Best League of Legends team in the world is planning PUBG involvement

South Korean Three-time League of Legends world champion organization SK Telecom T1 is apparently planning its own PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds team, with hopes of it to be finished with recruitment in August, according to a Korean eSports news site

SKT’s plan to create some sort of new esports team have been hinted since May, when CEO Oh Kyung-sik said that the company needed another esport to compete in after its StarCraft 2 team was disbanded in late 2016. With PUBG’s rapid ascension into the realm of the most popular games in the world, it makes sense that it was chosen by SKT.

It’s possible that the failure to win Worlds last year is what prompted the SKT organization to finally select a new game to add to its esports arsenal, nearly eight months after Kyung-sik mentioned it. PUBG was the single most-purchased game of 2017, according to Steam’s end-of-year report on concurrent player numbers, and the game is currently expanding in South Korea at an unbelievable pace. OGN, the leading esports broadcast company in the country, is building a dedicated 100-player arena to host PUBG games, and major esports companies such as KSV eSports and Lunatic-Hai are already considering major investments.

We will be waiting to hear more news on the matter in the upcoming months.