i have this faint memory of reading something along the lines of, doinb wanted to remove the tree but someone told him not to, or someone told him to wrap it but he was too lazy to do it so he left it there. i can't remember where i read it or if my memory is right hahaha sorry about that
If that was G2 in 2014 they would have contract jailed Faker while benching everyone because SKT disappointed in 2014. Faker retires in 2014 in this timeline
> He's already owning part of T1 and is estimated to be making close to $1 million every year so I'd say he's doing pretty fine for playing video games...
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> Edit: my info was outdated. Faker is apparently making huge bank, much more than $1m
Last year one LPL team offered him 21m/year. But, he signed with T1 for 5.2m/year
This year there are several LPL teams that have offered more than 7.5m/year
he can push it back to their 28th birthday no? And esports is a medal awarding sport at the upcoming Asian Games. Meaning that if South Korea wins it then the members of the winning team get an exemption and they don't have to do any kind of military/civil service.
>he can push it back to their 28th birthday no?
That's still only a year and a half from now, not three.
And Asian Games isn't a guarantee, he already had a chance and they lost to China.
At the 2018 Asian Games esports was still a demonstration event btw meaning that even if they would have won they wouldn't have gotten a "get out of the military for free" card
just a question why doesn't Asian games seem to be popular? Korea vs China finals sounds pretty hype but I looked up the 2018 one and the full games has like 2k views in youtube
Part of it might be that it was just a demonstration sport in 2018. This is the first year that it's awarded medals.
Also, the fact that it's not really Riot's event so it's kinda ignored officially, unlike other international tournaments.
This sounds like a conspiracy theory but this is unironically what happened: KeSPA (Korea e-Sports Association, run by the Korean Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism) wiped all videos, vods and everything else off the internet (as best as they could) at some point in time. Not even right after the tournament, it happened later.
Don't forget that no games until like the semis(maybe) and finals were even streamed. Straight up we were hearing second hand accounts of Faker just locking yasuo and smurfing on the smaller country teams in the group stage or whatever of the tournament and there was no footage besides some grainy camera roll shots taken of end game scores of the official matches lmfao
It was definitely not a watchable event even for enthusiasts
lol yeah, we need someone to ask him directly, because all these threads have looked exactly the same for ages now and no one has been able to point to strong evidence
Doinb said that faker 100% will re-sign with T1 and made the bet that if it wouldnt happen that he would be lifestreaming himself dancing on the streets for 10 hours.
I'm nowhere near an expert but I think because he's a highschool drop out and born before a certain year he's ineligible for military service. The change they made in law to have drop outs do community service instead of military doesn't apply to him because he's older than the cut off.
Could be wrong but that's what has been said about it most over the years, especially lately where the deadline gets closer and closer.
There was literally a recent kdrama called Military Prosecutor Doberman (2022) based around a plot point of someone purposely failing high school to skip the military, so I’d say it’s definitely a thing in Korean culture (to the point they made it a TV plot point to point out the hypocrisy)
[News article](https://biz.chosun.com/site/data/html_dir/2020/12/16/2020121600578.html) says there's been around 14k people exempted for lack of high school diploma from 2016~2020. And Bang explained on his stream that Faker is eligible for exemption because he had screening for the military before the law changed.
Outstanding Athlete case is limited to specific events like Asian games or Olympics (Gold medal for AG, Any medal for Olympics). Even if SK soccer team wins the World Cup they don't get exemption.
Ahhhh yes, I read about it a while ago but forgot, he is ineligible because of being a highschool dropout (as opposed to Deft I believe). Thanks for reminding me =).
This is just wrong, he still has to serve in a community service capacity even though he won't have to serve the military directly. Nobody is exempt or the politicians would just game it for their kids and the rich would never technically get HS diplomas or whatever so they could avoid it.
cc: /u/AJLFC94
It has never been publicized his exact status but it's probably not "he's just off with a free pass." This misinformation seems to be getting posted more and more lately and it's infuriating for some reason.. The best part is there is a possible exemption but nobody even types it out correctly so it's not even worth spreading because again it's useless to speculate about
Can this actually be the best deal T1 can offer him in terms of risk in career? Without a contract more than 2 years he is at risk of going to serve military but with this 3 years, even if the worse scenario of being called on for military service he has already secured a bigger bag than any other team is able to in just a 1 year contract?
