For Esports World Cup 2024, the event was originally not really received by the League of Legends community, especially T1 fans. According to the arguments at that time, the tournament took place at the time of the Summer LCK 2024 tense, and the time zone difference will affect the rest of the players. Not to mention, the tournament is not in the system of Riot, so not only T1 fans but many other teams also express concerns about the nature of the matches and even have concerns that BTC will be difficult to operate the professional event. But until now, it can be said that T1 is the most beneficial team after EWC 2024.
T1 won the EWC 2024
First, it is the “huge” bonus up to 400k USD (more than 10 billion VND) for T1 with the EWC 2024 championship after the Top Esports victory in the final morning of July 8 (Vietnam time) recently. For those who do not know, this bonus is close to a World Championship when in 2023, T1 received 445k USD (over 11 billion VND). In addition, this is the first title that T1 won in 2024. Many fans also hope that the championship will be a good premise for T1 to be able to return to the 2024 summer LCK with relieved psychology, as well as prepare for the upcoming 2024 Worlds.
The total bonus t1 received is about 400k USD
More importantly, EWC 2024 shows the audience that T1 images seem to have been in the past for a long time. It is a Faker not afraid of any generals, including Yasuo. Or a T1 is willing to give resources and let Gumayusi use pure gunner like Kai'sa, Jhin … without worrying that he will be “shut down” or unable to carry the team. Is Oner with a calm cold or Zeus is willing to choose tankers to make sure the team achieves the best possible results as well as a Keria to take care of Gumayusi more than continuous ganking and let his gunner “play gaming”.
T1 can also have more faith and spirit as well as better preparation for the remaining journey in 2024
Of course, T1 has succeeded in EWC 2024 and the Summer LCK 2024 is an environment that will have many differences, and further than Worlds 2024. But perhaps, the T1 players have drawn many valuable experiences after the trip to Saudi Arabia and may have many new changes when returning to their main journey in 2024.