ElkY
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 ElkY
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| Background Information | |
| Name: | 베르트랑 Bertrand Grospellier |
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| Team: | (Retired) |
| Race: | T |
| Birthday: | 1981-02-08 |
| IDs: | ElkY, [GG1]Elky |
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| Nicknames: | Desperate Terran |
| Fansite: | http://cafe.daum.net/elky |
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| Peak ELO: | 2136.18 |
| Team History: | AMD, iVenture |
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| TLPD: |  ElkY
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ElkY is a retired French Starcraft progamer. He played as Terran.
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[edit] Overview
Bertrand "ElkY" Grospellier is an ex-StarCraft, now-Poker player who was one of the first Foreigners to go to Korea.
[edit] Biography
Bertrand Grospellier was a member of the AMD / Hexatron franchise, one of the few proteams to carry active foreign players in Brood War. He began his televised playing career in early 2002, and finished in mid 2004. He played terran for most of his career, and is considered the second most successful foreigner in Korea after Guillaume Patry.
Elky's biggest achievement in Korea was reaching the semi-finals of the SKY 2 OSL in the summer of 2002. In the semi-finals Elky battled the Emperor, Boxer, in a best-of-5. That series was marred by controversy as Boxer used the allied-mine trick, causing a regame. Elky fell in the semi-finals to Boxer, and then lost a disappointing set to Yellow for the 3rd place spot. Nevertheless, no other player since Elky has even qualified for individual play, and his reputation as a legend is intact.
Outside Korea, Elky proudly represented his country at four WCG final tournaments. In the inaugural WCG in 2001, he made the finals after beating GoRush. There he had to face Boxer for the second time in the tournament but was unable to emerge victorious.
Elky retired from competitive StarCraft after failing to make it out of the Sping MST Qualifiers of 2005 and now plays professional poker for a living.
[edit] Poker
As a poker player the last few years, he qualified for several events in the 2006 and 2007 World Series of Poker. ElkY is a member of Team PokerStars. He was the first person ever to reach "Supernova" and "Supernova Elite" statuses on PokerStars - having earned 100,000 player points in just 2 weeks and 1,000,000 player points in 4 and a half months, respectively.
- He set the Guinness World Record for most Single Table Sit & Goes played in one hour for a total of 62 at a $6.50 buy in with a profit of $23.60.
- As of 2012, his total live tournament winnings exceed $9,900,000.
[edit] StarCraft II
After the release of StarCraft II, ElkY played a few matches on the ladder, as Zerg and as Terran. He even participated in a major tournament, the eOSL Winter 2010, but was eliminated in the first round. Since then, ElkY had made some appearances in French offline tournaments, but only as a spectator.
[edit] Facts
- In a match against IntotheRainbow on MBCgame, Elky mistakenly attacked one of his own Command Centers with a Vulture; the Command Center was destroyed before Elky noticed his mistake.
- In 2002, he picked up the newly released WarCraft 3 and garnered success by finishing second in the televised Ongamenet WarCraft Retail League.
[edit] Achievements
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2nd place, WCG Grand Finals 2001
[edit] Interviews
[edit] Notable Games
[edit] TvT
[edit] TvP
- vs Kingdom on Neo Bifrost, Olympus OSL, 2003-04-11 - ElkY Bunker Rushes through the backdoor of Bifrost, sealing the front with a second barracks.
