T1 on Worlds as Champions, Will They Leave as Champions? [Lee Joo-hyun’s Login eSports]
I entered as a champion, and I plan to leave as a champion.
These are the words of T1 ADC ‘Gumayusi’ Lee Min-hyeong in a teaser video released on the 27th of last month ahead of the League of Legends (LoL) World Championship (hereinafter referred to as Worlds) semifinal match against Gen. G Esports.
As if to prove this confidence, T1, which Lee Min-hyeong plays for,
won the match against Gen. G and advanced to the finals. 에볼루션 바카라사이트
T1, which won the 2023 Worlds held in Korea last year,
will challenge for the championship for the second consecutive year at the O2 Arena in London, England today (the 2nd).
T1’s opponent is Bilibili Gaming (BLG), known as the ‘Kings of the LPL’ in the Chinese league.
BLG won both the LPL Spring and Summer this year.
They struggled in the Swiss stage of Worlds,
but eventually advanced to the knockout stage and defeated Hanwha Life Esports,
the winner of the domestic LCK Summer, in the quarterfinals.
In the semifinals, they completely showed off their revived performance by defeating Weibo Gaming (WBG),
the LPL team that advanced to the Worlds finals last year, with a set score of 3 to 0.
The fact that BLG is undefeated in international best-of-five series against T1 also adds strength to the outlook that this will be a difficult match.
BLG won against T1 in both 2023 and this year’s Mid-Season Invitational (MSI).
However, given that the stage is Worlds, these records may not mean much.
In fact, T1 defeated BLG 2-0 in the Swiss stage of Worlds last year.
They met again in Switzerland this year and won 1-0.