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T1 Worlds 2025 skins ⭐🍅
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T1 Worlds 2025 skins ⭐🍅
New Shark Michael Kesselring played with Will (and under Warso) at Worlds in 2025.
(He's number 7 in these photos. In the grainy video, they hug after the championship win at the far left.)
There's also a post here talking a little about Kesselring and how he loved playing for Warso at Worlds (🤷♀️).
“Off the goalpost” I am going to start killing
Every time I see a player in an international tournament and I think “I’ve heard that name but I don’t know where they play,” I google them and they play for either St Louis or Nashville. Every time.
^I was trying to capture the kind of vibe I got from Bdd's storyline and KT vs T1 Worlds 25 Finals teaser and that's the only thing that came to my mind, not directly related anyway LoL storytelling thrives off the veteran players and their connections, but half of KT25 is young people without admirable competitive backgrounds, so it makes a lot of sense that production drags Bdd as a centerpiece through all quarters->finals storylines and Cuzz is just supporting the narrative, since they have more moments as teammates than enemies (and later the whole team does it too but I'll express my thoughts on that some other time).
KT and T1 have longterm heated rivalry and all (not that heated in 2025 ig) but it doesn't feel like DRX22 storyline for example where Keria was like "I'm sorry Hyukkyu, I need to win" and Guma had "The movie is over" line, T1 motivation is not that strong either. I don't think Peter or Cuzz would go after Guma or other players they know of T1 with direct intent like "We will end your Worlds winning streak" or "We will win no matter what", T1-Cuzz connection is barely even mentioned. And Faker looks less of a final boss than usual (though he still has more dramatic lighting then Bdd). 22 vs 25 is "someone's dream will be shattered" vs "a man can dream" — it's literally the same thing, but accents are placed differently. Now there is no tension, the whole Worlds theme is sort of tranquil and calm and instead of using past in vindictive way, they use it as a base to move forward. The teaser storyline feels like reflecting on the path behind before taking one last step. It's hopeful, not dreadful. I saw comments that people disliked Worlds 25 teasers comparatively to 22-24 but I really like that this Finals one is a 'quiet' teaser and for me personally it really is because of KT, I'm not sure any other team would work. I mean it feels in character — KT doesn't do agressive talk in teasers, they have more of 'don't underestimate us', 'we need to improve and we will' and 'we walk our path' vibes, they don't adress other teams more than in warnings. T1 can do agressive talk, but usually in response + fun fact: back in 2023 (as far as I remember) while recording T1 vs JDG semifinal teaser Faker declined some strong lines towards Ruler and they were changed. If it was GEN instead of KT, I'm pretty sure language would be harsher (Chovy had some cold-ass things to say against HLE, holy). Nonetheless here we have a team that attacks non-aggresively and a team who defends non-aggresively. Like they can sit and have a cup of tea together before strarting fighting to death, you know?
I wanted to say that KT need to have Aiming or Lehends to do 'trashtalking' but even they hadn't done it in 2023, so let's assume Bdd has a somewhat humbling aura...
'deja faite' <333 (x)
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