Before entering the Spring LCK playoffs 2024, Gen.G and T1 are still the most appreciated teams. The reason is extremely simple when they are the two leading teams in the group stage and have a very convincing form. Therefore, many viewers have thought that Gen.G and T1 will easily defeat other opponents to face each other directly in the final.
Gen.G and T1 are considered to be the two largest candidates for the LCK Championship 2024
However, the surprise took place in the second winning semi-final when T1 had a shocking defeat against HLE with a score of 0-3. Even for those who watched the match, the way T1 failed made them even more surprised. The reason comes from the fact that T1 has made a constant mistake (rarely happening) and let the opponent rise up to fully control the match. Obviously, with a team with a coefficient of 15 wins – 3 losses in the group stage like T1, this performance is hard to accept.
T1 recently received a comprehensive defeat against HLE with a score of 0-3
After the match ended, this “bottom touch” performance of T1 was also carefully explained. It is known that the T1 collective for months has continuously received DDOS attacks. This situation is so bad that T1 cannot play single ratings, fighting for a long time. After the T1 was provided by the Riot Games on the other account, they started Scrim back but the quality of the rating was low and this negatively affected the psychology of the players.
The manager of T1 – Becker revealed: “At the beginning of March, we were provided with super -level accounts to be able to practice and play ranked. However, the quality of the ranking matches when playing these accounts is not good. The reason is because their MMR is much lower than the main account of the T1 players”
It should be known that the DDOS problem in the LCK area is not something too new. As noted from T1, right from December 2023, they were attacked and complained to Riot Games. However, the father of League of Legends did not have any specific moves in solving this problem and let it directly affect T1's achievements. As a result, right after the match between T1 and HLE, Riot Games received a lot of criticism from the media as well as the Korean audience.
Journalist Ashley Kang shared frustrated after the match: “The problem of DDOS should have been solved for a long time before leaving such severe consequences. It happened for months and it was ridiculous when the player had to talk about DDOS at the press conference to remind Riot. It is necessary to know that this situation only occurs at the Korean server. Why is the server, Europe, and North America not affected? ”
“A small Indie game company (sarcasm with Riot) has no security infrastructure” – a sarcastic gamer comment
“Sometimes they will buff a few generals instead of finding a way to solve that DDOS problem” – another audience satirated
“Both T1 and Riot Games are big organizations, it is crazy when they cannot find solutions for this problem” – a bitter gamer concluded
With the published information, it is likely that the DDOS attacks are the purpose of destroying the achievements of T1. However, there is no guarantee that other teams in LCK will not be attacked by DDOS in the future. Not to mention the Korean server can be targeted so this is clearly not a problem for T1 or any team.
T1 is currently the main target of DDOS attacks but nothing guarantees other LCK teams will avoid it in the future.
With the situation that the LCK area is attacked by DDOS, the Riot Games should take really effective measures to solve. It would be sad if one of the highest quality tournaments in League of Legends in the village like LCK was ruined just because Riot did not have timely solutions.