At present, the spring games of various divisions around the world are in full swing, and the four major divisions have basically played halfway, which is getting closer and closer to the end of the regular season, which also means that the playoffs and spring decisions are no longer far away. According to the usual spring competition, after the end of the spring competition will usher in the first international event of the year - MSI mid-season championship, recently foreign media broke the news that this year's MSI will be held in South Korea.
According to the news on Twitter by Pablo, a reporter under the foreign media Dot Esports, the 2022 MSI Mid-Season Championship will be held in South Korea, which is also the first time that South Korea has hosted an international event after the 2018 Global Finals, and the current MSI host city and venue have not been announced. In addition, this year, MSI will also officially change its name, from the previous Mid-Season Invitational to Mid-Season Invitational International.
Although LCK is the only one of the world's four major divisions that has not hosted MSI (2015 MSI landed in North America, 2016 MSI landed in Shanghai, 2018 MSI landed in Europe), but considering the recent surge in confirmed covid-19 cases in South Korea every day, the news can't help but trigger a hot discussion among domestic players, everyone is worried about the LPL team that will play at that time, and once they go to South Korea to participate in MSI, they will be quarantined after returning home, which will also affect the summer status of the team. More netizens joked: "Or fast forward to go back to Iceland to hold it."
As the epidemic has slowly shown a "normalization" trend in South Korea, the senior management of the LCK team is quite optimistic, and joeMar, ceo of the T1 team, participated in the discussion on Twitter and replied to netizens: "It is sad that there is only one large global event (multiple teams in each region) every year, and I hope that MSI can become a form that allows the top two teams in each division to participate." "However, the format is not the point, the current epidemic situation in South Korea is quite severe, and perhaps the MSI venue will change before and after the end of the spring matches in each division." What do you think of South Korea hosting this year's MSI?