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great
Background Information
Name:	차명환 Cha Myung Hwan
Team:	Air Force ACE
Race:	Zerg
Birthday:	1989-11-27
IDs:	great, Hades, by.great, KT.MGW)Great
Height/Weight:
Nicknames:
Fansite:
Career
ELO Rank:	2012.58
Peak ELO:	2170.63
Team History:	Samsung KHAN
Draft History:
TLPD:	Great

Great is a Korean StarCraft progamer. He plays as Zerg, and after 4 years as a player for Samsung KHAN, he joined Air Force ACE in October 2011.

Biography

In the 2008 ShinHan Bank Proleague Grand Final between Samsung KHAN and OGN SPARKYZ, great was sent out for the first set against Leta on Katrina SE; great's loss was the only Samsung loss in that match. Great was the first player to use a proxy hatch contain strategy against Protoss on the first version of Neo Medusa. He used this strategy to win upsets against Bisu and Free. After being Khan's Zerg ace for a few years, Great was drafted to the Air Force. He will play on Air Force ACE starting in July.

Facts

• great's trademark games are ZvZ's that reach Hive stage of the game or just go past the standard Mutalisk battles (so-called "non-standard ZvZ"). He himself stated that he wanted to "lead that trend".

Accomplishments

Place	Year	Event/League
2nd	2011	PDPop MBCGame Starcraft League

Notable Games

ZvT

• great vs Sea, Grand Line SE, Korean Air OSL S2

ZvP

• great vs free, Neo Medusa, 2009 ShinHan Bank Proleague
• great vs Bisu, Neo Medusa, 2009 ShinHan Bank Proleague

ZvZ

• great vs Zero on Triathlon, Bigfile MSL, 2010-07-15 a 35-minute match featuring almost every unit and ability.
• great vs Neo.G_Soulkey on Grand Line, Shinhan Bank Proleague, 2010-06-12 lair tech vs hive tech play.
• Great vs Neo.G_Soulkey @ Circuit Breaker, PdPop MSL Ro32 group C, december 2010 both players go hive, but Great is more successful in expanding...