LCK vs LPL 2020 Mid-Season Cup: Everything you need to know
World champions FunPlus Phoenix and LCK Spring champions T1 will kick off the tournament.
Riot Gameshas revealed the full details of its highly-anticipated2020 Mid-Season Cup (MSC), which will feature the top four teams of both theLeague of Legends Pro League (LPL)andLeague of Legends Champions Korea (LCK).
Format
The MSC group stage will be in a single round-robin format, with best-of-one matches from all teams.
The semifinals and finals will both be best-of-five series. All BO5s will be in Blind Pick for the first games, with the rest of the series played in Draft Pick.
Riot also announced that tournament ping will be standardized to a range of 30-40m/s.
Group A
Group B
The 4 top teams from the 2020 LPL Spring Playoffs that will be representing the#LPLin the#MSC1st seed:@JDGaming2nd seed:@TOP_Esports_3rd seed:@FPX_Esports4th seed:@invgaming#AllWeFightForpic.twitter.com/X36RgNQqy3
Schedule
The MSC will kick off with a fiery battle between reigningWorldschampionsFunPlus Phoenixand T1 on May 28 at 3:00 p.m. GMT+8.
Here is the full schedule of the groups stage (all times in GMT+8)
Group StageDay 1 (May 28)
Group StageDay 2 (May 29)
Day 1 and Day 2 of the#MSCSchedule:We kick off day 1 on May 28th @ 3PM CST with a game between the most recent world champions@FPX_Esportsand 3 time world champions@T1LoL.When it comes to LPL teams, anything can happen! Good luck to all our teams!#allwefightforpic.twitter.com/KPTBFxQDx5
The top two teams from each group will advance to the semifinals to secure a spot for the finals. Semifinals will start at 1:00 p.m. GMT+8, while the finals will immediately follow the next day at 5:00 p.m. GMT+8.
Semifinals Day 3 (May 30)
Finals Day 4 (May 31)
Semifinals (Bo5): 30th of May, 2PM KST– Match 1: Group A #1 vs Group B #2– Match 2: Group B #1 vs Group A #2Finals (Bo5): 31st of May, 6PM KST– Winner of Match 1 of Semifinals vs Winner of Match 2 of Semifinalspic.twitter.com/zQy3TOEA1N
PrizePool
The tournament will feature a US$600,000 prize pool and the winners will be crowned as the first Mid-Season Cup champions.
Where to watch
The 2020 Mid-Season Cup will be played in each league’s respective venues — the LoL Park in South Korea for the LCK and the LPL Arena in Shanghai, China for the LPL. Live audiences will not be permitted in both stages, however, but Summoners can catch all the action online.
The Mid-Season Cup’s semifinals and finals will coincide with theMid-Season Streamathon, a two-day, non-stop, global marathon live stream which aims to raise funds forCOVID-19relief.
Both of these online events are the product of Riot Games’ efforts to fill in the gap of the canceled international event the2020 Mid-Season Invitational (MSI).
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