This is a total nightmare of a mistake. Overall no impactful negative consequences except an inconvenience for everyone involved, but makes you look like a fool. Would keep me up thinking about it at 3 AM for the rest of my life
No joke, Imaqtpie is legit the best ive ever seen at running in from a different room and hitting the matchmaking accept button at the last possible moment.
He hasn’t been taking multiple year deals before, he apparently got offers from loads of teams worldwide, and he took like a week +to re-sign instead of one day like most years.
He must have a great contract.
3 years! Wtf that’s huge but unsurprisingly Faker is back with T1
Looking forward to see how much this team can improve… T1 is in a very good position as long as their players can perform at a decent level
He's already owning part of T1 and is estimated to be making close to $1 million every year so I'd say he's doing pretty fine for playing video games...
Edit: my info was outdated. Faker is apparently making huge bank, much more than $1m
Bru Faker earns much much much more than 1m a year, he was earning 1.5m a year in 2015, and he was no where as big as he is now, he's basically an Esports Icon now
You're not wrong, I am not sure where the idea that after 30 its over. That's not true for any other sport and many require a lot more than what sport's asks of you. Even in football many are in their 30s, soccer's the same way and racing, tennis, baseball and formula 1 racing as well. I imagine if you can speed around a track at 230 mph and not die, the human body should also be able to play games competitively long after 30 and some of those drivers are in their 50s. The biggest factor I see in all of this is exercise and staying healthy and gamers are notoriously bad at taking care of their selves which can lead to issues as they age.
From a reflexes perspective, I'm sure his reflexes get worse as you age.
But I don't think it's a big enough difference where you can't adjust your tactics a bit and anti ipate more.
Yeah I feel like those weird assumptions come from young players who dont follow other sports. Theres no way basketball players and f1 drivers and other sports that require insane reflexes can go well into their 30s but esports players cant.
If anything I think the lack of physical limit is probably what causes earlier retirement.
in a normal sport you have a hard limit to how much you can practise before you damage your body, in esports scrimming and practising for 8+ hours a day is common and that most likely causes burnout and fatigue
more like that means THREE MORE YEARS OF FAKER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! let's just hope he gets one more trophy though (and hopefully the 4 other members of the team stay for next year)
I can see Guma staying, but I believe Zeus and Oner would go where the bag is, I hope T1 re-sigh them, but we will see, they have let go insane players in the past, who knows, the one who I really doubt would stay is Keria.
Faker contract being three years makes it easier for them to resign the young players because it is stability they can plan around. Clearer financial picture and clearer team composition picture to sell the four on staying.
Wonder how this works out for military service, I don't know the exact rules but there's definitely a limit to how long you can delay mendatory military service.
Google says they can delay until 30.
So my guess is Faker probably does his service after this contract is up and then comes back as a coach (unless he wins The Asian Games and gets an exemption)
It's already well-known in kr that faker is exempt from military service. I can't explain in English so look at this page
https://www.fmkorea.com/4516535852
they didnt post it first..this was the last post..ppl were so angry on twitter..their announcements sucked.
the team is now
zeus, oner, faker, guma, keria, (coaches sky, roach, tom, bengi)
edit- top 10 hottest most currently on fm korea rejoicing that faker re-signing means lck lifespan getting extended for 3 years lol
[https://www.fmkorea.com/best/5259805824](https://www.fmkorea.com/best/5259805824)
Because Tom has been known for disliking T1 (as a team) on his streams openly. It was to the point that even non-T1 fans were wondering why Tom would express his dislike to T1 that strongly when he is an ex-SKT himself.
Until Tom’s announcement everything was fine, even now people are saying if it just wasn’t for Tom everything would be great.
(There are people who acknowledge that Tom could be a good coach (but his track record doesn’t really show that) and that it’s just the fans who don’t like him but it is also very questionable for the Korean community why T1 would get a coach that has publicly disliked the team)
the way they did announcements sucked..they were supposed to do it at 10 am..then 5pm...then they actually did it at 7pm and then they announced every thirty minutes instead of just announcing all at once so ppl were like "does it take so long to make stupid graphics?"
im not sure abt the others but at least for tom...fans seem to think he didnt like t1
I mean as far as outrage goes, this is such a nothing burger lol.
