Hype (Byeon Jeong-hyeon)

Hype
Hype
Background Information
Name	Byeon Jeong-hyeon (변정현)
Country of Birth	; South Korea
Birthday	September 9, 2003 (age 21)
Residency	KRKorea
Competitive
Team	⁠⁠OK BRION; ⁠⁠KT Challengers
Contract Expires	⁠⁠2024-11-18
Role	; Bot Laner
Competitive IDs	KingKong
Soloqueue IDs	KR: SANDBOX KingKong
Social Media & Links

Overview

Tournament Results

Stats

Match History

Byeon "Hype" Jeong-hyeon (Hangul: 변정현) is a League of Legends esports player, currently bot laner for OKSavingsBank BRION, on loan from KT Rolster Challengers. He was previously known as KingKong.

There is a disambiguation page associated with the name Hype. Two other players share this ID.

Team History

Combine Role Swaps:No|Yes

Dates:Approx|Exact

	Team	Start	End		Notes
KR	⁠⁠Liiv SANDBOX Academy	Jan 20202020-01-14^[2]	Dec 20202020-12-18^[1]	11mo 4d	ejel
KR	⁠⁠LSB Challengers	Dec 20202020-12-18^[4]	May 20212021-05-25^[3]	5mo 7d	ejel
KR	⁠⁠Liiv SANDBOX	May 20212021-05-25^[6]	Jul 20212021-07-04^[5]	1mo 10d	ejel
KR	⁠⁠LSB Challengers	Jul 20212021-07-04^[8]	Nov 20222022-11-21^[7]	1yr 4mo	ejel
KR	⁠⁠KT Challengers	Jan 20232023-01-04^[9]	Present	1yr 11mo	Loaned Out ej
KR	⁠⁠OK BRION	Nov 20242024-11-22^[10]	Present	22d	On Loan ej

	Team	Start	End		Notes
KR	⁠⁠SANDBOX Academy	Jan 20202020-01-14^[2]	Dec 20202020-12-14^[13]	11mo	ejel
KR	⁠⁠Liiv SANDBOX Academy	Dec 20202020-12-14^[13]	Dec 20202020-12-18^[1]	4d	ejel
KR	⁠⁠LSB Challengers	Dec 20202020-12-18^[4]	May 20212021-05-25^[3]	5mo 7d	ejel
KR	⁠⁠Liiv SANDBOX	May 20212021-05-25^[6]	Jul 20212021-07-04^[5]	1mo 10d	ejel
KR	⁠⁠LSB Challengers	Jul 20212021-07-04^[8]	Jun 20222022-06-02^[14]	10mo 29d	ejel
KR	⁠⁠LSB Challengers	Jun 20222022-06-02^[14]	Nov 20222022-11-21^[7]	5mo 19d	ejel
KR	⁠⁠KT Challengers	Jan 20232023-01-04^[9]	Nov 20242024-11-22^[12]	1yr 10mo	ejel
KR	⁠⁠KT Challengers	Nov 20242024-11-22^[12]	Present	22d	Loaned Out ej
KR	⁠⁠OK BRION	Nov 20242024-11-22^[10]	Present	22d	On Loan ej

News

2020
2021
2022
2023
2024

KR	⁠⁠SB.A	January 14, KingKong joins.^[2] e
KR	⁠⁠LSB.A	December 14, ⁠⁠SANDBOX Academy rebrands as ⁠⁠Liiv SANDBOX Academy following sponsorship by Kookmin Bank.^[13] e
KR	⁠⁠LSB.A	December 18, Howling, Cruiser, TolanD, Ice, Kingkong, HUB, FanTaSy (Head Coach), DooTi (Coach), and Nova (Coach) leave for LCK CL roster.^[1] e
KR	⁠⁠LSB.C	December 18, Howling, TolanD, Ice, KingKong, HUB, FanTaSy (Head Coach), DooTi (Coach), and Nova (Coach) join from academy roster. Cruiser joins as substitute from academy roster.^[4] e

KR	⁠⁠LSB.C	January 14, Howling, Kingkong, Pump, Prove, and Cruiser's contracts are updated in the GCD, expiring on 20 November 2023. Seize, Toland, and Kabbie's contracts are updated in the GCD, expiring on 15 November 2021.^[15] e
KR	⁠⁠LSB.C	May 25, Howling and Kingkong leave for main roster.^[3] e
KR	⁠⁠LSB	May 25, Howling and Kingkong join as substitutes from academy roster.^[6] e
KR	⁠⁠LSB	July 4, Kingkong leaves for academy roster.^[5] e
KR	⁠⁠LSB.C	July 4, Kingkong joins from main roster.^[8] e
KR	⁠⁠LSB.C	December 7, Kingkong renames to KingKong.^[16] e

KR	⁠⁠LSB.C	June 2, Seraph joins as substitute from academy roster. Ten10 (Mid to Sub/Jungle) changes position. Duro moves to starting roster. KingKong and Prove move to substitutes.^[14] e
KR	⁠⁠LSB.C	November 21, Meaning, HamBak, Seraph, KingKong, Sherlock, FanTaSy (Head Coach), and Nova (Coach) leave.^[7] e

