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Thebausffs grinning on stage at the Accor Arena in Paris, holding an enormous loaf of bread above his head

Simon Hofverbergb. 1999, Sweden

Paris, 15.12.2024Los Ratones beat T1

The man who made dying a win condition.

THEBAUSFFS

Full AD Sion one-trick. Two-time EMEA Masters champion. 1.6 million followers deep, eleven years live, and still running it down top lane. On purpose.

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(01)The StoryStockholm → Summoner's Rift

Everyone in League of Legends is told the same thing: stop dying. Simon Hofverberg asked what a death is actually worth, then built an eleven-year career, a million-strong community and a trophy cabinet on the answer.

Portrait of Thebausffs wearing glasses and a black jersey
Name
Simon Hofverberg
Born
3 October 1999
From
Sweden
Role
Top lane
Main
Sion, full AD
Live since
18 June 2015
Also known as
Baus, Thebaus, Babus
Bio, verbatim
“Challenger Full AD Sion Otp”

A. The kid

Raised in a supportive Swedish household, pulled into games by his brother. World of Warcraft first, then League, and League never let go. In June 2015, aged fifteen, he pressed Go Live for the first time.

B. The idea

Sion is a tank. Baus built him as an assassin. Full lethality, absurd AD ratios, and a passive that lets a dead Sion keep swinging. He stopped laning, started farming behind enemy towers, and treated the grey screen as a tempo play.

C. The proof

Challenger on the hardest Western server. A substitute seat at G2. A guest spot on the LEC desk. Then a streamer team called Los Ratones, six trophies in under nine months, and two wins over the world champions.

(02)The NumbersSnapshot, October 2026

The scoreboard
lies. These don't.

Twitch followers 0M

1,638,516 and counting, up 9,139 in the last thirty days alone.

All-time peak viewers 0

On his own channel, 29 December 2024.

YouTube views 0M

Across 1,183 uploads since February 2019.

YouTube subscribers 0M

8.37M views in the past month.

Average live viewers 0

Thirty-day average. 1.36M hours watched.

Twitch rank, League of Legends #0

Most-watched LoL channel worldwide. #2 in English.

Deaths per game, Korea 2022 0

He climbed to Master anyway. That's the whole point.

When the rats played, the internet watched.

Los Ratones: peak concurrent viewers by match

  • vs T1 · Red Bull League of Its Own, Paris612,000
  • vs Team Vitality · LEC Versus 2026591,490
  • vs G2 Esports · LEC Versus 2026585,243
  • vs SK Gaming · LEC Versus 2026533,127
  • NLC Winter 2025 (a regional league)360,545
(03)Bausen's LawTry it yourself ↓

Every plate
is a kill.
Every turret
is two.

The community named a law after him. If the gold you take (waves shoved, plates cracked, towers flattened) outweighs the gold your death hands over, you came out ahead. It is why he can die nine times and still farm close to ten minions a minute. The scoreboard just hasn't caught up yet.

Scoreboard says:

What your team sees 0 / 9 / 0
What Baus sees 14 / 9
Verdict Good death.

14 kills' worth of map for 9 deaths. wpgg.

The maths: one kill ≈ 300 gold ≈ 15 minions. Every CS/min above a 7.0 baseline is worth about two kills over a 28-minute game. Every turret is two.

(04)The Journey2015 to 2026

Eleven years
of running it down.

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2015

18 June 2015

First stream

A fifteen-year-old from Sweden goes live on Twitch. No plan, no org, no audience. Just top lane.

2018

Season 8

Challenger, the wrong way

Full AD Sion carries him to the top end of the EUW ladder. He is a top-ten fixture for much of the year, with a death count nobody else would tolerate.

2019

2019 season

G2 calls

Europe's most decorated organisation signs him as a creator and substitute top laner. The YouTube channel launches in February. The clips start travelling.

G2 Esports · sub
2020

2020 season

Berlin

A substitute spot with BIG. Two years on pro rosters, zero interest in playing like a pro.