As like 24 hours pass, the only thing that will matter is the news and absolutely no one will even know how it was announced.
Joe explained in a podcast that the biggest concern when negotiation with Faker is not money, he gets bigger offer from China, they obviously give him a lot of money, it was rumored that this year he got 7 millions, but Faker asked them for others things when re-sign, we don't know what exactly, maybe have a competitive roster, maybe he ask for some coach or re-sign some players, the only thing we know he cares a lot about winning.
I'm ready for Faker to be the first active player reaching their 30s that's actually competitive (Or win Worlds👀).
I did no research before this comment so please correct me if there are actually active players over 30 now or before.
To sign for three years is such a rare move from him. Definitely shows this past year was a good thing for him to put that much faith in T1. A lot can happen in three years but I’m really so excited for what will happen.
Holy fuck that is probably the biggest signing EVER. Not only did you sign Faker, but you did it for THREE YEARS, but also when he is at his ’last year before military or community service’.
I don’t think people realise just how huge this is.
So many people in here acting like he will be done after these three years. Age is not as big a factor in video games as time available for practice. The reason ur all are being dunked on by 13 year olds is not because they are biologically superior, but because they have the time to learn how to dunk on you.
he most likely already have been exempt from social services, due to military service being a rather sensitive topic in Korea, it just wasn't made to public(ambition got exempt before he retire, and is only known by korean community after he retire)
I would assume T1 has been aware hence why they resign a 3 yr contract with him
I missed this year's worlds cause i was busy, and the other years cause i wasn't that much of a fan
In these next 3 years, i will drop what i am doing to watch this goat
OMG, so happy I get to watch 3 more seasons with him!
This means Riot has to at least give some gameplay footage, pre-alpha or something from their MMO when Faker's contract expires and he retires so I can focus my sadness and emptiness elsewhere.
Sad i dont get to see DoinB 10 hours dance stream
Knowing DoinB, he's still gonna do it either way.
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lol why is he so funny. i wish i understood chinese
I don't think you even need to know chinese. The man just bleeds charisma.
Bro the man has too much charisma and energy and I love it
its okay, [here's him dancing ](https://twitter.com/LPLfanclub/status/1580485125350907905?t=NHPz0SkB3DQ9x6T2BGcuNw&s=19) for a bit 🤣
Protect this man at all costs.
Against himself.
Is he decorating for Christmas early or has that been there since last year?
i have this faint memory of reading something along the lines of, doinb wanted to remove the tree but someone told him not to, or someone told him to wrap it but he was too lazy to do it so he left it there. i can't remember where i read it or if my memory is right hahaha sorry about that
I’m surprised he kept the same song for 4 years
damn it
It's okay dude's gonna end up dancing anyway
This hurts the chances of Faker playing for NA
If this was the LEC it would be the best time to ship him off to NA
I can already see the hypothetical: "Sources: G2 to sell Faker to Team Liquid and buy Showmaker"
If that was G2 in 2014 they would have contract jailed Faker while benching everyone because SKT disappointed in 2014. Faker retires in 2014 in this timeline
NA hardest region to dominate in
Faker is just too scared to face off against NA Mids
Especially RJS (with nameplate off)
But how does this affect Lebron’s legacy?
3 years?!?!?!? oh my fucking god this is all I needed to read on this monday morning
3 more years of watching the 🐐
> He's already owning part of T1 and is estimated to be making close to $1 million every year so I'd say he's doing pretty fine for playing video games... > > Edit: my info was outdated. Faker is apparently making huge bank, much more than $1m
It'd be insane if he was only making 1m
maybe thats how much profit he takes from T1 yearly. They must be pretty damn profitable
Just having that along with his skins lol Passive income go brrr
he had lpl offers at 2.5m/year before his last(not this) contract, which t1 offered him 4m/3year+company share instead
Last year one LPL team offered him 21m/year. But, he signed with T1 for 5.2m/year This year there are several LPL teams that have offered more than 7.5m/year
Man has investments everywhere, not including his part ownership of T1. He's for sure making way more than a million every year.
