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T1 Beat Movistar KOI 2-0 to Reach the Worlds 2026 Quarter-Finals at 3-1, the Record They Won With in 2024
T1 swept Movistar KOI on 29 October (KST) and became the third team into the quarter-finals. In the last two Worlds, six teams qualified at 3-1: one won the title, one reached a semi-final, four went out in the quarter-finals.
The table this is written from: /worlds-2026
T1 are in the quarter-finals of the 2026 World Championship. They beat Movistar KOI 2-0 in a best-of-three at 05:00 Korea time on 29 October and finished the Swiss Stage at 3-1, the third team through after Dplus KIA and Gen.G.
Their only loss came in the second round, to Dplus KIA. Since then they have beaten CTBC Flying Oyster and Movistar KOI.
The two games, from Riot’s live stats
| Game | Kills | Gold | Towers | Dragons | Barons |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 20–10 | 82,899–79,836 | 10–5 | 4–3 | 1–1 |
| 2 | 22–9 | 57,518–45,208 | 9–0 | 3–0 | 0–0 |
Game 1 was close on gold, about 3,000 apart at the end, with a baron each. Game 2 was not: Movistar KOI did not take a tower or a dragon. Faker played Syndra and then Orianna.
Where 3-1 teams finished, 2024 and 2025
| Year | Team | Swiss record | Went out in / won |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | Top Esports | 3-1 | Quarter-final |
| 2024 | Hanwha Life | 3-1 | Quarter-final |
| 2024 | T1 | 3-1 | Won the title |
| 2025 | Hanwha Life | 3-1 | Quarter-final |
| 2025 | G2 | 3-1 | Quarter-final |
| 2025 | Gen.G | 3-1 | Semi-final |
Six teams, three outcomes: one title, one semi-final, four quarter-final exits. The 3-1 route is the one T1 took to the 2024 title. In 2025 they won from 3-2, the last team in.
Across the same two years, the record a team qualified with did not line up with how far it went. Of the six 3-2 teams, four reached at least the semi-finals; of the six 3-1 teams, two did; of the four 3-0 teams, two did. Sixteen teams over two years is too few to call that a pattern. It is a reason not to read the Swiss record as a ranking.
Who read T1 that day
The match started at 20:00 UTC on 28 October. That day the T1 (esports) Wikipedia article was read 2,184 times across its 17 language editions, about twice its usual day of 1,079. The next day it fell back to 1,794.
The Spanish edition stood out: 267 reads against a usual 61, more than four times normal, on the day T1 played a Spanish team. English (897) and Chinese (401) were still the largest editions.
Every team’s record, where 3-0, 3-1 and 3-2 teams finished, and which language reads each team, is on our Worlds 2026 page. The last three places are decided on 1 November (the six teams and how deciders have gone).
Results and game statistics from Riot Games’ official LoL Esports schedule and live stats feed. Wikipedia reads from the Wikimedia Pageviews API, user traffic only. Times are Korea Standard Time unless marked UTC.
Where these numbers come from
Sources
- Riot Games (LoL Esports schedule) — Official schedule and match details (esports-api getSchedule, league 98767975604431411; getEventDetails, match 115660540726095061): T1 2–0 Movistar KOI, best-of-three, 29 Oct 2026 05:00 KST; every completed Swiss Stage match of 2024, 2025 and 2026 and the 2024 and 2025 knockout results. Read 31 October 2026, 07:40 KST. · https://lolesports.com/en-US/schedule
- Riot Games (LoL Esports live stats feed) — Final frames of games 1 and 2 (game ids 115660540726095062, 115660540726095063): kills, total gold, towers, dragons, barons, champions. · https://lolesports.com/en-US/schedule
- Wikimedia Pageviews API — Daily user reads of the T1 (esports) article in all 17 language editions, 1 to 29 October 2026 (UTC). Usual day = median of 1 to 13 October. · https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/metrics/pageviews/per-article
What we checked
- Game 1 (T1 blue): T1 won; kills 20–10, gold 82,899–79,836, towers 10–5, dragons 4–3, barons 1–1. Faker played Syndra.
- Game 2 (T1 blue): T1 won; kills 22–9, gold 57,518–45,208, towers 9–0, dragons 3–0, barons 0–0. Faker played Orianna.
- T1 in 2026: beat LOS, lost to Dplus KIA, beat CTBC Flying Oyster, beat Movistar KOI. Qualified third, after Dplus KIA and Gen.G (both 3-0).
- Teams that qualified at 3-1, 2024: Top Esports (quarter-final), Hanwha Life (quarter-final), T1 (won the title). 2025: Hanwha Life (quarter-final), G2 (quarter-final), Gen.G (semi-final).
- For comparison, 2024 and 2025: four teams qualified at 3-0 (one final, one semi-final, two quarter-finals) and six at 3-2 (one title, one final, two semi-finals, two quarter-finals). T1 won in 2024 at 3-1 and in 2025 at 3-2.
- Wikipedia, T1 (esports), all editions: usual day 1,079 reads; 2,184 on 28 October (UTC), the day the match began; 1,794 on 29 October. Spanish edition: usual 61, 267 on 28 October.
What we left out, and why
- 2023, which the official schedule feed does not cover from the start of the Swiss Stage.
- Quarter-final pairings. The draw had not been published when we wrote.
- Predictions. Sixteen qualified teams over two years is a small group.
The data behind this
Written from the same data
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