Faker missed a golden opportunity to win the championship. T1 overturned a huge advantage, replicating the BLG script, as if they forgot how to play the game.

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The EWC World Cup matches have been producing one upset after another. In yesterday's match, the T1 team was defeated by KC, ultimately stopping at the semifinals. With many strong teams already eliminated, T1 missed this golden opportunity to win the championship.

Interestingly, the way T1 lost the deciding game was almost identical to BLG's.

Overturning a huge advantage, replicating the BLG script.

In the earlier quarterfinal match, BLG had built a huge advantage in the deciding game, but then suddenly lost their way in mid-to-late game macro play and team fighting. They interrupted their own offensive rhythm, gave opportunities in key team fights, and let the opponent pull off a comeback. After the match, Bin was heavily criticized online for being selfish in the third game, not communicating with the team, and acting almost like he was throwing.

From an overall perspective, BLG's biggest problem was their unreasonable positioning in team fights, and chaotic, inconsistent execution in objective fights.

In yesterday's match between T1 and KC, T1 also replicated BLG's script. Although T1 doesn't have any player who was throwing, their team fight approach also had huge problems.

Here we can analyze the match from the 21-minute mark. At that time, T1 had dragon and kill advantages, with a lead of over 5,000 gold. The normal approach would be to handle objective fights properly, secure consecutive dragons for the soul, seize an opportunity to win a team fight and take Baron, then steadily push and win the game.

However, T1 chose to fight before the objective spawned. Although they won that fight, Faker then walked into a dangerous position, got chunked, and had to retreat, giving up the positioning initiative. Then Rakan forced an engage, handing over the first wave.

Reason for losing the match: consecutive team fight disconnects.

The main problem with this engage was that Rakan was disconnected after entering. BLG couldn't quickly focus fire to kill one target. Faker chose to use his ultimate to bring Peyz to the backline, actively splitting the team's formation, and they were picked apart one by one, losing the team fight.

Then T1 used the team fight victory to take Baron, but they handed over the second wave.

Because they took Baron, KC secured the dragon position. T1 chose to push the high ground directly, but in the jungle, they were caught by the opponent. Doran's Olaf got impatient, activated his ultimate and counterattacked, but was easily kited away. At this moment, Oner made a huge mistake by ulting directly into the crowd and giving away a kill, while the front line couldn't follow up at all.

After that, T1 forced a team fight on the bottom lane and charged the high ground, but the result was not decisive enough to end the game. They entered another dragon fight. T1's Rakan and Olaf charged in, but the backline Peyz was stunned by Annie. Meanwhile, Gnar, in a rage state, entered and smashed three. KC won the team fight decisively and nearly ended the game in one push.

After respawning, T1 took Baron and tried again to force a game finish. However, due to poor positioning while trying to hit the tower, they were caught by Wukong's engage. Faker was quickly chunked down and died first. Oner went alone to engage Annie, the front line collapsed, and the game ended.

Missed a golden chance to win the championship, as if they forgot how to play the game.

To summarize T1's loss in this game, one word describes it: "impatient." They played very impatiently, as if they didn't respect the opponent, just wanting to brute-force team fights and end the game directly. This playstyle is very similar to BLG's "muscle" approach—they wanted to knock out the opponent with one punch, but after being kited, they got more and more impatient and lost the game.

It can be said that both BLG and T1 suddenly forgot how to play after having a lead. For T1, a club with the deepest heritage in Korea, to make such mistakes in a match due to being too impatient is indeed quite rare.

Personally, I think T1's loss also had an element of underestimating the opponent. They didn't think they would lose, so they played recklessly and ended up losing. BLG was similar—when they were leading 8-1, they thought they had it in the bag. Bin's throwing might also have been because he thought the game was already won, that he could play carelessly and still win, but they actually lost, and his reputation was completely ruined.

To be honest, T1 losing to KC this time is really painful. Because T1 had just defeated HLE, their morale was on the rise, and many strong teams from MSI were already eliminated. Actually, if T1 had played a bit better, their chance of winning the championship was really high. But they just threw away this opportunity, which is quite a pity.