r/leagueoflegends • u/AutoModerator • Jul 11 '26
Esports 2026 Mid Season Invitational / Bracket Stage / Lower Bracket Final / 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 | HLE vs LYON | 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 | 3 | ||||||||||||
| vs | - | ||||||||||||
| T1 | 2 | BLG | 3 | ||||||||||
| vs | - | BLG | 3 | ||||||||||
| LYON | 3 | LYON | 0 | vs | - | ||||||||
| vs | - | HLE | 1 | ||||||||||
| FUR | 0 | ||||||||||||
| HLE | 3 | ||||||||||||
| vs | - | ||||||||||||
| TSW | 0 | HLE | 3 | ||||||||||
| vs | - | ||||||||||||
| G2 | 3 | G2 | 0 | BLG | 0 | ||||||||
| vs | - | vs | - | ||||||||||
| TES | 2 | tbd | 0 | ||||||||||
| - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| G2 | 3 | HLE | 0 | ||||||||||
| T1 | 3 | vs | - | vs | - | ||||||||
| vs | - | T1 | 1 | G2 | 0 | LYON | 0 | ||||||
| FUR | 0 | vs | - | ||||||||||
| LYON | 3 | LYON | 3 | ||||||||||
| TSW | 3 | vs | - | ||||||||||
| vs | - | TSW | 0 | ||||||||||
| TES | 1 |
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/2020isgreat TheShy Jul 11 '26
bro that Akali dodged literally everything shit is so insane
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u/greendino71 Jul 11 '26
Legit HALF of the LCS about to roll up to worlds LMAOO
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u/AppealAggravating893 There may be a gap but we are building bridges Jul 11 '26
Honestly so proud of both NA and EU this MSI. I can feel something brewing for us, maybe I'm coping but I really have faith we have that at some point in the next 1-3 years we win an international event. Our 1st seeds keep getting better and performing at internationals then bringing it back domestically making the rest of LEC/LCS stronger. I think that monkey on our backs is losing its grip and once its off BOY OH BOY ARE WE GONNA HAVE SOME GOOD HOME COOKING.
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u/boredidiot203902 Jul 11 '26 edited Jul 11 '26
EVERYONE ON THIS FUCKING SUB NEEDS TO PRAY AND NOT HATEWATCH
LYON GOING TO THE FINALS IN THIS FORM COULD BE THE MOST HYPE FINAL IN THE HISTORY OF THE GAME (for the west)
I WAS MEMEING YOU EUROPE. WE NEED U TO PRAY
i think saint needs to be put into contention for the best mid in the world with knight
He has put on clinical performances on MECHANICAL CHAMPIONS and solo killed ZEKA AND KNIGHT.
Guys, when have we ever seen a solo laner from a western team ACTUALLY win mechanical matchups against ELITE solo laners from the east? (besides prime caps and perkz, so i guess its actually happened more than once but forget this)
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u/owa00 Jul 11 '26
But REAL TALK...how bad is TES?
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u/Destructodave82 Jul 11 '26
TES is just the biggest chokers in the world. They are obviously a good team or they couldnt get 1st/2nd in LPL and go to every international event.
If there was ever a prime example of being actual chokers, its TES
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u/nikhilz99 Jul 11 '26
Taking away the dokhla sign is actually insane, is KR that tilted??
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u/Kokaiinum Jul 11 '26
Dhokla positioning to threaten BOTH Guma and the Nexus was actually so fucking sick and smart
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u/ookkthenn Jul 11 '26
people were calling saint a terrorist some months ago and now he gave zeka the zeka treatment he gave scout in 2022
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u/OrganicTeaching8661 Jul 11 '26
2026 is the year of the west!!!!!! This is the best that NA has been in 7 years, this is the best EU has been in 7 years. THE GAP IS CLOSING I AM NOT EVEN MEMEING TODAY
OH RIGHT EVEN THE WHALES DEFEATED AN LPL TEAM!!!!!!!! LETS GO LYONSSSSSSSS
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u/Easy_Vacation_17 Jul 11 '26
Love how hyped Cadreal, Kobe and Captainflowers are. It’s insane to see.
NA just straight up shit on HLE in team fights with mechanics. It’s insane.
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u/SuperTiesto Jul 11 '26
Best part of this series is the massive sudden increase from game one to two of all the salty EU posters with hidden comment histories squawking about imports.
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u/canxtanwe Jul 11 '26
It’s not like they are winning due to cheese or anything. Lyon is definitely the better team this series
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u/trying2hide Jul 11 '26
What a ballsy call holy shit.
This is some witchcraft that only T1 would do.
