What impact the German LoL scene is developing was demonstrated by YouTuber HandOfBlood at gamescom 2022:
The Twitch streamers hope that Riot Games will reconsider and take their special situation into account.
What impact the German LoL scene is developing was demonstrated by YouTuber HandOfBlood at gamescom 2022:
The rules for Division 1 are significantly stricter than those for Division 2; they explicitly apply to the relegation between League 1 and 2 as well.
In any case, a tough decision seems to be coming for the 5 Twitch streamers of NNO:
- Because their streaming conflicts with being a “serious competitive LoL player”.
- Riot Games’ rules collide with their Twitch streams and their ad deals, but also – as with Tolkin – with their employment relationships.
Other team members have also noted that their current work on Twitch and in the LoL scene will soon no longer be compatible with Riot Games’ regulations:
- Bot laner Broeki is currently linked to the “Prime League” team Eintracht Spandau.
- Other team members have ad deals that would no longer work.
- NoWay is one of the biggest Twitch streamers in Germany. He finds it hard to restrict himself.
The Twitch streamers hope that Riot Games will reconsider and take their special situation into account.
What impact the German LoL scene is developing was demonstrated by YouTuber HandOfBlood at gamescom 2022:
What impact the German LoL scene is developing was demonstrated by YouTuber HandOfBlood at gamescom 2022:
The rules for Division 1 are significantly stricter than those for Division 2; they explicitly apply to the relegation between League 1 and 2 as well.
In any case, a tough decision seems to be coming for the 5 Twitch streamers of NNO:
- Because their streaming conflicts with being a “serious competitive LoL player”.
- Riot Games’ rules collide with their Twitch streams and their ad deals, but also – as with Tolkin – with their employment relationships.
Other team members have also noted that their current work on Twitch and in the LoL scene will soon no longer be compatible with Riot Games’ regulations:
- Bot laner Broeki is currently linked to the “Prime League” team Eintracht Spandau.
- Other team members have ad deals that would no longer work.
- NoWay is one of the biggest Twitch streamers in Germany. He finds it hard to restrict himself.
The Twitch streamers hope that Riot Games will reconsider and take their special situation into account.
What impact the German LoL scene is developing was demonstrated by YouTuber HandOfBlood at gamescom 2022:
The Twitch streamers hope that Riot Games will reconsider and take their special situation into account.
What impact the German LoL scene is developing was demonstrated by YouTuber HandOfBlood at gamescom 2022:
The rules for Division 1 are significantly stricter than those for Division 2; they explicitly apply to the relegation between League 1 and 2 as well.
In any case, a tough decision seems to be coming for the 5 Twitch streamers of NNO:
- Because their streaming conflicts with being a “serious competitive LoL player”.
- Riot Games’ rules collide with their Twitch streams and their ad deals, but also – as with Tolkin – with their employment relationships.
Other team members have also noted that their current work on Twitch and in the LoL scene will soon no longer be compatible with Riot Games’ regulations:
- Bot laner Broeki is currently linked to the “Prime League” team Eintracht Spandau.
- Other team members have ad deals that would no longer work.
- NoWay is one of the biggest Twitch streamers in Germany. He finds it hard to restrict himself.
The Twitch streamers hope that Riot Games will reconsider and take their special situation into account.
What impact the German LoL scene is developing was demonstrated by YouTuber HandOfBlood at gamescom 2022:
The Twitch streamers hope that Riot Games will reconsider and take their special situation into account.
What impact the German LoL scene is developing was demonstrated by YouTuber HandOfBlood at gamescom 2022:
The rules for Division 1 are significantly stricter than those for Division 2; they explicitly apply to the relegation between League 1 and 2 as well.
In any case, a tough decision seems to be coming for the 5 Twitch streamers of NNO:
- Because their streaming conflicts with being a “serious competitive LoL player”.
- Riot Games’ rules collide with their Twitch streams and their ad deals, but also – as with Tolkin – with their employment relationships.
Other team members have also noted that their current work on Twitch and in the LoL scene will soon no longer be compatible with Riot Games’ regulations:
- Bot laner Broeki is currently linked to the “Prime League” team Eintracht Spandau.
- Other team members have ad deals that would no longer work.
- NoWay is one of the biggest Twitch streamers in Germany. He finds it hard to restrict himself.
The Twitch streamers hope that Riot Games will reconsider and take their special situation into account.
