The defeat of T1 causes a controversy about LCK Cup 2025
Recently, T1 failed to Hanwha Life Esports in the “survival” match of the two teams at the LCK Cup 2025. The second defeat of T1 at the opening tournament of LCK's 2025 season also closed their journey here even though T1 is the best team of Baron.
Worth mentioning, this is the first time since the past 5 years, T1 has such a bad achievement in the playoffs of an official LCK tournament. From here, there was a controversy around the somewhat unreasonable formula of the LCK Cup 2025.
T1's journey at the LCK Cup 2025 sparked controversy over the tournament format.
Accordingly, the thousand -year -old dragon team is Nongshim Redforce, there are 3 opportunities to hold on to their chances of going on at the LCK Cup 2025. First, they only had to meet KT Rolster – a famous team that was fluttering and this was also their hardest opponent at the LCK Cup 2025 playoffs round, as much as Gen.G – HLE.
Even, even when he failed against the other Dplus, NS continued to play at the LCK Cup 2025.
T1 even has achievements only losing dk but eliminated early regret.
This is actually quite … unreasonable. Because, NS almost lost to all the teams of the Baron table but the rankings were higher than T1 – the team lost only 1 match in the group stage. The audience has the right to feel warm for T1 because the opponents that this team confronts are not easy at all (DK, Gen.G, KT).
While NS goes on and even losing a recent match, there is still a chance.
BTC LCK will probably need to review the tournament format after the incident of T1
LCK Cup 2025 initially only bears the Fearless Draft test goal as well as finding the representative of LCK to attend Riot's new tournament. But with the attractiveness that the tournament brings, the LCK BTC may need to be calculated to have more reasonable forms, avoiding the efforts of the teams affected by external factors.
The possibility of the BTC LCK will have to edit the format to be more reasonable for the efforts of the teams.
Because, if the rest of the Baron team played better, this table could have another result. The effort of T1 alone is not enough and clear, they have been eliminated somewhat “instant” while the teams with inferior achievements are still having the opportunity to continue their journey.