Cloud9 and JDG progress at MSI 2023 London as final week approaches with six teams remaining

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And then there were six. Cloud9 beat fellow North American team Golden Guardians at MSI 2023 London today, as JDG swept BDG.

Six teams remain at MSI 2023 as the League of Legends Mid-Season Invitational enters its final week, with the grand finals approaching on Sunday May 21st.

Cloud9’s 3-1 win saw Golden Guardians eliminated from the competition, just one day after G2 knocked out Mad Lions from MSI 2023.

Golden Guardians top-laner Licorice had told Esports News UK a few days earlier he ‘really wanted’ to beat his former team C9 at MSI London, but it wasn’t meant to be, and the Canadian falls with his team in the lower bracket.

Elsewhere in today’s games, JDG beat BDG 3-0 to progress to the upper bracket final, where they will face T1 (who beat Gen.G at MSI 2023 yesterday).

This means that one North American team (Cloud9) and one European organisation (G2 Esports) remain as the last two Western teams at MSI 2023.

The other four teams are T1 (Korea) and JDG (China) in the upper bracket final, and BLG (China) and Gen.G (Korea), who will face G2 and C9 respectively, on May 16th and 17th.

When it comes to Europe’s last hope, G2, their bot laner Hans Sama is feeling confident at MSI. He told Esports News UK’s Hannah Marie yesterday: ‘I feel like every game is comebackable and we’re getting stronger’.

Stay tuned as we bring you more pro player interviews, tweets, clips and articles from MSI 2023, with our coverage powered by SideQuest Gamers Hub.

Dom Sacco

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.