Stars T1 received a lot of criticism despite winning HLE
With the recent victory over Hanwha Life Esports, T1 has excelled in winning the remaining ticket to the LCK representative to attend MSI 2025 held in Vancouver, Canada in July. Thus, T1 has maintained the second largest international tournament in the year of the League of Legends community from 2022 to the present. However, despite playing and having a performance that can be said to be perfect, but the T1 star, especially the Doran player has received many criticisms. The cause is extremely confusing: the celebrations of the T1 members.
T1 won convincingly against HLE
Accordingly, many HLE fans feel “itchy eye” and regret the criticism of Doran for his “shoulder” movement after winning against HLE. Worth mentioning, that movement was performed by Doran in the victory, but the negative reactions had to come after the T1 match to win the HLE to really explode.
In addition, the remaining 4 members of T1 were also criticized by many opinions. HLE's fans also cited Zeus without a celebration when he defeated T1 3 times before to attack his former teammates. However, these excessive negative reactions immediately encountered the reaction of most League of Legends community in particular and eSports as well as sports in general.
But the players were criticized for celebrating before Zeus
Especially Doran
The culture of “player idol” is making T1 and players difficult
In fact, HLE's fans feel sad because of the failure of the home team players is completely understandable. However, if so negatively responded to the celebration of opponents is another story because these are two things that are not related to each other. Not to mention, Doran is only attached to HLE for 1 year and is one of the Doran teams with the least time of wearing. Meanwhile, T1 has recruited Zeus since he was just an unknown teenager, trained and brought Zeus to light. In terms of meaning, T1 – Zeus far beyond HLE – Doran.
T1 fans also countered harshly
“Idol culture” when applied to sports has been and will cause mixed controversy. And finally, only the players and their fans are “victims” when emotions are no longer comfortable and natural.