Who is Faker?

• Faker is considered the best and most famous LoL player in the history of the #MOBA. The midlaner has won 3 world championships with T1 and collected tens of personal awards. He is known for his huge champion pool and mechanical abilities: The “Unkillable Demon King” is a stone-cold killer in Midlane and there are endless highlight videos of the South Korean.
• For the last 5 or 6 years, things haven’t been going so well. His team T1 has lost a World Cup final by a narrow margin, has been eliminated more often or hasn’t qualified for a Worlds at all. Faker’s teammates and coaches constantly came and went, there was no consistency at T1 except for him. But in 2022, Faker finally has top teammates next to him again, like supporter Keria, and T1 is shining. At 15-0, T1 dominates the LCK. No team in the LCK has managed that before T1.
• Faker is such a big deal in South Korea that he is considered an “ambassador of the country” and enjoys a status similar to Olympians. One politician called for a special rule to be introduced especially for him so that he would not have to do his mandatory military service until after his professional career.

Faker broadcasts game live on Twitch – A pro fails 0-16

How did someone upset Faker?

The substitute top planner of the Chinese professional team TopEsports, Qingtian, has incurred the displeasure of Faker. He played Aatrox, but didn’t try very hard in a game that Faker broadcast live on Twitch.

Faker said: the player would intentionally sabotage the game, had 16 deaths and no kills in a 32 minute game that Faker’s team clearly lost. Faker was talking about “throwing”, which is what it’s called in LoL when a player gets so frustrated and feels he has no chance that he doesn’t even try anymore but just messes up, dies in rows and can’t get anything done.

Professionals are expected to do their best even in such a situation and to finish the game with dignity.

Faker was upset about Chinese players behaving so badly in the Korean solo cue. He was said to hate them most of all. He said the problem has been around for umpteen years now. He wondered why Riot Games gave them super accounts in the first place.

With these “Super Accounts”, pros can play in any league. Because the Korean solo cue is considered the best in the world, many pros from abroad also come there. Faker is apparently annoyed that someone from China comes to the Solo Queue and then screws up and sabotages games there.

Professional gets month’s salary fine, is publicly exposed

What happened after that?

• The team of the professional thus exposed, Top Esports, issued an official statement on Weibo, the Chinese Facebook, reprimanding Qingtian for his behavior and saying they would deduct a month’s salary from his wages. They will also tighten up his training and put him under supervision.
• The player himself apologized and confessed that as a professional player, he had to make more efforts to contribute to the good environment of the game. He said he would take every game seriously in the future.
• Even Riot Games Korea has responded, saying they have heard Faker’s complaint. But this is something that needs to be resolved at the highest level (via dotesports).

This is what is behind itr:

What the poor pro did there probably happens thousands of times a day worldwide in LoL. But to do it in a game that Faker broadcasts on Twitch, of all places, is just stupid.

In 2021, Faker was considered a co-favorite to win Worlds with T1.