What impact the German LoL scene is developing was demonstrated by YouTuber HandOfBlood at gamescom 2022:
What impact the German LoL scene is developing was demonstrated by YouTuber HandOfBlood at gamescom 2022:
The Twitch streamers hope that Riot Games will reconsider and take their special situation into account.
What impact the German LoL scene is developing was demonstrated by YouTuber HandOfBlood at gamescom 2022:
The rules for Division 1 are significantly stricter than those for Division 2; they explicitly apply to the relegation between League 1 and 2 as well.
In any case, a tough decision seems to be coming for the 5 Twitch streamers of NNO:
- Because their streaming conflicts with being a “serious competitive LoL player”.
- Riot Games’ rules collide with their Twitch streams and their ad deals, but also – as with Tolkin – with their employment relationships.
Other team members have also noted that their current work on Twitch and in the LoL scene will soon no longer be compatible with Riot Games’ regulations:
- Bot laner Broeki is currently linked to the “Prime League” team Eintracht Spandau.
- Other team members have ad deals that would no longer work.
- NoWay is one of the biggest Twitch streamers in Germany. He finds it hard to restrict himself.
The Twitch streamers hope that Riot Games will reconsider and take their special situation into account.
What impact the German LoL scene is developing was demonstrated by YouTuber HandOfBlood at gamescom 2022:
The Twitch streamers hope that Riot Games will reconsider and take their special situation into account.
What impact the German LoL scene is developing was demonstrated by YouTuber HandOfBlood at gamescom 2022:
The Twitch streamers hope that Riot Games will reconsider and take their special situation into account.
What impact the German LoL scene is developing was demonstrated by YouTuber HandOfBlood at gamescom 2022:
The rules for Division 1 are significantly stricter than those for Division 2; they explicitly apply to the relegation between League 1 and 2 as well.
In any case, a tough decision seems to be coming for the 5 Twitch streamers of NNO:
- Because their streaming conflicts with being a “serious competitive LoL player”.
- Riot Games’ rules collide with their Twitch streams and their ad deals, but also – as with Tolkin – with their employment relationships.
Other team members have also noted that their current work on Twitch and in the LoL scene will soon no longer be compatible with Riot Games’ regulations:
- Bot laner Broeki is currently linked to the “Prime League” team Eintracht Spandau.
- Other team members have ad deals that would no longer work.
- NoWay is one of the biggest Twitch streamers in Germany. He finds it hard to restrict himself.
The Twitch streamers hope that Riot Games will reconsider and take their special situation into account.
What impact the German LoL scene is developing was demonstrated by YouTuber HandOfBlood at gamescom 2022:
What impact the German LoL scene is developing was demonstrated by YouTuber HandOfBlood at gamescom 2022:
The Twitch streamers hope that Riot Games will reconsider and take their special situation into account.
What impact the German LoL scene is developing was demonstrated by YouTuber HandOfBlood at gamescom 2022:
The Twitch streamers hope that Riot Games will reconsider and take their special situation into account.
What impact the German LoL scene is developing was demonstrated by YouTuber HandOfBlood at gamescom 2022:
The rules for Division 1 are significantly stricter than those for Division 2; they explicitly apply to the relegation between League 1 and 2 as well.
In any case, a tough decision seems to be coming for the 5 Twitch streamers of NNO:
- Because their streaming conflicts with being a “serious competitive LoL player”.
- Riot Games’ rules collide with their Twitch streams and their ad deals, but also – as with Tolkin – with their employment relationships.
Other team members have also noted that their current work on Twitch and in the LoL scene will soon no longer be compatible with Riot Games’ regulations:
- Bot laner Broeki is currently linked to the “Prime League” team Eintracht Spandau.
- Other team members have ad deals that would no longer work.
- NoWay is one of the biggest Twitch streamers in Germany. He finds it hard to restrict himself.
The Twitch streamers hope that Riot Games will reconsider and take their special situation into account.
What impact the German LoL scene is developing was demonstrated by YouTuber HandOfBlood at gamescom 2022:
In December 2020, the German top laner Niklot “Tolkin” Stüber ended his professional career in League of Legends. The 24-year-old had played in 8 LoL teams since 2016 but never made it to the LEC. Tolkin took a job at the Berlin company “Freaks4U” as a caster and talent, and started gaining traction on Twitch. He had to resign from that job in September 2022. By accident, he is trying to get back into the Prime League in LoL with a hobby team.
