On the evening of May 21st, Beijing time, in the finals of the 2023 League of Legends Mid-Season Championship, the LPL No. 1 seed JDG team defeated the LPL No. 2 seed BLG 3-1 to win the championship. The two-time MSI champions RNG team and JDG in 2021 and 2022 The team jointly helped the LPL division unlock the feat of MSI's third consecutive championship!
The 2021 Mid-Season Invitational will be held in Reykjavik, Iceland. The LPL spring champion RNG is targeting Iceland. In the group stage, they will be divided into Group A with PGG from the Oceania Division and UOL from the CIS Division. The first place in the group will advance to the competition stage after winning all eight games. . Although RNG suffered its first MSI defeat against PSG in the Southeast Asia Division, it quickly adjusted its state, avenging PSG and then double-killing DK. It ranked second in points and advanced to the semi-finals. It eliminated PSG 3-1 in the semi-finals and ended up 3-3. 2 Defeated DK and won the second MSI championship in team history! AD player GALA won the FMVP. Xiaohu, who transitioned to top lane at that time, also became the first dual-position champion in MSI history!
The 2022 Mid-Season Championship is coming to South Korea. RNG represents the LPL for the third time in team history. It is divided into Group B with "Paris" PSG, Brazil Division RED, and Turkey Division IW. Affected by the domestic ban last year, RNG participated in the domestic remote online competition and won all three games in the first round. GALA also managed Lucian to score MSI's first quintuple kill. However, after the game, Riot Games discovered that there was a delay in the MSI venue machine. The calculation was wrong, and RNG, which encountered the rematch crisis, used its strength to crush doubts from all walks of life, and advanced to the match with a perfect record of 9-0. After the rematch, GALA used Kai'Sa to score another five kills! In the competition stage, RNG only lost one game each to T1 and G2. It ranked first with 8-2 points and advanced to the semi-finals. In the semi-finals, it defeated North American EG 3-0. In the end, it overturned the host T1 3-2 and successfully defended the title and won the MSI ranking in team history. Three crowns, and for the first time in team history, they defeated Faker and T1 in a BO5 in an international competition. LPL also became the region with the most MSI championships in the world with four MSI championships!
This year, BLG, the second seed in the LPL, easily defeated R7 in the Latin American division 2-0 in the group stage of this year's MSI, and then defeated GG, the second seed in North America, 2-1, and successfully advanced to the winning and losing group stage. In the first round, they swept the North American team 3-0. C9, the No. 1 seed, lost to LPL No. 1 seed JDG 0-3 in the second round and fell into the loser's bracket. Then they completed a feat of one through three in the loser's bracket: eliminated G2 3-1 to regain their form, and kept a clean sheet 3-0. LCK's No. 1 seed GEN, sent away LCK's last hope T1 3-1, and met up with JDG in the finals, which had previously defeated T1 with a 3-2 revenge, helping the LPL region achieve the first international competition civil war in history. In the end, JDG won the MSI after the reform of the competition system. The first championship helped the LPL region achieve three consecutive MSI championships, demonstrating the LPL's absolute dominance in the MSI event and once again announcing to the world that the LPL is the world's number one region!