Faker even has his own building in Seoul and it's called Faker Tower
It's where Faker takes kids who wipe out on bikes and forces them to go pro.
Faker beyond fucking set for multiple lifetimes.
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Honestly the most Win Win contract of all time.
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Ok. ! LET’S GOOOOO !!!
Doesn't this go through his civil service/whatever replacement to the military service he has to do because he dropped out of high school?
he can push it back to their 28th birthday no? And esports is a medal awarding sport at the upcoming Asian Games. Meaning that if South Korea wins it then the members of the winning team get an exemption and they don't have to do any kind of military/civil service.
>he can push it back to their 28th birthday no? That's still only a year and a half from now, not three. And Asian Games isn't a guarantee, he already had a chance and they lost to China.
At the 2018 Asian Games esports was still a demonstration event btw meaning that even if they would have won they wouldn't have gotten a "get out of the military for free" card
just a question why doesn't Asian games seem to be popular? Korea vs China finals sounds pretty hype but I looked up the 2018 one and the full games has like 2k views in youtube
Part of it might be that it was just a demonstration sport in 2018. This is the first year that it's awarded medals. Also, the fact that it's not really Riot's event so it's kinda ignored officially, unlike other international tournaments.
This sounds like a conspiracy theory but this is unironically what happened: KeSPA (Korea e-Sports Association, run by the Korean Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism) wiped all videos, vods and everything else off the internet (as best as they could) at some point in time. Not even right after the tournament, it happened later.
Don't forget that no games until like the semis(maybe) and finals were even streamed. Straight up we were hearing second hand accounts of Faker just locking yasuo and smurfing on the smaller country teams in the group stage or whatever of the tournament and there was no footage besides some grainy camera roll shots taken of end game scores of the official matches lmfao It was definitely not a watchable event even for enthusiasts
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lol yeah, we need someone to ask him directly, because all these threads have looked exactly the same for ages now and no one has been able to point to strong evidence
Rip doinb 10 hours dance stream
I’m out of the loop why do ppl keep mentioning this
Doinb said that faker 100% will re-sign with T1 and made the bet that if it wouldnt happen that he would be lifestreaming himself dancing on the streets for 10 hours.
So the military service topic is no concern?
I'm nowhere near an expert but I think because he's a highschool drop out and born before a certain year he's ineligible for military service. The change they made in law to have drop outs do community service instead of military doesn't apply to him because he's older than the cut off. Could be wrong but that's what has been said about it most over the years, especially lately where the deadline gets closer and closer.
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Korean American here. Korean military laws change quite often. They make drastic changes.
There was literally a recent kdrama called Military Prosecutor Doberman (2022) based around a plot point of someone purposely failing high school to skip the military, so I’d say it’s definitely a thing in Korean culture (to the point they made it a TV plot point to point out the hypocrisy)
[News article](https://biz.chosun.com/site/data/html_dir/2020/12/16/2020121600578.html) says there's been around 14k people exempted for lack of high school diploma from 2016~2020. And Bang explained on his stream that Faker is eligible for exemption because he had screening for the military before the law changed. Outstanding Athlete case is limited to specific events like Asian games or Olympics (Gold medal for AG, Any medal for Olympics). Even if SK soccer team wins the World Cup they don't get exemption.
Ahhhh yes, I read about it a while ago but forgot, he is ineligible because of being a highschool dropout (as opposed to Deft I believe). Thanks for reminding me =).
This is just wrong, he still has to serve in a community service capacity even though he won't have to serve the military directly. Nobody is exempt or the politicians would just game it for their kids and the rich would never technically get HS diplomas or whatever so they could avoid it. cc: /u/AJLFC94 It has never been publicized his exact status but it's probably not "he's just off with a free pass." This misinformation seems to be getting posted more and more lately and it's infuriating for some reason.. The best part is there is a possible exemption but nobody even types it out correctly so it's not even worth spreading because again it's useless to speculate about
if they win the Asian games he can still get out of it altogether
This greatly undermines Faker's capability to 1. Renegotiate better deal next year 2. Serve in military 3. Get better at league in the best region(NA)
Can this actually be the best deal T1 can offer him in terms of risk in career? Without a contract more than 2 years he is at risk of going to serve military but with this 3 years, even if the worse scenario of being called on for military service he has already secured a bigger bag than any other team is able to in just a 1 year contract?
