The announcement from T1 wrote: “We are extremely disappointed when we have to announce the suspension of the live streams of the players on the occurrence of the DDOS attacks. Within nearly 6 months, this situation continues to take place and we hope Riot Korea and Riot Games will come up with the solution for our players and other affected teams to practice normally.”
Thus, T1 has clearly stated that the team could not be broadcast live or more serious than practice and this has affected both T1 and other teams. The organization also reminded directly to Riot Korea and Riot Games to offer solutions because T1 was unable to find a way to intervene or repair this problem.
After the defeat of T1 against HLE at the LCK LCK play-off round 2024, Faker talked about DDOS attacks continuously in the press conference after the match, emphasizing how DDOS is affecting the team. Accordingly, LCK is forced to switch to the form of competition first, broadcast later to fight the DDOS attacks throughout the rest of the LCK, and distribute matches at offline server that foreign networks cannot affect.
The effects of DDOS have a strong impact on Faker as well as T1. The organization also continued in the notice: “This situation forced us to suspend broadcast live, leading to significant financial impacts for our organization.” T1 also hopes that Korean Riot and Riot Games will soon solve this problem so that the team can play, practice and work normally.
