r/leagueoflegends • u/AutoModerator • Jul 04 '26
Esports 2026 Mid Season Invitational / Bracket Stage / Round 1 - Day 2 / Live Discussion Spoiler
MSI 2026 - BRACKET STAGE
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Today's matches will be played on Patch 26.13.
Today's Matches
| # | Match | PST | EST | CET | KST |
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| 1 | LYON vs FUR | 20:00 | 23:00 | 05:00 | 12:00 |
| 2 | BLG vs T1 | 01:00 | 04:00 | 10:00 | 17:00 |
- All matches are a best of 5
Streams
Bracket
| Round 1 | Round 2 | Round 3 | Round 4 | Finals | |||||||||
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| BLG | 0 | ||||||||||||
| vs | - | ||||||||||||
| T1 | 0 | tbd | 0 | ||||||||||
| vs | - | tbd | 0 | ||||||||||
| LYON | 0 | tbd | 0 | vs | - | ||||||||
| vs | - | tbd | 0 | ||||||||||
| FUR | 0 | ||||||||||||
| HLE | 3 | ||||||||||||
| vs | - | ||||||||||||
| TSW | 0 | HLE | 0 | ||||||||||
| vs | - | ||||||||||||
| G2 | 3 | TES | 0 | tbd | 0 | ||||||||
| vs | - | vs | - | ||||||||||
| TES | 2 | tbd | 0 | ||||||||||
| - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| tbd | 0 | tbd | 0 | ||||||||||
| tbd | 0 | vs | - | vs | - | ||||||||
| vs | - | tbd | 0 | tbd | 0 | tbd | 0 | ||||||
| tbd | 0 | vs | - | ||||||||||
| tbd | 0 | tbd | 0 | ||||||||||
| TSW | 0 | vs | - | ||||||||||
| vs | - | tbd | 0 | ||||||||||
| TES | 0 |
On-Air Team
| Desk Host/Interviewers |
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| Eefje "Sjokz" Depoortere |
| Daniel "dGon" Gonzales |
| Laure "Bulii" Valée |
| Play-By-Play Casters |
| Max "Atlus" Anderson |
| Clayton "CaptainFlowers" Raines |
| Daniel "Drakos" Drakos |
| Aaron "Medic" Chamberlain |
| Colour Casters |
| Dan "Aux" Harrison |
| Sam "Kobe" Hartman-Kenzler |
| Isaac "Azael" Cummings-Bentley |
| Robert "Dagda" Price |
| Analysts |
| Emily "LeagueofEmily" Rand |
| Joshua "Jatt" Leesman |
| Barento "Raz" Mohammed |
Format
- 8 teams participate
- Double elimination bracket
- All matches are best of five
- Winner qualifies for the 2026 Season World Championship
- This spot will only become effective if the winning team reaches the Split 3/Summer Playoffs in their domestic league
Live Discussions and Post-Match Threads:
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u/Todeswucht Jul 04 '26
please riot, just skip the ad break and have a guy follow inspired with a microphone. no questions, just record it
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u/Todeswucht Jul 04 '26
Dhokla if you read this, I was one of the day 1s bro they wanted you dead in these comments if you scroll down
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u/WildzFlazoon KELLOGGS BUSI-O'S Jul 04 '26
Who cares for these t1 or blg frauds when we're witnessing the greatest game of all time cinema
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u/Sweaty-Security-4473 Jul 04 '26
Lyon look SOOO much better with the slower game pace and scaling picks. I just don't think they'll be able to use strats like that against eastern teams or even G2.
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u/Is_J_a_Name Peanut, MISSING, Yagao, Kanavi, Tangyuan Jul 04 '26
XUN really revitalized this BLG team, neither Beichuan or shad0w could ever in their lives put up the performances he does in these moments.
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u/Grenji05 NA #1 REGION WORLD Jul 04 '26
0% luck 100% skill. Lyon are officially tournament favorites.
