League of Legends Champions Korea champion and defending World Champion DWG KIA has qualified for the rumble stage as the 1st seed from the group, and a strong second round robin from League of Legends Championship Series champion Cloud9 earned the North American representative the 2nd seed from the group to move onto the rumble stage.
The second round robin of Group C at the 2021 MSI started off with a huge upset, as the LCS representatives managed to take down the favorites of the tournament, DWG KIA. Despite looking shaky in the
Cloud9 secured its first win of the 2021 Mid-Season Invitational during day 3 of the group stage against Infinity Esports, and after the North American representative's win, C9 mid laner Luka "Perkz" Perković joined Laure Valée on the broadcast for a post-game interview. During one of his answers to Valée's questions, Perkz admitted that despite a strong carry performance on Tristana, he was a bit at a loss for what has actually defined the mid lane throughout the first three days of MSI.
On day 3 of the 2021 Mid-Season Invitational, the defending world champions, DWG KIA, took on the LJL representatives, DetonatioN FocusMe. While many predicted a landslide victory for DWG KIA, DFM had
Throughout this past week, our talented team of writers at Inven Global have been ranking the top 5 players participating in this year's MSI. We've ranked the top 5 laners in each role, and all that's
On May 5, Riot Games held a media day for the 2021 Mid-Season Invitational. Along with explaining Riot Games' plans for their esports year including League of Legends, VALORANT, and Wild Rift, they
Inven Global's top five mid laners at this year's MSI are: Heo "ShowMaker" Su — DWG KIA Luka "Perkz" Perković — Cloud9 Yuan "Cryin" Cheng-Wei — Royal Never Give Up Marek "Humanoid" Brázda — MAD Lions Huang "Maple" Yi-Tang — PSG Talon
Detailed match schedule for the 2021 MSI group stages has been announced. Taking place on May 6, the opening match will see 2020 world champions, DWG KIA going against the LCS representatives, Cloud9.
Alfonso "Mithy" Aguirre Rodríguez and Max Waldo will be able to coach on-site, but Reignover will only be able to help the team remotely.
C9's game 5 level 1 was all it needed to pull away from TL and win the series, and with it, it's second LCS championship in three splits. It was without a doubt the most pivotal moment of the series, as well as the smartest play executed by any LCS team in recent memory, so let's go in-depth on the brilliance of this play and the conditions that were met to allow it to happen in the moment C9 wanted to execute upon it.
Cloud9 are once again LCS champions and will be heading to the org's first-ever Mid-Season Invitational appearance — a tournament they should've been at, only denied by the COVID-19 pandemic that canceled MSI 2020.
In becoming the LCS champion, Cloud9 has also punched its ticket to the 2021 Mid-Season Invitational as the North American representative.
TSM and Team Liquid have gotten the better of Cloud9 at times throughout the season, but if the level of play in previous weeks of the Mid-Season Showdown is any indication, it simply will not matter whether Team Liquid or TSM moves on to the finals: Cloud9 is going to win, regardless of its opponent.
This is the second time Blaber has won the award, the first being in the spring of 2020 in which the young jungler led C9 to its first LCS title since 2014.
Blaber spoke to Inven Global after Cloud9's win over Team Liquid to discuss his matchup against Santorin, how his team has grown since the finals of the 2021 LCS Lock In, and his thoughts on playing offline for the first time in over a year next week at Los Angeles' Greek Theatre.
Cloud9 has punched its ticket to the finals of the 2021 League of Legends Championship Series Mid-Season Showdown after a 3-1 victory over Team Liquid. C9 shook off an 0-2 head-to-head against TL in the 2021 LCS Spring Split and looked like the better team throughout the series in multiple facets, and stands alone as the only undefeated team in the post-season.
Cloud9's coaching staff won the Coaching Staff of the Split Award after the team's 1st place finish in Kim "Reignover" Yeu-jin's first split as head coach.
The Mid-Season Invitational is a little more than a month away. Due to the restrictions that came from the COVID-19 pandemic around the world in 2020, the event was forced to cancel to ensure the safe
For most rookies making their League of Legends Championship Series debut, playing on a team as illustrious as Cloud9 — alongside the best western player of all time in mid laner Luka "Perkz" Perković, no less — would be plenty of pressure. But Cloud9 top laner Ibrahim “Fudge” Allami is not most rookies.
100 Thieves fans, professional players and members of the community alike were displeased to see ry0ma start in all three games of the series while Cloud9 dealt one merciless blow after another, but the one-sided nature of C9’s win begs the question: Would 100 Thieves starting Damonte have made any difference against Cloud9?