The final of Esports World Cup 2024 took place with a real result that was beyond the prediction of many people. Because, although many viewers still believe that T1 will win, but with an overwhelming ratio as shown, especially after they defeated the first game, it was hard to imagine. Tes is not a weak opponent when Jackkeylove's army defeated Gen.G – the defending champion MSI 2024 as well as G2 Esports – the king of Lec. Not to mention, T1 is famous for being slow and even stubborn that Worlds 2022 or previous matches have shown very clearly.
The media of China said that TES was defeated due to adaptation too slowly
But there was a fact that proved in the match, that Tes was the team that adapted very slowly. Even when T1 has seen the weaknesses of the LPL representative, this team still struggled in his play. The embarrassment is evident when T1 started to have mutant choices, such as Jhin – Bard below or Faker strongly using the “general” Yasuo in the decisive game. According to the LPL audience, Faker's confidence comes from the fact that he realized that TES would be difficult to catch up immediately if he had options or plays outside the calculation.
The LPL representative did not find a way to overcome when T1 banned the selection of mutations
The defeat of TES also showed a big gap at the present time between LPL and LCK. LPL representatives have good skills, but the ability to adapt to variables is quite slow. Bilibili Gaming himself at MSI 2024 can only win T1 thanks to Bin or Knight's personal shine, there are at least the games that BlG shows that they “out” T1 from the ban on choosing or deploying tactics.
Before that, BlG was similar
Since many seasons, LPL has been more than LCK in international tournaments. In the past 3 years, what the LPL representatives won were 2 MSI championships. But in the Worlds Arena, no matter how many representatives participated in the semi -finals or the final, LPL has not been able to bring any more World Championship trophy after the title of Edward Gaming in 2021.