The 2020 Mid-Season Streamathon was an esports live stream event hosted by Riot Games, featuring international League of Legends competitions and exhibition matches from multiple regions. It was the replacement for the 2020 Mid-Season Invitational, which was cancelled due to the global COVID-19 pandemic. The primary goal of the event was to raise money for COVID-19 relief efforts.
Mid-Season Cup
The 2020 Mid-Season Cup was an international tournament featuring the top four teams from the spring season of the LCK (South Korea) and LPL (China). Games are played online with artificially standardized ping to ensure competitive integrity. Players compete onsite at their respective league's home arenas, but without a live audience present. The tournament's total prize pool was US$600,000.
Participants LCK T1 Gen.G DragonX DAMWON Gaming
LPL JD Gaming Top Esports FunPlus Phoenix Invictus Gaming
Group stage Format: Single round robin, best-of-one
Group A
Group B
Tiebreakers
Knockout stage Format: Best-of-five
Ranking Place Team Prize (USD) Prize share 1st Top Esports $240,000 40% 2nd FunPlus Phoenix $120,000 20% 3rd–4th JD Gaming $60,000 10% Gen.G 5th–6th DAMWON Gaming $40,000 6.67% DragonX 7th–8th T1 $20,000 3.33% Invictus Gaming
Mid-Season Showdown
The 2020 Mid-Season Showdown was an international tournament featuring the top two teams from the spring season of the VCS (Vietnam) and PCS (Taiwan, Hong Kong, Macau, and Southeast Asia; excluding Vietnam). Games are played online with artificially standardized ping to ensure competitive integrity.
Participants PCS Talon Esports Machi Esports
VCS Team Flash GAM Esports
Group stage Format: Double round robin, best-of-one
Knockout stage Format: Best-of-five
EU Face-Off
Participants LEC Kings The French Zoo German Pingus Double Crunch Italy Polska Gurom ALTOKEKW Españita
Group stage Format: Single round robin, best-of-one
Group A
Group B
Knockout stage Format: Best-of-one
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