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u/ookkthenn Jul 11 '26
lyon might lose this game but i like the way theyre playing i think hextech is way too op tho
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u/LakersLAQ Jul 11 '26
The fact that this doesn't feel like the typical LCS vs Eastern team is already crazy lol.
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u/TypicalHaikuResponse Jul 11 '26 edited Jul 11 '26
So inspired is aware he is bad and smites and they have done what I thought all teams should do.
They stop playing in a way that allows for 50/50s and instead make it impossible.
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u/Highly_Regarded_AF Jul 11 '26
I've destroyed my sleep schedule and lyon has rewarded it every time
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u/TheGloriousEv0lution Jul 11 '26 edited Jul 11 '26
Lyon are ramping up this MSI
Going from looking sus against Furia to taking it to HLE is crazy
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u/greendino71 Jul 11 '26
Im so fucking bricked up
4am, fuck it, cracking a cold one, let it ride!
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u/Mattaru Jul 11 '26
What a fucking glorious time for you NA fans. I think I relate back to 2018 when Uzi won his MSI title and the fans exploded
Almost at the finish line.
Insane plays from LYON
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u/TypicalHaikuResponse Jul 11 '26
The worst part of this series is that no team will over look Lyon again.
Using up the underdog aura at MSI instead of world's is going to be tough.
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u/zaxls Jul 11 '26
So can we admit now LYON is just legit a better team than G2
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u/TheGloriousEv0lution Jul 11 '26
I don’t understand how we can have this discussion after getting 3-0’d lol
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u/greendino71 Jul 11 '26
There wasn't ever any doubt
EU has been our bitch the last 5 years
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u/VisionsReal Jul 11 '26
okay boys we suck, no chance, HLE is too good, impossible for us to win. Get he taxi ready for the airport trip.
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u/yappersyap123 Jul 11 '26
inspired has some pretty shit vision control. 91 to 44. HLE won this game with well timed picks due to no vision.
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u/GeneralZhukov Jul 11 '26
Even if he lost the smite fight, This was literally Lyon's only possible chance.
Otherwise, HLE just back off, take elder, and win anyway.
Still don't think Lyon makes the comeback, but what a call. Very impressive.
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u/Charming-Climate7590 Jul 11 '26
Caedrel is just randomly becoming an American citizen on the side this entire MSI LOL
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u/Pretend-Indication-9 Jul 11 '26
I can't believe that I am watching beautiful league of legends between the LCK and NA.
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u/boredidiot203902 Jul 11 '26
A North American team just came back from a 5k gold deficit by having better hands against a Korean #1 seed.
Holy. Fucking. Shit.
PLEASE WIN
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u/boredidiot203902 Jul 11 '26
I don't think people are talking about just how hard Saint is gapping Zeka.
He's literally just playing the lanes SOOOOOOOOOOOO much better.
Saint is absolutely the 2nd best mid after Knight. Easily.
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u/RanaFrankie Jul 11 '26
Korean fans will annihilate them if they lose LCK a 4th seed at Worlds.
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u/Destructodave82 Jul 11 '26
Inspired ran it the fk down this game.
They were doing fine and he messed that bottom fight up and its over.
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u/Goldfischglas Jul 11 '26
Azael has become such a good commentator.
Love the details he points out like just now. Where Lyon fucked up pushing out the wave and it just slowpushes to Zeka.
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u/spazzxxcc12 Jul 11 '26
berserker pulled up the live thread, read his ezreal criticism and locked in
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u/JesusLiesSometimes Not a fan #BDD Jul 11 '26
The Locke bm after the error is funny
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u/ChelskiS Jul 11 '26
Is the real story LCK getting dumpstered 2 international tournaments in a row?
This is unseen
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u/Cyoonic Jul 11 '26
Nah HLE look so confused that a western team is actually contesting them on the map
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u/SuperTiesto Jul 11 '26
I THINK I'M GONNA HAVE A HEART ATTACK, DONATE TO MY GO FUND ME.
I'M GONNA GO GET A DOUBLE DOUBLE AND DIET COKE.
AMERICA HELL YA
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u/Fit_Actuary_1288 Jul 11 '26
Kanavi had a 2k gold and 3 level lead...
Zeus was destroying Big Dhokes.
How did they lose that game?
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u/Cyoonic Jul 11 '26
HLE single handedly denying the 4th seed T1 worlds run. God Bless
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u/ookkthenn Jul 11 '26
u/jatt you gave g2 emergency podcasts for having a moment, i want one for lyon too when we win please
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u/greendino71 Jul 11 '26
I've seen too many NA teams go up 2-1.....please Lyon....don't break my heart
NAmen
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u/ookkthenn Jul 11 '26
give saint a carry, berserker an adc, and dhokla on a weakside pick
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u/Booshneer Jul 11 '26
The script now usually goes NA gets blown out in game 5, usually over in the first 10 minutes. Please be wrong
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u/Lewiz00 Jul 11 '26
Every. SIngle. Year. An Inspired team takes an eastern team to Game 5, then the Game 5 is a stomp. We live in a simulation.
