T1
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T1
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T1 is a Korean esports team operated by T1 Entertainment & Sports, a joint venture between SK Telecom and Comcast Spectacor, formed out of SK Telecom T1 K and SK Telecom T1 S. They were previously known as SK Telecom T1.
Player Roster[edit]
Active Roster[edit]
ID | Name | Position | Join Date | |
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Zeus | (Choi Woo-je) Choi Woo-je | Position: Top | Join Date: 2020-11-26 [1] | |
Oner | (Moon Hyeon-joon) Moon Hyeon-joon | Position: Jungle | Join Date: 2020-12-01 [2] | |
Faker | (Lee Sang-hyeok) Lee Sang-hyeok | Position: Mid | Join Date: 2014-12-02 [3] | |
Gumayusi | (Lee Min-hyeong) Lee Min-hyeong | Position: Bot | Join Date: 2019-11-26 [4] | |
Keria | (Ryu Min-seok) Ryu Min-seok | Position: Support | Join Date: 2020-11-18 [5] |
T1 Esports Academy [edit]
ID | Name | Position | Join Date | |
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Dal | (Moon Jeong-wan) Moon Jeong-wan | Position: Top | Join Date: 2022-12-27 [6] | |
Guwon | (Koo Gwan-mo) Koo Gwan-mo | Position: Jungle | Join Date: 2023-12-11 [7] | |
Poby | (Yoon Seong-won) Yoon Seong-won | Position: Mid | Join Date: 2023-08-02 [8] | |
Smash | (Sin Geum-jae) Sin Geum-jae | Position: Bot | Join Date: 2022-12-27 [9] | |
Rekkles | (Carl Martin Erik Larsson) Carl Martin Erik Larsson | Position: Support | Join Date: 2023-12-11 [10] | |
Cloud | (Moon Hyeon-ho) Moon Hyeon-ho | Position: Support | Join Date: 2023-12-28 [11] |
Timeline[edit]
Former[edit]
Results[edit]
Awards[edit]
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2024 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
2024-03-25 | S-Tier | LCK Spring 2024 | All-LCK First Team | - | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
2024-03-25 | S-Tier | LCK Spring 2024 | All-LCK Second Team | - | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
2024-03-25 | S-Tier | LCK Spring 2024 | All-LCK Second Team | - | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
2024-03-25 | S-Tier | LCK Spring 2024 | All-LCK Third Team | - | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
2024-03-25 | S-Tier | LCK Spring 2024 | All-LCK Second Team | - | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
2023 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
2023-12-13 | Misc | LCK Awards 2023 | Jungle of the Year | - | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
2023-12-13 | Misc | LCK Awards 2023 | Search King Award | - | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
2023-12-13 | Misc | LCK Awards 2023 | Mid of the Year | - | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
2023-12-13 | Misc | LCK Awards 2023 | Top of the Year | - | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
2023-12-13 | Misc | LCK Awards 2023 | Player of the Year | - |
- Only the 10 latest awards are shown here, for the full list click here.
History[edit]
SK Telecom T1 made their debut at IEM Cologne in 2012, with Reapered, H0R0, MighTiLy, UandME and StarLast securing the title for the Korean team with a 2-1 victory against Fnatic. This team would then split up into SK Telecom T1 K and SK Telecom T1 S, before the teams merged ahead of 2015 to form a line-up of MaRin, Bengi, T0M, Faker, Easyhoon, Bang, Wolf and Piccaboo. This team looked like a top challenger right away, winning the LCK 2015 Spring Split, before placing 2nd at MSI 2015. After their LCK 2015 Summer Split championship, SKT won their first World Championship, beating countrymates KOO Tigers 3-1 in the finals.
From here on, SK Telecom T1 won 3 titles back to back, the IEM Season X World Championship, LCK 2016 Spring Split and MSI 2016, with KT Rolster breaking their streak by taking them out 3-2 in the LCK 2016 Summer Semi-Finals. Despite this, Worlds 2016 was won by SKT, making them the first team to win back-to-back titles. This performance seemed to carry on in 2017, with them winning Spring 2017 and MSI 2017, but they lost in the LCK 2017 Summer finals against Longzhu Gaming, with Samsung Galaxy taking away their Worlds 2017 title.
