As is known, on the last day of competition against Hanwha Life Esports under the framework of the Playoffs LCK Spring 2024, T1 lost 0-3. This is a real score beyond the prediction of many people, when T1 and HLE always maintain the balance posture and both teams have a score of 1-1 after 2 rounds of the group stage, calculated before Playoffs LCK Spring 2024. In addition to professional causes, Faker also admits that T1 has been continuous and this has really affected the training and SCRIM.
Faker acknowledged that T1 had many difficulties in preparing the Spring LCK playoffs in 2024 because of DDOS victims
For players like T1, in a competitive environment like LCK, ensuring regular training and climbing is the most basic and important requirement. Just a small change in the meta, but the unfavorable players can greatly affect the performance in the official match.
For the environment like LCK, the problem of T1 is currently in very serious
Not to mention, in LCK there is a pressure of achievement and the audience “examining” the players very carefully. Therefore, T1 cannot be scrim or climbing for a long time is definitely a serious effect on the players' performance. In addition, the inhibition may also exist when the T1 players who want to play games or train all have problems.
And it is clear that the constant meeting with DDOS probably also makes the players have a certain psychological inhibition
However, the story of T1 is facing, accidentally “vindicious” for the pasts of eSports, but specifically their achievements at Worlds 2022 and MSI 2023. Perhaps many people still remember, at Worlds 2022, GAM only found 1 victory over the top esports in a BO1 match. Coming to MSI 2023, GAM even defeated against Wildcards and the defeat of Movistar R7 was “a drop of water overflow”. At that time, most of the comments directed the criticism of the yellow – black team. But many viewers forgot that GAM and VCS teams were stripped of Korean acc accord because of the scandal on this server related to the game break.
But now the audience also realizes how to lose the Korean rank account really affects the VCS as well as the past in the past.
Losing a quality training environment, although of course, the conditions will be hard to compare with the players playing at LCK, which has also affected the VCS significantly. It is clear that GAM has not been able to improve skills compared to rivals in areas where they can still practice normally in the Korean ranking environment or areas with more developed League of Legends.
Kiaya had even had a top challenge
High quality ranking environment not only helps players in small areas have the opportunity to interact with highly skilled players, but also improve the thinking and skills of these players. Therefore, now the audience can believe that the fact that the Korean rank has really made an important contribution to the bad performance of GAM at MSI 2023.