Gen.G brought back a historic achievement, but an action by the LCK left T1 “infested”.
At the recent MSI 2024, Gen.G can be said to have partly recreated the image of T1 at last year's World Championship, defeating all LPL representatives in the tournament to win the championship. Worth mentioning, the grand final was almost a show for the Gen.G players and the brightest star of Bilibili Gaming was Bin when there were times when he had to carry the entire team. In particular, Peyz also became the first player to have 28 kills in a grand final of an international tournament of League of Legends. This is also the record for the number of kills in one match at MSI and Worlds.
Gen.G brought the MSI championship back to the LCK after 7 long years
More specifically, Gen.G, not any other name, is the team that brought the MSI championship back to the LCK after 7 long years, since the last time T1 won the throne at MSI 2017. However, At the present time, perhaps it goes without saying that everyone can see clearly: There is almost no activity surrounding the welcoming of Gen.G's championship from the LCK or Riot side. Even the current spotlight belongs to T1 with Faker's Worlds and Hall of Legends skin lines about to be released.
But unintentionally, the attention of the current League of Legends community is focusing on Faker's HoL
Worth mentioning, some of Korean Riot's tribute images for Gen.G are also taken from old photos from LCK Spring 2024. This has raised the frustration of a part of Gen.G fans. For their part, the representative of this team also expressed frustration, saying that there was an injustice when Gen.G brought historic achievements to the LCK. Even in his post, Gen.G's representative also recalled the 2017 World Championship victory (from the time when it was still called Samsung Galaxy). For those who don't know, in last year's LCK World Championship 2023 propaganda videos, there were SKT T1 2016, Damwon Gaming 2020 and DRX 2022 but SSG 2017 was missing.
Korean server League of Legends client uses old photos from LCK Spring to celebrate MSI 2024 championship
Last year, Riot Korea's thumbnail welcoming Worlds 2023 did not have the name Gen.G
“Gen.G brought the MSI championship trophy to LCK after 7 years and there was no acknowledgment from Riot. Even the photo in the client is an old photo. They deserve to be welcomed by LCK for such an achievement and this is what happened”
Gen.G representative's post: “We officially contacted the LCK about the MSI 2024 championship not being shown in the Korean server LoL client and are waiting for a response. We are very sorry for the loss. Such a long time to win an international tournament after SSG's World Championship. And this difficult victory is thanks to the efforts of the players and the support of the fans. We will always try and work diligently with gratitude”
However, the incident sparked controversy with T1 fans when there were many opinions that this had absolutely nothing to do with Faker and his teammates. HoL's schedule and Worlds 2023 skins have also been announced in advance. Furthermore, T1 itself has also been a “victim” of LCK and Riot many times. Typically, during the Spring of 2024, they suffered from continuous DDoS and had to solve the problems themselves, although affecting the players was something that Riot and the tournament organizers had to pay attention to.
Many opinions say that Korean Riot really did not do a satisfactory job, but Faker's HoL accidentally also took the spotlight
“I don't understand why they have to bring in T1? As if this is T1's fault?”
Currently, Riot and LCK organizers have not yet made any statements about the incident. Meanwhile, for the current League of Legends community, the trailers of Faker's HoL skin have also captured all the attention and perhaps Gen.G can only wait for an explanation from the responsible parties.
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