Faker revealed an important reason why T1 “dropped” but made the audience arguing fiercely

In the opening match at the LCK LCK playoffs in the last 2024 Spring, T1 was 0-3 against Hanwha Life Esports. Of course, HLE is really strong now, but the way T1 lost also surprised many people. Because anyway, T1 is also a very strong team and this season is quite balanced with HLE. The defeat also pushed T1 to the losing branch and faced the other Dplus was also very uncomfortable. In the press conference after the match, Faker also shared around the defeat of the home team before a champion candidate this season.

Accordingly, Faker acknowledged “disappointment with the current performance and performance” but he also said: ” We cannot practice while climbing ranks while other teams can still play normally. Therefore, I think our performance is worse than usual. Unfortunately, we could not express as we wanted. But the game is always changing, while the preparation time is not available. It is really not fair when we do not have the opportunity to practice normally compared to other teams. And there are many other reasons besides this for our failure today. ”

Obviously, for a player who is very ups and downs like Faker, nothing he has to justify for T1's defeat and seek to blame a reason other than professional if it is not real or not serious. Even in LCK Spring 2024, Faker rarely attended the press conference after the match, even when T1 won. At the same time, according to the representative of the T1 side, the DDOS incident has occurred since December. This team has remained initially by changing the player's stream schedule. But after that, the problem became worse since March and now the T1 players have also been discovered that they have not climbed the rank for more than half a month.

However, Faker's share was cut by some netizens and even the KOL of League of Legends village, criticizing that T1 The Institute's reasons for denying failure. It is noteworthy that the male streamer iwdominate when he said: ” Who cares about whether the T1 team is valid? Just a lack of Fair Play when offered immediately after failure. LPL teams encountered terrible Covids at Worlds 2022 and could not play with all 5 members on stage. No other team gives such reasons to justify losing. ” In addition, this person is sarcastic that T1 belongs to a rich telecommunications corporation but cannot find a way to solve this problem.

IWDominate's post immediately received countless criticisms from Western audiences. Because everyone understands the problem is not only in changing the machine or changing the training location. Not to mention, T1 players themselves have spoken about this issue many times in the stream. And the defeat of HLE is just an opportunity for them to share this issue publicly, after an interview question.

In fact, climbing rank and scrim with extremely important players. In those environments, they are practicing macro skills, new tactical tests, or becoming more familiar with newly launched/edited generals. Not to mention, the Rank environment is for the player to “hold hands” if the break between the matches lasts, for example, from the end of the group stage to the time to play playoffs.

Therefore, it is impossible to practice or scrim because DDOS certainly greatly affects the preparation of the players. With the environment like LCK, the impact will be greater when only a small difference is enough to change the result of a match. It is the players of other teams who are also afraid of climbing rank or scrim with T1 because “just meet T1 is DDOS”.

Currently, no one is sure after Faker's sharing, the problem will be solved. But obviously, Faker's revelation is necessary for Riot or anyone who is responsible can make stronger interventions to solve the problem.