Faker takes T1 back to his date with history by winning at Worlds 2024

The final of Worlds 2024 has been full of emotions in a packed O2 Arena in London with more than twenty thousand people attending a new chapter in the history of esports, League of Legends and, above all , Faker, who continues to expand his legend. by winning his fifth world championship – also the fifth for T1 South Korea.

And the task was not easy at all; At some point some kind of curse has crossed the London marquee, which seemed to be the fate of sports legends. There Roger Federer, who for the writer of these lines is the greatest in the history of tennis, played his last match in the Laver Cup which was like a red carpet to say goodbye to the Swiss legend, but the American team did North defeated the European crush badge that would have been perfect. At this time, and as it was already made clear at the Press Day the day before the event, Faker, at this time, does not intend to disconnect from the keyboard and retire , but in many moments the final seemed to slip away and both. he and his colleagues must be jealous. Epic, anyway, which was already signed at the opening event with the presence of Linkin Park, who made the stage rock with Heavy is the Crown, the official song of these Worlds 2024.

Although the predictions assumed that T1 was going to comfortably beat the Bilibili Gaming team, who reached the final for the first time, the final result shows that it was not a walk in the it was a park and that the Chinese were on the way for much of the final. a restraint This was the case from the start, with BLG clearly taking the first victory, coming out strongly from the first minute of the game, and quickly warning by getting the first blood, which they would repeat in most games.

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In the second game, T1 came out from the start with very clear intentions, as a 0-2 deficit could be a fatal stone in a final of these qualities. Although Faker didn’t seem to be doing too well and Zeus was heavily punished by his opponents throughout the series, they managed to level the match and make it 1-1, which was , at first, it seemed like it would be a turning point and from then on they destroyed the team. It was not like that, because in the third game the Chinese team fought strongly again and, again after bringing it together with Zeus, they took advantage from the first minutes of the game, leading 1-2 and being just one win away from giving up. capital wonder.

So we reached the fourth game which was, without a doubt, the most exciting of the finals. T1 had to give it their all and BLG had their first chance at glory. It was the most intense and fair clash, as the others chose very quickly for each side. When uncertainty still reigned, Faker showed that the crown was not weighing him down and had a series of magical plays that led T1 to secure all the neutral objectives and the fifth and the game finally forced. A final battle that began at a much slower pace due to the fear of losing on both sides, but the balance was gradually falling on the side of T1, which produced the epic that marks them in a competition in which they seem to be changing, and in the end they won the joy of the O2 Arena which, for the most part, brought joy to the Korean club. We had to wait more than twenty minutes to see the first decisive battles which fell, in almost all of them, on the side of T1, which showed that gene was as irrelevant as it was supernatural, which is almost impossible to compete with, especially. because Faker took out his magic wand and led the way to victory alone, carrying his teammates to the new world champion trophy.

For all this, the almost unbelievable romance between T1 and the Worlds was captured in the figure of Faker, the biggest legend of esports, who has continued to expand his legend. First, getting his five hundred kills at Worlds. Then, with his second MVP award he collected with joy. And, of course, with their fifth world crown, the same for T1, the most decorated team in the history of League of Legends, the esport par excellence, doing so, as happened more than ten years ago, after each other again. Faker, in some way, paid tribute to Roger Federer by securing glory in the place where the Swiss could not. Both are already legends, although one still has chapters to write.