Anyone’s Legend shook off a slow start to beat FlyQuest 3-1 on Wednesday in a bracket-stage opening-round match at the League of Legends Mid-Season Invitational in Vancouver.
The $2 million event began with two teams from each League of Legends region: China, Korea, Pacific, the Americas and Europe-Middle East-Africa.
Gen.G Esports, T1, Anyone’s Legend, CTBC Flying Oyster, FlyQuest and KOI were seeded directly into the bracket stage. The other four teams — Bilibili Gaming, FURIA, G2 Esports and GAM Esports — battled in the play-in stage for the final two bracket-stage berths that went to Bilibili and G2.
All matches in the play-in and the double-elimination bracket stage are best-of-five. The winner of the grand final next Saturday, July 12, will earn $500,000 and a spot in the $5 million League of Legends World Championship, to be played this fall in China.
On Wednesday, FlyQuest opened with a 36-minute win on red before Anyone’s Legend captured the next four maps, in 28 minutes on blue, 35 minutes on red and 33 minutes on blue.
South Korea’s Lee “Tarzan” Seung-yong compiled a 16/11/41 kill/death/assist ratio for Anyone’s Legend. Another South Korean player, Song “Quad” Soo-hyung, finished at 11/9/31 for FlyQuest.
The final two opening-round matches are scheduled Thursday, with CTBC Flying Oyster set to oppose T1 and KOI ready to face Bilibili Gaming.
League of Legends Mid-Season Invitational prize pool:
1. $500,000, berth in League of Legends World Championship
2. $300,000
3. $240,000
4. $200,000
5-6. $160,000
7-8. $130,000
9. $100,000 — GAM Esports
10. $80,000 — FURIA
–Field Level Media
