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Faker, Bengi, Wolf and Smeb highlight nominations for esports Hall of Fame in Korea
South Korea’s Ministry of Culture, Sports, and Tourism and the Korea Creative Content Agency announced Thursday the esports Hall of Fame ceremony will be held in November, and six players will be honored.
Stepping out from behind the shadow of the Tigers, a new Longzhu rises to the top of LCK
Han “Peanut” Wang-ho runs into his former teammate, Kang “GorillA” Beom-hyeon, accidentally.
GorillA to Wolf, playfully: “I’m tired of seeing him. I want to see less of him but he keeps making his way up the tournament.”
Longzhu Gaming support Kang “GorillA” Beom-hyun jokingly said that he was quite tired of seeing SK Telecom T1’s Lee “Wolf” Jae-wan in the League Champions Korea finals.
GorillA on former ROX teammates in the LCK playoffs: “We’ll have fun watching them fight among themselves on their way to us.”
All five members of last year’s ROX Tigers have made the League Champions Korea playoffs on different teams.
LZ GorillA: “We still have matches against KT and Samsung, so we need to stall the early celebration and focus on doing well in the coming matches.”
With the unexpected rise of Longzhu Gaming in the League Champions Korea summer split, mid laner Kwak “BDD” Bo-seong said that the whole team is secretly excited to win the tournament.
GorillA on playing Janna: “I don’t think she’s a good champion.”
Longzhu Gaming’s support Kang “GorillA” Beom-hyun said that one of the most banned supports in ranked play isn’t all that great on the professional stage.
Bdd on how his LCK goals changed: “PraY said ‘You were aiming for the playoffs? You should look at taking the tournament!’ So I am now also doing so.”
Gwak “Bdd” Bo-seong, the mid laner for Longzhu Gaming, said he recently changed his goals and aspirations for the summer split after a conversation with Kim “PraY” Jong-in.
Khan on his night before match ritual: “I spend about three hours wondering what I should talk about or if I would come off weird if I manage to be an MVP.”
Longzhu Gaming top laner Kim “Khan” Dong-ha continues to capture the hearts of fans with his cavalier attitude and confidence.
Khan on GorillA playing through illness: “As younger players we couldn’t (let ourselves) put in any less.”
Longzhu Gaming’s darling top laner Kim “Khan” Dong-ha said he looks at Kang “GorillA” Beom-hyeon as a good motivator.
Peanut: “(In Round 1) PraY and GorillA told me that they’ll be coming after me no matter what.”
SK Telecom T1’s jungler had an interesting exchange of words with his former teammates from 2016’s ROX Tigers.