Grrrr...

This player has retired from competitive StarCraft.

Grrrr...
Background Information
Name:	기욤패트리 Guillaume Patry
Team:	(Retired)
Race:	P
Birthday:	1982-06-19
IDs:	Grrrr..., GiYom, X'Ds~Grrrr...
Height/Weight:
Nicknames:	Green Eyed Warrior
Fansite:
Career
ELO Rank:
Peak ELO:	2132.34
Team History:	Team X'D, Hexatron
Draft History:
TLPD:	Grrrr...

Guillaume "Grrrr..." Patry is a retired French-Canadian Starcraft player and is the only foreigner to ever win an OSL.

Biography

Grrrr... was the most successful player of the "First Generation in Korea" and was one of the most successful foreigners of all time. Mainly playing as Protoss, Grrrr... was also known for his ability to play all races at a very high level and compete with the best players at the time.

After dominating the first few online leagues arranged by Blizzard and AMD Professional Gamers League, Guillaume "X'Ds~Grrrr..." Patry turned his eyes to Seoul, South Korea, the perfect place for a progamer to develop. Guillaume moved to S. Korea in the year 2000, and became a Starcraft icon. The only foreigner in Korea at the time, he basically rolled over every obstacle. Patry never actually practiced hard as a player, but relied on clever tactics, strategic insight and a deep understanding of the game to win.

Over the years Reaver drops as well as his tendency to perform the "Gas Rush" became Guillaume's trademark-strategies. As his era was before the time of flawless game mechanics, the upcoming players started to crush and dominate him by simply training more than him as well as the new Replay-feature, that came out with the 1.08a patch, ruptured his superior strategies. The biggest trouble for Guillaume became SlayerS `BoxeR`. Patry used hotkeys very little by only controlling his units with them and leaving the buildings be, thinking hotkey spamming was useless.

Though all in all, the period of his dominance and success in Korea was very short, Grrrr... left a big mark on the progaming scene. The most innovative Protoss player of his time, his contribution in the creation of new Protoss strategies can easily be compared to what Boxer did for Terrans. His favorite match up was PvZ, and he gave some insight to his strategies in an interview with SCLegacy in 2001:

"My favorite match up is Protoss vs Zerg. I don't mean that I win PvZ all the time, but I mean that I like to play it. What I like to do against a 3 hatch hydra user is a simple zealot rush with fast gas, then stop making zealots after 5, tech quickly to Templars and possibly expand even before my templar archives is done. Then I get psi storm/archons and zealot speed. I really like to get fast templar and fast expansion, and it's the best way. It works best at 12:00 on lost temple."

At the time the interview was done, Guillaume had cut playing Brood War to 20 hours a week, and he had started to get interested in other things in life. Soon after, our most shining foreign star started to fade, only taking third place at WCG 2003."

Facts

• The only foreigner to win an OSL
• One of the "First Generation in Korea" players
• Mainly played Protoss, but could play all races at a very high level
• Grrrr... Retired in 2004

Accomplishments

Place	Year	Event/League
3rd	2003	WCG Finals
2nd	2000	1st GhemTV StarLeague
3rd	2001	Hanbitsoft OSL
1st	2000	Hanaro Tongshin OSL Champion¹

¹(2nd OSL in Pro Gaming History)

OSL Champion
Tooniverse Progamer Korea Open Preceeded By:   Freemura	Hanaro OSL 16th May 2000-1st November 2000   Grrrr...	Freechal OSL Succeeded By:   GARIMTO

Interviews

• Grrrr... Interview
• Korean T.V. Interview

Notable Games

• Grrr... VS H.O.T-Forever @ 2000 Hanaro OSL Finals Game #1
• Grrr... VS H.O.T-Forever @ 2000 Hanaro OSL Finals Game #2
• Grrr... VS H.O.T-Forever @ 2000 Hanaro OSL Finals Game #3
• Grrr... VS H.O.T-Forever @ 2000 Hanaro OSL Finals Game #4
• Grrr... VS H.O.T-Forever @ 2000 Hanaro OSL Finals Game #5