Most professional teams in League of Legends play under a big name like T1 or Fnatic and are sponsored by these organizations. The German team NNO is the exact opposite and has gained many fans over the years. The founder of the team explains how it came about.
What is NNO? The team No Need Orga is one of the most well-known German LoL teams and gained significant attention in 2022 at the Prime League in summer (lol.fandom.com) .
After they barely qualified for the tournament, the “Miracle Run” followed for NNO (primeleague.gg). They had to fight their way through the entire lower bracket to face Hertha BSC in the finals. The best-of-5 series between the two German teams set a viewer record of 91,000 (escharts.com). NNO won the final 3 to 2.
The NNO roster of the Prime League 2022 included the following players and Twitch streamers:
- Niklot “Tolkin” Stüber on the top lane
- Muhammed “Agurin” Kocak played in the jungle
- Frederik “NoWay” Hinteregger as mid laner
- Daniel “Broeki” Broekmann took over the ADC role
- Lukas “Karni” Steininger supported the team as support
Together, the 5 LoL professionals called themselves the retirement team, as they have been in the scene for many years and are thus considered “retirees”.
In the video, you will see who NNO’s mid laner, NoWay, really is:
“We’re no longer interested in playing with him” – The founding of NNO
How was NNO founded? On his YouTube channel, former NNO player Broeki talks about the history of the team (YouTube.com). In the early days, when esports for League of Legends was not yet so huge, Broeki played in various tournaments.
With his team ESC Gaming, he won the ESL Pro Series in spring 2013 (lol.fandom.com). The roster of ESC Gaming was then taken over by n!faculty. In the following ESL Pro Series in summer, Broeki and NoWay played together under n!faculty and managed to win the tournament (lol.fandom.com).
After this victory, there was a conversation among the team members and Broeki was kicked due to his behavior. He himself says he was very consumed by ambition back then and ruined the game for some supporters with his attitude.
As the scene in Germany was very small, Broeki’s reputation spread, and as a result, no one wanted to play competitively with him anymore. Broeki eventually founded his own team in September 2013 and named it No Need Orga (lol.fandom.com).
Over the years until 2020, NNO was restructured multiple times or taken over by other organizations like Vengeance eSports or Mysterious Monkeys. Broeki himself says the following about his past with NNO:
Whenever an organization was not willing to pay or give me what I wanted, I founded an NNO roster.
The most famous retirement team in Germany
How did NNO become the team that many German LoL fans know? Broeki, NoWay and Agurin played together until 2019 on the team Euronics Gaming in several B-tier tournaments and managed to win many of them (liquidpedia.net). A year after NoWay and Broeki left the team, NoWay asked if they wanted to play together again.
Broeki founded a new roster with NoWay under NNO, alongside players Kamon (Toplane), Karni (Support) and AutoPhil (Jungle), who organized the “Arena Rumble” tournament for LoL in March 2025.
The most famous roster of NNO, the retirement team, was completed in early 2021. The top laner, caster and analyst Tolkin joined NNO in January, and the former jungle colleague Agurin followed in February.
What has become of the retirement team? In December 2024, Broeki, the founder of NNO, switched to Eintracht Spandau, the team of YouTuber and Twitch streamer HandOfBlood. Agurin left the roster in January 2025 and is continuing his career at CGN Esports. Only mid laner NoWay, top laner Tolkin and supporter Karni remain in the current roster of NNO: A team of 5 German Twitch streamers conquers LoL, now NNO is falling apart and starting anew
