T1's epic collapse! They blew a 2-0 lead, Faker's Yone became a joke, and HLE advanced to the winner's final.

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In the just-concluded LCK BO5 blockbuster, T1, after taking the first two games, was reverse-swept 3-2 by HLE, losing the match and falling into the losers' bracket.

T1 squandered a good position and got tied.

In the first game, both teams engaged in an offensive battle. Faker locked in Annie mid, performed poorly with 0-4, and was once part of a 1-for-5 team wipe by HLE. However, T1's bot lane had a godlike performance, with Peyz outputting insane damage and securing 13 kills.

Keria's Renata also had a perfect performance, using a flash ult to control both carries in teamfights, resulting in 40 kills in just 29 minutes. T1 took the first game.

In the second game, Keria delivered another perfect performance, picking Blitzcrank and hooking everyone, almost single-handedly carrying the team to a stomp. T1 secured three match points.

With a 2-0 lead, T1 began their classic meltdown. In the third game, Faker played Yone mid and was solo-killed twice by Zeka, making mid lane unplayable, allowing Zeka to unleash his signature Akali, dominating teamfights and pulling one back.

In the fourth game, T1 still failed to adjust. They put Cassiopeia mid against Orianna, and top Aatrox against Gragas, both resulting in a lane gap. HLE stomped again, with Zeka going 10-0 and forcing a decisive game.

T1 suffered a massive collapse and lost.

In the crucial decisive game, T1 had a disastrous start. Kanavi swapped jungle camps, but Oner failed to notice, wasting a lot of time and having to call teammates to force-steal the red buff.

Top lane: Doran's Gnar made a huge mistake, using a death flash and was kicked to death by Zeus.

Later, Oner invaded the jungle but was caught by Cho'Gath and killed with a full combo. With the early disadvantage, Keria was eager to create opportunities but was collapsed on by HLE, leading to T1 collapsing on all three lanes.

In the mid-game, Doran stepped up twice to help T1 recover the disadvantage, but in the crucial teamfight, Peyz also made a mistake, charging into the crowd and dying. HLE quickly secured the dragon soul point, and in the dragon soul teamfight, Faker died instantly upon entering the fight, making the match no longer competitive.

HLE advanced smoothly, while T1 had a massive collapse in the BO5, playing two good games and then three consecutive bad ones. The most anticipated decisive game started with a direct collapse, committing numerous basic mistakes.

The earlier speculation by viewers about a chaotic clown fiesta between T1 and HLE proved to be true, as many of T1's games were indeed baffling.

T1's draft in the decisive games was problematic.

Yesterday, after GEN defeated KT and helped T1 secure a World Championship spot early, many viewers commented that T1's path to Worlds seemed too easy this year, and that being too easy is not a good thing, because in the past two years T1 qualified as the fourth seed and had to play elimination matches, but this year they didn't have to.

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Therefore, many predicted that T1 would start messing around in this match. As it turned out, T1's later draft choices were indeed problematic, and it's not impossible that they were experimenting.

Including Faker's black hole champion Yone, and the Aatrox vs Gragas matchup, the draft did poorly in these disadvantageous matchups.

After the final game's draft was revealed, the jungle matchup of Kindred vs Cho'Gath was also unfavorable, and the bot lane was also at a disadvantage. They bet on Peyz's Jinx, but Peyz made an uncharacteristic teamfight mistake.

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Of course, we cannot completely attribute this loss to T1's experimentation. For T1 to achieve a fourth consecutive World Championship, they still need to improve their tactical depth. If there are many meta champions they cannot play at Worlds, that would be the most fatal for the team.