Frederik Noway Hinteregger (32), a well-known German Twitch streamer, is currently experiencing a remarkable return to League of Legends. After a six-year break from the competitive LOL-Sport, he not only continues to celebrate great success on Twitch in 2025, but also receives a lot of recognition for his achievements.
This is the Noway’s career: Noway started his career in LOL 2012. He had his career highlight in 2018 when he won the ESL championship with Euronics and actually ended the career in 2020, after his last games for ad hoc gaming.
At that time he had long put the dream of a great professional career in the international LOL business. He never played in the LEC.
Instead, he focused on his Twitch career and streams there at least 2,000 hours a year from 2018. In recent years he has become the most successful German LOL streamer.
Former German LOL professional is one of the most successful Twitch streamers today-that’s Noway
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The pensioner team and the surprising climb
So he sniffed e-sports air again: 2022 Noway returned to the E-Sport stage-but only for fun.
With 4 other streamers, he formed the pensioner team NNO, which started in the second division without training or coach. Surprisingly, things went so well for the team that NNO put on a Miracle run in the playoffs, won against all adversities, and even climbed into the first division. With a clever playing style and backdoor plays, the pensioner force outlined many hopeful young talent. The interest in the team on Twitch was huge.
For business reasons, however, Noway was not able to play in the first division the following year: Because a new professional career would have led to conflicts with his job as a stream. Instead, the streamers hired other players and lost a small fortune.
At that time, NNO brought this play to the 1st league:
In 2025 Noway started again after a 6 -year break
This is how it works for him: The situation looks different in 2025: Riot Games now allows streamers to play in the regional leagues and to broadcast their own matches there. Noway has made a lot of do and has joined a team in the regional league NCL in which former LEC professionals play.
At the age of 32, he is seven years older than his youngest fellow campaigner, but that doesn’t seem to stop. His team Nordesports has only lost one game – against the favorite Los Ratones.
In the first round of playoff, his team defeated the opponent 2-0. While former world-class players such as Perkz and Jankos have lost their first playoff game and now have to fight in the Loser’s Bracket, Noway’s team could result in an exciting duel with Los Ratones.
Also on Twitch it works for Noway: he has 13,5,000 spectators on average and with 3.4 million (+56 % in the last month) of spectators in January 2025 he is the third largest Twitch streamer in Germany, at eye level with a papple leaf.
Noway turns on in the Soloq from LOL
He says that himself: Noway itself is very satisfied with his development. On Twitter he wrote: Washedup4u is back! – An allusion to the fact that former professionals at his age are actually part of the old iron.
But Noway proves with a screenshot that he has improved a lot in the past few weeks: After he previously stated in a mediocre rank, he has now reached the highest rank of Challenger in LOL.
There was the joking comment from Twitch-Streamer Chief Stroobel: Not bad pensioners, has it brought something to zoom in to 200 %?
It works for Noway, it looks bad at Perkz
That is behind it: For Noway, it was a risk of playing again in a team and gaining a foothold in competitive LOL sports. For Noway, however, it was apparently exactly the right motivation to face new challenges and further expand its playful strength.
For Los Ratones, too, the idea seems that former professionals play for content again after their career to be a win-win situation.
In the meantime, Noway was looked at the burden to play so much LOL again and to train hard in boot camps, while he tears down on Twitch for so many hours, but now reveals Noway this competition mode.
However, examples such as Perkz, which has lost its first playoff game in the regional league, also show the risk of such a comeback. Perkz, once an absolute star and one of the best players in Europe, has been of the role for years and has lost a lot of his earlier shine.
On the other hand, Noway presents itself stronger at 32 than at his actual professional times. He even won against LOL superstar Faker: LOL: Twitch streamer jumps in for sick friend, defeats world champion faker, immediately ends career