Well deserved
The first time I saw him play in the LEC was a Zoe game and I thought his mechanics were absurd. This was around 2016/2017
The rest is history
NEW: 🇨🇳 China's nuclear fusion research has completed a massive magnet weighing 582 tons.
The goal is an "unlimited energy" artificial sun.
They plan to start the first power generation by 2030.
A safe, CO2-zero ultimate energy race.
쇼메: 제가 축구를 좋아하다 보니까 야유도 문화의 일부라고 생각해서 야유받는 거에 대해 멘탈이 흔들린다기보단 야유를 해줘서 너무 좋았거든요. 문화를 직접 경험하는 느낌이 너무 좋았달까? 제가 좋아하는 스포츠에 내가 선수로 살아숨쉬고 있구나를 느낄 수 있는 순간이라서 야유가 들려도 계속 웃음만 나왔어요. 되게 뜻깊은 순간이었고 그래서 좋은 결과가 있지 않았나 싶습니다 #ShowMaker
Years of sweat and tears to get this movie done. It was the most daunting thing that I've ever undertaken. If you have the chance and mean, please watch it and enjoy the fruit of our labour. You won't be disappointed with this jam packed hand-drawn animation of a movie.
The Jensen Huang Buff is real!🤩
T1 BASE CAMP 홍대점에 깜짝 방문을 해주신 NVIDIA의 젠슨황 CEO님과 T1 LoL 선수단의 만남이 성사되었습니다!
오늘의 만남을 원동력으로, 다가오는 경기에서 완벽한 경기력을 보여드리도록 하겠습니다.
The T1 LoL team was able to meet with NVIDIA’s CEO Jensen Huang during his surprise visit to T1 BASE CAMP Hongdae to celebrate @RiotGames coming to @NVIDIARTXSpark .
Fueled by this amazing energy, we’ll bring our best to the upcoming matches!
@NVIDIAGeForce #TogetherAs1
Chrissy: Oh, it's very high
Keria: ve-very high
Chrissy: It is very high for me too
Keria: I'm sorry. My song is bad..
Chrissy: No, amazing! And so much fun!
> be Riot
> 2014 anti-cheat team is 3 guys
> legacy system Packman barely works
> 2020 ship Vanguard, kernel-level, on boot
> internet calls it a Chinese rootkit
> ship it anyway
> ban 3.6M Valorant cheaters in 4 years
> one ban every 37 seconds
> 2024 force it onto League, 175K bans in months
> scripting drops below 1% for the first time in 4 years
> Elysium, Oasys, Zeitgeist all shut down
> May 22 2026 flip IOMMU on DMA rigs, they blue-screen mid-match
> tweet "congrats on your $6k paperweight"
a Tencent rootkit just bricked a $6,000 wallhack rig and the only people mad are the guys who bought one
Be Lee Sang-hyeok ''Faker''
- born May 7, 1996
- discovers League of Legends in 2011
- climbs the Korean ranked ladder to #1 in the world
- asks his father to let him drop out of high school to go pro
- father says yes, a month later
- signed by SK Telecom T1 in 2013 at just 17 years old
2013
- makes his professional debut on April 6, 2013
- nobody knows him
- solo kills one of Korea's best mid laners in his very first tournament
- wins Worlds in his debut year
- Worlds: the annual global League of Legends championship
- the world now knows who he is
2015-2016 [the dynasty]
- wins Worlds again in 2015
- wins Worlds again in 2016
- 3x World Championships in four years
- nicknamed "The Unkillable Demon King"
- called the Michael Jordan of esports
- the benchmark every mid laner is measured against
2022
- reaches Worlds finals but loses in heartbreaking fashion to his high school classmate ''Deft''
- the drought stretches to six years without a title
2023 [the return]
- T1 goes on a legendary Worlds run
- Faker lifts his 4th World Championship trophy
- breaks down in tears on stage
- wins Esports Player of the Year
- the South Korean president personally congratulates the team
- inducted as the first ever Hall of Legends player in 2024
2024-2025 [the three-peat]
- wins Worlds 2024
- wins Worlds 2025
- 6x World Championships total, no one else has more than two
- T1 completes the first ever three-peat in League of Legends history
- signs contract extension with T1 through 2029
- still competing, still the best
2026
- 10 LCK titles, 6 World Championships, 2 MSI titles
- the most decorated player in League of Legends history
- has never played for any team other than T1
- still competing
Imagine if his dad didn't say yes.
The greatest esports career would have almost never happened.
Kid dropped out of high school, became the greatest esports player of all time, and did it again at the age of 29.