{"id":50285,"date":"2026-11-09T20:34:45","date_gmt":"2026-11-09T19:34:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mixtv1.com\/index.php\/2026\/11\/09\/t1-end-2026-season-without-a-title-for-first-time-since-2021\/"},"modified":"2026-11-09T20:34:45","modified_gmt":"2026-11-09T19:34:45","slug":"t1-end-2026-season-without-a-title-for-first-time-since-2021","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mixtv1.com\/index.php\/2026\/11\/09\/t1-end-2026-season-without-a-title-for-first-time-since-2021\/","title":{"rendered":"T1 End 2026 Season Without a Title for First Time Since 2021"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.strafe.com\/team\/t1-lol-7cafc9\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">T1<\/a> have finished the 2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.strafe.com\/lol\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">League of Legends<\/a> season without winning a Riot Games tournament title for the first time since 2021. Their last opportunity disappeared on Sunday, November 8, when <a href=\"https:\/\/www.strafe.com\/match\/bilibili-gaming-vs-t1-semifinals-worlds-2026-6d69c6\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Bilibili Gaming defeated them 3-1<\/a> in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.strafe.com\/event\/worlds-2026-cf4892\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Worlds 2026<\/a> semifinals.<\/p>\n<p>The result also completed an unusual season for the six-time world champions: T1 did not reach a single tournament final in 2026, something that had not happened since 2018. The title drought specifically covers Riot Games competitions, although T1 also left the independently organized Esports World Cup without a trophy.<\/p>\n<p> Four Straight Years of Titles Come to an End <\/p>\n<p>T1&#8217;s previous trophyless season came in 2021, when they reached the LCK Summer final but lost to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.strafe.com\/team\/dwg-kia-lol-f134ae\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">DWG KIA<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p> <a class=\"echo_read_more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.strafe.com\/news\/read\/t1-end-2026-season-without-a-title-for-first-time-since-2021\/\" target=\"_blank\">\u00a0\u00bb\u00a0More Info >>><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>T1 have finished the 2026 League of Legends season without winning a Riot Games tournament title for the first time since 2021. Their last opportunity disappeared on Sunday, November 8, when Bilibili Gaming defeated them 3-1 in the Worlds 2026 semifinals. The result also completed an unusual season for the six-time world champions: T1 did<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":55,"featured_media":50286,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wpai_generated_summary":"","wpai_meta_description":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[98],"tags":[36],"class_list":["post-50285","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-esports","tag-mixtv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mixtv1.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50285","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mixtv1.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mixtv1.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mixtv1.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/55"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mixtv1.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=50285"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.mixtv1.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50285\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mixtv1.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/50286"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mixtv1.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50285"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mixtv1.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50285"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mixtv1.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50285"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}