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Do you know how much and for how long i dreamed of seeing Peanut in a T1 jacket in 🥹 2018 me would be crying for sure

Also the Fakenut agenda is strong in here 😏

"Wangho look like an idiol, the rest are like squid"(or something like that 🤣)

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SKT is not just a name.

This is the article written about SKT esport organization.

Trans by me.

So the season officially closed with SK Telecom T1 by Gen.G in the first series of LCK regional qualifiers for world championships.

In 2018 season, they got nothing but probably SKT has learned so many lessons. They will have a lot of things to do with their players and coaches.

Because stumbling is not a failure unless you accept lying there and refuse to stand up and start over. SKT T1: Not just a name, they were great and of course, when SKT T1 is still there, they will be ready to rise at any time.

The victim of unchangeable rule.

Looking back on SKT's journey from season 2013 to present, 2018 is not the first year they go through a critical time. There are a lot of coincidences between 2018 and 2014. Two years that SKT disappointed their fans. 2014 was truly hard when Impact, Bengi, Faker, Piglet, and Poohmandu, who helped SKT got their World Championship 2013, were leaving or losing their form so badly. Their performances were up and down the whole season. The jungler-Bengi was a centre of criticisms and Samsung White ended their dream of being in World Championship 2014. Then in tiebreaker with Najin White Shield, Kkoma's students just let it runs its course and got defeated 3-1. There's not that complicated in this year season since SKT didn't need to play tiebreaker. They were unstable. Blank was the one who got blame for this failure. Again, Gen.G (Samsung Galaxy) put an end to SKT's WC dream. This is bitter ending but perhaps they deserved it for what they had performed in spring season and until their very last games.

After 2 years of winning, 2015 and 2016, SKT showed the first signs of their crumbling in the end of 2017. They placed 2nd in both summer split and WC by their bad performances. After that, SKT was facing more and more difficulties since Peanut, Huni and head coach cCarter suddenly left. Everyone knows that building success is extremely difficult but maintaining success is even more difficult.

Kkoma became a head coach and he had to fix a chaotic-SKT. This time he had familiar partners, Poohmadu and Bengi, but leading this sinking SKT ship to destination was beyond his ability. With an inexperienced staff, the failed to find their own playstyle, and there was no new players could catch up with their superstars (96line). Specifically, they failed to improve player's mental health and their skills. Every team has to be in successful cycle. They could go down by many reasons such as losing motivation, players leaving, changing of meta, or simply caught up by others. SKT surely understood those problems, but they haven't had enough capacity to change it yet. At least they didn't let everything happen easily like 2014. Then after seeing the team hit the bottom, the only issue of coaching staff right now is how to make SKT climb up and look like the strongest one.

SKT is not just the name.

Every team has to built up from every single member. This is not abstract at all, especially when we talk about esports. Look at Gen.G they was a new organization and didn't win any championship but people still recognize Cuvee, Ambition, Haru, Crown, Ruler and Corejj as a World Champion.

There is a quote from Odin in Thor Ragnarok: "Asgard is not a place. Never was. This could be Asgard. Asgard is where our people stand. Even now, right now, those people need your help." Then when Asgard got destroyed, their people still believe wherever they stand, it's their home. However, it only can be true when SKT disappears. Gladly, SKT is still there, then there is no reason for SKT members to find another home. LCK had witnessed many organizations showed up and disappeared, players came and went. Just kt and SKT can overcome challenges and still run until now. SKT even managed to keep 96line. With SKT's potential and history, there is low chance that the greatest team of LoL suddenly disappear and replace by different name. Some fans still worry that SKT's superstars will leave and it means SKT will lost its soul. Yes, it doesn't sound good but don't worry. SKT has its own soul and its own path. There is no one can put themselves above the team.

An inevitable revolution.

Some people think that esports is not like traditional sports, where titles stayed with the club forever. For example, if Real Madrid's golden generation retired, we couldn't minus 4 C1 cups that they won. Real Madrid is still great with 13 cups as long as their name is Real Madrid. Then there is the same to SKT. SKT will be SKT even Faker, Bang and Wolf leave. SKT is still the greatest team in LoL until SKT disappear or passed by other team.

However, they have to find the way to keep the name SKT always attractive. MaRin was there after the horrible 2014 season. (Bengi), Faker, Bang, and Wolf even have been through more than that. They decided to fight for SKT when people believed that soon enough no one would remember them. The result is 2 World Championships in 2015 and 2016, 4 LCK winners, 2 MSI titles. That's made people who criticized them shut their mouths and praise them.

Another tough time may begin, there is no permanent success and also no permanent failure. SKT and Kkoma had gone ahead by training young talents before and now they're behind others like Griffin, Kingzone, and Afreeca. After all, in any (e)sports, staff and players are the main reason for their organization's success.