In Spring 2018, Untara and Blank joined the team as starting players. This resulted in the team placing 4th and making more changes heading into Summer: Thal replaced Untara, Pirean joined as secondary midlaner, while Effort replaced Wolf permanently. This is when SK Telecom T1 missed out on playoffs, placing 7th in the regular season. It eventually resulted in them failing to qualify for worlds too, with a 3-2 loss against Gen.G Esports in the Regional Finals.
After the disappointing results, SK Telecom T1 rebuilt their team heading into 2019. Khan joining as a toplaner, Clid joining as a jungler, Teddy joining from Jin Air Green Wings as the new AD Carry and Mata joining the team from rivals KT Rolster. This resulted in several titles throughout the year, with them winning the LCK 2019 Spring Split and LCK 2019 Summer Split, but coming short at the international events, exiting both in 3-4th place. This resulted in another rebuild heading into 2020, with Roach, Cuzz and Effort joining the starting line-up. They won the LCK 2020 Spring Split, but placed 5th in Summer and failed to qualify for Worlds 2020 following a Regional Finals loss against Gen.G Esports.
Trying to build on the young roster, T1 managed to sign Ryu "Keria" Min-seok who had just been released from DRX, who would be replacing Effort who ended up leaving for SANDBOX Gaming later that year. This roster would place 4th in Spring 2021, with a lot of criticism coming T1's way for their extreme amount of player switching throughout the regular season. In Summer 2021, coaches Daeny and Zefa were released from the team in the middle of the split, with Stardust and Moment joining as temporary coaches. They placed second in the Summer split, losing against DAMWON Gaming in the finals, but managed to secure a ticket to Worlds 2021 with a 3-2 win against Hanwha Life Esports in the Regional Finals.
Following T1's 3-4th place finish at Worlds 2021, the team promoted Zeus to the starting roster, with Canna, Ellim, Cuzz, Clozer, Teddy and Hoit leaving the team. With 4 out of their 5 starting players returning for the new season, T1 managed to become the first LCK team to ever go undefeated in the regular season, beating their own LCK Summer 2015 record, where they finished with a 17/1 record. After winning the Summer 2022 3-1 over Gen.G Esports. The team would go to MSI 2022 making it to the knockout stage with a 7-3 record in the rumble stage qualifying second. The team would face G2 a team that went 1-1 with in the rumble stage but would clean sweep them in a 3-0 series. There next opponent would Royal Never Give Up where T1 would take blows with them and eventually would go game 5 where T1 lost out and saw Royal Never Give Up become champions in Korea. The summer split regular season saw T1 end with a 15-3 record with them qualyifing second. T1 would stop the reverse sweep of DAMWON Gaming winng the series 3-2 and once again found themselves against Gen.G Esports this time getting swept in the finals losing 3-0. At Worlds 2022 they found themselves in a group with EDward Gaming Cloud9 and Fnatic they made it out of groups as the first seed 5-1. In the quaterfinals they would face Royal Never Give Up getting their revenge T1 would sweep the LPL team winning 3-0. The next oppnent was the LPL's first seed JD Gaming T1 would drop the first game but ultimately win 3-1. In the finals they would face DRX T1 would take the lead 2-1 but then DRX would eventually win the series 3-2. Following T1's 2nd place finish they would change the roster keeping it the same for the 2023 season.
In 2023, T1 had a strong start in the LCK 2023 Spring Split with a 17/1 record but lost the Grand Final to Gen.G Esports. Despite this, they directly qualified for the MSI 2023 playoffs, where they had a series of victories and defeats, eventually losing to Bilibili Gaming in the Lower Bracket Final. In the LCK 2023 Summer Split, with Faker temporarily benched due to an injury, they ended the regular season 5th with a 9-9 record. They had a series of wins in the playoffs but were swept by Gen.G Esports in the Grand Final. However, they qualified as the 2nd Seed for Worlds 2023 due to accumulated points. They had a series of wins against various teams, notably against LPL teams Bilibili Gaming (Swiss Stage), LNG Esports (Quarterfinals) and JD Gaming (Semifinals), leading them to the World Championship Grand Final where they secured their fourth title 3-0 against Weibo Gaming. Shortly after the team's victory, contracts of players Gumayusi, Keria, and Zeus were renewed as they were due to expire after Worlds.
