Ultimately they settled on , , , and to surround him and the team was unveiled in February of 2013, dubbed. They qualified for their first OGN at. They exceeded all expectations and placed 3rd, losing 3-1 in the semifinals to but beating 3-0 in the 3rd place match. Faker's dominating performances put him in the conversation for best mid laner in the world after just one tournament. The team was renamed to after their sister team, , was disbanded. With a great first result under their belts, they attended. Faker continued his fantastic play and led his team to a reverse sweep of the and earned them a berth at the. They were seeded directly into the finals and met the Bullets again, only to soundly beat them 3-1. SK Telecom qualified for the as the final Korean seed but still came in as the favorites to win the whole tournament. Faker crushed the competition and the team put up an impressive 15-3 record across the tournament, culminating in a one-sided finals where they beat 3-0 and became the new world champions. Faker's brilliant play across the season earned him the title of best player in the world by most fans and experts alike. The SK Telecom organization picked up a new sister team, ultimately named , so Faker's team was renamed to SK Telecom T1 K. They didn't lose a single game and put up the greatest performance a team has ever had at an OGN tournament. They swept in the finals and Faker proved himself as the greatest LoL player of all time after just a year. However the success wasn't meant to last after ManDu stepped down due to health issues and the team picked up. An ultimately poor showing at was capped off with a 3-1 loss to Ozone in the quarterfinals. ManDu rejoined the starting line up before , where the team was expected to falter. In typical fashion, they swept the whole tournament and earned a clean 9-0 record, ending in a dominating finals against. They returned to Korea with high hopes to participate in but ended up mirroring the results of their last OGN, losing 3-1 in the quarterfinals to Samsung White. They lost in a tiebreaker for the 2nd Korean seed to worlds, again to White, by being swept. K was seeded into the finals of the but ended up losing 3-1 to and missed. Most of the old K roster was removed, except for Bengi and Faker, while , , and filled out the rest of the line-up. Despite SK Telecom's strong performance in the informal , they were not the top team in the season itself, and it was the newly-formed who were invited to as the top team from Korea, not SKT. And SKT finished second in the season overall, with an 11-3 record - one game behind the Tigers. Regardless, in the , SKT beat both CJ Entus and the Tigers - without Faker even starting for a single game against the Tigers. Their spring season championship qualified SK Telecom for the. There, they swept the group stage 5-0 but then dropped two games to the European in the semifinals, beating them 3-2, with Faker starting each game. In the finals against , Easyhoon started for the first three games, and SKT ultimately lost 3-2. In the final game of the set, EDG famously left open for Faker - a champion he was until then undefeated on - and counterpicked it with a mid lane for , running a composition designed to shut down Faker. After the Mid-Season Invitational, SKT bounced back and won the regular season of , dropping only one set along the way - though it was the set that would have made them the first team worldwide to clinch a seed they ended up clinching their seed when the GE Tigers lost their very next set as well. Faker played 12 unique champions in his 29 games, innovating mid lane , a pick that would become a relatively popular off-meta pick around the world, and , a pick that would not. Seeded directly into the this time, SKT easily swept KT Rolster 3-0 Faker played all three games to earn Korea's top seed to the. SKT was placed in a group at worlds alongside EDG, , and. They went undefeated all the way to the finals, beating and in the playoffs along the way. They met the KOO Tigers in the finals and beat them 3-1 to give the organization its second World Championship. This made Faker one of only three people the other two being his coach and bengi to have won the World Championship twice. In their semifinal series against Challenger team , substitute mid laner started in the first game, but even with Faker playing in the second game, the team lost the series 0-2 - continuing a streak of World Champions being eliminated early on in their first tournaments after Worlds. SK Telecom announced Faker's re-signing for the 2016 season after the tournament. In March, SK Telecom attended despite being only the sixth-place team at the time. They brought substitute jungler in place of bengi and swept through the tournament, winning the title after only seven games. After returning to Korea, a rejuvenated Faker helped the team climb back up the standings and eventually win his fifth Korean championship and third consecutive title. This win allowed SKT to return to the Mid Season Invitational, the only team to return from the previous year. Their first place finish in the earned them a spot in the. Notably, SK Telecom T1 were the only team to return to 2016 MSI from. As the reigning domestic champions of Korea, SK Telecom T1 came into the tournament as massive favorites to win. However, their group stage performances were very lackluster as they dropped games to China's , NA's , and two games to the LMS. They ended their group stage with a 6-4 record, seeding them into the bracket stage at fourth place. Matched up against in the semifinals, SK Telecom started to regain their form, beating them 3-1. They then proceeded to beat 3-0 to win the event and give them the trophy that barely escaped them last year. During the , SK Telecom started the season strong with a 5-0 score in series and 10-0 game score. However, they started dropping sets to lower ranked teams, notably the , who they failed to win even a single game against the entire season. With a 13-5 scoreline in series, SKT placed second in the round robin, beating via game score tiebreaker. However, during the , they met in the semifinals, where they were reverse swept 3-2 after going up 2-0 in the first two games. This gave them third place for the summer split. Combined with their first place spring finish, as well as the victory of the over , SKT qualified to the on points as Korea's second seed. At the , SK Telecom T1 were placed into Group B, along with LMS's , NA's , and China's. Faker went on to state that this was a mistake as the OGN staff check the players accounts before the games, and the tester of his account selected the skin - which Faker didn't notice in Champion Select. He also used SKT T1 Zed in the game vs at , when the whole team used their featured skins. To request an addition to the list, you may use. Pages that were modified between April 2014 and June 2016 are adapted from information taken from Esportspedia. Pages modified between June 2016 and September 2017 are adapted from information taken from EsportsWikis. Content is available under unless otherwise noted. Game content and materials are trademarks and copyrights of their respective publisher and its licensors. Game content and materials are trademarks and copyrights of their respective publisher and its licensors. This site is a part of Curse, Inc.
