Surviving on Canned Food for Six Days: Behind-the-Scenes of LoL National Team's Victory

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The League of Legends e-sports national team shared the surprising behind-the-scenes story of their second consecutive Asian Games gold medal. World-class stars with annual salaries worth billions of won survived on instant meals for nearly a week while focusing solely on training, finally enjoying a lively meat party after their victory yesterday (October 2).

Reporter Han Sung-hee has the story from the location.

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Behind the glory of the League of Legends national team achieving their second consecutive Asian Games title was their "instant food fighting spirit."

To fully concentrate on training, they converted an office in downtown Nagoya into a PC room and trained all day. Concerned about wasting time eating at outside restaurants and worrying about doping, players including Lee Sang-hyeok, known as Faker—whose annual income is estimated to exceed 10 billion won—and other world-class stars worth billions of won in market value spent six days surviving on instant rice and canned goods brought from Korea, complemented by convenience store instant foods.

[Kim Geon-woo (Zeka) / LoL National Team Member]: "During the Asian Games training camp, coming to Japan and living off of instant rice and canned tuna with chili oil for about five to six days..."

[Lee Sang-hyeok (Faker) / LoL National Team Member, a day before the finals]: "I ate a lot of convenience store ramen and convenience store foods so my skin got a bit bad, but I will go back to Korea and eat a lot of healthy things again."

Thus, right after winning yesterday, the players enjoyed a long-awaited, honey-like "meat dining session."

[Kim Geon-woo (Zeka) / LoL National Team Member]: "We had pork belly for the first round and went to yakiniku for the second round. Yesterday's dinner was definitely uniquely delicious."

Large photographs of the back-to-back champions have been put up along Seoul's Olympic-daero.

The players expressed hope that this victory would inspire the youth who look up to them.

[Lee Sang-hyeok (Faker) / LoL National Team Member]: "I hope they learn how to truly love and pour passion into what they love, and grow through it."

Having proven the weight of their "world's best" title, the national team members will now return to their respective teams to prepare for their next leap.

(Video Reported by Kim Se-kyung | Video Edited by Park Chun-bae | Design by Kang Yoon-jung)
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