How did Tolkin’s career go?
- The player Tolkin is considered one of the best German top laners. He roamed through 8 different teams from 2016 to 2020 and made a name for himself during that time. He calls himself the “record champion of the Prime League” but says he is “hard stuck”, meaning he is trapped in the German league.
- Throughout his career, Tolkin never made it to the big league, the LEC. While other German players like BrokenBlade, PowerofEvil, Upset or Amazing succeeded in jumping to the “big teams”, played in the USA, or even flew to the Worlds, Tolkin never managed that leap. However, he seems to have long accepted this and has fun considering himself the “CEO of the Playoffs”.
- In December 2020, he ended his professional career after 2 years with “mousesports”. The YouTube video of his farewell is the most successful of his career (via youtube).
Many young LoL players dream of a great career. Faker has already had his:
Tolkin starts as a caster and Twitch streamer
This is what he did afterwards: Tolkin remained connected to LoL: He began working at the German company “Freaks 4U Gaming”. The Berlin agency specializes in LoL and collaborates with Riot Games to organize the German Prime League. On December 22, 2022, Tolkin announced that he would start there as a “Content Creator/Influencer” (via twitter).
Tolkin was apparently ready to start a new chapter in his life and switch from player to caster. As a “color commentator”, he commented on games in the Prime League First Division in 2022.
Tolkin achieved great success in his role as a content creator: On Twitch, he became the second largest German LoL streamer, behind NoWay4u
Tolkin plays LoL on the side in a kind of pub team
This is the strange twist of fate: Although Tolkin closed the chapter of “professional LoL” for himself, he joined a team of German Twitch streamers in January 2021 to form a kind of hobby LoL team:
- The team is called “No Need Orga”. Originally, the team was founded in 2013, lay dormant for a long time, until it was revived in September 2020.
- The team consists of 5 of the most successful German Twitch streamers who also play “competitive LoL” in the 2nd division on the side.
- They have no coach and very few structures – almost like a pub team.
Tolkin did not expect the success:
This team, which actually played without great ambition, succeeded in 2022 against all odds in winning the 2nd division in Germany and is now playing, in September 2022, for promotion to the 1st division.
In the final of the 2nd division, they defeated Hertha BSC and googled their champion picks, which bot laner Broeki could not handle.
This shows a successful backdoor play; NNO is now known for this way of playing LoL:
Tolkin’s team is so popular with fans in 2022 that the final of the 2nd division reached many more viewers than the final of the 1st division.
Tolkin has to resign because he made it to the relegation
This is the consequence for Tolkin: Tolkin had to leave his job at Freaks 4U on September 1, 2022. Riot’s rules do not allow him to be an employee of a company that works with Riot Games and play in Division 1 at the same time.
What impact the German LoL scene is developing was demonstrated by YouTuber HandOfBlood at gamescom 2022:
What impact the German LoL scene is developing was demonstrated by YouTuber HandOfBlood at gamescom 2022:
The Twitch streamers hope that Riot Games will reconsider and take their special situation into account.
What impact the German LoL scene is developing was demonstrated by YouTuber HandOfBlood at gamescom 2022:
The Twitch streamers hope that Riot Games will reconsider and take their special situation into account.
What impact the German LoL scene is developing was demonstrated by YouTuber HandOfBlood at gamescom 2022:
The rules for Division 1 are significantly stricter than those for Division 2; they explicitly apply to the relegation between League 1 and 2 as well.
In any case, a tough decision seems to be coming for the 5 Twitch streamers of NNO:
- Because their streaming conflicts with being a “serious competitive LoL player”.
- Riot Games’ rules collide with their Twitch streams and their ad deals, but also – as with Tolkin – with their employment relationships.
Other team members have also noted that their current work on Twitch and in the LoL scene will soon no longer be compatible with Riot Games’ regulations:
- Bot laner Broeki is currently linked to the “Prime League” team Eintracht Spandau.
- Other team members have ad deals that would no longer work.
- NoWay is one of the biggest Twitch streamers in Germany. He finds it hard to restrict himself.
The Twitch streamers hope that Riot Games will reconsider and take their special situation into account.
What impact the German LoL scene is developing was demonstrated by YouTuber HandOfBlood at gamescom 2022:
