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Hello, this will be my first time attending an esports event, so I'm not sure how everything works. I want to buy a lol ticket for EWC. The schedule shows multiple matches at the same time. If I buy a LoL day ticket, can I freely watch any match? If many people want to watch T1, is seating guaranteed, or can a stage become full? How does this work for spectators?

T1 is in pretty good form minus their troll games vs BLG (seriously, how does Doran on Ambessa, Oner on Lee Sin, and Faker on Galio result in a T1 defeat?). Not too worried since BLG is their MSI kryptonite + T1 scales late into tournament

HLE, unsurprisingly, is dominating MSI, which is prbably easier than it was competing domestically in LCK

BLG clearly a solid team with good draft and prep and can play well individually.

G2 is performing as expected

LYON, FUR, TSW also pretty much in line with expectations

Not even NA could throw as hard as winTrading ESports did with a 2-0 lead

Tier | Combined chance to win MSI

SSS Tier: HLE | 50%

S Tier: T1, BLG | 40%

A Tier: G2 | 7%

B Tier: LYON, TSW, FUR | 3%

F Tier Wintrading???: TES | 0%

TOP
Zeus <=> Bin >>>>>>> Kiin >>>TheShy >> Naak Nako >> PerfecT >> Doran > Other Tops

JUNGLE
Kanavi >> Tarzan > Monki > Canyon > Xun > Oner > Inspired >>> Skewmond > Other JGs

MID
Chovy > Zeka <=> Knight >>>>> Bdd >> Faker >>> Shanks > HongQ > Caps > Other Mids

ADC
Peyz <=> Ruler >>> Viper > Gumayusi <=> Aiming > GALA >>> JackeyLove > Other ADCs

SUPPORT
Keria >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Other Supps

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Riot decides to spice things up for Worlds.

Each team has an option to select one super power below for the duration of the game. Which is the most OP super power & strategy?

1. Full Vision: Your team has full vision of the entire map for the entirety of the game.
2. Increased Gold Income: Your team gets 50% more gold from all sources.
3. Increased Starting Gold: Your team starts the game with 1k extra gold each. You can funnel all the gold into one player, however you get increasingly lower amounts of gold for each additional funnel into the same player, capping at 2k gold for one person and no extra gold for others.
4. Increased Damage vs. Players: Your team deals 50% more damage to other champions.
5. Increased Damage vs. Non-Players: Your team deals double damage to all minions, neutral objectives, jungle camps and enemy structure (including towers).
6. Buy Death Timer: You can spend gold to rush your respawn, with a rate of 10 gold for 1 second.
7. Baron-on-demand: Your team gets the baron buff at will up to 5 times a game. You select when, available immediately at the start.
8. Improved Bans: Your team has 5 additional bans. Other team cannot ban any champions.
9. Lights Out: You can completely jam the other team's players' communications where they cannot speak or hear each other, except from the in-game chat and pings. You can do so up to 5 minutes per game in total, and you can choose how it's distributed and when.
10. Sacrifice: Your team gets the "Sacrifice" ability, where you choose one teammate who immediately dies with a respawn timer of 35 seconds, regardless of the game time. Each time you do so, other champions in the team permanently gain 100 max health, 10 ad or 10 ability power, 10 armor or 10 magic resistance, 5 haste, and 250 gold. You can use this ability whenever, and as many times as you like.

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Matchup quality aside, team logos are beautifully paired up:

• Team name logos (BLG, T1)
• Wild cat logos (LYON, FURIA)
• Three brush logos (HLE, TSW)
• Mask logos (G2, TES)

If this isn't proof the tournament is scripted, I don't know what is.

Edit: "Three line -> Three brush"

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Did the pickems in the client for the elimination phase and they didn't get saved, now I want to cry...

Did anyone have the same problem or was it just skill issue on my part?

MSI 2026 by effective Elo (region-adjusted), after play-ins

This started as the most contested MSI ever, the top five within 125 Elo, tighter than any MSI before (2019's top four was 142). Then the play-ins split the field into three tiers:

The favorites: T1, BLG, HLE. Three teams within 56 Elo; we've never had a top three this close. T1 is #1 but only 65% to beat HLE in a Bo5. Any game between these three is a coin flip.

The dark horses: TES, G2. The only teams within striking distance, they started with near-identical Elo before Europe's play-in collapse split them. Nobody outside the top three has ever won an MSI, and G2 now sits 213 behind T1, so a G2 title would be the second-largest comeback in MSI history (RNG won from 233 Elo down in 2018).

Everyone else: LYON, FURIA, TSW

The bracket delivered.
The opening round has gifted us some of the closest matchups we'll see:

• T1 vs BLG: two best teams at the tournament (T1 60% Bo5)
• TES vs G2: two evenly matched dark horses (TES 63% Bo5)
• LYON vs FURIA: closer than it looks, LYON 64% Bo5. LCS has something to prove after Brazil trounced them in the Americas Cup.
• TSW vs HLE: Okay, not this one. But HLE playing the winner of TES v G2 next round will be awesome. TES has a 23% chance of beating HLE in the Bo5.

Honestly, any match that isn't a favorite vs. 'everyone else' should be worth watching, close games, or a real chance at an upset.

I built this site that tracks team Elo a while back and just recently revamped it and got international rankings working. You can see this MSI here: https://lolproelo.com/series/msi-2026

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With MSI on I kept arguing with friends over whether a comp had "won draft," so I built a small site that estimates blue-side win probability from real pro data (Oracle's Elixir — thousands of games, patch-weighted, current patches only).

How it works:

• Pick 5 champs a side → win %, plus a breakdown of champion strength, synergy, and lane matchups.
• Optionally pick the two teams → it adds team Elo and the actual starting players' Elo + their history on the champ they're on. Rosters auto-fill from each team's last game, and you can edit a seat to sub someone in. Keyboard-friendly (type a champ, hit Tab/comma to lock it and jump to the next).

The honest part, because this sub will (rightly) ask:

• Draft alone is a weak predictor. Champions-only sits around 55% accuracy - barely above just picking the favorite - because who's playing the comp matters far more than the comp. Add the teams and it climbs to ~66%.
• It's worst at international events like MSI, where cross-region team strength is hard to calibrate (the tool flags cross-region matchups so you don't over-trust them).
• Everything's validated with walk-forward backtests (no peeking at future games), and the methodology page shows accuracy broken down by league and patch - plus a list of things I tried that didn't work.

It's a draft-analysis / what-if toy, not a betting edge - pro games are genuinely hard to predict and I'd rather be honest about that.

(Optional, caveated solo-queue line - I'd cut it, but if you want it:) A few people asked about solo queue - the draft-only champion/synergy read can loosely sanity-check your own draft, but it's trained on pro games, so treat it as a rough guide at best.

https://comp-strength.vercel.app/ (haven't bought a domain yet) - would love feedback, especially on the modeling. Hobby project.

Former Rioter here, does anyone know what the best marketplace for listing staff merch would be? I have a Worlds 2023 bomber jacket that I'd like to sell but I'm not sure where to list it. Does anyone have any ideas?