Why Are Eports Players So Young?

And why they don’t tend to stick around

Victor Li
SUPERJUMP
Published in
8 min readApr 11, 2021

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At the age of 17, Faker of SK Telecom T1 won the Season 3 League of Legends World Championship, the first of three he would eventually win to cement his status as one of the best players in the world. At the age of 17 and 18, Armada and Mango, respectively, would face off in the first-ever GENESIS grand finals, birthing a rivalry that would…

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Victor Li
SUPERJUMP

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