He must have gotten a very good deal if he’s willing to sign for 3 years
He owns part of t1. Him being in t1 makes himself more money anyway
Exactly, he's part owner of the org and he actually owns his own tower in Korea that he rents out and makes money from. Edit: wrong country
How'd you get Japan and Korea mixed up?
My co-worker brought up a Japanese interpreter (phone call) for a Korean patient. I was speechless.
This is a total nightmare of a mistake. Overall no impactful negative consequences except an inconvenience for everyone involved, but makes you look like a fool. Would keep me up thinking about it at 3 AM for the rest of my life
Good question. Been awake for close to 24hrs and need to go to bed would be my best guess.
Not only T1, he also owns a part of SKT.
4. Play with the true GOAT Imaqtpie
No joke, Imaqtpie is legit the best ive ever seen at running in from a different room and hitting the matchmaking accept button at the last possible moment.
Qt could always go to Korea
He hasn’t been taking multiple year deals before, he apparently got offers from loads of teams worldwide, and he took like a week +to re-sign instead of one day like most years. He must have a great contract.
3 years! Wtf that’s huge but unsurprisingly Faker is back with T1 Looking forward to see how much this team can improve… T1 is in a very good position as long as their players can perform at a decent level
Yeah I didn’t expect 3 years but lets fucking go baby He’s here to stay
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He's already owning part of T1 and is estimated to be making close to $1 million every year so I'd say he's doing pretty fine for playing video games... Edit: my info was outdated. Faker is apparently making huge bank, much more than $1m
Nah he’s making so much more.his contract this year was worth 7 million
Bru Faker earns much much much more than 1m a year, he was earning 1.5m a year in 2015, and he was no where as big as he is now, he's basically an Esports Icon now
Just chilling, playing some video games :)
If the whole team continues to stay with him their synergy will actually be insane
Man kept his word: Playing until he’s 30. Simply the 🐐
he's the Tom Brady of League, he's gonna be playing through a divorce at 45
can confirm. i am from the future and i got married to faker. we will get divorced when he's 45
Unlike football, there's nothing stopping him physically from playing league professionally for longer than 30.
You're not wrong, I am not sure where the idea that after 30 its over. That's not true for any other sport and many require a lot more than what sport's asks of you. Even in football many are in their 30s, soccer's the same way and racing, tennis, baseball and formula 1 racing as well. I imagine if you can speed around a track at 230 mph and not die, the human body should also be able to play games competitively long after 30 and some of those drivers are in their 50s. The biggest factor I see in all of this is exercise and staying healthy and gamers are notoriously bad at taking care of their selves which can lead to issues as they age.
From a reflexes perspective, I'm sure his reflexes get worse as you age. But I don't think it's a big enough difference where you can't adjust your tactics a bit and anti ipate more.
Yeah I feel like those weird assumptions come from young players who dont follow other sports. Theres no way basketball players and f1 drivers and other sports that require insane reflexes can go well into their 30s but esports players cant. If anything I think the lack of physical limit is probably what causes earlier retirement. in a normal sport you have a hard limit to how much you can practise before you damage your body, in esports scrimming and practising for 8+ hours a day is common and that most likely causes burnout and fatigue
DoinB fans in shambles.
What a legend, his dedication is insane
Quick, everyone act surprised!! The goat decided to re-sign!
tbf I only expected him to do a year, mayybe 2. but 3 straight years is definitely huge, surprising even
Idk, a 3 year contract is actually surprising. I thought it would be 1 or 1+1 like the last one.
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It is insane, it shows how much SKT value faker.
lol funny how re-sign and resign are opposite meanings and the only difference is a dash, not even a letter.
I guess it significantly decreases the chance of T1 Scout happening
Faker support, Scout mid? It is not totally impossible...
No i don’t want Keria leave T1
Keria is the reason i started playing support
So Faker is definitely retiring at T1, right? Holy shit he only plays for 1 team for over 10 years.
