League of Legends Mid-Season Invitational (MSI) 2025 is less than two weeks away, and we now have the representatives from every region.
Surprisingly, only one team from the First Stand international event earlier this year has qualified for the tournament.
Taiwanese team CTBC Flying Oysters (CFO) have once again qualified for an international tournament as the LCP’s top team.
Meanwhile, Karmine Corp, Top Esports, Team Liquid, and First Stand champions Hanwha Life all failed in their respective regions.
Each region’s two strongest teams will now compete for the League of Legends MSI trophy and its unique prize.
Here are the 10 teams that have qualified.
Gen.G – LCK
Because of the new LCK Road to MSI format, this split didn’t crown a South Korean champion.
But Gen.G are the region’s top seeds after qualifying for MSI first.
The team impressively went through the opening rounds undefeated with an 18-0 record.
They then reverse-swept First Stand champions Hanwha Life to win 3-2 in a dramatic MSI qualifier.
Iconic jungler Kim ‘Canyon’ Geon-bu was the difference maker with incredible plays on Lee Sin and Wukong.
T1 – LCK
LoL’s most decorated team is back on the international stage.
The five-time and reigning World Champions have recovered from a disastrous start to the year.
Now the storied organisation and legendary Lee ‘Faker’ Sang-hyeok will fight for their third MSI trophy.
It would be a first international trophy for Choi ‘Doran’ Hyeon-joon, who was the hero in T1’s qualifier.
The toplaner was sensational in his team’s 3-0 stomp of Hanwha Life.
Movistar KOI – LEC
Movistar KOI and midlaner Joseph Joon ‘Jojopyun’ Pyun are one of the most interesting stories going into this tournament.
By winning LEC Spring Movistar KOI and Jojopyun made history as the Canadian player became the first North American to win a European LoL tournament.
Jojopyun will now compete in his home country after his team’s impressive LEC run.
MKOI defeated KCorp twice in five-game series and then G2 Esports in the final to establish themselves as EMEA’s top team.
G2 Esports – LEC
The only European team to ever win the tournament is headed to another MSI.
It has been a challenging year for the region’s most successful organisation after losing back-to-back playoff finals.
Especially as G2 defeated MKOI earlier in the Spring Upper Bracket.
With the experienced Rasmus ‘Caps’ Winter, G2 will always stand a chance of going far at the tournament.
Anyone’s Legend – LPL
There’s a new team on the international stage as Anyone’s Legend has qualified for MSI 2025 for their first-ever international event.
AL had previously struggled for years towards the bottom of the LPL.
Now, they are the LPL champions with a roster of mostly veterans with Li ‘Flandre’ Xuan-Jun and Lee ‘Tarzan’ Seung-yong.
They defeated Bilibili Gaming twice, 3-2, then 3-1 to earn Tarzan the first major trophy of his nine-year career.
Bilibili Gaming – LPL
BLG were one of the favourites going into the LPL Playoffs.
They will be bitterly disappointed to have lost twice to AL, though it’s an improvement on their fourth-place finish in Split 1.
With immensely successful players like Chen ‘Bin’ Ze-Bin and Zhuo ‘Knight’ Ding, they will always be a threat.
FlyQuest – LTA North
Because of the new format combining North and South America, each will only send one team.
For North America, it will once again be FlyQuest who became LTA North Conference champions in dramatic fashion.
FlyQuest won game five with a double teleport to backdoor and win the game while Cloud9 were on Drake.
And this is despite the fact that an unnoticed bug rewarded Cloud9 with the Blessing of Noxus buff when it should have gone to FlyQuest.
FURIA – LTA South
The one representative of South America at MSI will be Brazilian organisation FURIA.
After losing to paiN Gaming earlier in the Playoffs, FURIA bounced back to 3-0 them in the LTA South Split 2 Playoffs.
The team’s head coach is former Counter Logic Gaming and C9 coach, Thomas ‘Thinkcard’ Slotkin.
CTBC Flying Oyster – LCP
CFO are the only team from the First Stand international event to qualify for MSI.
The Taiwanese team defeated both TALON and GAM Esports 3-2 to win the Mid Season Qualifying Series.
The APAC first seeds were monstrous at First Stand, defeating KCorp, Top Esports, and Team Liquid in the Group Stages.
Now they will be hoping to cause more upsets at MSI.
GAM Esports – LCP
The LCP second seeds, GAM Esports, are no strangers to the international stage.
The Vietnamese organisation has been to multiple MSIs and World Championships in the past.
As most teams are already aware, GAM are always capable of causing an upset, especially with jungler Đỗ ‘Levi’ Duy Khánh.
What are the opening matches for LoL MSI 2025?
There will not be an opening draw for this year’s MSI.
Instead, seeding from the results of First Stand earlier in 2025 have decided the MSI Play-In match-ups.
EMEA’s G2 Esports will face off against Brazil’s FURIA.
And GAM Esports face a difficult match-up with their opening game versus China’s BLG.
The winners of those two series will advance to a qualifier match.
The loser of that match will then have a second chance to qualify by playing a series against whoever wins out of the opening round’s two losers.
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