T1 is at risk of “stumbling” before BlG because of Gen.G?

After 5 stressful games, Gen.G continued his high performance when he passed the top eSports to become the first representative in the final of the MSI 2024 Branch. The players themselves like Tian or Creme themselves have only participated in the second largest international tournament in League of Legends village. However, the struggle of Gen.G is unimaginable. But anyway, they have won worthy and Tes still hopes at the losing branch.

In the remaining matching match to the winner of the winning branch against Gen.G is the noticeable confrontation between T1 – Bilibili Gaming. This is the third consecutive time these two teams have to confront each other in the international tournament. The score is now 1-1 when each team won for themselves a victory. Worth mentioning, both previous confrontations ended with the gap. And after 2023, BLG had many changes in terms of the squad, but T1 still kept the frame that had been crowned together in the championship in the past home.

But even so, some opinions have said that T1 may not be sure to win the BlG confrontation this time. As is known, from the beginning of MSI to date, it can be clearly seen that the T1 players have not been completely “into the phom”. The tactics of the team are still not consistent when they sometimes fight pure according to the meta, sometimes returning to the creative mutant game familiar with the “strange” generals. Therefore, T1 probably takes more time before clashing with Gen.G – the opponent can be considered the most difficult on the journey to reach the title at MSI this year. Because, unlike BLG, Gen.G is the team that T1 has never defeated since MSI last year.

The next reason, the losing branch will be somewhat “easier” and will help T1 have time to test many new tactical lines before meeting BLG/Geng in the final of the loss. Rivals like Team Liquid or even TES, G2 are not necessarily difficult for T1 or Faker and his close teammates. Of course, this does not mean that T1 will not exert all the way to the BLG match. But if T1 failed and fell to the losing branch, this would not be too surprising.

Want to top glory, need to be ready to defeat all opponents. But even so, the teams will still need reasonable tactical calculations to win the final victory. And sometimes, failure during tactical testing is not too serious, as long as there is still competitive opportunity, everything is still under control.