T1's fatal situation
Thus, T1 once again lost to Hanwha Life Esports and “helped” the team known as “Orange Gen.G” become the second team in Summer 2024 alone to win every time they faced T1. In fact, this result is not too surprising when HLE is considered a version that is only slightly worse than Gen.G. Not to mention, T1 players are also not in good form throughout. Therefore, the loss helped HLE become the second team in the LCK to participate in Worlds 2024 and forced T1 to compete for 1 of the 2 remaining spots in the regional qualifiers taking place a few days later.
However, in reality, T1 in the match against HLE showed that they had a chance to defeat HLE. Even in the first game, T1 had some unexpected choices and actually maintained a fairly balanced game. However, T1 still could not avoid defeat in this game. In which, the important situation that caused T1 to fail was said to be in the fight near the Dragon cave area. In that situation, it was clear that T1 had a moment of communication failure when Faker and Zeus showed that they wanted to retreat because their target was gone and their skills were gone. However, the remaining 3 players, especially Keria, tended to rush forward to attack. The loss of rhythm caused T1 to completely fail in that fight and like a domino, pulled the whole match away from T1's reach.
T1 is inferior to HLE in many aspects
In fact, this match showed that T1 not only lost to HLE in the in-game situations, but also lost right from the banning stage. HLE operated too well with many meta-suitable champions while T1 would have a hard time banning them all. Not to mention, Faker was not suitable for the damage-dealing position. But he also could not use Orianna because this champion was too easy to counter. Oner's Azir and Lillia were banned while T1 did not have many options to counter HLE. Therefore, in all 4 games, T1 had to accept giving up many good options for HLE such as Smolder or Jhin.
The loss did not completely end T1's ambition to attend CKTG 2024, but it ended their hope of competing for the title with Gen.G. At the present time, perhaps the audience can only hope that T1 will win against DK to soon determine their place at CKTG 2024.
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