SK Telecom qualified for the Season 3 World Championship as the final Korean seed but still came in as the favorites to win the whole tournament. They were seeded directly into the finals and met the Bullets again, only to soundly beat them 3-1. Faker continued his fantastic play and led his team to a reverse sweep of the KT Rolster Bullets and earned them a berth at the Season 3 Korea Regional Finals.
With a great first result under their belts, they attended HOT6iX Champions Summer 2013. The team was renamed to SK Telecom T1 after their sister team, SK Telecom T1 1, was disbanded. Faker's dominating performances put him in the conversation for best mid laner in the world after just one tournament. They exceeded all expectations and placed 3rd, losing 3-1 in the semifinals to MVP Ozone but beating CJ Entus Frost 3-0 in the third-place match. They qualified for their first OGN at OLYMPUS Champions Spring 2013.
Ultimately they settled on Impact, bengi, Piglet, and PoohManDu to surround him and the team was unveiled in February of 2013, dubbed SK Telecom T1 2. Lee ' Faker' Sang-hyeok was pulled out of solo queue by the SK Telecom organization so that a team could be formed around him in the mid lane.
