HLE’s victory turned out to be predictable.
HLE’s victory was revealed by T1 member
As recently, Hanwha Life Esports won the 2024 LCK Summer Championship, to the surprise of perhaps many League of Legends fans. Because, during the period of continuous defeat against Gen.G, Peanut and his teammates won the most important match of the 2024 Summer Championship. At the same time, for the first time in his career, “Little Bean” came to CKTG as the number 1 seed team and not in the SKT T1 jersey. However, HLE’s victory was predicted in advance, by a member of T1. None other than Gumayusi.
HLE unexpectedly dethroned Gen.G
Specifically, during the annual Media Day of LCK every time a new season starts (in this case, LCK Summer 2024), unlike every other time, this time Gumayusi replaced Faker to represent T1 with Coach KkOma. And also unlike Faker, this time, T1’s 2002-born ADC chose HLE as the team that will win the LCK Summer 2024 championship.
It is worth mentioning that only Gumayusi predicted HLE while other teams, including Peanut himself representing HLE, all chose Gen.G to win the 5th consecutive LCK championship.
At the beginning of the season, only Gumayusi representing T1 predicted that HLE would win the championship.
T1 members’ eyes on people
Except for Gumayusi, attending Media Days has always been Faker’s role. However, it can be seen that professional players in general and T1 members in particular have very accurate assessments of their opponents. Although HLE actually has a strong lineup, no one thinks they can usurp Gen.G. Especially if before, HLE was always Gen.G’s loser every time the two teams faced each other (before this grand final, HLE lost to Gen.G in every BO3, BO5 match, even when building an all-star lineup).
HLE dethroned T1 in the most unexpected way
Or like Faker, when he always chose Gen.G as the team that could win the championship. And indeed, in LCK Spring 2023, Gen.G, despite continuously losing to T1, similar to HLE – Gen.G recently, won a surprising victory against Faker and his teammates.
But it also shows that T1 members correctly assessed their opponents.
HLE deservedly won the championship based on the performance of the players. But it also showed how good the “eyes” of T1 members were in assessing their direct opponents throughout the season.
