It can be clearly seen since the beginning of the MSI 2024 journey until now, T1 has always made their fans worried. The team is still the defending champion of Worlds has not really achieved the best state. And perhaps, except for the matches in the starting round, since entering the group stage, T1 has always left many worries. The cause may come from both objective and subjective factors, but obviously at the present time, no one dares to believe that T1 will be the team to win the championship in Chengdu this year. Especially when in the last winning final between Gen.G – Bilibili Gaming, the LCK champion has shown too perfect.
T1 will still need more efforts if you want to compete for the championship at MSI this year
In the match against Team Liquid, T1 showed that they were really trying to grasp the best meta possible. It makes it difficult for T1 players when their habits often focus on the “Win Lane Win game” tactic. However, the tactics of this tactics almost went bankrupt. T1 adaptation is easy to understand and can sympathize. Giving up a gameplay to maximize the capabilities of each member to a meta that can be said to be “short” is never easy for anyone.
Meta island can be said to be the “shortage” of T1 when eliminating almost all the main tactics as well as the ability of the T1 players
However, some recent photos of Faker can make fans worried. Specifically, after the end of the match with TL, while Faker was adjusting the machines, his right hand showed the awkwardness. Previously, Faker also acknowledged that the injury in his hand has not completely recovered 100%. Plus the frequency of dense competition, the possibility of Faker relapse is very high. And this is really worrying, when in the remaining 3 days of MSI 2024, if T1 wants to compete for the championship, they will have to compete with a dense frequency of a battle a day.
Faker's right hand shows certain awkwardness
But perhaps, Faker himself also understood that MSI 2024 could be the last chance for him to win this tournament again. The opponent in front of G2 is also extremely powerful, but perhaps Faker will still make efforts to show the best as possible, especially when in 2024, it was only nearly half of the journey.