T1's performance so far can be said to be somewhat less convincing compared to the position of a candidate for their championship. Faker and his teammates still struggled in their tactics. The hard victory over the G2 Esports or recently a defeat of Bilibili Gaming has shown that T1 has a lot of problems. And strong opponents always know how to exploit their problems as thoroughly as possible. The G2 almost created the seismic while the BlG showed that they were no longer as if they were beaten by T1 0-2 in Worlds last year.
T1 lost the battle with BLG in a “mindfulness”
T1 problems can come from many causes, such as the slow adaptation of tactics, or formal issues, banning choices … But obviously, T1 is in need of the fastest recovery as possible and must really change. Because, they are not really hope. But the losing branch is not the teams that T1 can “bully” easily. Team Liquid or G2 Esports, Top Esports are all ready to revenge. Moreover, if playing as in the match against BLG, T1 is completely likely to break up the tournament early because the opponents are weaker.
Opportunities for T1 still have but they must really improve
But of course, the performance of the T1 players if they have to say, the problem lies in each player itself. It was still that squad, experiencing the ups and downs of 2023, but now it was no different from themselves when Faker was absent from injury. BLV Hoang Luan frankly commented in a recent stream: “Prohibiting 5 mid -line generals (Faker) that T1 still loses means the remaining 4 members have no effect in the match”. Meanwhile, right before the battle of T1 – BLG took place, SOFM had a more bitter judgment: “Zeus has not reached the highest performance. Like Zeus is playing for enough people. “
BLV Hoang Luan “Var” directly T1 stars when identifying the problem in the remaining 4 players because the opponent used up the ban on Faker's general but the remaining members could not take advantage of anything.
Sofm frankly said “Zeus has played from the beginning of MSI so far as for enough people”
In fact, the comments of BLV Hoang Luan and SofM are somewhat accurate. Once the opponent focuses on the mid lane position, according to the logic, the other positions of T1 will ban more comfortable. However, they lost completely compared to the opponent. Even when the opponent chooses the champion almost exactly, the difference is even more clear.
Also Senna + Tank, also the squad needs a lot of farm but BLG operates different from T1
As for Zeus, from the beginning of MSI, this player has not shown that he really regained his form as Worlds 2023. Even for an opponent that could be called “old general” like Brokenblade, it was enough to make Zeus difficult, failure before Bin was absolutely no hard to understand. Even if he had to clash 369, it was unlikely that Zeus would be able to win the road to this player, not to mention the time of fighting.
Zeus has not shown the quality and performance like Worlds 2023
Time and opportunities for T1 are still there but not much. And if there is no plan to save themselves, maybe Faker and his teammates can only blame themselves if they fail again.