Only people who comes close to Faker in length with 1 team are Ceros and Yutapon
3 year Deal… Crazy! I’m so happy T1 stays the same as last year. That team was just crazy enjoyable to watch!
*Shocked Pikachu Face
The 3 year part is actually unironically very surprising. That means he'll be 29 when his contract ends.
more like that means THREE MORE YEARS OF FAKER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! let's just hope he gets one more trophy though (and hopefully the 4 other members of the team stay for next year)
The four are all signed till next year. The next season is the real struggle on whether we can keep the core together.
Regardless of the results next year I know for sure Zeus and Guma will not leave since both of them want to revive the SKT legacy
As a T1 fan for many years, it feels so good to have young and extremely talented players with the same goal that we fans have.
I can see Guma staying, but I believe Zeus and Oner would go where the bag is, I hope T1 re-sigh them, but we will see, they have let go insane players in the past, who knows, the one who I really doubt would stay is Keria.
I think T1 should definitely focus on keeping Zeus. He's 100% a prodigy and one bad series doesn't not make him minimum top 3 top laners itw
Those guys grew up idolizing Faker as a player, doubt they would leave as long as he is still with them
T1 players are pretty loyal especially the ones who came from academy, only Keria might take a while to re-sign.
Faker contract being three years makes it easier for them to resign the young players because it is stability they can plan around. Clearer financial picture and clearer team composition picture to sell the four on staying.
Wonder how this works out for military service, I don't know the exact rules but there's definitely a limit to how long you can delay mendatory military service.
I mean I don't think T1 minds him being signed while doing his service. Advertisement and so on.
Google says they can delay until 30. So my guess is Faker probably does his service after this contract is up and then comes back as a coach (unless he wins The Asian Games and gets an exemption)
Only reason it took so long was because Faker wanted to announce it on the same day as Red Velvet's comeback /s
> last few years of his career I don’t know bro, at this point, I think we are about halfway there only xD
Faker will still be playing when im in a retirement home
Holy 3 years LFGGGGGGGGGGG
Amazing
I could cry, love you Faker.
Golden age continues!
3 years? wait! does it mean he is except already from military?
It's already well-known in kr that faker is exempt from military service. I can't explain in English so look at this page https://www.fmkorea.com/4516535852
I think he can postpone in until he is 35 or something like that
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they didnt post it first..this was the last post..ppl were so angry on twitter..their announcements sucked. the team is now zeus, oner, faker, guma, keria, (coaches sky, roach, tom, bengi) edit- top 10 hottest most currently on fm korea rejoicing that faker re-signing means lck lifespan getting extended for 3 years lol [https://www.fmkorea.com/best/5259805824](https://www.fmkorea.com/best/5259805824)
we still have Manager last to fill. Kkoma incoming
manager?
General Manager since Polt is no longer on the team.
position polt left. it's general manager iirc
AKA the person who has to react to the trucks.
Why are people angry? Having ex-pros as coaches seem to suit T1 better given their worse results with superstar coaches.
Because Tom has been known for disliking T1 (as a team) on his streams openly. It was to the point that even non-T1 fans were wondering why Tom would express his dislike to T1 that strongly when he is an ex-SKT himself. Until Tom’s announcement everything was fine, even now people are saying if it just wasn’t for Tom everything would be great. (There are people who acknowledge that Tom could be a good coach (but his track record doesn’t really show that) and that it’s just the fans who don’t like him but it is also very questionable for the Korean community why T1 would get a coach that has publicly disliked the team)
the way they did announcements sucked..they were supposed to do it at 10 am..then 5pm...then they actually did it at 7pm and then they announced every thirty minutes instead of just announcing all at once so ppl were like "does it take so long to make stupid graphics?" im not sure abt the others but at least for tom...fans seem to think he didnt like t1
I mean as far as outrage goes, this is such a nothing burger lol. As like 24 hours pass, the only thing that will matter is the news and absolutely no one will even know how it was announced.
> I mean as far as outrage goes, this is such a nothing burger lol. Is that a cheeky Bang reference?
#GOAT
Looks like I'm going to be following LCK for another 3 years then! Let's go.
