‘Owner’ Moon Hyeon-jun (T1), who returned from the shooting range, swept his heart. While acknowledging that he had no preparation for the KT game, he was determined to perform better in the winner’s game based on the income from that day’s game.
T1 won with a set score of 3 to 2 in the second round of the ‘2023 LoL Champions Korea (LCK)’ Spring Split Playoffs (PO) held at Park Lol in Jongno, Seoul on the afternoon of the 25th against KT Rolster. Those who advance to the winner’s match will face off against the winner of the head-to-head match between Gen.G eSports and Hanwha Life ESports to advance to the finals.
Before the match, 13 LCK experts unanimously predicted a T1 victory. However, T1 played an unexpectedly tough game that day. In the 5th set, which was 2-2, they lost consecutively in the early stages and were driven to the brink of defeat. If they hadn’t been able to focus with their captain, Lee “Faker” Sang-hyeok in the center, they would have suffered an accident.
Moon Hyeon-jun faced the reporter with a rather tired expression. When I greeted him saying, “You worked hard,” he started laughing. I felt a sense of relief and security for turning a long and fierce battle into victory. “It was right after the game, so I was distracted,” he said. Anyway, it’s good to go up to the winner’s game. I feel proud to have won.”
Moon Hyun-joon pointed out the anti-selection attitude as a background for highlighting the 3rd place KT, not the 5th place Hanwha Life Esports in the regular league. However, he explained that the ban selection prepared by KT that day was much more difficult and he had a hard time. “I never thought it would be such a tough fight,” he said. We made a lot of mistakes, and KT seems to have prepared so well that the game ended in a big way,” he added.
Moon Hyun-jun revealed that although the loss in the 5th set was dark, he tried to maintain his concentration based on his combined strengths. The turning point was the victory in the Baron’s first game. He said, “From then on, I thought I could make use of the strengths of our union. I thought the opponent’s combination would gradually lose strength, so I thought I had all the wins, but I was so excited that it seemed (a tough match) to this point.” Laughing and working calmly under pressure is also a factor in winning Moon Hyun-jun said, “It seems that all of our team laughed and played the game after 20 minutes in the 5th set. I think it worked well (with good results) to try to keep my focus while enjoying it.”
Moon Hyeon-jun explained that there were many harvests of the victory that day. He said, “I think there are many things we have missed in terms of collecting bans. There were games in the regular season that we won easily, so we were careless. I think a lot of things have exploded due to unintentional carelessness, so I think I can prepare well with awareness of that.” “With today’s game, we found a lot of our problems. I gained confidence because I won after 5 sets. We’ll check whoever gets into the winner’s bracket and wins and goes straight to the final.”
On the other hand, Moon Hyun-jun predicted Gen. Ji as the opponent for the winner’s game. At the same time, he said, “Hanwha Life Insurance is also Hanwha Life Insurance, but I honestly don’t have a good feeling because I think there are too many variables in the playoffs.”
Reporter Moon Dae-chan mdc0504@kukinews.com View articles
