T1 sweeps NS, Faker player of match

League of Legends results can blur together fast, but this one matters because T1 is finally stringing clean wins into an actual run. On May 13, T1 swept Nongshim RedForce 2-0 in LCK Week 7 and moved to 9-4 in the standings, good for fourth place at the time. Faker got the spotlight, but the bigger story is that this roster suddenly looks much more settled than it did two weeks ago. ### What happened in the series? T1 handled NS without dropping a game. The official LoL Esports schedule logged the match earlier on May 13, and team match history shows two T1 wins on patch 26.09 that day. That sounds basic, but for a team that has spent chunks of the season looking uneven, a straightforward 2-0 over a lower-table opponent is exactly the kind of result it needed. (liquipedia.net) ### Why was Faker the face of it? Because he was central to the way the series felt. Highlight listings for the full match package call out Faker’s Akali solo kill as one of the defining moments, which fits the usual “player of the match” logic in LCK — not just solid numbers, but the play everyone remembers after the series ends. When Faker is the one creating the clip that swings the mood in the arena, the match tends to get framed around him. (lolesports.com) ### Wasn’t Peyz the highlight too? Yes — and maybe the loudest one. The same match package flags a Peyz Ashe pentakill, which is the kind of play that instantly takes over the post-match conversation. So the series had two layers at once: Faker as the stabilizing centerpiece, and Peyz as the finisher who turned a winning position into a signature moment. That is a pretty good summary of what T1 wants this bot-side era to look like. (youtube.com) ### Why does a win over NS matter? Because the standings are compressed enough that “expected wins” still do real work. Liquipedia’s live table had T1 at 9-4 with a 20-8 game record after the NS match, behind Hanwha Life, Gen.G, and KT, while Nongshim fell to 4-9. So this was not just a routine sweep — it was T1 banking the points it could not afford to drop before the schedule gets meaner. (youtube.com) ### What changed for T1 recently? The simplest answer is consistency. T1’s recent match history shows a cluster of wins across both LCK play and the Korea online qualifier for the Esports World Cup, with the NS result extending that run. Early May still had some wobble — including losses on May 1 — but the last stretch looks much cleaner. Basically, the team has gone from “talented but noisy” to “dangerous if this version holds.” (liquipedia.net) ### How strong is fourth place, really? Stronger than it sounds, but still not comfortable. Fourth keeps T1 in the upper half of the table and within range of the teams above, yet the gap is real — Hanwha Life sat at 11-1, while Gen.G and KT were both 9-3. T1 is in the mix, not in control. That distinction matters a lot in an LCK split where seeding shapes the whole road to MSI. (lol.fandom.com) ### What comes next? A much better measuring stick. LoL Esports lists T1’s next marquee LCK match against Gen.G on Saturday, May 16. So the NS sweep does not prove T1 is ready to win the league. But it does set up the real question — whether this cleaner, sharper version of T1 can carry its form into a match against one of the teams directly above it. (liquipedia.net) ### Bottom line T1 did what a contender is supposed to do — beat the team below it, cleanly, and leave behind clips people will remember. The important part is not just that Faker got the shine. It is that T1 now looks like a team building toward something, not just surviving week to week. (liquipedia.net) (lolesports.com)