Zeus accidentally revealed the “acupuncture point” of HLE
On the afternoon of today (March 10), the First Stand 2025 will officially start with “fiery” matches. The first is the match between the two representatives of the Americas and Europe when TL clashed with KC. After that was a Chinese -Han War battle with the encounter between HLE and TES. These are all confrontations between areas that are not very popular, so First Stand 2025 promises to be extremely attractive. Moreover, Zeus is also a very interested name when this is the star's first international tournament after leaving T1.
Zeus's performance at the upcoming First Stand 2025 is very expected
So when responding to the press about opponents about to confront, Zeus was extremely confident in HLE's victory. He even sent a steel “letter” to Tes when he thought that HLE could beat the 369 and Kanavi couple on the opponent's side quite easily. However, Zeus's interview is to reveal a fairly large weakness of HLE, that they do not have information about the gameplay of competitors at First Stand 2025.
Zeus admitted that HLE did not know the true power of the opponents in the upcoming tournament
“To be honest, we (HLE) never fought with other teams, so we did not know where their strength was. For me, TES is still the most ominous opponent when 369 and Kanavi are experienced players. The confrontation between me and 369 will be quite tense and need to be carefully prepared. – Zeus shared with the press before launching at First Stand 2025.
The star of HLE said that TES will be the main opponent in the upcoming tournament
Zeus and his teammates need to adapt quickly to win the First Stand 2025
One of the differences between First Stand 2025 compared to other international tournaments such as MSI or Worlds is the extremely short play time. With MSI, this tournament will take place in about 20 days, Worlds lasts longer (about 40 days). Such long competition time allows teams to learn mutual tactics and slowly adapt to the Meta of the tournament. Meanwhile, First Stand 2025 only takes place in 1 week so the speed of adaptation with the opponent, the Meta the tournament will have to be much faster to be able to play successfully.
HLE needs to adapt quickly to competitors when First Stand 2025 only takes place in about 1 week
For HLE, the fact that they have not had any research with their rivals is a great disadvantage for Zeus and his teammates. They may face “weird” tactics from the remaining teams (especially from Western representatives) and have difficulties in deploying familiar play. It should be known that the First Stand 2025 playoffs round will be able to stay awake directly and without a losing branch. Therefore, HLE needs to make the most of the upcoming group stage matches to study and adapt quickly with opponents if they do not want to be unfortunately eliminated.