kept simple – usually just covering the occasional press release – because of this conflict of interest.
