T1 encounters drama right before CKTG 2024
After winning the last spot to attend CKTG 2024, T1 immediately had a series of activities aimed at fans as well as serving the preparation phase for CKTG 2024. Specifically, T1 was the first team to announce the release of CKTG 2024 costumes as soon as possible for fans to order or interviews with players around the difficult period just passed as well as the upcoming important tournament.
In particular, the reigning CKTG 2023 champion also made a move that is considered to “idolize” the players by opening a paid chat service so that fans can chat directly with the players.
T1's recent program allowing fans to directly message players has been met with opposition and had to be postponed until after Worlds 2024.
However, under pressure from fans, T1 had to cancel this activity. Because allowing the audience to interact directly with the players, it would also create an opportunity for anti-fans or extremist fans to attack the players for only a small amount of money. However, in the announcement of the cancellation of T1's service, there was a detail that caught the audience's attention: T1 was still being DDoSed for a long time and the players could not livestream to earn more income as usual.
In the announcement of the postponement of the program, T1 also confirmed that the DDoS problem has not been resolved and Riot cannot do anything. Opening a chat program with fans is also to increase interaction between players and fans as well as improve the income of players when livestreaming to receive donations like before, which cannot be done regularly.
T1 also pointed out that Riot has not taken any drastic action to resolve the issue and that opening this chat service is a way for T1 to improve the team's revenue. Furthermore, this is also a move for T1 to be able to return to interacting with fans as before.
T1 team itself also implicitly admitted that they have not thought of any other ways.
T1 has always had to deal with many problems right from the training and preparation stages.
Riot's revelation also shows that T1 actually has to face not only opponents, but also DDoS. Of course, it cannot be denied that T1 players have also had a decline in performance, but even the practice is affected, which is really a bit unfair to this team. Poor performance and public pressure also create another problem for T1.
And T1 has not solved the DDoS problem yet.
With T1 coming to Worlds 2024, the DDoS situation may improve as everything they use will be provided by Riot. Of course, the audience also expects that after many difficulties, in the most important tournament, T1 will have the best conditions for their journey to defend their throne.
