T1 CEO, Joe Marsh, talks about moving team full time to the Philippines

T1’s unfortunate internet outage with their mid player, Karl, in the DPC SEA Regional Finals forced them to enlist the help of a last minute standin.

BOOM Esports won the grand finals with a 3-1 score with Karl being unable to play in game four.

Moving @T1 Dota team to 🇵🇭 full time and getting business internet to avoid a repeat of today. When the guys play in the same area, they are a different 👹. Next DPC should have a different outcome @kukudota @keyemjey @Matthew_Filemon @KennyXepher @gabbidoto @MarchDota

— Joe (@JoeMar) February 13, 2022

This unlucky episode prompted T1’s CEO, Joe Marsh, to come to a decision to shift the entire team to the Philippines full time.

Additionally, he also mentioned about providing business internet acccess to the Dota 2 team to avoid repeating the same episode.

Expressing his confidence in the current team, Joe also expressed that T1 is a different beast when all members play together under one roof.

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