T1's new jungler debuted with a disastrous defeat; Faker's numerous mistakes threw away a good situation, and the photo of Oner laughing offstage became popular.

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LCK had a focus match yesterday, with T1 facing HLE again. Previously, T1 had won all their encounters, but this round was different. T1 directly replaced their jungler, with Painter from the second team taking Oner's position.

Painter's debut; T1's winning streak ends.

Before the match, T1 officially announced a change in the starting lineup, with second-team jungler Painter starting as the first pick.

This move sparked huge discussion as soon as it was announced. Given that T1 was on a winning streak, suddenly replacing the jungler made people wonder about the management's intentions behind this decision.

Of course, under this personnel change, opinions from Korean and Western forums showed significant divergence.

On the LCK forums, many viewers dislike Oner. Whenever T1 loses a match, Oner is likely the most criticized. Therefore, many fans were happy to see Oner benched.

In terms of the match, T1 crushed the first game, with Doran solo-killing Zeus in a lane matchup, and the whole T1 team charged in to secure the win.

But in the second game, T1 started having problems. In the early game, the bot lane gained a huge advantage, but Doran got solo-killed, and Faker's Rumble also had issues, dying twice in a row. In the mid-game, team fights were effective and they secured the Baron, but during a crucial dragon fight, there was a severe coordination mistake, allowing HLE to seize the opportunity and win the team fight.

Faker threw away a good situation; the new jungler performed poorly.

Then Doran also made a mistake and gave away a kill. T1 lost the game despite securing the Earth Dragon Soul.

In the third game, T1 completely entered a state of confusion. The young jungler Painter picked Nocturne but had no impact. T1 repeatedly had problems in resource team fights—poor positioning, low health, and they conceded dragon after dragon. Varus was ganking bot lane, and Painter in the mid lane didn't even catch the waves.

T1 directly gave up four consecutive dragons. Faker, clearing waves alone mid without vision, got caught. HLE's Cho'Gath system became unstoppable, and they completed a reverse sweep to avenge their previous loss to T1.

Summarizing the performance across three games, Painter's showing was not impressive, and there were many flaws in his coordination with the team.

The key reasons for T1's loss in this round were team coordination and decision-making. There were also many individual player mistakes, which were the main cause of the second game loss. In the third game, the handling of resource fights was too poor, and everyone performed badly.

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Because Doran played poorly in the second game, it largely masked Faker's bad individual performance. Korean forum viewers rated Faker as the primary culprit for the second and third games.

Oner laughing offstage; management remains chaotic.

Notably, during the match, a spectator captured a screenshot of Oner in the waiting room, laughing. After the game, netizens used this picture to mock the management's absurd decision.

In the post-match interview, TOM still stated that they do not rule out continuing to start Painter in the future, depending on his actual performance.

It can only be said that the current T1 really doesn't take results seriously anymore. Previously, we shared that the main reason for T1's management chaos is the disagreement between the two major shareholders, who have been unable to determine a new CEO for a long time.

The result is that T1 is almost entirely focused on making money, having T1 form a boy band and release songs, changing junglers, and making players run a large number of commercial events throughout the year. It is said that this year, the commercial activities have already amounted to nearly 100 days.

The players' daily training time has been greatly reduced. Despite not achieving significant results in the first two splits, the management still hasn't taken it seriously. If this continues, even T1's strong World Championship buff might not be able to save them.