Immediately after Fnatic defeated GAM Esports and became the last name to participate in the MSI 2024 group stage, the group stage of the most important stage of this year's MSI tournament was also announced. Accordingly, T1's branch is considered “death” when they share a branch with Bilibili Gaming, PSG Talon and G2 Esports. In particular, T1 will encounter an opponent with many fates – G2. Perhaps Faker himself and many T1 fans still remember, G2 is the team that made SKT T1 in 2019 “hate” at both MSI and Worlds. But that year was also the last shining note of the team considered the strongest in the LEC region.
The draw results put T1 in an extremely difficult bracket, considered the “death bracket”.
However, for T1 specifically, the fact that the group is as difficult as this can be a basis for fans to believe that the home team can take the throne at MSI 2024. Back to T1's most recent international title , they also fell into an extremely difficult bracket. Even on the journey from the Swiss round of Worlds 2023 to taking the throne, T1 clashed with almost all of the most powerful teams in the League of Legends village. Specifically, at last year's World Championship, T1's opponents were all “tough” names: Team Liquid, Gen.G, Cloud9, Bilibili Gaming, LNG Esports, JD Gaming and Weibo Gaming.
But at Worlds 2023, T1 also faced a difficult bracket and passed it completely
At MSI this year, with this schedule, T1 will most likely encounter two teams that are the champions of the region they compete in: G2 and BLG. With the fact that Gen.G's branch can be said to be quite “easy” for the LCK champion, it is likely that if T1 successfully passes the two matches in their branch, they will encounter the “unafraid opponent” Gen. .G. No matter what the outcome of this confrontation is, it will likely force T1 to have a rematch with BLG or Gen.G in the grand finals (in case they reach the finals). But if the above scenarios come true, on their journey, T1 may have to meet 3 champions of the 3 most powerful regions in League of Legends.
For T1, perhaps the more difficult matches will make them more determined
And because of such powerful opponents, T1's journey at MSI this time is basically no different from Worlds 2023. They still have to enter the “death branch”, still have to face the the strongest opponents they can meet, and can also once again be crowned MSI champions similar to how they dominated Worlds 2023 before.
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