- See also: History of T1
Media[edit]
Interviews
Articles
Videos
Highlights
Documentaries
Spotlight
2017
- [e] 2017-05-02 | The Story of Faker: The Greatest of All Time of theScore esports
Gallery[edit]
Team Photos[edit]
SK Telecom T1 are crowned champions at Worlds 2016.
SK Telecom T1 are crowned champions at Worlds 2015.
SK Telecom T1 K are crowned champions at Worlds 2013.
Logos[edit]
Organization[edit]
Current Staff[edit]
Organization | |||||||||
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ID | Name | Position | Join Date | ||||||
Faker | ( Lee Sang-hyeok) | Part-Owner | Join Date: 2019-10-08 | ||||||
Joe | ( Joe Marsh) | CEO | Join Date: 2019-10-08 | ||||||
BoxeR | ( Lim Yo-hwan) | Founder & Streamer | Join Date: 2019-10-08 | ||||||
Wolf | ( Lee Jae-wan) | Streamer | Join Date: 2020-04-13 [52] | ||||||
CrazyCat | ( Kim Dong-Hee) | Streamer | Join Date: 2021-04-01 [65] | ||||||
Bang | ( Bae Jun-sik) | Streamer | Join Date: 2022-02-03 [84] | ||||||
Flame | ( Lee Ho-jong) | Streamer | Join Date: 2022-05-16 [85] | ||||||
Becker | ( Jeong Hoi-yoon) | General Manager | Join Date: 2022-12-19 [93] | ||||||
Untara | ( Park Ui-jin) | Streamer | Join Date: 2023-12-22 [102] | ||||||
Easyhoon | ( Lee Ji-hoon) | Content Creator | Join Date: 2024-03-26 [103] | ||||||
kkOma | ( Kim Jeong-gyun) | Head Coach | Join Date: 2023-11-21 [98] | ||||||
Tom | ( Im Jae-hyeon) | Coach | Join Date: 2023-11-21 [98] | ||||||
Roach | ( Kim Kang-hui) | Coach | Join Date: 2023-11-27 [99] |
Former Staff[edit]
References[edit]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 "Transfer reference 1". 2020-11-26.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 "Transfer reference 2". 2020-12-01.
- ↑ 3.00 3.01 3.02 3.03 3.04 3.05 3.06 3.07 3.08 3.09 3.10 "Transfer reference 3". 2014-12-02.
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 4.4 4.5 "Transfer reference 4". 2019-11-26.
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 "Transfer reference 5". 2020-11-18.
- ↑ "Transfer reference 1". 2022-12-27.
- ↑ T1 (2023-12-11). "We are pleased to announce that ‘Guwon’ has joined our T1 Esports Academy team!".
- ↑ 8.0 8.1 8.2 "Transfer reference 2". 2023-08-02.
- ↑ "Transfer reference 3". 2022-12-27.
- ↑ T1 (2023-12-11). "A LEC legend, 'Rekkles' has joined our T1 Esports Academy team as Support!".
- ↑ T1 (2023-12-28). "We are pleased to announce that ‘Cloud’ has been called-up to the T1 Esports Academy team as Support!".
- ↑ 12.0 12.1 "Transfer reference 1". 2014-12-19.
- ↑ 13.0 13.1 "Transfer reference 2". 2015-02-25.
- ↑ 14.0 14.1 "Transfer reference 3". 2015-05-19.
- ↑ 15.0 15.1 "Transfer reference 4". 2015-05-22.
- ↑ 16.0 16.1 16.2 16.3 "Transfer reference 5". 2015-11-25.
