After many days of waiting, MSI 2024 has finally officially kicked off with the first two matches in the Kick-Off round, which are the matches between FlyQuest – PSG Talon and T1 – Estral Esports. Among these two matches, the most notable is of course the match between T1 and the much smaller team from Latin America. A victory for T1 was predicted in advance. But how T1 wins is what the audience is most interested in.
T1 will win but the important thing the audience cares about is how they will win
In fact, both teams had a very “chill” day of competition when T1 could be said to “play and create content” while EST's players were extremely excited to meet for the first time with these “players”. “king” of the League of Legends village. It can be clearly seen that even though they were defeated 0-2, even when the main house was about to explode, the EST players did not feel sad. Being able to face a top tier team in the world like T1 is an experience that teams from small regions like EST don't always have.
Even though EST players lost, they still played very comfortably
However, on the LPL audience's HUPU information page, the T1 team scored so low that it was difficult to understand. Accordingly, despite being the winning team, the entire T1 squad was scored lower than EST. The person with the highest score was Keria while Zeus only got a score of 5.5. This caused a fierce debate right below the post because it was clearly unreasonable: “Knowing that EST tried, but no one found it too ridiculous to give the team a 2-0 win score. like that or what?”.
The scoring was so low that it was somewhat excessive for a part of the LPL audience for T1
To explain this, besides the fact that a part of the LPL audience is somewhat anti-T1 after this team defeated all four representatives of China at Worlds last year, it also seems that this is an encouragement for the players. EST player. During the match, they showed their desire to win and really tried their best. In fact, EST in both games also had some remarkable moves. It's just a pity that T1 is at such a high level and his macro skills are so superior that EST can only follow the playing style of Faker and his teammates.
The community erupted in controversy around this scoring
– “People think this ratio is criticizing T1 but in reality there is still some truth. The meaning of this point is that T1 played poorly by their standards but still won 2-0 against a team that played their best.”
– “Only on HUPU can we see a losing team score higher than a winning team”
– “Average HUPU as always”
– “EST plays as if they can win 2-0 in the context of T1 playing 50% worse than their ability. So it's not that big of a difference.”
Furthermore, these scores mostly come from netizens' positions. Therefore, they probably do not affect T1 very much. Furthermore, with a clear and somewhat entertaining playing attitude, a neat victory is enough for T1 and perhaps then the way of winning is no longer so important. .
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