The world champion in League of Legends, T1, has announced that they have signed the ADC Lee “Gumayusi” Min-Hyeon until 2025. In recent days, the South Korean LoL team was able to persuade players Oner and Keria to extend their contracts with T1 for two more years. Now everything revolves around one man: Zeus.
This is the situation: The T1 team has been playing together in the current constellation for 3 years. In 2021, they gathered four players around the experienced, then three-time world champion Faker in the mid lane, most of whom come from their own youth academy. It is rare for a team in LoL to stay together for so long, and it can only be explained by the exceptionally great success of T1:
This team reached the finals of the World Championship in their first season together, 2022, and unfortunately lost to DRX.
However, in 2023 and 2024, they were able to win the World Championship. Fans have loved Faker for over 10 years, and in this version of T1, they finally love his teammates, who were constantly swapped out in previous years.
On November 18, 2024, which is tomorrow, a Monday, 4 of the 5 players’ contracts would originally expire, and fans were worried that the team might fall apart. The young players who had been brought in years ago are now all two-time world champions and stars in LoL, who can demand much higher salaries.
T1 secures the services of ADC Gumayusi
Who has been extended now? The 22-year-old ADC Gumayusi has signed with T1 until 2025 (via twitter). T1 announced this today at 1 PM German time via the short messaging service X, formerly Twitter.
Gumayusi had stated right after winning the World Championship that he was considering staying with T1. He could even imagine all 5 players remaining at T1.
Just in the last few days, T1 was able to secure the services of supporter Keria and jungler Oner until 2026.
Midlaner Faker is still in the roster until 2025.
“The Infinity Gauntlet is almost complete”
This is now the discussion: On reddit, people are cheering “The Infinity Gauntlet is almost complete,” a reference to Marvel’s villain Thanos.
In the forum, people are discussing that Gumayusi has only signed for one year. However, it is said: This is normal. The exceptions are Oner and Keria, who have committed for 2 years.
Who is still missing? The big mystery now is about top-laner Zeus, who has been considered a shaky candidate from the beginning, causing concern for T1 and its fans.
Choi “Zeus” Wooo-je is only 20 years old and has probably made the biggest performance leap at T1 in the last two years. Top-laner is also a position where there are very few superstars of his caliber.
Therefore, it could be that Zeus steps out of Faker’s shadow and wants to lead “his own team.” In a new team, he would certainly have more pressure but would likely also earn more money.
It is assumed that Zeus is testing the waters as a freelancer and keeping T1 on their toes until he hopefully decides to sign with T1, in the eyes of the fans: LoL reaches new levels in eSports: A video even makes tough guys feel soft
