Actually, Frederik “NoWay” Hinteregger’s professional career was over 4 years ago, but in 2025 the 32-year-old wants to make a comeback. According to recent reports, he is moving to the island and wants to compete in the regional league of League of Legends against big teams like Los Ratones.
Where does the news come from? The leaker Wooloo, responsible for such news, reported (via sheepesports) that NoWay has reached an agreement with the organization “NORD Esports” and will move there for the 2025 season. As a jungler, the former pro Santorin is already confirmed to join the team.
NoWay responded ambiguously to this leak during a stream. On one hand, he cursed about how the journalist could know, claiming to be a mystery. Ultimately, however, he conceded and seemed to confirm the leak: he will play in the league with 4 former LEC pros and try to beat the “Content Team” Los Ratones. However, he did not want to confirm whether he would actually play with Santorin at NORD Esports, seeming to deny that instead.
In any case, NoWay has big plans for 2025.
NoWay wants to play with 4 former LEC pros
Why is this surprising? It was already suspected that NoWay would switch to the NCL, but it was thought that he would stay with his two NNO team members Tolkin and Karni and look for two British or Scandinavian players to fill the league requirements. But for the two Twitch streamers Karni and Tolkin, the 1st British league seems to be a level too serious and would take too much time away from their streaming or casting.
Who are the “big guys” he will play against? It looks like some big names will be playing in the NCL in 2025. Alongside Crownie or Rekkles, Jankos and Perkz are also expected.
We are talking about people who were at the absolute top of the world five years ago and were in the finals of the World Championship in France in 2019. NoWay never reached the international level as an active player; his career ended at the national level.
But it is very attractive for NoWay to measure himself against such players in every respect.
LoL, chess, and mud are on NoWay’s agenda
These are NoWay’s plans: As the 32-year-old hinted, he has set himself an extremely high workload for 2025:
- He wants to play “seriously” in the British league with 4 former LEC pros and try to beat Los Ratones.
- He wants to build a content creator team with Karni and Tolkin, apparently in a lower league in Germany.
- He wants to continue his project of reaching the highest rank “Challenger” in LoL on all servers, with Australia apparently being next.
- In addition, he wants to train for a sports content, he has the muddy extreme obstacle course Tough Mudder in mind.
- And he wants to crack 1,000 ELO in chess – which corresponds to approximately the level of “Can make 3 moves in a row without breaking a finger”.
Regional leagues in LoL are seeing an influx of streamers and former pros
What’s behind this: Due to a rule change at Riot Games, it will be the first time in 2025 that it is truly attractive for streamers to compete in League of Legends. Therefore, the regional leagues of LoL are currently experiencing a surge of former professional players and successful Twitch streamers.
Before 2025, it was practically impossible for streamers to play competitively in the leagues because the rules severely restricted them in their streaming, their “bread job”.
NoWay is moving away from the German league because the Nordic league certainly presents a more attractive competition, but also because there was bad blood with the German league: In the German LoL scene, there are ugly clashes between the big streamers on Twitch and the league
