Thumbnail CR by Rosie Xiao

‘MSI’ is for Mid-season Invitational. It is a big official international competition for League of Legends. Every competing teams are the champion from their country division. Which means thousands of players from all over the world will all focus on this competition. The thumbnail I chose is from the location reveal video for 2021MSI.

The title of the video is MSI 2021: Location Reveal | LOL Esports.

As a location reveal video, it directly shows its venue as ‘Iceland’ at the bottom of the thumbnail. By using especial black text which is different with the other text in such image, it would be easily for people to focus on it. Also, the other text on the thumbnail are very concise and comprehensive.  There is ‘2021’ exactly shows which year is this composition be held and ‘MSI’ shows what competition is it. All the text on this thumbnail directly tell the audience what is this video for.

The main color of the thumbnail is green, gray and black. The light green is different with the regular green which represent as life and peace. Such light green the artist chose is very confrontational. The light green takes the responsibility of the main color of the picture and all the other parts just be filled with gray and black. Which make the image be undivided.

The left side of the image is the photo of Iceland – the place where will hold the competition and the right side is the topic title. Also, there are 6 ‘x’ which be at the center of the image. Which also enhance the competitive characteristic of the competition.

The expectative audience of this video is the people who is familiar with LOL (League of Legends) and MSI because for the whole video, there isn’t contain any introduction of the basic rule or competition history.