ESL One events in 2018 and becoming the official partner of ESL One Cologne 2018, one of the biggest events on the Counter-Strike: Global Offensive calendar. MSI sponsored the Method eSports organization in August 2018. MSI partnered with ESL to bring MGA 2018 grand finals to New York. Kazakhstan's AVANGAR won the Championship. MSI and Ubisoft jointly presented Ambient Link (synchronized game lighting) on Assassin's Creed Odyssey and Tom Clancy's The Division 2 in 2019. In September 2020, MSI unveiled a new line of business-oriented laptops under the "Modern", "Prestige", and "Summit" lines, and a new logo specific to these models. Over the years, MSI has earned numerous awards and recognitions, including being ranked among the Top 20 Taiwan Global Brands in 2008 and named one of the Top 100 Taiwan Brands in 2011. In 2015, Laptop magazine ranked MSI the fourth-best laptop brand of the year, and according to Topology Research Institute, MSI was the largest gaming laptop supplier worldwide in 2016. MSI had also been awarded the Taiwan Excellence award for 15 consecutive years in 2013. In August 2018, MSI was rated the Best Gaming Laptop Brand of 2018 by Laptop Mag. New designs of its GS65 Stealth Thin and GE63 Raider RGB laptops earned the company an 84 out of 100 and put it on the top spot. On 7 October 2020, MSI released a public statement about their subsidiary Starlit scalping MSI-made Nvidia RTX 3080 and 3090 GPUs, and selling them for higher than MSRP on eBay. Sponsorship The company once partnered with eSports teams Fnatic and Cloud 9. It has also been a sponsor for a number of eSports teams worldwide, including METHOD, PENTA Sports, Energy eSports, HWA Gaming, yoe Flash Wolves, NXA-Ladies, Saigon Fantastic Five, MSI-Evolution, Vox Eminor, DeToNator, Team Infused, Aperture Gaming, Phoenix GaminG, Karmine Corp, Aiolikos FC, etc. MSI announced a partnership with Monster Energy Yamaha MotoGP in February 2022 to support the team with PC hardware throughout the MotoGP season. Controversy During the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine, MSI refused to join the international community and withdraw from the Russian market. Research from Yale University updated on September 14, 2022, identifying how companies were reacting to Russia's invasion, put MSI in the category of "Digging In - Defying Demands for Exit or Reduction of Activities". MSI remains the only major Taiwanese company to have defied demands for exit or reduction of