Just like what the previous posts predicted, LCK teams will be helping out T1 scrims even if it’s already off-season for them and are expected to have major roster changes due to the LCK salary cap and considering the Worlds run of the LCK seeds as not even the favorite GENG went to semifinals.
According to a reply tweet, the LCK teams are probably GENG, KDF and LSB, but no proof for this.
There’s also some questions being raised as scrimming with domestic teams could be ineffective since they are up against another region, LPL. However, scrimming with LPL teams has a risk since it would leave their strats vulnerable to being leaked. But the point of scrimming is to try out their strats, right?
This is probably the best scenario for T1 since they can scrim effectively unlike what happened last Worlds 2022. Their scrim partner for last year was DRX which ended up as their finals opponent since they were the only LCK team remaining. The rest of the LCK teams must have already gone home by then. Hopefully, we can have a great semifinals and letting T1 cook right now with the other LCK teams.
Tom: “Since we’re competing with other leagues, it was difficult but we decided to get help from the LCK teams. Several teams were willing to help. Rather than practicing with the LPL teams to prepare for semifinals & finals, we want to achieve our goals with the help of the LCK teams.” (translation provided by @jadetokky Tweet: https://twitter.com/jadetokky/status/1722444114002887090?t=QM_48cIl1F6fxE-ktdR7cw&s=19)
I mean Delight is a pretty good scrim partner for Missing’s Rakan
we need to let GenG players play remotely for JDG… only way for T1 to lose
Wouldn’t it be the same? LPL can check their match history and replays and know exactly what champs are being played and tested?
Of cos they wouldn’t hear the discussions but they can see ur scrims history right?
I hope geng scrims with them till finals(if T1 reaches).
They are probably best scrim partners right now available for them.
Props to Geng which is likely imploding.
Wonder if this had any impact in 2019 Worlds when EU made finals. I wonder who they scrimed for finals. Doubt they had fnc help them practice for finals.
Ngl. This gives Eyeshield 21 vibes when the Devilbats practiced with the All-Star trainers from hell just to defeat the Tenkoku Alexanders.
Why does T1 always embark on an anime arc???
i’m scared. LCK teams and LPL are so different stylistically, i hope this doesn’t hurt them
Respect
This is why you should NEVER run a tournament with 7 bo5s in a span of 3 weeks. Practice becomes inefficient and there’s not enough games to get your reps in. Worlds scheduling is just not worth it and comes with so much BS with it. MSI did it right by doing their playoffs in 2 weeks.