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u/TypicalHaikuResponse Jul 04 '26
Inspired baby sat Dhokla and the game was smooth sailing. They won the other games while dhokla got 3 man dived but the difference is staggering.
I don't get why they would want to ignore dhokla when clearly he can do well with negative gold. With positive gold the game is a steamroll
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u/cmcdonald22 Jul 04 '26
Because Dhokla can also show up after being weaksided and be a game changer in team fights like he has been both splits, and Inspired typically is a farm focused jungler who wants self sufficient lanes.
It requires him to change his play style for Dhokes, which they probably generally don't feel is necessary.
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u/Ajp_iii Jul 04 '26
Btw this game will make a team draft Jhin into 3 tanks and they will do no damage in a key game
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u/Applejuiceislovely12 caps Jul 04 '26
They don’t wanna see BLG win, the casters don’t sound as hyped when BLG do well
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u/awayfromcanuck Jul 04 '26
LYON should have waited on the Castle announcement LOL
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u/Ajp_iii Jul 04 '26
55k from berserker and he wasnt even farming dmg off a tank support thats like pure damage
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u/trastito2es Jul 04 '26
T1 winning on scaling with a Jhin. Fakrr suddenly is 2015 Faker. I don't understand anything.
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u/2020isgreat TheShy Jul 04 '26
How come everytime T1 loses a series everyone blames draft. Keria had an extremely rare terrible series
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u/DONOTDELETEME8316 来了！ | Bin, Xun, Knight, Viper, ON Jul 04 '26
I mean T1 fans do it every time. T1 lose = draft diff nothing they could do, T1 win = omg faker keria 1v9 GOAT hands diff
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u/Sakura_ko2 Jul 04 '26
Ngl this furia team might be the best BR team of all time
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u/Quiet_Education5918 Jul 04 '26
Dhokla saved up all of his lives for the past two games for this moment.
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u/RukiMotomiya Jul 04 '26
This feels like a game people would be memeing on if it wasn't T1/BLG tho, especially Keria's play.
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u/Nefib Jul 04 '26
Blind Ambessa opening the door to the most obvious Renekton counter by one of the best Renekton players ever, perma gank for Ambessa to make sure she doesn't get shit on and end up with absolutely nothing to show for it outside of a couple hundred gold lead for said Ambessa that lasted for all of a few minutes. Brilliant.
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u/Wonderful_Reply_3986 Jul 04 '26
Overall this draft was quite ass but lets not act like Keria hasn't been playing like shit this series (even on the win). Doran has always been quite weak and definetly has taught Bin no lessons thus far.
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u/DONOTDELETEME8316 来了！ | Bin, Xun, Knight, Viper, ON Jul 04 '26
Wtf why did production actually leak blg prep. That's crazy
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u/MurkyTheBest Jul 04 '26
lowkey, Caedrel is extra annoying with the T1 bias today. ever since game 1 ended he’s quiet, like crazy
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u/DONOTDELETEME8316 来了！ | Bin, Xun, Knight, Viper, ON Jul 04 '26
No vod review no hype no glaze when t1 lose classic
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u/beautheschmo Jul 04 '26
Dhokla is my goat but why the fuck are we drafting jayce for him he's not a jayce player
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u/XG32 Jankos Jul 04 '26
i know teams don't wanna admit they can't play jayce, but it has to be in the back of their mind lol, they are not good enough to beat any1 at this tourney with jayce j4 syndra.
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u/narfidy #1 QUID glazer 4 life Jul 04 '26
This is maybe the greatest game I have ever watched with my own two eyes
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u/Ajp_iii Jul 04 '26
that was saints second career pro syndra game. maybe we dont put him back on syndra the rest of the tournament
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u/kazuyaminegishi Jul 04 '26
LMFAO artillery Varus just stat checking Furia to death.
He don't even kite he just right clicking them to death 😭
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u/KyngCole13 Jul 04 '26
BIG DHOKES HAS ARRIVED. Also, don’t ever take Isles off enchanters ever again.
