For the first time ever, League of Legends’ Mid-Season Invitational (MSI) will feature its own unique prize.
The 2025 tournament will invite the top two teams of each region to Vancouver, Canada, to compete for international glory and a guaranteed spot at Worlds.
And now, Riot Games has announced that the MSI 2025 champions will also have LoL skin bundles dedicated to them.
For years, the LoL World Championships has famously offered each winner the exclusive prize of their own skin in the game.
Players choose their preferred champion they played at the tournament and inject their personality and preferences into a unique skin.
The player then receives a cut of all the skin’s earnings.
Having your own skin was reserved for Worlds winners until this year, as Uzi was inducted into the Hall of Legends and received premium skins to celebrate his iconic career.
Now for MSI 2025, Riot Games will also release discounted bundles of the skins played by the winners in the final.
There will be one discounted bundle containing every single skin the team uses in the final.
And then other bundles with even heavier discounts featuring each player/role’s played skins from the series.
Thanks to the introduction of Fearless Draft, every player will have to play a unique champion each game.
This means each bundle is guaranteed to feature at least three skins per player, with the possibility of up to five skins each.
That main bundle could contain between 15 to 25 skins in total.
Riot has not confirmed any other details of these bundles as of yet.
It is not yet known whether the MSI winners will receive a percentage of these bundles’ earnings.
And Riot also hasn’t mentioned what will happen if extremely expensive, premium skins are played by the winners.
For example, a lot of LCK players in South Korea have recently been using Lee ‘Faker’ Sang-hyeok’s $500 (£368) Ahri skin.
League of Legends MSI 2025 Pick’Ems
As well as the skin bundles, Riot Games also confirmed that MSI 2025 will feature Pick’Ems for the first time.
The fun predictions competition has long been a part of LoL World Championships with in-game prizes available.
Now, it will be part of the mid-season event for the first time.
Last year, well over a million people took part in the Worlds Pick’Ems, but nobody was able to perfectly predict the results
Had they done so, they would have won all seven Ultimate Skins in the game (worth 22,275 RP, approximately £150).
However, four people did get perfectly imperfect picks, choosing the incorrect result every time.
Prizes have not been confirmed for MSI Pick’Ems, though it should be revealed soon with the tournament starting June 27th.
MSI should be significantly easier to perfectly predict too considering there are only 10 teams competing instead of the 28 at Worlds.
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