{"id":4285,"date":"2020-04-21T11:08:05","date_gmt":"2020-04-21T11:08:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ginx.tv\/msi-2020-cancelled-new-rumour"},"modified":"2024-07-23T05:44:40","modified_gmt":"2024-07-23T05:44:40","slug":"msi-2020-cancelled-new-rumour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ginx.tv\/en\/league-of-legends\/msi-2020-cancelled-new-rumour","title":{"rendered":"League of Legends MSI 2020 has been cancelled, according to new rumour"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The 2020 Mid-Season Invitational for League of Legends has been cancelled, according to a new rumour.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div id=\"traffective-ad-Content_1_789518\" style=\"display: none;\" class=\"Content_1\"><\/div>\n<p>Speaking on his show Hotline League co-hosted with LCS analyst Mark Zimmerman, Travis Gafford claimed MSI 2020 has been cancelled entirely &#8211; stating he was &ldquo;fairly confident&rdquo; in the rumour.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;It should come as no surprise to anybody,&rdquo; he added.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>MSI 2020 was previously <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ginx.tv\/en\/league-of-legends\/league-of-legends-mid-season-invitational-delayed-to-july-over-coronavirus\">postponed from May to July<\/a> due to the COVID-19 pandemic, which has had a major affect on esports events across the world due to travel restrictions and safety measures.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div data-oembed-url=\"https:\/\/clips.twitch.tv\/PowerfulTardyPlumberNerfRedBlaster\">\n<div style=\"left: 0; width: 100%; height: 0; position: relative; padding-bottom: 56.25%;\"><iframe allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen=\"\" scrolling=\"no\" style=\"border: 0; top: 0; left: 0; width: 100%; height: 100%; position: absolute;\" tabindex=\"-1\" srcdoc=\"&lt;style&gt;*{padding:0;margin:0;overflow:hidden}html,body{height:100%}img,span{position:absolute;width:100%;top:0;bottom:0;margin:auto}span{height:1.5em;text-align:center;font:48px\/1.5 sans-serif;color:white;text-shadow:0 0 0.5em black}&lt;\/style&gt;&lt;a href=https:\/\/clips.twitch.tv\/embed?clip=PowerfulTardyPlumberNerfRedBlaster&amp;autoplay=true&amp;parent=www.ginx.tv&gt;&lt;img src=https:\/\/static-cdn.jtvnw.net\/ttv-static-metadata\/twitch_logo3.jpg alt='Twitch'&gt;&lt;span&gt;&#9654;&lt;\/span&gt;&lt;\/a&gt;\" src=\"https:\/\/clips.twitch.tv\/embed?clip=PowerfulTardyPlumberNerfRedBlaster&amp;autoplay=false\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Riot Games have yet to comment on the rumour so it&rsquo;s important to take this with a pinch of salt, although it wouldn&rsquo;t exactly be a huge shock considering the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ginx.tv\/en\/esports\/how-coronavirus-impacts-esports\">amount of cancellations<\/a> already.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>It might be particularly annoying however to Cloud9, who recently secured a qualifying spot at this year&rsquo;s MSI after <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ginx.tv\/en\/league-of-legends\/cloud9-win-lcs-spring-finals\">winning the 2020 LCS Spring Split<\/a> against FlyQuest.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking about the rumour on Hotline League, Cloud9&rsquo;s midlaner Nisqy stated it &ldquo;sucks&rdquo;, although the team had a feeling it would be cancelled due to world events.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div data-oembed-url=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=kwcLtCsx9mE\">\n<div style=\"left: 0; width: 100%; height: 0; position: relative; padding-bottom: 56.25%;\"><iframe allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen=\"\" scrolling=\"no\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/kwcLtCsx9mE?rel=0\" style=\"border: 0; top: 0; left: 0; width: 100%; height: 100%; position: absolute;\" tabindex=\"-1\" srcdoc=\"&lt;style&gt;*{padding:0;margin:0;overflow:hidden}html,body{height:100%}img,span{position:absolute;width:100%;top:0;bottom:0;margin:auto}span{height:1.5em;text-align:center;font:48px\/1.5 sans-serif;color:white;text-shadow:0 0 0.5em black}&lt;\/style&gt;&lt;a href=https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/kwcLtCsx9mE?autoplay=1&gt;&lt;img src=https:\/\/img.youtube.com\/vi\/kwcLtCsx9mE\/hqdefault.jpg alt='YouTube video thumbnail'&gt;&lt;span&gt;&#9654;&lt;\/span&gt;&lt;\/a&gt;\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The 2020 Mid-Season Invitational for League of Legends has been cancelled, according to a new rumour.&nbsp; Speaking on his show Hotline League co-hosted with LCS&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":601,"featured_media":4286,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4285","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-league-of-legends","genre-moba","content_type-news"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.9 - 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