Ambition backed under a tower to upgrade one of his abilities, a process that momentarily froze his champion. As a studio audience looked on, Faker gingerly approached one of his opponents, an older, well-known player named Ambition. Reed-thin, with delicate features and an elfin haircut, he chose Nidalee, a female warrior who can mutate into a cougar.īecause League is a five-on-five game shot from a bird's-eye point of view - unlike first-person shooters like Call of Duty - the game is tailor-made for spectators. At the beginning of the game, when the teams selected their characters, or champions, Faker appeared on screen. The match was broadcast on Ongamenet, a cable network devoted to eSports. SK Telecom's first opponent was CJ Blaze, one of the most popular teams in Korea.
What happened next is now seen as a turning point in League of Legends history.
KOREAN LOL MATCH HISTORY PROFESSIONAL
When he debuted on the professional circuit in April 2013, the online chatter was deafening. The teenager, whose real name was Lee Sang-hyeok, changed his gamer tag to Faker. That spring, SK Telecom, one of several Korean companies that sponsor competitive gaming teams, announced it was forming a second League squad and had signed GoJeonPa.
By the beginning of 2013, he was the top player on the Korean server. Before long, word spread that GoJeonPa was actually a high schooler who lived on the outskirts of Seoul. No one had heard of him many assumed he was a professional gamer slumming it in his spare time. Wo years ago, around the time that League of Legends became the most popular computer game in the world, chat rooms from Berlin to Beijing started to buzz about a mysterious Korean known as GoJeonPa who was tearing up the online ranks.
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