Chang "FreedoM" Youngsuk (born April 26, 1988) is a South Korean professional

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player of the

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games ''

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'' and ''

WarCraft III ''Warcraft III: Reign of Chaos'' is a high fantasy real-time strategy computer video game developed and published by Blizzard Entertainment released in July 2002. It is the second sequel to '' Warcraft: Orcs & Humans'', after '' Warcraft II: Ti ...

''. He is known by his pseudonym ''FreedoM'' or FreeDoM. Chang entered the E-sports world in 2004 where he started his career playing as the Night Elf race in the game ''WarCraft III''. Chang represented

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in ''

'' at the World Cyber Games 2004, winning the 2004 national Korean qualifier. In 2005, he once again placed first on the World E-sports Festival. After the "MBC Map Scandal" where maps were rigged in order to make the Orc race more powerful, Freedom decided to quit playing

and move onto playing

in 2006. Since then, his team

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, won the championship for the StarCraft Pro-League 2006–2007 season. Currently he is one of the most successful Korean

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players. He finished in 4th place at the 2008 Asian Poker Tour (APT) Manila where he took over $38,000 in prize money.

Tournament placings

*2003 MBC Sonokong Prime League III - 3rd place *2004

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Korea national qualifier - 1st Place *2005 MBC Land Cinema Prime League V - 3rd place *2005 World E-Sports Festival - 1st Place *2005 Ongamenet Invitational - 1st place *2007 Shinhan ProLeague - 1st place

Poker

*2008 APPT Manila 2008 4th Place ($38,000)

References

External links

Freedom's fan cafe (Korean)
1988 births StarCraft players South Korean esports players South Korean poker players Living people Warcraft III players {{eSports-player-stub