- ↑ 17.0 17.1 "Transfer reference 6". 2015-12-07.
- ↑ 18.0 18.1 18.2 "Transfer reference 7". 2015-12-31.
- ↑ 19.0 19.1 19.2 "Transfer reference 8". 2016-02-25.
- ↑ 20.0 20.1 "Transfer reference 9". 2016-03-23.
- ↑ 21.0 21.1 21.2 "Transfer reference 10". 2016-11-01.
- ↑ 22.0 22.1 22.2 22.3 "Transfer reference 11". 2016-11-28.
- ↑ 23.0 23.1 "Transfer reference 12". 2016-12-01.
- ↑ 24.0 24.1 "Transfer reference 13". 2016-12-02.
- ↑ 25.0 25.1 "Transfer reference 14". 2016-12-12.
- ↑ 26.0 26.1 "Transfer reference 15". 2016-12-22.
- ↑ 27.0 27.1 "Transfer reference 16". 2017-05-23.
- ↑ 28.0 28.1 "Transfer reference 17". 2017-05-23.
- ↑ 29.0 29.1 29.2 "Transfer reference 18". 2017-11-21.
- ↑ 30.0 30.1 30.2 30.3 30.4 30.5 30.6 30.7 30.8 30.9 "Transfer reference 19". 2017-11-24.
- ↑ 31.0 31.1 31.2 "Transfer reference 20". 2017-11-28.
- ↑ 32.0 32.1 32.2 "Transfer reference 21". 2018-01-08.
- ↑ 33.0 33.1 33.2 "Transfer reference 22". 2018-02-19.
- ↑ 34.0 34.1 34.2 34.3 34.4 34.5 34.6 34.7 "Transfer reference 23". 2018-11-19.
- ↑ 35.0 35.1 35.2 35.3 35.4 35.5 "Transfer reference 24". 2018-11-22.
- ↑ 36.0 36.1 36.2 36.3 36.4 36.5 "Transfer reference 25". 2018-11-26.
- ↑ 37.0 37.1 "Transfer reference 26". 2018-12-03.
- ↑ 38.0 38.1 "Transfer reference 27". 2018-12-14.
- ↑ 39.0 39.1 "Transfer reference 28". 2018-12-28.
- ↑ 40.0 40.1 "Transfer reference 29". 2019-11-19.
- ↑ 41.0 41.1 41.2 41.3 41.4 41.5 41.6 "Transfer reference 30". 2019-11-19.
- ↑ 42.0 42.1 42.2 42.3 42.4 42.5 42.6 "Transfer reference 31". 2019-11-19.
- ↑ 43.0 43.1 43.2 43.3 43.4 43.5 43.6 "Transfer reference 32". 2019-11-19.
- ↑ 44.0 44.1 "Transfer reference 33". 2019-11-20.
- ↑ 45.0 45.1 "Transfer reference 34". 2019-11-21.
- ↑ 46.0 46.1 "Transfer reference 35". 2019-11-26.
- ↑ 47.0 47.1 "Transfer reference 36". 2019-11-26.
- ↑ 48.0 48.1 "Transfer reference 37". 2019-11-27.
- ↑ 49.0 49.1 "Transfer reference 38". 2019-11-27.
- ↑ 50.0 50.1 Transfer was not formally announced, but was revealed by changes in the LoL Esports League-Recognized Contract Database.
- ↑ 51.0 51.1 51.2 "Transfer reference 39". 2019-12-13.
- ↑ 52.0 52.1 "Transfer reference 40". 2020-04-13.
- ↑ 53.0 53.1 Transfer was not formally announced, but was revealed by changes in the LoL Esports League-Recognized Contract Database.
- ↑ 54.0 54.1 "Transfer reference 41". 2020-06-01.
- ↑ 55.0 55.1 "Transfer reference 42". 2020-09-13.
- ↑ 56.0 56.1 "Transfer reference 43". 2020-10-17.
- ↑ 57.0 57.1 57.2 "Transfer reference 44". 2020-10-31.
