The storyline that unfolded during worlds last year was already really incredible with Deft vs Faker. This year we get another incredible story with T1 vs the entire LPL and Faker returning from his injury to save his team and the LCK / Korea. Just like the worlds theme song GODS implies, the GOAT might ascend to actual godhood.
BeryL in the meantime is influencing the worlds finals and its outcome since 2020. 2020 he won himself, 2021 he played in the finals again, but to mix it up he let the other team win. 2022 he played in the finals again and helped Deft achieve his dream. In 2023 he is not taking part in the tournament… or so we thought, until the moment he came out to draw the matchups for the quarterfinals and by extension, also making all other machtes fall into place.
Hollywood could never, thank you BeryL for the incredible stories you make us enjoy!
People may not remember this, but in 2019 Beryl broke the spirit of IG by 2-0 them in groups, this was a strategy of his to nerf them enough to not be a threat to FPX, the main character of the 2019 song, but not only that he let G2 win against them because he didn’t want a SKT vs FPX, he knew Faker never lose to LPL, but he had an important information; the kryptonita of SKT, G2! And since his body knew they couldn’t beat SKT he lost on purpose.
In the end since 2019 Beryl have been controlling the scene, truly a genius.