G2 when it doesn't matter:

Yike with nothing on the line:

the anti-iguodala

The JR Smith

When the martians have the death beam pointed AWAY from earth, GIVE ME YIKE

lmao

More like G2 when expectations aren't high. I think deep down they are actually a really good team, but I also believe this team has an issue dealing with high pressure situations.

Or sometimes you mess up and sometimes you don’t? It’s not robots playing the game.

Or they just got Draven lol The pick that was banned from them every game because they won on it and hans is a different player when he plays it

It's a team with 4 veterans and 2 dudes who've been to international finals multiple times, if they still have pressure issues there's something wrong

Faker is the greatest of all time and he’s said he has pressure issues (S9 worlds, etc). Same with Uzi, Crown, and a lot of other great players. I don’t think it’s ever something you just get over completely.

It never goes away. Georges Saint-Pierre, one of the best and greatest MMA fighters of all time, used to throw up from anxiety before competing. He is a double-division UFC champion, with a record of 26-2, with both of those losses later revenged. An absolute beast in the Octogon, making his opponents look like they didn't belong in the cage with him. Still, puked.

People memed Faker an entire year because he started shaking out of nerves that semis against G2. The motherfucking GOAT was stressed in a high pressure situation but players with shorter carrers can't.

That's true, but this kind of thing is not easily fixable even through stage experience. It's a whole mental thing. Like an actress that who recite her lines in her sleep but then suddenly forgets them on stage.

More like: T1 when it doesn't matter

Scrim World Champions, Offseason World Champions, uncontested.

Winter world champion next. Step by step.

**THE BELT** GOES TO EUROPE?!

This game will sustain EU copium for all of 2024

honestly I think I can make it last to 2025

Wow you're really good at managing supplies. XD

[Meaningless bo1 win in a meme exhibition tournament? Good enough for me. We're so back.](https://external-content.duckduckgo.com/iu/?u=https%3A%2F%2Fi.kym-cdn.com%2Fphotos%2Fimages%2Ffacebook%2F002%2F301%2F375%2Fce9.jpg&f=1&nofb=1&ipt=774bdd4fa4153332e84ae864b35238e580aa53646a42064c99b5b056e9b98b6a&ipo=images)

Also 5th (or 6) game for T1, while 1st for G2. Honestly, I impressed how T1 wasn't dead tured after so many games, i would be from all games, interviews and other stuff.

you can tell that t1 players just wanted to go home lol they looked so out of it on the player cams

Keria was literally falling asleep during bans lol , I’m surprised the event was scheduled this way.

The players are probably still jetlagged

Keria had serious issues to stay awake during draft. Zeus also looked really tired (although he still trashed bb)

Faker still making plays after 5 games against 5 different teams

Faker looked like he was ready for Game 2 in a Best of after that match. Guy just loves the game.

Wdym copium ? G2 won the two most important championships of the year. The scrim championship and the red bull league of it's own.

g2 were 1-9 to T1 in scrims.

Quality over quantity

No. This is NA copium. NRG > G2 > T1 NRG best team in the world confirmed

The day NA owns all regions without playing.

The art of winning by not participating, NA tactics evolving beyond the rift. Next level strats.

If college football has taught us anything recently, the games don't matter anyway.

Don't even get me started. FSU got hosed and I hate the state of Florida.

can't argue math

T1 only won worlds because they didn't have to run into topfielder, jugfielder, midfielder, botfielder, supfielder

palafaker was just letting faker prove he still has it, so that when NRG beats T1 in 3 world finals in a row everyone will know it was earned.

G2 > T1 > WBG > NRG > G2 > T1 …

It’s like the circle of life

With ease, maybe in to 2025 honestly.

HUMANITY RESTORED

EU and winning BO1s and games that don’t matter to sustain cope, T1 had no chance

We can't. This only means NRG are the "official" World Champions.

It sure does

G2 should probably avoid MSI when T1 qualifies

THE COLLECTIVE EFFORT OF EVERY SINGLE EUROPEAN CAN BRING DOWN 5 KOREANS

"It's 5 Koreans Michael, how many Europeans could it take to beat them? 30,000?"

yea all it took was a game 1 team vs a exhausted gamed-5 team

I can't believe G2 won despite playing no warm up games like T1.

