Immediately after Fnatic defeated GAM ESPORTS and became the last name to attend the MSI 2024 group stage, the group of the most important stage of this year's MSI was also announced. Accordingly, T1's branch is considered “death” when they share the same branch with Bilibili Gaming, PSG Talon and G2 Esports. In particular, T1 will encounter the opponent a lot of debt – G2. Perhaps Faker and many T1 fans still remember, G2 is the team that made SKT T1 of 2019 “embrace” in both MSI and Worlds. But that year was also the last dazzling lipstick of the team that was most strongly rated in this LEC area.
The draw results put T1 into a very difficult branch, which is considered “the death of the death”
However, for T1 alone, in fact, the difficult group like this could be a basis for fans to believe that the home team could take the throne at MSI 2024. Back to T1's most recent international title, they also fell into an extremely difficult branch. Even, on the journey from the Swiss round of Worlds 2023 until the throne, T1 clashed almost all the most powerful teams of League of Legends. Specifically, at last year's Worlds, T1's opponents were all “horned” names: Team Liquid, Gen.G, Cloud9, Bilibili Gaming, LNG Esports, JD Gaming and Weibo Gaming.
But at Worlds 2023, T1 also encountered a difficult and completely overcome branch
In MSI this year, with this schedule, T1 will most likely encounter the two teams who are the champion of the area they play: G2 and BLG. With the branch of Gen.G, it can be said that it is quite “easy to breathe” for the LCK champion, it is likely that if T1 trot passes through two matches in their branch, they will clash “the rival to raise” Gen.G. The results of this confrontation no matter what, it will be possible to force T1 to rematch with BLG or Gen.G in the final final (in case they reach the final). But if the scenarios come true, on their journey, T1 may have to meet 3 champions of the three most powerful areas in League of Legends.
With T1, the more difficult the branches will make them more determined
And because of such mighty opponents, accidentally made T1's journey at MSI this time, basically not much different in Worlds 2023. They still have to enter the “branch of death”, still face the most powerful opponents possible, and can once again win the MSI championship similar to the way they dominate Worlds 2023 before.