LPL fans are very excited and think that IG can completely defeat T1 in the upcoming season.

The "new" IG has an excellent debut at Demacia Cup 2024

Demacia Cup 2024 is a quite special tournament of the LPL as it takes place right after an extremely noisy and "drama" transfer period. Even JDG with a star-studded squad was recently eliminated early from this tournament when they played weakly and lacked determination. In contrast to JDG, the "super team" named IG had an extremely excellent opening performance, winning all 3 matches in the group stage to firmly grasp the ticket to play in the Quarterfinals.

The "new" IG has registered its name in the Quarterfinals after winning all the group stages of Demacia Cup 2024

Most especially, IG also defeated RNG in just 16 minutes and 27 seconds and set a record for the fastest game at Demacia Cup 2024. This victory showed the complete dominance of IG from the laning stage, control. Control the map until decisive battles. Names that were originally questioned about their performance such as TheShy, Rookie or Jiejie have shown excellent performances and crushed mixed opinions towards them.

IG overwhelmed RNG and won in just 16 minutes and 27 seconds

LPL fans continuously mentioned T1's name after IG made a "huge" achievement.

For audiences in the LPL region, IG's recent victory has much greater meaning than a ticket to the Quarterfinals. The dominance that IG showed made many LPL fans recall the match in which this team defeated SKT T1 (T1's predecessor) after only 15 minutes and 57 seconds at MSI 2019. This is further reinforced. More so when the current IG squad owns 2 players who once brought sadness to Faker and his teammates last year, TheShy and Rookie.

"The last match was truly TheShy's outstanding performance" - An audience commented after the match

"1557 is very close (referring to SKT T1's loss to IG at MSI 2019), I really want T1 to compete with IG right now. Let's play a great match" - Another viewer shared

"After seeing IG's new squad play, I just want to say bring T1 here" - Another player agreed

When looking back at the 3 group stage matches of Demacia Cup 2024, IG truly breathed a new breath of life and hope into the LPL audience. This team, in addition to the ability to impose their playing style on their opponents, also shows great fighting spirit. Even when the opponent applied the strategy of changing lanes and continuously attacking TheShy, IG still had skillful macro moves, gradually regaining the advantage to win in the end.

IG's return has brought a lot of excitement from fans

Of course, IG's recent achievements only stopped at winning against opponents considered weaker, so it's still difficult for the audience to accurately assess their strength. Therefore, the LPL audience talking about IG being able to defeat T1 (the world champion) is still just "early crowing" talk. On the positive side, IG's performance has brought back excitement and confidence to the LPL audience in the new season, which has been greatly depleted after consecutive failures at international tournaments in recent years. recently. Hopefully, the "super team" IG will be able to excel in the new season and really challenge the top teams in the LCK as fans expect.