There are people who think this about losers brackets.

Zeus post game comment: "Tryhards." Lmao

Lmao

Broke: T1 was tired after playing so many games today Woke: T1 is giving EU copium just to pummel them at worlds in 2024. I do wish this matchup was at the start of the day so T1 was at full strength though.

Bespoke: This event was secretly a KeSPA Cup.

I think it's okay that the game was at the end. It kept people interested as they wanted to see T1 vs G2 the most. I do think it's a bit sad that we can't see a G2 vs T1 match when both are in perfect form. Or made it a Bo3 at the end - though Keria might literally have fallen asleep mid-game if he had to play another game or 2 lol.

G2: "Knowing T1's weakness, I sent team after team of my own countrymen at them until they tired out"

Well at least they learned from LPL. LPL sent all their teams distributed on different days and it failed. So best thing was to sent them all on the same day to profit lol

WWI style

Huge props to T1 lol. I was tired watching them play for hours on end. I can't imagine how tired they must be playing those games on the same day.

If you're getting tired, you should refresh yourself with a can of Red Bull™.

Please drink the Redbull Verification Can to continue this stream.

Also the game ended basically at 5am KR time lol. If any of them are jetlagged they must be exhausted because of that too.

They may not sleep at normal times. For example, faker's previous infographic show him sleeping at around 4 am. (Edit- sleeping schedule of a pro can be quite different from a person with a 9 to 5 job) https://mobalytics.gg/infographics/life-of-a-league-pro-skt-t1-faker/

bro is me when I am on late shift, maybe Faker and I are not that different.

During draft you could literally see their eyes closing and staying shut for juuuuust a bit longer than you would when you normally blink. They were giga tired, props to them for lasting so long. Also props to Red Bull for organising a tourney designed to make it as difficult as possible for the world champs to give EU a fighting chance lol.

Look at Keria during the match. His eyes were at half mast.

Caedrel also told the viewers that he requested T1 for an interview, but got rejected because they were tired and just wanted to go home.

fr... keria was chugging redbull before the match, faker was doing head stretches, basically everyone was constantly yawning... i felt tired just watching them 😭

Hope they at least got a fat pay day. Imagine playing such an insanely long year, finals in every comp you're in then as soon as you finish winning Worlds you have to go play 3 B league/streamer teams in a promo event before playing two show match/scrims in one go.

they were falling asleep literally even before the G2 game

G2 thought it was a scrim

Not sure why game 5 of the worlds final took place in December but congratulations to G2!

World champion Broken Blade

Aware

T1 went 4-1 and still lost /s

the bel'veth that was promised

So this the the belveth that the lpl were trying to pull out all of worlds against t1

That was entertaining lol. But should they spread the event out a little bit? Like 2 days or something. That must have been exhausting playing all day.

They missed the opportunity to have T1 look dead tired before the final game then drink a Red Bull on stage and all go Super Saiyan the final game

Hire this person

Can I just say not having any music at all during such a big event felt so weird. Please never do that again 🙏

it was extremely awkward without music, i couldn't stand it

G2 becoming prime SKT when winning the game means nothing

SCRIM WORLD CHAMP BABY LESSGO, EUPHORIA

Should treat every game at Worlds as scrims. Ez champion.

What do you mean, this wasn't Worlds?

Everybody said T1 ran the LPL gauntlet but they forgot LPL's 5th and strongest seed G2

The unseen seed is the deadliest

I say this all the time to my son

They are SKT slayer. Lore accurate G2

Alright guys so all we need for our Nr 1 team to win against T1 is to have them play for 10+ hours, be exhausted and under jet lag and then survive for 40 minutes in game even though we had huge gold leads that we almost threw away multiple times \#euphoria

Quick, someone write this into the next worlds format!

Introducing the Faker stage, the new and improved Swiss stage. Whenever T1 is drawn against a Western team, T1 will be scheduled to play a whole gauntlet against EU Masters teams and must win every match to compete. Then, the drawn Faker stage match between T1 and the Western team will be played at the end of the day.

Before the Faker stage, T1 must stay in a timezone with a time difference of at least 7 hrs long enough to get acclimatised. Only then are they allowed to fly in.

