{"id":40477,"date":"2015-05-12T23:03:52","date_gmt":"2015-05-13T03:03:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/?p=40477"},"modified":"2020-07-15T23:04:04","modified_gmt":"2020-07-16T03:04:04","slug":"photos-league-of-legends-mid-season-invitational","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/?p=40477","title":{"rendered":"Photos: League of Legends Mid-Season Invitational"},"content":{"rendered":"

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So after a few years of watching LoL streams, the east coast of the United States was finally thrown a bone with an actual\u00a0League\u00a0<\/em>event, with the arrival of the first annual Mid-Season Invitational. \u00a0The good news was that it was within reasonable driving distance for me, however the bad news was that it was held in Tallahassee, Florida, and most notably, on Florida State campus.<\/span><\/p>\n

Florida State blows, but since it would be nice to actually attend and see a notable League event, sacrifices had to be made.<\/span><\/p>\n

Anyway, as a whole, I thought the event was pretty good. \u00a0MSI proved that there are in fact, serious LoL fans on the east coast, and hopefully this will be a promising sign that perhaps more things might come to the east coast; maybe not such a shithole like Tallahassee, and perhaps a place that’s easily accessible by anyone via plane, car or internationally, has facilities to host, as well as an existing culture, like say one of the Collegiate teams, like in, oh, I don’t know, like Atlanta*cough<\/em>?<\/span><\/p>\n

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For something that was touted as “merely” an exhibition, and with “no bearing on Worlds,” MSI certainly delivered a heavy-hitting event, with the top seeds from five notable League-playing regions (North America, Europe, Korea, China, Taiwan) as well as sixth, wild-card tournament winning squad from Turkey that were certainly all playing like it was for an actual world championship.<\/span><\/p>\n

And although I left disappointed that Korea’s SK Telecom T1 squad didn’t win it, getting defeated by the diabolical Chinese squad no less, I still thought the event as a whole was pretty solid. \u00a0Random thoughts and observations about MSI, because I’m feeling lazy, and a list seems like an easier approach:<\/span><\/p>\n