# 2025 Mid-Season Invitational

The 2025 Mid-Season Invitational will be the tenth Mid-Season Invitational (MSI), a Riot Games-organised tournament for League of Legends, a multiplayer online battle arena video game. The tournament will be held in Vancouver, Canada, and will be the first edition of the tournament to feature the Fearless Draft format, and the first to be staged under the game's new competitive esports calendar since 2025. The tournament will be held between 27 June and 12 July 2025.
It will be Canada's first hosting of an international League of Legends competition, with the tournament winners securing their slot at the 2025 World Championship.
Gen.G of the League of Legends Champions Korea (LCK) are the defending champions.

## Host selection

During the media day for the 2024 League of Legends World Championship Final at The O2 Arena in London, United Kingdom on 1 November 2024, Riot Games announced that the 2025 edition of the Mid-Season Invitational will take place in Canada, with the host city being determined at the start of the 2025 competitive calendar. This will be Canada's first hosting of a major League of Legends tournament since the Finals of the 2017 North American League Championship Series (NA LCS) Spring Split, when it was held at the Pacific Coliseum in Vancouver, Canada.
Toronto was originally slated to host the semi-final stage of the 2022 League of Legends World Championship at the Scotiabank Arena. However, due to the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic in Canada on securing multi-entry visas, Riot Games announced the State Farm Arena in Atlanta, United States as its replacement venue.

## Venue

On 8 January 2025, Vancouver was announced as the host city in a development update video published to Riot Games' social media channels to commence the 2025 competitive season.

## Qualification and Format

The League of Legends Champions Korea (LCK), League of Legends Pro League (LPL), League of Legends EMEA Championship (LEC), League of Legends Championship of The Americas (LTA), and the League of Legends Championship Pacific (LCP) will have two qualified teams each. The LCK, by virtue of Hanwha Life Esports winning the First Stand Tournament, will have its two qualified teams placed in the Bracket Stage, while the other four regions will each have one team in the Play-In and one team in the Bracket Stage.
This will be the first Mid-Season Invitational featuring the LCP, a new Asia-Pacific league consisting of a merger between the Pacific Championship Series (PCS), Vietnam Championship Series (VCS), League of Legends Japan League (LJL) and League of Legends Circuit Oceania (LCO), and the LTA, a merger between the League Championship Series (LCS), Campeonato Brasileiro de League of Legends (CBLOL), and Liga Latinoamérica (LLA).
The 2025 Mid-Season Invitational will be the first edition of the tournament to adopt the Fearless Draft format, where teams cannot pick a champion that they've already played in a series, even if the opposing team already picked that champion. While Fearless Draft was intended to only be used during the first split of the season, Riot Games announced prior to the FST final that it would apply for the rest of the year after it received "overwhelming" positive feedback during the period.