T1 defeated Gen.G 2-1 in entrance of a packed crowd for the LCK 2025 Summer season Break up Spherical 3 matchup. The victory ended Gen.G’s 27-0 collection win streak, and ended their home win streak of 19-0 following their 18-0 report in Rounds 1 & 2.
At first, it appeared like Gen.G’s MSI victory had given all of them the boldness required to rapidly dispatch T1. The MSI Champions ran over T1 in imperious vogue in Sport 1, boasting a 27-11 kill report in a 30-minute victory.
T1 appeared fully unaffected by the loss, because the legendary roster took fast management of Sport 2 in opposition to a Gen.G draft that severely lacked harm for team-fights, two of which at minute 26 and 30 determined the sport in the long run.
In Sport 3, T1 once more began quick, and after quarter-hour, they as soon as once more put Gen.G to the sword, claiming 4 kills with none traded in a mid struggle to take management. Urgent their preliminary benefit, not giving Gen.G errors from which to recuperate, T1 took Sport 3 in decisive vogue.
Worlds 2025 an thrilling prospect
Contemplating their dominant place within the LCK, Gen.G gained’t be too fearful about one loss; nonetheless, the collection supplied proof that T1’s present iteration can get it over the road in opposition to a Gen.G who’ve appeared invincible at instances.
Whereas Gen.G have misplaced video games throughout their undefeated interval, an entire collection is a unique beast, particularly with Fearless permitting groups to strategically forgo picks to save lots of them for extra essential video games.
The win units League up properly for a Worlds the place Gen.G will probably stay favourites, however maybe not as overwhelming favourites as we could have thought. T1’s Worlds’ magic is well-known, however little understood. If Gen.G are to disclaim T1 one other Worlds trophy, they should ensure they don’t let T1 work out a technique to constantly defeat them whereas competing within the LCK.
Extremely, the collection equalled out the sport victories in Lee “Faker” Sang-hyeok’s rivalry with Jeong “Chovy” Ji-hoon, with each legendary gamers profitable 65 contests in opposition to one another. Maybe solely Worlds can separate them…
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T1 “Residence Floor” benefit
Regardless of being a gaggle recreation, T1 performed on the Encourage Area in Incheon, internet hosting 15,000 diehard T1 followers in a extremely biased crowd. The group is because of an occasion referred to as “T1 Residence Floor, a three-day esports occasion that includes T1’s League matches on Friday and Sunday, with T1 enjoying in Valorant’s VCT Pacific Stage 2 on Saturday.
The group could possibly be heard all through the competition, rallying the roster after the sport 1 defeat and celebrating each victorious staff struggle as T1 got here again from behind to win the collection.
Darragh Harbinson is an esports author specialising in Counter-Strike. He has written for Esports Information UK, Esports Insider, UKCSGO, Dexerto, and Rush B Media.