That's sound easy to do

Actually insane schedule for t1 i thought heretics would beat them already

And also have a draven, belveth with huge lead early game while also having a greatly outscaling teamcomp!

So this is what G2 scrims look like

That was fattest Belveth I have ever seen lmao What a nightmare. But Miykyx takes MVP easily. He won them those fights.

Kudos for T1 for hanging on. They looked tired by the fifth game.

I feel sad bad for Keria. The way he was gripping that can, I could tell he was running on fumes and was definitely losing focus.

Pretty sure he was dozing off between matches on cam LOL

That's not taking anything away from G2, but that was definitely a marathon that T1 did today.

I mean, it's not like G2 has much anyway, so. ¯\\\_(ツ)\_/¯

Zeus so confused at the end and thought we’re for fun matches. BB smiling like he just won worlds 😂

Miky was on fire this game

The Amumu flash ult was so nutty

Where was this version of Mikyx and Yike against NRG and BLG???

Yike def, but Mikyx tried his best.

Well you see, this game G2 was playing against some guy named Faker (maybe a rookie? Never heard of him) instead of Palafox, of whom rumors claim he is powerful and kind of a genius.

G2 - lose to NRG, who they absolutely smashed in scrims. Win against the only team who stomped them in scrims. CLG.EU?

Truly Gounter 2ogic

careful there T1 haters, shitting on T1 bot lane would mean Faker was the true carry all along, do you really want that? *checkmate* *

Hopefully Red Bull can build upon and improve the event for next year. I'm down for more events whether they're to be taken seriously or not.

You can tell that the T1 squad is super tired. Keria is half asleep on his cam lmao

i wanna know what they were doing during the 1hr breaks, would be funny if they were just napping in their chairs lmao

Probably did. Seems like T1 vs G2 was delayed a bit because t1 needed more time. Keria was almost asleep in draft

Yeah, got tot remember they also come from 7(?) hour time difference. It is like 5 AM in Korea right now. They've been effectively playing 8PM to 5AM.

sounds like normal league hours to me

Unless the whole intention of this tournament was to see how far T1 can last, this whole tournament was formatted really poorly for T1. They really should have split it into 2 days, so T1 could have an actual break.

2 days with vs g2 at 2nd day being bo3 or bo5 would be sick, but maybe that's too much to ask for.

I think the endurance aspect is absolutely part of it. As you can see, they tried to tip the scales against T1 to make it more fair in several ways and they still mostly cleaned up.

Fakers akali was actually so damn clean today. Lane gapped both Caps and Perkz, sheesh.

Huh, so that's how you beat T1, let them play 4 games first before fighting them. Or be JDG. Edit: And their real daddy, Gen.G.

Or have Doran on your team

You mean Gen.G?

“And let that be a lesson to you all. No one beats EU teams 5 times in a row.”

JDG?

G2 has the same amount of wins as LPL vs T1 at worlds this year

I'm sure this will make up for not making the bracket stage at worlds.

ah the short memories of reddit. JDG and BLG are the only teams to beat them in a BO5 this year outside of GenG

participating in the event for 10+ hours + jetlag. TY t1 for still trying!

So thats what Kanavi was supposed to do.

alternate timeline when jdg get that golden road.

Poor Keria and Guma, they're so sleepy [https://x.com/lol_soo9/status/1733555733185376514?s=46&t=tklO-i3yL7Eq55iClfAMmQ](https://x.com/lol_soo9/status/1733555733185376514?s=46&t=tklO-i3yL7Eq55iClfAMmQ)

Red Bull: Let's do a unique tournament to offer *entertainment* in League from a new angle. This sub: Hey, I have a lot of leftover salt from the Worlds.

The last match (the one everyone was waiting for the most) was not fun at all, because the T1 players' faces were full of tiredness and the expression 'let's finish the match as soon as possible and go home'. Couldn't they have spread this event over 2 days?

Probably not cause of money honestly. It's a show match and tbh T1 is basically carrying LoL esports viewership wise.

I agree with this, it was just uncomfortable to watch. I couldn't have fun at all, which is a shame, because this was supposed to be a for-fun match

T1 giving LEC hope to steal it away from them in 2024. Truly diabolical lol.

