The tragic failure of T1
Entering the second match of the playoffs round, T1's opponent Hanwha Life Esports – a current name is also very strong and they ranked second in the LCK group stage in the last 2024 summer. Worth mentioning, in both times confronting in the group stage, T1 is also a defeated team. Not only that, HLE also shows a perfect gameplay compared to Gen.G. In the last group stage, except for twice before Gen.G, the rest they lost only 2 more matches (before the other Dplus and KT Rolster) but the ratio when HLE confronted these opponents was also drawing.
T1 has been expected to be difficult to win against HLE
In fact, the match between T1 and HLE is somewhat beyond the expected of many people. They show the weakness of the stage runner -up. Finally, after only 3 games, T1 defeated with an unbelievable score 0-3. The defeat does not end T1's ambition at the domestic tournament this time. But the performance of new players is really worrying. In the recent match against HLE, it was the lack of coordination between Faker and Oner that was indicated as an important cause of T1 failed.
The former player and streamer at LCS said: “Zeka/Peanut is so terrible in this series. They are completely out of the program compared to Faker/Oner”
The T1 pillar pair is much inferior to the HLE duo
It can be clearly seen in the match against HLE, the pillar of T1 is Faker – ONER, which shows much worse than the Zeka – Peanut pair. Especially in ONER's position when more than once in this match, Peanut Outplay Oner by moves not only “read” the opponent but also more active. Typically, Peanut and HLE Gumayusi and “small beans” even passed oner that T1's jungler himself could not react in time.
One of Peanut's “out play” oner moves
The defeat against HLE is not a disaster, when T1 still has the opportunity with the other Dplus in the losing branch. But in fact, T1's problems will still be there and they themselves have to overcome quickly. If not, the defeat against HLE will not be the first defeat of T1 in the Playoffs round and even, the ability to attend T1's Worlds 2024 will also be threatened heavily.