Seo Ji-hun (born 9 February 1985) also known as his tag XellOs
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South Korea
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StarCraft
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'' player of the
Terran race. Ji-hun won the 2003
Ongamenet Starleague and the
World Cyber Games 2004 grand final.
Early StarCraft career
Seo Ji-hun uses the
Terran race. He first played ''StarCraft'' on a professional level during the 2001 Summer OSL Qualifiers.
Later, in 2003 he was able to win the 2003
Olympus
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Mountains
In antiquity
Greece
* Mount Olympus in Thessaly, northern Greece, the home of the twelve gods of Olympus in Greek mythology
* Mount Olympus (Lesvos), located in Lesbos
* Mount Olympus (Euboea) ...
Ongamenet Starleague. At this time he was on
CJ Entus
OGN Entus was a South Korean esports organization . It formerly had teams competing in ''League of Legends'', ''StarCraft II'', ''Warcraft 3'',''Clash Royale'', ''PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds'' and ''Special Force 2''. OGN Entus was establishe ...
. In September of the same year, Ji-hun was able to come in third in the Korean Qualifiers.
In October he won the 2004 World Cyber Games Grand Final. He was also able to place third in the
You Are the Golf King MBCGame StarLeague. In the 2005 EVER OnGameNet StarLeague he was seen as a veteran who had the potential to win the title, but came in third place.
In 2005 he came in first place in the World Cyber Games Progamer selection for StarCraft, but did not place in the main event. During this time period, he was given the nickname Perfect Terran.
Later ''StarCraft'' career
Ji-hun did not win any major tournaments from 2005 until 2009, although managed to make it into the semifinals of a tournament once in 2007.
In February 2009 he started to serve his mandatory two year service for the
Republic of Korea Air Force
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. In doing so he joined the professional StarCraft team Airforce ACE.
In June 2009 he said that he had not played for 300 days, but played again in order to fulfill his service, and said that he will use his mentality to get back to playing the game. In 2010 he was asked to go to
Korean Air
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The present-day Korean Air tra ...
's main hangar to watch the OSL, along with all of the other past winners, and accepted.
In June 2010 he was ranked 103 with 71.4 points in
KeSPA
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rankings.
Tournament results
* 1st — 2003
Ongamenet Starleague
* 1st —
World Cyber Games 2004
See also
*
StarCraft professional competition
The real time strategy (RTS) computer game ''StarCraft'' had an active professional competition circuit, particularly in South Korea. The two major game channels in South Korea, Ongamenet and MBCGame, each ran a Starleague (Starleague (Ongamene ...
References
External links
Team Liquid Player Database entry
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1985 births
StarCraft players
South Korean esports players
Living people
Republic of Korea Air Force personnel
CJ Entus players
Air Force ACE players