T1 Wins Worlds 2024, successfully securing the team’s fifth Worlds title, showing how dominant the team is in League, and how tough it’ll be for opponents to take the crown from them.
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All in all, T1’s League of Legends team has won a record five League of Legends World Championship titles (2013, 2015, 2016, 2023 and 2024). “T1 wins Worlds” is almost something that people expect from them, but they have other wins like the Esports World Cup. The League of Legends 15th anniversary just ended, and this win from T1 has caused what I’d like an extra celebration for LoL fans.
Now, let’s get into the exciting parts and learn the details of how T1 got the W and brought home the bread!
T1 VS BLG Worlds 2024 Was Awesome... And T1 Got the W!
Your Worlds 2024 champions are T1! They prevailed 3-2 over Bilibili Gaming in the long-lasting final.
It marks both Lee “Faker” Sang-hyeok‘s and the organization’s fifth global title. Faker became the only League player in the globe to win four titles, thanks to last year after T1 won Worlds 2023.
He raises that record to five by winning Worlds 2024, and no one appears to be close to breaking it.
T1's Impressive Win Streak
It’s important to note that, up until this final, T1 had never lost against an LPL team in a best-of-five match at the League of Legends World Championship.
Bilibili Gaming has also never lost to T1 in an international best-of-five match. They eliminated the LCK representative from contention at MSI 2024 earlier this year after defeating them 3-2 in the lower bracket final.
They weren’t as fortunate this time, which T1 capitalized on, leading to today’s headline of “T1 Wins Worlds 2024!”
How T1 Bested Bilibili Gaming and Became the Champions of Worlds 2024
Yone, a well-liked mid-lane champion this tournament, was the first choice of T1 on the blue side. One of the hallmark AD carries, Caitlyn, who hasn’t played much at Worlds 2024, was chosen by Lee “Gumayusi” Min-hyeong.
With numerous front-runners for Ashe, Bilibili Gaming assembled a formidable front-to-back force. The potential for a wombo combo is great for Rell, Rumble, Skarner, and Sylas.
The game’s first three kills went to BLG, including a cunning level-one invade into T1’s bot-side jungle for Gumayusi’s first blood. They out-rotated the other team when they were in the laning phase, continued to locate picks with Ashe’s ultimate, maintained pressure, and prevented their opponents from scaling, which established the tone for the remainder of the game.
BLG was able to break T1’s base at an astonishing pace—18 minutes for a base break is insane! BLG found more picks, got Baron, and ended the first game in 27 minutes.
Here’s a short clip of Elk getting a triple kill:
By Altering Their Draft in Game Two, T1 Recovers
Once more on the blue side, T1 made adjustments throughout the pick and ban stage. They rejected scaling in favor of Kalista, rejected Sylas, and concluded with Nocturne jungle. On the other hand, BLG reacted to their opponent’s roster with Rakan, Galio, and Xin Zhao, sticking with what worked in game one—Ashe and Rumble.
If “T1 wins Worlds” was a sage, this is where the redemption arc starts. Since they possessed the damage to do so, unlike in the previous game, T1 successfully discovered picks, outmaneuvered their opponents, and initiated early lane swaps using the tools at their disposal.
BLG pulled Faker down to a quarter hp during a mid-game battle at Top Side River, but poor placement cost them dearly. Choi “Zeus” Woo-je’s Ornn, in perfect sync with Renata Glasc’s Hostile Takeover, flashed in for the knock-up when he saw three BLG members clustered together. BLG died during T1’s re-engage because they were immobile.
The game’s pivotal moment occurred when T1 out-damaged the LPL top seed in every fight, leaving them unable to recover. Two notable works were Mun “Oner” Hyeon-jun’s Nocturne and Gumayusi’s Kalista. Overall, this round showed an anime-like comeback that is as epic as the Elden Ring streamer who beat the game with 1/HP, 1/FP, and 1/STA.
Here’s a video that shows insane re-engagement from T1:
Wombo Combo Galore for the Third-Game Winners
The first time we witness BLG on the blue side is in game three, and they immediately deny Kalista. Jax, Chen “Bin” Ze-Bin’s signature champion, was, however, rejected as a result.
In comparison to game two in Kalista-Blitzcrank and the original Kindred-Galio, which offers a great deal of defense for the backline or whoever gets caught, they developed greater team chemistry.
Luo “ON” Wen-Jun’s Blitzcrank led BLG to traverse the map and capture the third successive first blood in the final. They accumulated five kills to none by ganking all lanes and taking T1 off of rotation.
At 21 minutes, they increased the score to seven before T1 tried a deep Teleport flank. Galio and Rumble proved too tanky and hardly lost any HP, despite the fact that the match was 3v2.
BLG’s carrie s wiped the floor, and by the moment the rest of the squad came up, it was already too late. With this 27-minute triumph, they took the lead in the series thanks to the Baron Buff and their subsequent follow-up push.
Here’s a video of BLG almost wiping out T1 before T1 Wins Worlds 2024:
Game Four's Desperate and Sinful Drafts During Worlds 2024 Champions
T1 blindly selected Sylas mid on the blue side with their backs to the wall. Faker contributed to team fights while being countered by Smolder.
BLG decided to start battles early even though they had a double AP and AD scaling team composition, which did not go as intended. Before the game blew up in the middle, both sides continued to trade kills.
Finding the two most crucial targets, Faker positioned himself to the side and utilized Hijack to steal The Quickness before charging forward onto both of BLG’s carries. The other members of his team then threw their combination of skills.
They turned things around and eventually took the lead in gold, followed by Chemtech Dragon Soul and the game to remain in the series. It was at this point that T1 wins worlds 2024.
Here’s a video of Faker’s crazy engagement in Game 4:
Awesome Play During Game 5 for the Finale Leading to T1 Worlds 2024 Victory
Given that both sides played to their strengths, the drafts during game five were arguably the most intriguing of the bunch. Bin was finally able to choose Jax, a champion who is synonymous with his name after T1 on the red side decided to ban Kalista.
Zeus responded by acquiring Gragas, with whom he has an outstanding 23-4 record. In T1’s “Protect the Xayah team composition,” Faker enters the front line on Galio.
It is the fifth time in this series that BLG was able to reap first blood. But they were more controlled than the previous several games. After all, Jax and Kai’Sa need things to be online.
T1 changed the tides in a fierce 5v5 match after a 25-minute stalemate, and then Faker did it again with Galio’s ultimate. They defeated four BLG teammates and their base to win the title of Worlds 2024 champions after he survived with a sliver of health from a second clutch battle in the top lane.
Here’s one of the highlights of Game 5:
It's a Good Day for League Fans as T1 Wins Worlds 2024
Faker won the Worlds 2024 final MVP award, his second following their Worlds 2016 run, for his outstanding playmaking skills. T1 also revealed their initial ideas about which champions they would like to purchase Worlds 2024 skins for at the post-final news conference.
GameEels congratulates T1 and we celebrate T1 Wins Worlds with everybody else. Oh, and we also encourage everyone to check out the Los Ratones VS T1 match because it’s super interesting.
That’s all the news I have for now. But stay tuned so that you can catch the gaming current with GameEels!