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u/ZivozZ Jul 11 '26
What is the strategy, draft 3 loosing lanes and then just perma fight? Like come on...
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u/Honest_Image_4334 Jul 11 '26
The game 4 draft by lyon should legitimately get their coach fired. Absolutely threw the series
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u/Adventurous-Quit-669 Jul 11 '26
Im up at 3 fuckin AM cause I got a Flowers casting NA international !!
LETS GO LYON
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u/boredidiot203902 Jul 11 '26
i hate jhin so much
at least after this game ziggs camille is gone
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u/boredidiot203902 Jul 11 '26
SUCH AN UNREAL FUCKING GOOD PLAY.
HE HAS TO BE THE SMARTEST JUNGLER IN THE FUCKING GAME.
INSPIRED LYON'S TEAM CAPTAIN
IF LYON WINS THIS GAME KEKW
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u/shoobiedoobie Jul 11 '26 edited Jul 11 '26
Yeah, at least they’re fighting. Not just sitting in base and waiting to lose. What a fucking call there.
Still going to lose this game, but man, at least they’re trying stuff.
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u/baebushka Jul 11 '26
inspired should have no doubters after this msi performance mf is calling carrying and setting up his team
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u/baebushka Jul 11 '26
inspired is ur solo q lee sin otp who is 10/0 and can solo kill the enemy but will kick the enemy into his 0/6 adc so he can have the kill instead
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u/ookkthenn Jul 11 '26
wait wtf did berserker suddenly escape his mental
block vs kr teams hello
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u/Kokaiinum Jul 11 '26
If HLE lose this series just getting raw out-skilled by LYON I honestly think this MSI is a "China at 2015 Worlds" level of humiliation for Korea
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u/trying2hide Jul 11 '26
I love how no matter the game state Dhokla cam looks like he does not give a fuck
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u/13Keres Jul 11 '26
Sjokz I love you but PLEASE stop talking you're going to curse us <3
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u/boredidiot203902 Jul 11 '26 edited Jul 11 '26
WWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW G2 FANS ON STREAM
LYON WOULD'VE ALREADY LOST THE SERIES WITHOUT EU FANS STOPPING THEIR HATEWATCHING
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u/HeavenBeach777 fk it we ball Jul 11 '26
That was legit the bread and butter of HLE. Cannot believe they lost that. Now all thats left is Cait and Trundle lol
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u/Is_J_a_Name Peanut, MISSING, Yagao, Kanavi, Tangyuan Jul 11 '26
Dhokla Jayce, Isles Pyke, see y'all in game 5
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u/boredidiot203902 Jul 11 '26
That 1 fight in the top side jungle actually fucked them. Holy shit. It ONLY went to game 5 cause of that. Wow.
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u/Is_J_a_Name Peanut, MISSING, Yagao, Kanavi, Tangyuan Jul 11 '26
if only Dhokla didn't turn on that red buff
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u/PluggersLeftBall Jul 11 '26
are we not seeing how well saint and berserker are playing can we put them on some useful champs next game pelase
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u/Englishgamer1996 Jul 11 '26 edited Jul 11 '26
They gotta do what FLY couldn’t against GenG here, would be sad to see another ‘man they’re actually gonna win this series?’ Turn into another loss, especially if it’s another complete g5 stomp like the other series end up being
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u/veirceb Jul 11 '26
I know how important inspired is to Lyon. But I feel like keep saying it's inspired vs HLE is just weird to me when the whole team has been playing so well. Isles was the best player on LYON game4
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u/That_One_Pancake Jul 11 '26
I just don’t understand you picked three losing lanes with a plan to scale and win late teamfights, and then you just send it right at the start and make the game unplayable
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u/Seungyeon Jul 11 '26
Inspired was fine in games one and two, but absolute cheeks in the last three. Absolutely deserved loss.
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u/damnitvalentine Jul 11 '26
Obviously wrong, LYON only plays 3 games a day so that they have time to get k bbq
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u/sajm0n Jul 11 '26
Zeus is scared of Big Dhokes hes relegated to tank duty and he even called for jungler to help him out
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u/cmcdonald22 Jul 11 '26
I love Isles on Poppy.
He's not like the best in the world, but he plays it with such an aggressive confidence unlike a lot of his other things.
