The format of MSI 2024 affects T1, Gen.G like?
Since MSI 2023, Riot has made remarkable changes to increase the competitiveness of the annual tournament held in the middle of the year of the League of Legends. The most typical example is two major changes: The MSI 2024 champion team has a straight line in the Worlds group stage 2024 if they enter the Summer Playoffs. And the rest, are the two areas with the best achievement that will have 4 slots for their area at Worlds 2024. With T1, Bilibili Gaming, Gen.G participated in the group of 3 strongest teams MSI 2024, LCK and LPL are two areas with 4 representatives who are all in the Group of Worlds 2024.
MSI 2024 has had many changes in the format and one of them is “2 areas with the best achievement will have 4 capacity at Worlds 2024”.
However, this produces a consequence in the summer tournament 2024, when T1 plays badly and has to play in the regional qualifying round. Even T1 has only won tickets to Worlds 2024 after defeating KT Rolster in the final match of the regional qualifier, thereby coming to the upcoming Worlds with the No. 4 seed. Specifically, some League of Legends audience have made the statement: T1 to Worlds 2024 is “thanks to the capacity that Gen.G has brought to LCK”.
But from here, the content like this began to appear dense in the Vietnamese League of Legends community and caused a lot of controversy.
Nor no one knows where the basis came from so that some viewers thought that “T1 to Worlds 2024 is thanks to Gen.G bringing the 4th capacity for LCK”
Riot's announcement makes the League of Legends community misunderstand about the role of T1
After Gen.G defeated the BLG in the winnings and won the first place to participate in the final, Riot posted a notice of English content as follows: “With Gen.G's QUALIFICATION for the MSI 2024 Finals, The LCK Has Secured A 4th Slot at Worlds 2024” (roughly translated: Gen.G in the finals of MSI 2024 2024). At the present time, many viewers are on this reason to confirm: It is thanks to Gen.G that T1 reached Worlds 2024.
Riot's announcement after Gen.G won the BlG in the final of Thang Branch inadvertently becomes the evidence for some viewers to protect the thesis “T1 to Worlds 2024 thanks to Gen.G”
However, the League of Legends audience probably forgot one thing that: Riot's format pointed out: Just two areas with the best achievement at MSI 2024, the two areas will have 4 interests attending Worlds 2024, no need to pay attention to the total “civil war” or the great war between two different areas. And the context of that round, in the final of the winning branch, is the Gen.G – BLG match, while in the losing branch, T1 – G2 Esports. At that time, there were 4 teams, representing 3 areas (LEC, LCK, LPL).
Round 3 scene of MSI 2024 when there are only 4 teams representing 3 areas
The Gen.G in the final, of course, LCK has guaranteed to be one of the two areas with the best achievement, because whether the BLG enters the final or G2 to overcome T1, there will be 1 LCK representative in the final match. However, there is a truth that many viewers have forgotten (or deliberately forgotten): T1 also has the ability to ensure that LCK will be one of the two areas with the best achievement, regardless of the Gen.G – BLG battle, how much results.
Many viewers do not realize that: T1 is completely capable of deciding on the LCK to hold 4 capacity of Worlds 2024 without caring for the results of the Gen.G – Blg
T1 can also be self -conserved in the four capacity to attend Worlds 2024 for LCK
To clarify a little more about this issue, the audience needs to return to the Round 2 of the Playoffs MSI 2024. At that time, despite being dropped by the BLG, but before the Round 2 closed, T1 eliminated the remaining representative of LCS (Team Liquid) and helped the competition “2 areas with the best achievement” only the game of LPL, LCC, LCK. The situation was even more favorable for LCK teams when on May 14, G2 eliminated TES.
Thus, first, it was T1 that collapsed the playground into the competition of LEC, LCK, LPL. And G2 has helped LCK reduce a strong representative from LPL, bringing BLG into the position “alone against the whole world” while LCK has up to 2 representatives.
It is T1 that has collected the game into competition of 3 areas for the “2 areas with the best achievement of MSI 2024”
And G2 eliminated TES from Round 2 to push BLG into the position “alone against the whole world” while LCK has up to 2 representatives
After that, T1 handed G2 in a match with an overwhelming score of 3-0 to continue to the final of the loss. At that time, many audiences and experts, streamers have said that T1 “helped” LPL to keep the 4 prescriptions of Worlds 2024. That is true, because it is thanks to the victory of T1, that LPL and LCK are the two areas with the best achievement of MSI 2024.
But as mentioned above: Regardless of the match between Gen.G and BLG, the ratio of the ratio, T1 still has the full authority of self -determination of LCK will have many interests to attend Worlds when they still have the match against G2. Commenting “T1 to Worlds 2024 thanks to Gen.G” is only true when T1 defeats before G2. In all the remaining cases, the comments that “thanks to Gen.G, T1 reached Worlds 2024” was meaningless.
Commenting “T1 to Worlds 2024 thanks to Gen.G” is only true when T1 loses to G2, the rest are all the comments are meaningless
In case the gene.g defeated against BLG, that is, the above notice of Riot will change the “Gen.G” proposition to “BLG” and “LCK” into “LPL”. But LCK will still have nothing to worry about, when the match T1 – G2 has not happened. And in that case, the role of T1 in holding the right to self -determination of 4 Worlds 2024 of LCK will be more obvious, instead of being overshadowed because of the Gen.G, the final final.
The winning branch finally took place and Gen.G won, but it did not mean that so that the T1 players “thanks to” Gen.G had to go to Worlds 2024
T1 has completely determined his fate, at MSI 2024 or even recently matches from the group stage to playoffs and regional qualifiers. Gen.G has completed its mission at MSI 2024. But in terms of T1, they may be weak, but it will be a heavy despair of Faker and his teammates if they think that this team will come to Worlds 2024 to be “thanks to” another team.