Squid Game Honors T1 with a Season 2 Reference

The T1 name continues to echo even past the League of Legends sphere. This time, the South Korean organization's cultural reach was in full display once more with the hit Neflix show Squid Game dropping a reference to T1 during Season 2.

Having taken the 2024 World Championship trophy back to their home country (and Squid Game's) of South Korea back in November, the T1 brand just cannot seem to stop growing. The accomplishment, moreover, marked the fifth time T1 lifts the most important trophy in the game, and the second in consecutive years.

With their win, T1 continues to play a key role in South Korea's international dominance in League of Legends. Perhaps their long list of accolades have earned the team the honor bestowed upon them by their fellow countrymen at Squid Game, a show based around games, although of an entirely different nature.

The T1 logo appears in Season 2 of Squid Game. (Credit: Squid Game/Netflix)

Reference or accident?

While it is true that the T1 brand is gaining levels of recognition previously unheard of in the world of esports, it also seems entirely possible that the team's logo made it into Squid Game by accident, rather than it having been a direct reference.

The scene, which takes place in Episode 2 of Season 2, shows Seong Gi-hun, or Player 456, in a car driving around the Hongdae neighborhood of Seoul, South Korea. It could well be the case that, while filming the shot, the car drove past the T1 Base Camp, a PC café built by T1 in that very same part of town.

Given the team's growth over the years, their historic number of Worlds trophies, and Faker's near superstar levels of fame in South Korea as well as the rest of the world, however, we choose to believe the scene was nothing but a deliberate reference to T1 by Squid Game. 

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Image source: Squid Game/Netflix

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