T1 beat the strongest team in China

Faker leads T1 to the semi-finals. Photo: Lol Esports .

In the final quarter-final match of the 2025 League of Legends World Championship, T1 met AL again, the strongest Chinese representative in the tournament. Here, the two teams had the most intense series since the beginning of the tournament. T1 and AL dragged each other to the final game in the BO5 match to find the representative to continue to the semi-finals.

Not only the final result, but also the developments in each game were very tense. There was not much difference between the two teams. While AL's Flandre was stable and dominated the opponent, Gumayusi and Keria from T1 were the better bot lane duo. The focus of the confrontation must be Shank and Faker in the mid lane.

It took a long time after Knight's appearance for China to produce a midlaner with a wide enough champion pool and on par with the Korean superstar like Faker.

In the end, T1 won the first game, but was pushed into a corner in games 2 and 3. Finally, the reigning world champions found themselves again, winning the last two games. With that, they are the next team to enter the semi-finals. The team will have a day off before meeting TOP Esports. Compared to AL, the second-tier Chinese team of the summer is considered lower. In addition, T1 still maintains a streak of not losing to any LPL team in the BO5 format at CKTG. Therefore, they are the team that is considered higher.

In the other bracket, Korean champions GenG maintained their destructive form. They easily defeated HLE, another championship candidate. Chovy and his teammates will face KT, the LCK's third seed.

The 2025 League of Legends World Championship takes place from October 14 to November 9 in Beijing, Shanghai and Chengdu, China. This is the third time the billion-people country has hosted this event after 2017 and 2020. T1 is the current world champion for two consecutive years.

However, the team performed unconvincingly, with unstable performance in all 5 positions. If they overcome TES, T1 will re-enact the civil war in the finals. In the last decisive match in China, SKT T1 (the predecessor of T1) lost to Samsung Galaxy (the predecessor of GenG). This defeat opened a 5-year downward cycle for the most traditional organization in the history of the game.

Source: https://znews.vn/t1-thang-doi-manh-nhat-trung-quoc-post1598746.html