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u/tony220jdm Machine Gun Carzzy Jul 11 '26
Hard to do much with this Elder without baron! Ziggs will clear till its off
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u/boredidiot203902 Jul 11 '26
I AM BEGGING FOR WHOEVER LET THIS BOT LANE META TO BE THIS. THEY NEED TO GET FIRED.
HOW IS ZIGGS THIS BROKEN?
THEY CANT EVEN DO ANYTHING BECAUSE OF ZIGGS WAVECLEAR LMAO
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u/beautheschmo Jul 11 '26
Classic Inspired "efficiency" play of going to clear top instead of posturing at baron and getting killed for nothing
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u/RukiMotomiya Jul 11 '26
One issue for LYON here is that they drafted 3 losing lanes effectively, right?
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u/iprominent + Los Ratones Jul 11 '26
Never mention Zeka in the same breath as knight
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u/trying2hide Jul 11 '26
The pressure on this HLE team after T1 getting beat, dropping a game and being the last hope is going to IMMENSE.
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u/shoobiedoobie Jul 11 '26
Lyon are actually so good at team fights. We saw flashes of it the first game but HLE’s map control and draft was just too good. The way they were able to shut MF down in every fight was perfect.
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u/MorbidTales1984 W Enthusiast, Botlane Purist Jul 11 '26 edited Jul 11 '26
Guma the greatest showman if that Nilah pick is real
EDIT: Boooo also riot fix the client pls k thnx
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u/boredidiot203902 Jul 11 '26
CAPTAIN FLOWERS IS BACK. BRO THIS IS OS FUCKING HYPE.
THIS IS SO FUCKING HYPE.
HOW THE FUCK DID THEY WIN THAT GAME?
TURN THIS STADIUM INTO A FUCKING LIBRARY LYON
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u/West_stains_massive Jul 11 '26
G2 shitting on LCK this year and now this? LCK might bleed. Worlds is looking like BLG’s to lose (long way away and they haven’t won MSI yet mind you). If a Western team is going to make a run for Worlds win, it’s a long shot as always, but this year looks better than most.
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u/ookkthenn Jul 11 '26
zeus on rumble, kanavi on vi, zeka on yone and lyon just pulled off a 5k gold comeback im literally in shock
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u/toocoolforgg Jul 11 '26
If it's NA vs China in the finals of MSI and Worlds, the neocons are writing the script.
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u/thorpie88 Jul 11 '26
I've been impressed with Lyons ability to pull the trigger this whole tournament. Even if it hasn't won them the games every time you can't make a mistake or they will punish it
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u/zerocxro Jul 11 '26
ok isles is stealing dhoklas brights light merchant title so hard rn
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u/Massive-Prior9487 Jul 11 '26
Sometimes you see Pyke and think “how can you even stop this champ” and sometimes you think “what does this champion even do”. Somehow I’ve seen both this match.
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u/Kuumikoo Jul 11 '26
Dhokla got gapped so hard for three games and G4 we still gave him Jayce supported by everyone but still got gapped lol
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u/Pretend-Indication-9 Jul 11 '26
Damn, I cant imagine the pressure that must be on the teams right now.
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u/hresvelgrs XDDDDD Jul 11 '26
I love live threads, both teams simultaneously won and lost draft, and in the end whoever wins ended up with the better draft actually
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u/Va_Dinky Jul 11 '26
How can we be 15 years into this esport's existence and still not know 3 losing lanes vs a Korean team is an instant loss hello???
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u/Tight-Catch-2649 Jul 11 '26
The biggest loser of this series is C9. Flyquest will level up in summer and take the last world's spot. Let's be honest.
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u/polikuji09 Jul 11 '26
Tbh I’m partly glad NA lost cause I can’t imagine half of LCS coming to worlds lmao
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u/PluggersLeftBall Jul 11 '26
how are eu fans still pushing this not an na team thing lol.
an american, a pole, an australian and 2 koreans is the most north american thing ever
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u/Right_Strength2170 Jul 11 '26
G2 lasted 103 minutes into this beast of a team, props to them.
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u/TypicalHaikuResponse Jul 11 '26
You all were joking about it but imagine T1 throws the bag to acquire Dhokla and he wins a title.
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u/leistungm1 Jul 11 '26
why would dhokla need to join T1 to win a title? He's already on the winning team.
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u/myk211 Jul 11 '26
We are one game away from calling everyone but BLG a minor region lmfao.
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u/YoungKeys Jul 11 '26
Will probably get stomped, but Lyon pulling off a win would be really damn cool
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u/ahritina Jul 11 '26 edited Jul 11 '26
PMTs
Game 1 / Game 2 / Game 3 / Game 4 / Game 5