BIG · sub
2021

LEC broadcast

The analyst desk

Invited onto the LEC as a guest analyst. One pro publicly objected. Chat did not.

2022

Spring 2022 · South Korea

The Korea bootcamp

He takes inting Sion to the hardest ladder on earth, staying in an apartment lent by a certain Nemesis. 9.4 deaths a game. Master tier anyway.

2023

March 2023

The Rank 1 push

1,294 LP and a top-25 spot in all of Europe West. The same month: a Best League of Legends Streamer nomination at The Streamer Awards.

Streamer Awards nominee
2024

15 November 2024

Los Ratones

Caedrel unveils a team nobody saw coming: Baus, Velja, Nemesis, Crownie, Rekkles. Twenty-three days later they lift the NNO Cup.

🏆 NNO Cup · 3–1
🥖

15 December 2024 · Paris

T1. Paris. Bread.

Los Ratones beat the reigning world champions in front of nearly 15,000 fans at the Accor Arena and 612,000 watching online. Baus celebrates with a loaf the size of a child.

Los Ratones def. T1
2025

2 + 23 March 2025

Champions of EMEA

NLC Winter, 3–0 over NORD in Nottingham. Three weeks later they take EMEA Masters with a 3–0 final. The first UK-based org ever to win it.

🏆🏆 NLC + EMEA Masters
2025

1 + 21 June 2025

Back to back

NLC Spring. Then a second straight EMEA Masters, sweeping Barça eSports 3–0 in the final.

🏆🏆 NLC + EMEA Masters
2025

30 August 2025 · Stockholm

The treble, at home

NLC Summer, undefeated, 3–0 over Verdant on Swedish soil. The first team in NLC history to win all three splits in one year.

🏆 NLC · 3 for 3
2025

29 November 2025 · Munich

T1, again

Red Bull League of Its Own, round two. Lethality Sion on stage against Faker, a near-pentakill, and a second win over T1.

Los Ratones def. T1 ×2
2026

January to February 2026

The LEC

Tier one, finally. A streamer team in Europe's top league, pulling 591,490 viewers against Vitality. Five wins, six losses, ninth place.

LEC Versus · 9th
2026

12 February 2026

End of the rats

Los Ratones disbands, exactly as planned. Baus had already said it out loud: the stream comes first.

Now

October 2026

Still dying.
Still winning.

Back to full-time streaming. Twelve thousand people in chat on an ordinary evening, and the fifth most-watched League channel on the planet.

Watch on Twitch ↗
(05)The PoolThree picks, one philosophy
01

Sion

The Undead Juggernaut, built like an assassin

The one-trick. Lethality over armour, a Q that deletes health bars, and a passive that turns every death into a free swing at the tower. Nobody else plays him like this; plenty have tried.

02

Gragas

The Rabble Rouser, the climbing pick

When the ladder needs actual LP, the barrel comes out. A 62% win rate across 226 ranked games on a single account, and a body slam for every occasion.

03

AP Irelia

The Blade Dancer, built like a mage

The pick nobody asked for. Everything in her kit except Q scales with ability power, including the damage reduction on her W, so Baus skips the bruiser items entirely. In 2024 he ended a stream after hitting his head, then reported the damage was limited to the part of his brain that believes in AP Irelia. She has been buffed twice since, and both times the timeline tagged him.

(06)The CabinetLos Ratones, 2024 to 2026

Six trophies.
Under nine months.

2×EMEA Masters
champion
3×NLC
champion
2×Wins over
T1
1×NLC Rookie
of the Split
(07)Anatomy of a MomentHover the markers

One loaf.
One legend.

Paris, 15 December 2024. A month-old streamer team has just beaten the world champions. The top laner who dies for a living walks out holding the largest bread anyone in the building has ever seen. It is, somehow, the most Baus thing that has ever happened.

① Pick a marker on the photo.
Thebausffs lifting a giant loaf of bread on stage in Paris
(08)The LexiconA field guide to Baus-speak

Asked to choose between the pro grind and the stream:

“I'm not gonna give up my streaming career for pro play.”

Thebausffs, on stream, on his future with Los Ratones