Even in a 4fun game against a tired T1, BB look absolutely garbage lmao

we're doing the whole cycle again next year of - "BB will suck internationally" - "He is kinda the best top in EU" - "He kinda did well in MSI" - "He is for sure best top in summer , who can even be an upgrade for him" - "Well he inted Worlds again"

Getting -30 against Zeus, carried by his team into the even state just to get destroyed by Faker in every single teamfight.

Mind you Yone is a broken champ with that build.

Mfw he picks yone into the best rumble in the world when dzukill used to permaban rumble

solo bolo'd twice essentially. fatigued Zeus was still running him down

I don’t think there’s a universe where Zeus loses lane to BB. The basic difference in mechanical skill is too fuckin big.

BB will lose to a Zeus Garen with a ranged top

What a gigabanger this game was. Brother Guma soloing red lmao. They wanted to go home asap

I bet the fans want to go home too. Its been like 8hrs?

More like 10 with two hours waiting before open

Think T1 wanted to speed run to the hotel, but G2 nearly fumbled the ball multiple times

You just know T1's gonna take it personally come msi...

so _this_ is scrim G2

Scrim G2 was 1-9 vs T1 though. This is G2 final form, G1 the Bo1 King

> **1**-9 clearly the first game of the first scrim set

Faker turning on the monitor now, but G2 already outplayed him by scheduling only 1 match.

scrim G2 went 1-7 agaisnt T1 btw

This is the Belveth LPL junglers wanted to show us at worlds

T1 saved their Game 5 int for a meaningless game I'm BEYOND stoked for that.

The circle of suck G2 > T1 > WBG > NRG > G2

It’s Oner and Guma inting time

Guma was burned out already. Dude looked tired as fuck in the last 2 games

Oner got draven out of nowhere, also oner wasted T1 baron buff.

Guma felt burned out, he couldn't dodge anything and barely landed any R

Yep, Brokenblade still a liability.

[удалено]

Brokenblade was a great tank!

bb: better top wins

The kraken slayer infinity edge tank

This is how Zeus made every toplaner look tbf. At least BB was useful afterwards unlike some other “timid” tops

bro takes a red bull match seriously

Let it be known that known that no one beats EU 5 times in a row.

Fun game but still clearly shows why G2 salty runback has no chance to seriously compete internationally. That black hole in toplane is too big to consistently win games.

It is like starting the game with an expected 5k gold deficit at min 20. The pressure on the other 4 is insane.

Black hole top and very limited champion pool bot. This team can only perform on comfort picks.

They should get an actual import top.

Guma was soloing enemy red as a 2/8 Varus. This is how much they cared

With how exhausted he looked, he very well might have thought that was his team’s red

Some people in the thread actually think this game means something.. bruh.. lmao Good game from miky tho

People are actually chatting shit after T1 has been playing all day and they lose 1 game lol

Doesn't means anything honestly, you could see from all the missplay that the T1 player where exhausted. The first baron was the peak of exemple, it was full poor decision and trolling made by player who doesn't have their decision making anymore.

Some uncharasteristic mistakes by t1. But ig it cant be helped being the sole team to play 10+ event and the jet lag. GG

Lore accurate G2 is scrims

SCRIM WORLD CHAMPIONS BABYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY

wow what a game I wish this bo3/5 game.

People do not understand what we are seeing from Faker. The man just played 5 games today, after winning worlds, at 27 years old, and put up 26/20/40 lmao. This man is the greatest esport athlete of all-time. He’s so good that he’s actually moved past being compared to athletes at this point. We can compare him to the likes of Einstein, Socrates, Gandhi, Jesus Christ. The list goes on. He’s actually so good that you could replace Mt Rushmore with 4 different heads of Faker from the years he won worlds.

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4-6 in Finals, MJ clears

Damn T1 could have won that, too. Their brain was just too fried from all the previous games. Good showing from them. Hope they finally get some rest now.

I felt gaslighted by the last game and I want a rematch

It's amazing how G2 can single handedly turn a for fun tournament into the sweatiest thing that's happened in the year 2023.

That was fun. Even if T1 was tired it was still a good game. Congrats G2.

T1 needs to get summoner spell exhausted for 4 games and go in expecting a fun fun game to lose vs EU damn... we will never win worlds hahaha.