KR

⁠

⁠KT.C

January 4,
HamBak,
Feisty,
Hype, Lilac (Coach), and Sonstar (Coach) join.^[9]
HamBak,
Feisty, and
Hype's contracts are updated in the GCD, expiring on 18 November 2024. Lilac (Coach) and Sonstar (Coach)'s contracts are updated in the GCD, expiring on 20 November 2023.^[17]

e

KR	⁠⁠KT.C	November 21, Hype's contract is extended through 2027.^[18] e
KR	⁠⁠KT.C	November 22, Hype is loaned to OK BRION.^[12] e
KR	⁠⁠BRO	November 22, Bull and GuGer (Coach) join. Hype is loaned from KT Challengers.^[10]^[11]^[12] e

Biography[]

Individual Awards[]

LCK CL Best Bot 2x (2024 Spring, 2024 Summer)

Trivia[]

Pentakills

Date	Region	Tournament	Team	Vs	Champion	Pos	W/L	KDA	SB	VOD
2023-08-04	KR Korea	LCK CL 2023 Summer			Varus	Bot	W	11/4/8	Link	Link

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Tournament Results[]

This table shows up to the 10 most recent results. For complete results, click here.

Hype (Byeon Jeong-hyeon) Tournament Results
Date	Pl	Event	Last Result	Team	Roster
2024-12-08	1	KeSPA Cup 2024	3 : 1⁠⁠DK	⁠⁠BRO	Morgan, HamBak, Clozer, Hype, Bull, Pollu, Edgar, GuGer
2024-09-22	1	Asia Star Challengers Invitational 2024	3 : 0⁠⁠KDF.C	⁠⁠KT.C	Casting, HamBak, Zinie, Pout, Hype, Way, Lilac, Sonstar, Spark
2024-09-06	1	LCK CL 2024 Summer Playoffs	3 : 1⁠⁠DK.C	⁠⁠KT.C	Casting, HamBak, Zinie, Hype, Way, Lilac, Sonstar, Spark
2024-08-16	1	LCK CL 2024 Summer	16 - 2⁠⁠RR	⁠⁠KT.C	Casting, PerfecT, HamBak, Zinie, Hype, Way, Lilac, Sonstar, Spark
2024-04-12	1	LCK CL 2024 Spring Playoffs	3 : 1⁠⁠DK.C	⁠⁠KT.C	Casting, HamBak, Zinie, Hype, Way, Lilac, Sonstar, Spark
2024-03-22	1	LCK CL 2024 Spring	13 - 5⁠⁠RR	⁠⁠KT.C	Casting, HamBak, Pout, Zinie, Hype, Way, Lilac, Sonstar, Spark
2023-08-07	5	LCK CL 2023 Summer Playoffs	1 : 3⁠⁠DRX.C	⁠⁠KT.C	PerfecT, HamBak, Feisty, Hype, Way, Lilac, Sonstar
2023-08-06	1	LCK 2023 Summer	17 - 1⁠⁠RR	⁠⁠KT	Kiin, PerfecT, Cuzz, HamBak, Bdd, Feisty, Aiming, Hype, Lehends, Way, supreme, RapidStar, Lilac
2023-08-04	5	LCK CL 2023 Summer	10 - 8⁠⁠RR	⁠⁠KT.C	Castle, PerfecT, HamBak, Feisty, Hype, Way, Lilac, Sonstar
2023-04-06	3	LCK CL 2023 Spring Playoffs	0 : 3⁠⁠DK.C	⁠⁠KT.C	Castle, PerfecT, HamBak, Feisty, Hype, Way, Reble, Lilac, Sonstar

Media[]

Post-Match Interviews

Date	Tournament	Match	Link
2024-09-19	Asia Star Challengers Invitational 2024	KDF.C vs KT.C	Link
2024-09-06	LCK CL 2024 Summer Playoffs	KT.C vs DK.C	Link
2024-09-02	LCK CL 2024 Summer Playoffs	KT.C vs KDF.C	Link
2024-08-12	LCK CL 2024 Summer	BFX.Y vs KT.C	Link
2024-07-29	LCK CL 2024 Summer	HLE.C vs KT.C	Link
2024-07-16	LCK CL 2024 Summer	DRX.C vs KT.C	Link
2024-04-12	LCK CL 2024 Spring Playoffs	DK.C vs KT.C	Link
2024-04-11	LCK CL 2024 Spring Playoffs	KT.C vs NS.EA	Link
2024-02-19	LCK CL 2024 Spring	KT.C vs KDF.C	Link
2024-02-06	LCK CL 2024 Spring	KT.C vs DRX.C	Link
2023-06-05	LCK CL 2023 Summer	KDF.C vs KT.C	Link
2023-02-13	LCK CL 2023 Spring	KT.C vs GEN.GA	Link
2023-02-06	LCK CL 2023 Spring	KT.C vs DK.C	Link
2023-01-31	LCK CL 2023 Spring	KT.C vs HLE.C	Link
2023-01-23	LCK CL 2023 Spring	KT.C vs BRO.C	Link
2022-02-08	LCK CL 2022 Spring	HLE.C vs LSB.C	Link
2022-01-17	LCK CL 2022 Spring	LSB.C vs KDF.C	Link