{"id":30388,"date":"2023-05-21T12:48:19","date_gmt":"2023-05-21T16:48:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/?p=30388"},"modified":"2023-05-21T12:49:06","modified_gmt":"2023-05-21T16:49:06","slug":"jd-gaming-win-2023-msi-title","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/jd-gaming-win-2023-msi-title\/","title":{"rendered":"JD Gaming claim 2023 Mid-Season Invitational title"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After claiming the <a href=\"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/league-of-legends\/lpl\/\" title=\"LPL betting guide\">LPL<\/a> Spring 2023 title last month, JD Gaming have continued their dominant season by taking out the 2023 <a href=\"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/league-of-legends\/mid-season-invitational\/\" title=\"Mid-Season Invitational betting guide\">Mid-Season Invitational<\/a> on their tournament debut. <\/p>\n<p>JD Gaming came into the tournament as the clear favourite with most <a href=\"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/sites\/\" title=\"Best esports betting sites\">esports betting sites<\/a>, and they didn\u2019t let their supporters down, going through the tournament undefeated, beating Golden Guardians, Bilibili Gaming, T1 and then BLG again in the grand final on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>With JDG and BLG meeting in the final, it set up a rematch between the two finalists from the LPL Spring 2023, where JDG took the final 3-1 back on April 15. <\/p>\n<p>Even though this final took place in London, England and not in China, the result was the same, with the favourites and LPL champions defeating their compatriots 3-1 again in another final. <\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">\ud83c\udfc6 <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JDGaming?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@JDGAMING<\/a> ARE THE <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/MSI2023?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#MSI2023<\/a> CHAMPIONS! \ud83c\udfc6 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/hSlBCnyIlo\">pic.twitter.com\/hSlBCnyIlo<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; LoL Esports (@lolesports) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/lolesports\/status\/1660286336333500422?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 21, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Since their third-fourth place finish at the 2022 <a href=\"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/league-of-legends\/worlds\/\" title=\"LoL Worlds betting guide\">LoL World Championship<\/a> in October of last year, the JDG roster has been improved massively with the additions of Park \u201cRuler\u201d Jae-hyuk, Lou \u201cMISSING\u201d Yunfeng, and the recently crowned 2023 MSI Most Valuable Player Zhou \u201cknight\u201d Ding.<\/p>\n<p>With those three joining Seo \u201cKanavi\u201d Jin-hyeok and Bai \u201c369\u201d JIahao, JDG completed their super team and promised their fans that they would win many a regional and international title in the not to distant future. <\/p>\n<p>Since the turn of the year, JDG have participated at the LPL Spring 2023 and Mid-Season Invitational, where they have accomplished their goal and lifted the trophy at the end of both events. <\/p>\n<p>The Chinese League of Legends teams have had a strangle hold on the international events since the very beginning of the <a href=\"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/league-of-legends\/\" title=\"LoL betting guide\">LoL<\/a> professional esports scene, but there is yet to have been a team that has dominated their opponents like this current JDG squad. <\/p>\n<p>With the Mid-Season Invitational complete, we now look forward to the LCS, LPL, LCK and LEC Summer splits, where we will find out who will qualify and compete at the highly anticipated League of Legends World Championship in South Korea in October. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/news\/\" class=\"contentLinkBtn\">More esports news<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>JD Gaming have defeated Bilibili Gaming in the grand final of the 2023 Mid-Season Invitational to claim their first MSI title.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":28236,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ghostkit_customizer_options":"","ghostkit_custom_css":"","ghostkit_custom_js_head":"","ghostkit_custom_js_foot":"","ghostkit_typography":"","wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[925,668,24,2072,3044,259,389],"class_list":["post-30388","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-bilibili-gaming","tag-jd-gaming","tag-league-of-legends","tag-league-of-legends-mid-season-invitational","tag-league-of-legends-pro-league","tag-lol","tag-lpl"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30388"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30388"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30388\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30391,"href":"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30388\/revisions\/30391"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28236"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30388"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30388"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30388"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}