Following T1’s devastating defeat to Gen.G in the Worlds 2025 Swiss Stage, head coach kkOma and coach Mata offered assessments of what went wrong, from draft misreads to execution struggles.
For Mata, the problems for T1 started in the drafting phase. “We lost because we drafted poorly. I feel very sorry for the players,” Mata said in an interview with FOMOS. The team’s decision to leave Orianna open drew attention, but Mata explained it was a calculated gamble. “We were aware Orianna is a top-tier pick,” he explained. “But as the red side we’re constrained on bans, so the plan was to trade a meta pick for priority elsewhere.”
