League of Legends is particularly popular and successful in Korea. Icons like Faker are known to players worldwide. Now, they are looking for a new superstar and have launched the casting show “LoL The Next” for this purpose.
What kind of show is this? Riot Games is hosting a kind of casting show in Korea. In “LoL The Next”, the next superstar is to be found, who might become as famous as Faker, whom Riot has even portrayed as a god.
It doesn’t matter whether this person is a player or a shoutcaster.
The show takes place as part of the 10th Anniversary of LoL and starts on August 2. From then on, it is scheduled to be broadcast every Sunday at 3:30 PM.
100 participants compete for a spot in the finals and receive mentors
How exactly does the show work? In the first round, 100 participants are selected to take part in the show. They will be assigned 4 mentors:
- Lee “Wolf” Jae-wan (featured image), who has played for SK Telecom T1 almost continuously from 2013 to the present.
- Heo “PawN” Won-seok, former player of KT Rolster and Kingzone Dragon X.
- Jang “MaRin” Gyeong-hwan, who was a member of SK Telecom T1 from 2013 to 2015 and “retired” in 2019. Since then, he has been working as a coach and streamer.
- Kim “PraY” Jong-in, who played for Kingzone DragonX and most recently for KT Rolster in 2019.
The 100 participants will be eliminated show by show until only 5 talents remain who will then proceed to the finals.
Riot Games Korea already revealed that while they are following the classic elimination principle found in television shows, everything will be a bit “more interesting” and “relaxed” (via MMOCulture).
You can watch the show on the YouTube channel of League of Legends Korea, but only in Korean.
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