League of Legends has started again in South Korea. But after Faker and T1 won the 2024 World Championship, 2025 is starting with a bang. The newly formed team from T1 loses 1-2 against DAMWON Gaming. The old final bosses from 2020 have regrouped in 2025 and brought back BeryL, the feared opponent from T1.
What was that played? In South Korea, the 2025 season begins with the LCK Cup.
10 teams compete against each other. A Fearless Draft is played: Each champ can only be played once during a series.
In the first round, each team plays five best-of-three matches. Of the 10 teams, 6 advance to the play-offs.
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World champion T1 meets the final opponent of 2020
This was the first game for T1: World champion T1 plays with the old line-up, only Doran is new on the top plane after they lost Zeus in the off-season.
Dplus KIA, the former DAMWON Gaming, have repositioned themselves. Of the well-known faces, only “Showmaker” is there. For this purpose, Keria’s feared opponent, BeryL, was brought back as support. BeryL is something like kryptonite for T1, T1 simply cannot win against the self-confessed gacha fan.
Dplus KIA won the first match clearly with 14-2 in just 23 minutes. In Match 2, Faker came back again, playing strong on Viktor with a score of 3-1-8. T1 was able to defeat DK 17-8.
But a hard-fought match 3 went back to Dplus KIA with 18-9.
Is it 2020 again?
That’s how it’s discussed: On reddit the focus here is actually not on T1, but on DK. A few years ago, their mid laner Showmaker was considered a great hope for LoL and the team also became world champions in 2020, but then gradually fell apart when first BeryL and then the brilliant jungler Canyon left.
In 2025 we are now happy that Showmaker seems really happy again. Above all, the new top planner Siwoo, who joined the team together with BeryL, seems to be a real ray of hope.
In the comments you are happy that “Showmaker” is having fun again and BeryL is back where he belongs:
DK wins against T1? Showmaker is back in form and BeryL back at DK? What year am I currently living in? It’s 2020 again?! The return of our Lord and Savior BeryL is real and it’s time for the GOAT to take the 3rd title.
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