As is known, just before the 2024 World Cup Esports started with League of Legends, the T1 team also inaugurated its home field. This is the first team in the Korean League of Legends village to have the official home yard, called T1 Homeground. At the same time, the first match at home of T1 is to welcome opponent KT Rolster – the rather annoying enemy has made many “great telecommunications wars” cult League of Legends in Kim Chi and the world. Only thing, the first match at home of T1 marked a defeat for this team, causing T1 to become the first home team to lose in the history of Korean League of Legends.
T1 is the first team to have a home field in LCK history and also the first home team to fail in the home launch.
Recently, in an interview after the BNK Fearx victory, Deft made direct statements to T1: “We did not prepare in advance for checking-in at home field. Just when we came there, we came up with that idea. Winning each match created interesting elements. Hopefully we can win more victories and take more collective photos in such places more in the future.” According to many opinions, this is a challenging sharing T1 when in the current LCK and at least in the near future, only T1 has a home yard.
Deft hopes to have more victories at home rival
In fact, for eSports in general or LoL in particular, the home ground is not only an advantage but also can put up the opposite pressure on the players themselves. Because, the home ground in League of Legends is extremely rare, almost only LPL is applied to large teams at the present time. Therefore, when a team plays at home, the audience often default to the team must be the winning team. In professional League of Legends, there are no draws and pressure to win at all costs that can make the players have not achieved the best performance and psychology, such as the case of T1 recently an example.
The home field sometimes brings great pressure to the home teams themselves
As for KT, the victory over T1 will probably also bring psychological advantages to this team for the remaining journey of the summer LCK 2024. And as always, the KT of the summer period will be the team that any name must be wary, as they have shown last season until before the harmful choice in the playoffs.