The 2024 MSI Mid-Season continues in the lower bracket today, where T1 will also face their first opponent, the No. 1 seed TL team in North America, after being knocked into the lower bracket by BLG. In fact, on paper, TL is definitely not T1's opponent, but in the past few series, we have also found that T1 is a team that is very out of shape this year, especially after Faker's hero pool was completely blocked, the other four seemed to be completely disoriented, and the BP blindly headed iron, resulting in every series of them being an ordeal.
Against TL, as expected, Faker became the focus of BP blockade care, fortunately they grabbed the rock sparrow in the first game of the blue square, but even so, it was still very difficult to play in the game, and it was very uncomfortable in the middle because of the poor teamfight coordination, but T1 still grabbed the opposite jungler back to the city after that, and after 0 for 3, he took the big dragon, and broke the second big dragon one by one to win the first game.
In the follow-up game, TL seemed to have suddenly opened the second pulse of Ren Du, constantly looking for T1 to fight, and the economic difference between the two sides was also alternately floating, but as the game came to the middle and late stages, the damage of T1's three-shooter lineup gradually became outrageous, coupled with several waves of key control of Faker Ahri, and finally won the match point in the ancient dragon group T1.
In the third game, the two sides continued to start a big brawl, but Faker's plane mistakes continued, coupled with Nakanosuke's continuous errors, and finally after Faker was caught on the lane, TL pulled back a game. It's a pity that TL finally fell in the fourth game, they also had an advantage in the early stage of this game, but the beginning of the collapse was the wave of the group on the road, for Quisanti was played 0 for 3 by T1, and the blood tower on the lower road also fell, after this wave, TL fell into a completely chaotic rhythm, T1 then borrowed the donkey from the slope to continue to pick up the group, the economic difference rolled bigger and bigger, and finally won the game in 23 minutes, advancing to the next round with 3-1.
Despite winning the game, we can also see in today's series that T1 is still in very poor form, and they have not found "What happens to the team when Faker is restricted?" If the team after that continues to ban the small cannon, the rock sparrow, or even more extreme to a 5ban mid-laner, then what should T1 do?
At least for now, the T1 team will not have a smooth game if Faker has no lane rights. If they want to win the championship, they need to defeat the No. 1 seed in the LEC, LPL and LCK regions in a row, this difficulty is undoubted for their current state, and there is very little time left for them to prepare, if they can break through the shackles, like the original S13 World Championship to defeat the LPL to the end, it will also be very huge for the entire team to improve, but the question is, how big is this probability?