T1

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[e][h]T1
Team Information
Location:
Region:
South Korea Korea
Coach:
Manager:
Approx. Total Winnings:
$7,963,618
Links
Achievements
World Championship/2015Mid-Season Invitational/2016World Championship/2016Mid-Season Invitational/2017World Championship/2023World Championship/2023
History
Created:
: 2002-10
League of Legends: 2014-02-15
Upcoming Matches
T1 T1T1
vs
(Bo5)
Bilibili GamingBilibili Gaming BLG
November 2, 2024 - 14:00 GMT
Upcoming Tournaments
World_Championship/2024World_Championship/2024 2024 World Championship 
ONGOING!
Sep 25 - Nov 02
KeSPA_Cup/2024 KeSPA Cup 2024 
2024-11-30 00:00:00 UTC
Nov 30 - Dec 08
Red_Bull_League_of_Its_Own/2024 Red Bull League of Its Own 2024 
2024-12-15 00:00:00 UTC
Dec 15


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]

IDNamePositionJoin Date
South Korea Zeus
(Choi Woo-je)
Choi Woo-je
Position: 
Top
Join Date: 
2020-11-26 [1]
South Korea Oner
(Mun Hyeon-jun)
Mun Hyeon-jun
Position: 
Jungle
Join Date: 
2020-12-01 [2]
South Korea Faker
(Lee Sang-hyeok)
Lee Sang-hyeok
Position: 
Mid
Join Date: 
2014-12-02 [3]
South Korea Gumayusi
(Lee Min-hyung)
Lee Min-hyung
Position: 
Bot
Join Date: 
2019-11-26 [4]
South Korea Keria
(Ryu Min-seok)
Ryu Min-seok
Position: 
Support
Join Date: 
2020-11-18 [5]

T1 Esports AcademyT1 Esports Academy T1 Esports Academy[edit]

IDNamePositionJoin Date
South Korea Dal
(Moon Jeong-wan)
Moon Jeong-wan
Position: 
Top
Join Date: 
2022-12-27 [6]
South Korea Guwon
(Gu Kwan-mo)
Gu Kwan-mo
Position: 
Jungle
Join Date: 
2023-12-11 [7]
South Korea Poby
(Yun Sung-won)
Yun Sung-won
Position: 
Mid
Join Date: 
2023-08-02 [8]
South Korea Smash
(Sin Gunm-jae)
Sin Gunm-jae
Position: 
Bot
Join Date: 
2022-12-27 [9]
Sweden Rekkles
(Carl Martin Erik Larsson)
Carl Martin Erik Larsson
Position: 
Support
Join Date: 
2023-12-11 [10]
South Korea Cloud
(Moon Hyeon-ho)
Moon Hyeon-ho
Position: 
Support
Join Date: 
2023-12-28 [11]

Timeline[edit]

Former[edit]

Stand-ins[edit]

Temporary stand-ins
ID Name Replacing ID Name Tournament(s)
South Korea Guwon  
T1 Esports AcademyT1 Esports Academy
Gu Kwan-mo
South Korea Oner Mun Hyeon-jun LCKLCKLCK Spring 2024 (Match 58) [104]

Results[edit]

Awards[edit]

DateTierTournamentAwardPlayerPrize
2024
2024-08-20S-TierLCK Summer 2024LCK Summer 2024LCK Summer 2024All-LCK Third Team-
2024-08-20S-TierLCK Summer 2024LCK Summer 2024LCK Summer 2024All-LCK Third Team-
2024-07-07S-TierEsports World Cup 2024Esports World Cup 2024Esports World Cup 2024MVP$50,000
2024-03-25S-TierLCK Spring 2024LCK Spring 2024LCK Spring 2024All-LCK Third Team-
2024-03-25S-TierLCK Spring 2024LCK Spring 2024LCK Spring 2024All-LCK Second Team-
2024-03-25S-TierLCK Spring 2024LCK Spring 2024LCK Spring 2024All-LCK Second Team-
2024-03-25S-TierLCK Spring 2024LCK Spring 2024LCK Spring 2024All-LCK Second Team-
2024-03-25S-TierLCK Spring 2024LCK Spring 2024LCK Spring 2024All-LCK First Team$1,449
2023
2023-12-13MiscLCK Awards 2023LCK Awards 2023LCK Awards 2023Top of the Year$1,523
2023-12-13MiscLCK Awards 2023LCK Awards 2023LCK Awards 2023Mid of the Year$1,523
Only the 10 latest awards are shown here, for the full list click here.

History[edit]

The Beginning (2012)[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 then split up into SK Telecom T1 K and SK Telecom T1 S.

SKT T1 Dynasty (2015-2017)[edit]

The two teams were 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 second World Championship (first as the merged team), 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.

Slumps and Struggles (2018-2021)[edit]

저희 SKT T1은 부진은 있어도 몰락은 없습니다.
[ Us, SKT T1, we may falter, but we never fail. ]
kkOma (LCK Spring 2016 Finals[105])

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 2-3 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 parted ways with Canna, Ellim, Cuzz, Clozer, Teddy and Hoit.

