T1 has completed a historic three-peat at Worlds. On the 9th, at the Dong’an Lake Sports Park Multi-Purpose Gymnasium in Chengdu, China, T1 edged KT Rolster 3–2 in the grand final of the 2025 League of Legends World Championship, securing their sixth world title overall and lifting the Summoner’s Cup in 2023, 2024, and 2025 to complete the three-peat.

No word feels sufficient anymore for Lee “Faker” Sang-hyeok, who was at the heart of all of it. T1’s journey often felt like a tightrope act—so precarious that fans even nicknamed them a “circus troupe.” A team that always draws the brightest spotlight inevitably shoulders the heaviest burden.

There were stretches when their form wobbled. They reached Worlds as the LCK’s fourth seed, then from the Play-In Stage onward cut down a gauntlet of LPL powers—starting with Invictus Gaming, then Anyone’s Legend and Top Esports—stringing together an undefeated best-of-five record against LPL opposition. The final was no cakewalk either. Facing a surging KT that had ridden an underdog uprising to the title match, T1 fell behind 1–2, teetering on the brink, before once again showing why they are so formidable at Worlds and closing the series 3–2.

Winning Worlds once is hard enough. T1—and Faker—now stand at six championships and a completed three-peat. Even more astonishing, they’ve earned the right to chase an unprecedented seventh title and a four-peat next year.

This article was translated from the original that appeared on INVEN.