Twitch streamer Tyler “Tyler1” Steinkamp spent two years tackling the toughest challenges in League of Legends: No matter how long it took, for two years he ranked every role in LoL to the highest rank. The latest challenge to play in Korea’s SoloQ on Challenger was too much even for him. His temper was his undoing.
Tyler1 has mastered these crazy challenges:
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Tyler1 wanted to be in the top 300 in South Korea
What was the latest challenge? In mid-April 2022, Tyler1 decided to go to South Korea, the homeland of LoL, for a “boot camp”.
There he wanted to reach the Challenger rank, which only 300 people in the region can even do.
But Tyler1 wanted to make it particularly difficult for himself and always register as a “filler”, so he doesn’t claim a role for himself, but plays what is needed at the moment.
His Korean adventure should start at the end of April.
Here Tyler1 was still in a good mood:
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This is how it went now: Almost 5 weeks after the start of his “Korea Bootcamp” Tyler1 is totally served (via youtube).
Tyler1 has played 427 hours of LoL in the last 30 days, which is more than 14 hours a day without a long break. About 35,000 people watched him, but the number steadily decreased over the course of the month.
Tyler1 just seems happy now that boot camp is coming to an end. He is totally served by Korea. In the chat, the demand came up that he should stay longer in South Korea. But Tyler1 says:
Buddy, what do the “stay longer” kids want from me? Boys, what you don’t get: I jump up with fucking joy, I count the minutes and seconds until I’m on the plane home.
According to Tyler1, he learned absolutely nothing in Korea and is in the process of sabotaging everything he’s ever known about LoL. He keeps getting worse in MOBA. The trip to Korea was a “complete waste of time.”
Actually a tough guy, but Korea was too much for him:
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A bad reputation spells Tyler1’s undoing
Why is that? The Korean SoloQ has a bad reputation: That’s what South Korean pros like Faker say. Apparently, when Koreans see a “celebrity,” some start deliberately playing crap to annoy and sabotage the pro. Faker prefers the SoloQ in Europe.
According to Tyler1 himself, he has a bonus problem in particular: when people play badly, he snaps and flames them. He says he just “tilts”.
However, Koreans take such outbursts as an insult, remembering the player’s name and then sabotaging it in the next match if they encounter it.
According to Tyler1, this is what apparently happened to him:
Here’s how it went for Tyler1: Although Tyler1 was able to move up relatively quickly in the lower ranks and had reached the master rank after 10 days and 200 games with a win rate of 60%, he then apparently reached his limits (via dotesports).
He is currently still at the Master rank with a 53% win rate (via op.gg). Even with his flagship champ, Draven, he only has a 52% win rate.
Even if things went better in the last matches before his trip home, he experienced a losing streak of 9 games in a row only yesterday. Apparently Korea manages even the toughest Tyler1. The way to the Challenger in South Korea is therefore denied to him.
Twitch streamer Thebausffs had more success in South Korea, but he has a very strange way of playing League of Legends:
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