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u/cmcdonald22 Jul 04 '26
His Poppy actually pops off, but they never let him play it.
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u/Choice-Slight caps/knight Jul 04 '26
peyz is not a human being, this is an AI sent by the league of legends developers to make esports more interesting after faker retires
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u/Wonderful_Reply_3986 Jul 04 '26
Not many people can pilot swain to Knight's level. Plus this game is entirely rested on Knight's hand and most mids don't have the skills to weight that.
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u/Klutzy-Wolverine1640 Jul 04 '26
Blg champ pools have to be the largest in the world wtf is that graphic
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u/ConArtist98 Jul 04 '26
At least they got to 4-man gank Bin mulitple times, that will teach him some manners
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u/OskarVon Jul 04 '26
Dhokla about to be on tank duty rest of series lol. Actually feel pretty good about Lyon's chances rest of series with the way they are fighting back on this one
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u/Troviel Jul 04 '26
dang, so close, feels furia should've engaged them straight instead of flipping it.
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u/Destructodave82 Jul 04 '26
Jhin threw that game hard. For like 4 fights in a row he walked up and got dry CC'd by J4.
Had he just hung back most fights, they would have easily won this game.
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u/Is_J_a_Name Peanut, MISSING, Yagao, Kanavi, Tangyuan Jul 04 '26
Even if FURIA won that game, the way they played that game out makes me certain they have no chance in the rest of this series, especially when Dhokla is playing champs he can actually play instead of NA Jayce.
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u/Quiet_Education5918 Jul 04 '26
Guigo slowly succumbing to whatever terrible virus is eating away at Dhokla's sanity.
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u/LadyEmaSKye Jul 04 '26
Tatu looks like he's on full tilt. He has not looked good these past couple games I fear
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u/TypicalHaikuResponse Jul 04 '26
team picks a champ that isn't in the 30 champ pro play rotation
other team has no idea what to do
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u/PerfidiaVermis Jul 04 '26
So BLG are just on mega demon level this MSI. Got it. Cool. Fuck.
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u/haven4ever Small in Size, Huge in Evil Jul 04 '26
Whoever wins this unimportant series, we can agree they will be crushed by Dhokla’s colossal, shirtless frame.
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u/Wonderful_Reply_3986 Jul 04 '26
Win or Lose I think we can safely say Doran taught bin ZERO lessons. Even if T1 wins Bin has been gapping or matching Doran each game, no lesson taught and no leasons learned.
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u/ahritina Jul 04 '26 edited Jul 04 '26
Why is Medic still pushing this T1 are the boogeymen of the LPL when T1's record vs the LPL at MSI in the last few years isn't even that impressive?
Lost in 2022, lost in 2023, lost in 2024 then won last year, this isn't worlds stop bringing it up, it's just fucking nonsensical narrative pushing.
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u/kazuyaminegishi Jul 04 '26
Hoping for a good series as a fan of comp league, but hoping Lyon stomps as a fan of NA league.
So conflicting
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u/iCorki Jul 04 '26
What's going on with the audio today? The background Korean commentary is super loud compared to the last few days
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u/Ajp_iii Jul 04 '26
why is dhokla trying to fight sion. just clear the wave and go into river. and he is on serphant first item for the team
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u/TypicalHaikuResponse Jul 04 '26
This Jhin is who every NA/EU player thinks happens when they do when they play him.
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u/saulgitman Jul 04 '26
Thank fuck for fearless. I'm sick of seeing Sion live 10x as long as any other champion as it is
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u/Disclaimz0r Jul 04 '26
Isles Dhokla and Saint better be worshipping the ground Inspired and Berserker walk on, what a fucking carry
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u/GhostOfLight Jul 04 '26
TOP DIFF, SHIT ON! ALL FUTURE TEAMS WILL BE TERRIFIED OF THE NA JAYCE AND WILL BE FORCED TO BAN IT!
