Gumayusi

Like that was, you know, lock him up, you know, I guess it's a disaster.

But the main issue is I'm looking like, so that's your crumb, but I keep going down the list and it's like, you're playing elimination match against Zeka, Zeus and Gumayusi.

I

don't

Like, I have criticism for Gumiushi throughout his regular splits, but Worlds is just his tournament.

Like, he finds a way to stand out and I think that Gumayusi is going to be the guy to have the most kills at the end of it all.

Even though, sure, it could be tough when he has three other people that want kills too.

But just going by the logic of ADC, I think that Gumayusi, this is just his tournament, so I'm going to go with that guy.

looked it up as we were talking and king raise right basically it's been guma yushi a whole bunch of times the joke is the only reason it wasn't in 2022 is because zeka got to play all those playing games as well so that just made his account boost otherwise it would have been goomer i believe in 2021 it was viper on edg even though you don't think of him as carrying actually you think there's more of us like the mid jungle for that one and then if you go back 2019's lwx a rare exception is 2020 where it's canyon Because they had fucking ghost and they never played to a second of the map.

So if anything, that's the exception that proves the rule, isn't it? So I actually think Kira has nailed it.

Uh, it's actually even objectively the year where I think T1 has shown the least actual potential to be number one during the year of any of those years, including 2022 when they didn't win Worlds, where at least they could have won MSI and the LCK split, and they did win.

I think it's the worst ever, but I think here's the copium, is believe it or not, I actually haven't, maybe because of the history of these players, I actually haven't seen as much vitriol towards Hanwha Life, who have Zeus and Gumayusi, as I have seen from T1 fans towards Gen.G.

I do think, 'cause Gen.G's a totally distinct squad with no connection to T1, that they do see that as, like, the rival team in the same way as if I'm a Liverpool fan, we're always gonna hate Man United no matter what, even if, uh, Liverpool play Gaza.

But actually what's sad is I do get the feeling that actually when they see Zeus and Gumayusi succeed, I think some of these fans, 'cause they were also ZOFGK fans, I think some of them are sorta like that classic thing that we all do in sports.

It's like, "That's my second team." If T1 goes out, well, then I cheer for Zeus and Gumayusi.

I want them to win, right? Here's the hot take.

I'm gonna ruin that for you because I actually...

It's not him being the best player.

Yeah.

So, you know, we need to rewind because my first hot take stems from the end of last year when there was the announcement of the departure of Gumayusi for Pays.

And since then, I've already announced back then that T1 would struggle immensely with an ADC that needs to be played around, which I think... uh historically just breaks the style of t1 who likes to play very in a very dynamic sense and so this is is the baseline of my analysis but then you have to look at the shape of the players and i think that aside from carrier none of the players of t1 currently belong to the top 10 players coming into Worlds.

None of

Again, I mean, think about how many T1 Academy players have been picked up historically to go to other regions.

Berserker, he was a T1 guy, right? Wasn't Berserker right behind Gumayusi?

Yep.

Berserker was in T1.

Um, I think Ruler was the biggest zero to hero from his, from within this year, right? Like his, his performance, especially going up against teams like T1.

T1's bot lane has been super fearsome, and Ruler kind of just, uh, fathered both Peyz and Gumayusi I feel like in the matches he had against them.

Mm.

Mm.And I think for me, when we saw Gen.G kind of get to that point, uh, where they hit like, you know, they hit their stride in playoffs-

... "gonna work at all."

Yeah.

Um, so I think sometimes they get in their own heads a little bit, but I think if they can sort of find their view on the meta, that can really enable, you know, especially like Zeus can be very strong, Gumayusi can be very strong, Zeka can be very strong.

They have three s- uh, lanes that can all potentially be game winners.