Since the World Championship 2024, T1 has been constantly having internal problems. The first was a failure to renew the contract with Zeus, then led to controversy, conflicts revolving around the story of the T1 of the T1 of the upper line born in 2004.
Both events are gradually sinking, but recently, CEO Joe Marsh of T1 participated in an interview with Nexxus channel and shared more than 1 hour about stories around T1. In particular, he shared his views on the management philosophy of T1 and the entire electronic sports industry. Joe also explained about the team's academic system, the efforts to protect the players, the financial situation or the past difficulties related to the team management.
However, the most noticeable information is around two big incidents, directly related to the team players. Regarding the incident of Zeus, Joe said: “No need to talk about Zeus and his representative anymore. Everything has been carefully investigated. I love Zeus, he is part of T1 and I hope he will succeed.”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oftqh4r5wjg
With the incident of Gumayusi and Smash, Joe explained that the team needs time to adjust the role of the gunner player due to the change in the top lane. He also shared that T1 now has a top lane player in the direction of resistance and it is time to let the bottom line take on the main role.
However, these statements of Joe were quickly criticized by the community. Fans all asked Joe to apologize to the previous statements related to Zeus instead of “avoiding responsibility”. At the incident of Gumayusi, many people criticized Joe “not knowing about the game”, “insulting Doran and Gumayusi”.
T1 will end the 1-2 round of LCK 2025 this weekend after the match against NS Redforce tomorrow. Currently, T1 is definitely third in the group stage and will enter the selection round to attend MSI 2025 with Geng, Hanwha Life Esports, NS Redforce, KT Rolster and Dplus.
