T1 holds a factor that can be “double -edged sword”
According to Riot's October 31 announcement, T1 won the coin and had the opportunity to choose a blue team in the Worlds Final 2024 against Bilibili Gaming. Usually, this will be a huge advantage. In this year's World Worlds, since the Swiss round began, the green team win rate was 57.1% – a significant number. However, it could also be a “double -edged sword”, when considering the teams who have won the coin chosen in the past.
T1 won in a coin launch for game 1 finals of Worlds 2024
Statistics from Worlds 2020 pointed out that all teams won the coin for the final, then received the final defeat. The opening was SOFM's Suning by 2020, and then continued to Damwon Gaming (2021), T1 (2022) and Weibo Gaming (2023). Worth mentioning, in the three consecutive Worlds finals, not counting the upcoming BLG match, T1 had once failed and once benefited with this “one”.
From Worlds 2020, before the final of Worlds 2024, the team that won the coin was defeated
Can t1 be exceeded?
It can be said that, when the final of Worlds 2024 has not started, T1 had challenges to overcome. First, except for SKT T1, no other team has successfully defended this tournament championship. Next, BLG has never lost to T1 in a Bo5 match of an international tournament. And the launch of a coin only adds to the upcoming difficulties of T1.
T1 will face an upcoming difficult match
But T1 also has certain advantages, psychologically and style, as well as no LPL team that won T1 in the BO3, Bo5 matches of Worlds. This may be a good premise, when BLG itself also has many pressure from home and history itself. But because of that, the upcoming final promises to be extremely tense and dramatic to the last minute.