- ↑ 58.0 58.1 58.2 "Transfer reference 45". 2020-11-13.
- ↑ 59.0 59.1 "Transfer reference 46". 2020-11-13.
- ↑ 60.0 60.1 "Transfer reference 47". 2020-11-18.
- ↑ 61.0 61.1 "Transfer reference 48". 2020-11-24.
- ↑ 62.0 62.1 "Transfer reference 49". 2020-11-26.
- ↑ 63.0 63.1 "Transfer reference 50". 2020-12-01.
- ↑ 64.0 64.1 "Transfer reference 51". 2020-12-01.
- ↑ 65.0 65.1 "Transfer reference 52". 2021-04-01.
- ↑ 66.0 66.1 "Transfer reference 53". 2021-05-01.
- ↑ 67.0 67.1 67.2 "Transfer reference 54". 2021-07-15.
- ↑ 68.0 68.1 68.2 "Transfer reference 55". 2021-07-15.
- ↑ 69.0 69.1 "Transfer reference 56". 2021-07-18.
- ↑ 70.0 70.1 "Transfer reference 57". 2021-11-08.
- ↑ 71.0 71.1 "Transfer reference 58". 2021-11-11.
- ↑ 72.0 72.1 "Transfer reference 59". 2021-11-15.
- ↑ 73.0 73.1 "Transfer reference 60". 2021-11-16.
- ↑ 74.0 74.1 "Transfer reference 61". 2021-11-16.
- ↑ 75.0 75.1 "Transfer reference 62". 2021-11-16.
- ↑ 76.0 76.1 "Transfer reference 63". 2021-11-20.
- ↑ 77.0 77.1 "Transfer reference 64". 2021-11-25.
- ↑ 78.0 78.1 "Transfer reference 65". 2021-12-01.
- ↑ 79.0 79.1 "Transfer reference 66". 2021-12-03.
- ↑ 80.0 80.1 "Transfer reference 67". 2021-12-03.
- ↑ 81.0 81.1 81.2 "Transfer reference 68". 2021-12-03.
- ↑ 82.0 82.1 "Transfer reference 69". 2022-01-06.
- ↑ 83.0 83.1 "Transfer reference 70". 2022-02-01.
- ↑ 84.0 84.1 "Transfer reference 71". 2022-02-03.
- ↑ 85.0 85.1 "Transfer reference 72". 2022-05-16.
- ↑ 86.0 86.1 86.2 86.3 86.4 "Transfer reference 73". 2022-09-05.
- ↑ 87.0 87.1 "Transfer reference 74". 2022-11-14.
- ↑ 88.0 88.1 "Transfer reference 75". 2022-11-18.
- ↑ 89.0 89.1 "Transfer reference 76". 2022-11-18.
- ↑ 90.0 90.1 90.2 "Transfer reference 77". 2022-11-18.
- ↑ 91.0 91.1 "Transfer reference 78". 2022-11-28.
- ↑ 92.0 92.1 "Transfer reference 79". 2022-11-28.
- ↑ 93.0 93.1 "Transfer reference 80". 2022-12-19.
- ↑ 94.0 94.1 "Transfer reference 81". 2023-07-05.
- ↑ 95.0 95.1 95.2 95.3 95.4 "Transfer reference 82". 2023-07-08.
- ↑ 96.0 96.1 "Transfer reference 83". 2023-11-21.
- ↑ 97.0 97.1 "Transfer reference 84". 2023-11-21.
- ↑ 98.0 98.1 98.2 98.3 98.4 "Transfer reference 85". 2023-11-21.
- ↑ 99.0 99.1 "Transfer reference 86". 2023-11-27.
- ↑ 100.0 100.1 "Transfer reference 87". 2023-12-01.
- ↑ 101.0 101.1 T1 (2023-12-11). "We are pleased to announce ‘GBM' as Head Coach of our T1 Esports Academy team.".
- ↑ 102.0 102.1 "Transfer reference 88". 2023-12-22.
- ↑ 103.0 103.1 T1 (2024-03-26). "'Easyhoon' joins T1 as an influencer!".