Royal Never Give Up swept Evil Geniuses in the Knockout Stage on Friday to advance to the 2022 Mid-Season Invitational finals in Busan, South Korea.
RNG, who are bidding to repeat as champion at the League of Legends event, won the first map on blue and the next two on red.
Sen-Ming “Ming” Shi (1-1-13 KDA) was named the MVP for RNG, who will face the winner of Saturday’s second Knockout Stage semifinal pitting T1 against G2 Esports.
Teammates Yang-Wei “Wei” Yan and Yuan-Hao “Xiaohu” Li added 4-1-15 and 8-4-8 KDAs, respectively.
“Stellar performances all around the board allowed us to take our Semifinal match and advance to the Finals of #MSI2022,” Royal Never Give Up wrote on Twitter.
Stellar performances all around the board allowed us to take our Semifinal match and advance to the Finals of #MSI2022.
We’ll be back Sunday to face either T1 or G2! #RNGWIN pic.twitter.com/h393JlfXqv
— Royal Never Give Up (@RNG) May 27, 2022
The best-of-five final is on Sunday, with the winner earning $75,000 USD and the runner-up taking home $50,000.
Prize pool and final standings:
1. TBD — $75,000
2. TBD — $50,000
3-4. Evil Geniuses, TBD — $25,000
5-6. PSG Talon, Saigon Buffalo — $17,500
7-8. RED Canids, ORDER — $8,325
9-10. Team Aze, DetonatioN FocusMe — $6,675
11. Istanbul Wildcats — $5,000
–Field Level Media