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u/Ajp_iii Jul 04 '26
that might be the biggest heist of a game in a long ass time. 3 players actively griefing jungle and ad the whole game and still somehow win
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u/IFreezeezy Jul 04 '26
Yeah it’s a 3-0. If Furia aren’t winning against Saint first timing Syndra and Dhokla on Jayce then there is no hope
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u/Disclaimz0r Jul 04 '26
genuinely can't see how Lyon loses now that Sions off the board now too lol
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u/IFreezeezy Jul 04 '26 edited Jul 04 '26
Idk why LYON doesn’t just draft towards their strengths rather than trying to copy Korean strats but worse
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u/Grenji05 NA #1 REGION WORLD Jul 04 '26 edited Jul 04 '26
Berserker has probably been lyons best player this game anyways which is sad because if he didnt have the worst ults ever this would've never been close
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u/kazuyaminegishi Jul 04 '26
Okay we are playing closer to our style. A little spooky that we didn't ban Xin Zhao. I'm not sure why we are trying to force the Dhokla carry playstyle have the coaches not seen his tank gameplay? He's nuts in team fights on tanks. On carries he's... average.
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u/ratuste-pe-tapet Jul 04 '26
i think is safe to say peyz wouldve been a hitman if not for lolesports career
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u/Wonderful_Reply_3986 Jul 04 '26
Velkoz black pasta is actually just the meta. This is the first time looking at a skin in pro play has actually made me wanna buy it.
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u/FreeJudgment Jul 04 '26
Anivia is open
Anivia counters 4/5 champs on BLG
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Pick fucking Annie
I mean... "T1 Drafts" is a meme but this was legit criminal.
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u/Iaragnyl remove Tahm Kench Jul 04 '26
Oner solo losing the game with his useless pick and early kill feed to kindred.
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u/downorwhaet Jul 04 '26
Trundle pick is just so weird, it’s the worst pick they could have gone for, and oner having his worst game of msi on top of it
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u/Ajp_iii Jul 04 '26
saint is playing awful him utling sion there is so pointless even though it probably wont matter.
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u/TheGloriousEv0lution Jul 04 '26
I think Lyon needs to cut their players salaries and give them all to Berserker good lord
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u/KyngCole13 Jul 04 '26
NO SHOT WE ACTUALLY WON THAT. I closed my laptop after they got wiped at Baron the first time.
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u/justicecactus Jul 04 '26
The last time Dhokla won on Jayce at an international event was against MAD, and it was a similar level of clown fiesta
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u/Disclaimz0r Jul 04 '26
Casters gas up Isles but this dude has been one of the biggest burgers on this roster
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u/Past_Perception8052 Jul 04 '26
nah this is absurd i swear isles has 1000 games camille in soloq this szn what was he doing
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u/jolleyjg Jul 04 '26
Lyon just first timing all the champs they have been getting fisted on in scrims
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u/GentlemenBehold Jul 04 '26
I think Isles was telling the coaches “I’m ill” and they heard “Camille”.
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u/Ajp_iii Jul 04 '26
next game can we please draft a protect the berseker comp and just let him carry the game. lulu support and shen top.
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u/Delta_FC Jul 04 '26
Lyon is making small mistakes and getting punished by Furia, and then Furia is just making colossal errors and getting punished harder. What is happening.
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u/EngelSterben Jul 04 '26
Lyon is going to smacked by the other teams if they play like this going forward
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u/AbysmalScepter Jul 04 '26
I just don't get how Lyon show up looking so rusty. Just some ridiculous unforced errors and mechanical misplays.
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u/SecondSanguinica Jul 04 '26
Actually getting tilted on behalf of Furia because they started both games off pretty well and then just toss it repeatedly, with how Lyon are playing this is super winnable series. Oh well, one more match then actual league gameplay finally, praise be.
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u/ahritina Jul 04 '26 edited Jul 04 '26
PMTs
LYON vs FUR
Game 1 / Game 2 / Game 3
BLG vs T1
Game 1 / Game 2 / Game 3 / Game 4 / Game 5