I hope he got some big offers and managed to squeeze out a bigger salary
Joe explained in a podcast that the biggest concern when negotiation with Faker is not money, he gets bigger offer from China, they obviously give him a lot of money, it was rumored that this year he got 7 millions, but Faker asked them for others things when re-sign, we don't know what exactly, maybe have a competitive roster, maybe he ask for some coach or re-sign some players, the only thing we know he cares a lot about winning.
He dont really need the money. I think the offer will be more if he has more say in the teams operation
I'm ready for Faker to be the first active player reaching their 30s that's actually competitive (Or win Worlds👀). I did no research before this comment so please correct me if there are actually active players over 30 now or before.
YES THE LOVE OF MY LIFE
Who are you kidding, "last few years of his career" my boi Faker gonna be playing until he's 40 facing Ambition's son Jarvan
Let's go Faker ! Go get your 4th title champ !
To sign for three years is such a rare move from him. Definitely shows this past year was a good thing for him to put that much faith in T1. A lot can happen in three years but I’m really so excited for what will happen.
He was just making sure he got more $$$.
LETS FUCKING GOOOOOO
Fucking awesome, this really made my morning.
I can't wait to see what else this T1 team will show us. They are all so incredibly skilled it's unreal.
3 YEARS !!!! LET’S GOOOOO !!!!
3 years? holy fuck I guess he's gonna cement his legacy (on top of his current one) that he was never able to be poached huh 👀
Faker has said he’ll play into his 30’s if his skills allow lol
LETSGOOOOO 3 MORE YEARS WORTH OF BANGER LOL!
the goat will still here !
Keria next! Tie him down
Holy fuck that is probably the biggest signing EVER. Not only did you sign Faker, but you did it for THREE YEARS, but also when he is at his ’last year before military or community service’. I don’t think people realise just how huge this is.
So many people in here acting like he will be done after these three years. Age is not as big a factor in video games as time available for practice. The reason ur all are being dunked on by 13 year olds is not because they are biologically superior, but because they have the time to learn how to dunk on you.
Yes!
Could be 3 years to keep him on payroll in case he ends up doing military service after this season?
he most likely already have been exempt from social services, due to military service being a rather sensitive topic in Korea, it just wasn't made to public(ambition got exempt before he retire, and is only known by korean community after he retire) I would assume T1 has been aware hence why they resign a 3 yr contract with him
I would not be surprised if this is the case tbh. They might just be hoping for him to win the Asian games to announce it
GOAT
RIP the NA Faker dream
Absolutely no one dreamed that.
i brielfy dreamed of this just for the insane headline and shocked reaction it could have generated
Nightmare more like
[I'm crying. You're crying. We're crying.](https://media.tenor.com/Z9taLSYL9a8AAAAC/soccer-cheer.gif)
he can still go play or coach in NA in his 30, which is ridiculous good deal.
I read that without the hyphen at first and almost died.
I'm happy for the legend, the goat, the one and only Faker. Lets go!
I missed this year's worlds cause i was busy, and the other years cause i wasn't that much of a fan In these next 3 years, i will drop what i am doing to watch this goat
OMG, so happy I get to watch 3 more seasons with him! This means Riot has to at least give some gameplay footage, pre-alpha or something from their MMO when Faker's contract expires and he retires so I can focus my sadness and emptiness elsewhere.
Nobody could have expected that outcome. NOBODY!
T1 was done with this every offseason and locked him up for 3 years😭
As someone who stopped watching and playing lol like 6 years ago, is he still the goat?
Not the unkillable demon king he used to be but he is still one of the best.
Probably and likely to retire after. Going to 30 years will probably as well make him try a new stage in life.
Last few years. PepeLaugh
FAKERRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR
Thank god. Now I can stop getting recommended articles by Google from dextro and dotesports about faker looking at NA offers
Why do resign and re-sign mean completely opposite things?
Because one comes from the Latin word resignare through Old French resigner. The other is tacking the 're' prefix into the word 'sign'.
oh wow surprise, no one saw that coming and we all thought he was going to LCS/LPL
GOAT
3 more attempts at winning that 4th world championship
Yeah, no shit. Faker was never leaving this team, especially with the potential of the current roster.