by T1 have announced that Lee “Faker” Sang-hyeok has re-signed with their League of Legends team for another three years.
Faker is the most successful League of Legends player of all time and along his way he has created a dynasty with T1.
Since joining T1 back in 2013, Faker has gone onto win three League of Legends World Championship titles (2013, 2015 & 2016), as well as two Mid-Season Invitational titles (2016 & 2017).
— T1 LoL (@T1LoL) November 28, 2022
Their was a lot of conjecture around the Korean superstar’s status over the off-season, after his contract expired in late November and teams started to circle around him.
There was speculation that Faker was considering offers from a number of LoL Championship Series (LCS) teams, including FlyQuest and Team Liquid, with Liquid making an official offer to the T1 legend.
Team Liquid had recently signed Jang “MaRin” Gyeong-hwan as their new head coach for the LCS 2023 season, and the organisation believed that MaRin’s arrival could be useful in convincing Faker to make the move to North America.
Faker and MaRin were teammates on T1’s 2015 LoL World Championship-winning team, and Liquid were hoping they could re-unite the pair for the upcoming LCS season.
There are reports suggesting that Faker was given shares in T1 and if he did leave for the LCS, he would have to sell those shares, similarly to what we saw with TSM and Soren “Bjergsen” Bjerg.
With Faker committing to T1 for three years, it now means that all five of the players from their Worlds 2022 roster will return for the 2023 season.
T1 can now put all of the contract talk behind them and focus on winning their seventh LCK Spring title in the new year.