The Beginning of ZOFGK Roster (2022)[edit]

T1 promoted Zeus to the starting roster, forming the Zeus-Oner-Faker-Gumayusi-Keria (ZOFGK) roster. 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 Spring 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. Their next opponent was Royal Never Give Up where T1 would take blows with them and eventually would go to game 5 where T1 lost out and saw Royal Never Give Up become champions in Korea. The Summer Split saw T1 end the group stage as 2nd place with a 15-3 record. T1 would stop the reverse sweep of DAMWON Gaming winning 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 won 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 decided to keep the same ZOFGK roster for the 2023 season.

Reignition of SKT Legacy (2023)[edit]

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. One month after the start of the Summer Split, Faker was temporarily benched due to an injury, with Poby standing in for Faker's position. Despite having a tough 1-7 record during one month of Faker's absence, and despite Bengi's resignation as the head coach that happened mid-season, they managed to come back up and 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. Still, they qualified for Worlds 2023 as LCK's 2nd seed with the accumulated points.

T1 made their way through the Swiss stage with a 3-1 record, only dropping a match against Gen.G. After sweeping BLG 2-0 in their last match of Swiss Stage, they first had to face of against LNG Esports from the LPL. As they entered the last quarterfinals match, after the fall of all other LCK teams in Worlds, T1 had become the "LCK's final hope"[106] by being the only team remaining in Worlds outside of the LPL. T1 was were able to sweep 3-0 against LNG.

And even as every other LCK team falls away, FAKER stays standing. T1 stays standing! The last light of the LCK burns bright at Busan, as they head to the semifinals!
Drakos (Worlds 2023 Quarterfinals Day 4[107])

Their next opponent was JD Gaming, a team that was looking to complete their "Golden Road" and were seen as the favourites to win the tournament. However, T1 was able to come out on top in the series with a 3-1 upset.

It is not LPL versus LCK, it is T1 versus the LPL! And they like those odds, as they move to Finals!
Drakos (Worlds 2023 Semifinals[108])

With their victory, T1 entered their eighth World Finals; this time being faced with Weibo Gaming. T1 dominated the series and swept the final LPL team 3-0, becoming the first team to win 4 Worlds titles.

It was 7 years since their last, and a decade since their first; the SKT legacy has been reignited! T1 will be your 2023 WORLD CHAMPIONS!
Atlus (Worlds 2023 Grand Final[109])

Shortly after the team's victory, contracts of players Gumayusi, Keria, and Zeus were renewed as they were due to expire after Worlds. The team also announced the return of kkOma as the head coach.

Media[edit]

Interviews

Articles

Videos

Highlights

Documentaries

Spotlight

2017

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Cheering Chants[edit]

Gallery[edit]

Team Photos[edit]

T1 World Skins[edit]

Logos[edit]

Organization[edit]

Current Staff[edit]

Organization
IDNamePositionJoin Date
United States Joe
(
Joseph Patrik Marsh
)
CEO
Join Date: 
2019-10-08 [110]
South Korea BoxeR
(
Lim Yo-hwan
)
Founder & Streamer
Join Date: 
2019-11-19 [112]
South Korea Faker
(
Lee Sang-hyeok
)
Part-Owner
Join Date: 
2020-02-18 [111]
South Korea Wolf
(
Lee Jae-wan
)
Streamer
Join Date: 
2020-04-13 [52]
South Korea CrazyCat
(
Kim Dong-Hee
)
Streamer
Join Date: 
2021-04-01 [65]
South Korea Bang
(
Bae Jun-sik
)
Streamer
Join Date: 
2022-02-03 [82]
South Korea Flame
(
Lee Ho-jong
)
Streamer
Join Date: 
2022-05-16 [83]
South Korea Becker
(
Jeong Hoi-yoon
)
General Manager
Join Date: 
2022-12-19 [91]
South Korea Untara
(
Park Ui-jin
)
Streamer
Join Date: 
2023-12-22 [100]
South Korea kkOma
(
Kim Jeong-gyun
)
Head Coach
Join Date: 
2023-11-21 [96]
South Korea Tom
(
Im Jae-hyeon
)
Coach
Join Date: 
2023-11-21 [96]
South Korea Roach
(
Kim Kang-hui
)
Coach
Join Date: 
2023-11-27 [97]

Former Staff[edit]

References[edit]

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  103. 103.0 103.1 Bilibili Gaming (2024-07-12). "We are pleased to announce that Coach Lee Ji-hoon (ID: Easyhoon) has officially joined BLG LOL." (in English Speaking English).
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  110. SK telecom CS T1 Co., Ltd. (2020-05-27). "임원의 변동 [Change in Executive Members]" (in South Korea Korean). Financial Supervisory Service.
  111. 심영보 (2020-02-18). "'페이커' 이상혁 재계약, 22년까지... T1 파트 오너로 합류 [Lee "Faker" Sang-hyeok Re-signs Until '22... Joins as Part Owner of T1]" (in South Korea Korean). INVEN.
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