Light

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Light

Background Information
Name:	이재호 Lee Jae Ho
Team:	Woongjin Stars
Race:	T
Birthday:	1990-03-28
IDs:	Light, Light[aLive], NoN.ge
Height/Weight:	183cm / 71kg [1]
Nicknames:	Invisible Terran, Super Terran
Fansite:
Career
ELO Rank:	2138.94
Peak ELO:	2250.26
Team History:	Woongjin Stars (Feb 2011 - Current) MBCGame HERO (Feb 2006 - Feb 2011)
Draft History:
TLPD:	Light

To read about Light's StarCraft 2 career, see Light.
Light is a Korean StarCraft progamer. He plays as Terran and is currently a member of team Woongjin Stars.

[edit] Biography

Signed to 'Pirates of Space' (P.O.S) from 2006 draft at the young age of 16, Lee Jae Ho made his first TV appearance in Proleague the following month. Despite statistics of 3-7 he showed considerable promise with a dominating performance against Anytime. In the second half of the Proleague season Jae Ho became one of the strongest members of MBCGame Hero. Destroying his first 4 opponents with ease earned him much respect within the team and was even used for Ace on a number of occasions.

Shortly after the 1st season of the 2006 Proleague he participated in the i-Station Dual tournament and qualified for ShinHan2006-2 OSL. Despite losing 0-3 in a tough group (Eventual winner NaDa, an in-form Zergman and jy) he continued to show strong performances in the 9th MBC Movies Survivor League and qualified for the 2006 GOMTV MSL Season 1. In the 2nd OGN Dual Tornament Jae Ho showed an amazing performance finishing 1st from his group and qualifying for ShinHan2006-3 OSL. However, once again he met an insane group (eventual winner Savior, 2nd place NaDa and firebathero and departed 0-3.

Through his efforts in the latter half of 2006, Jae Ho earned the nickname "Dark Sorcerer" for his unparalleled multitasking which could only be achieved through some kind of dark magic. It was this amazing multitasking that Coach Ha originally saw in Jae Ho when he signed him onto P.O.S and this feature of Jae Ho was brought out very nicely by him. Using his amazing multitasking, he was able to turn the TvZ balance on Arcadia from deeply in Zerg's favor to strongly in Terran's favor. This also was considered an amazing feat, and his methods on the map were copied extensively by other Terrans.

Jae Ho would build on his 2006 success in 2007 by placing first in his group in GOM TV MSL and making his way to the tiebreak round for entry into the semi-finals losing a close match 1-2 to Hwasin. Jae Ho earned himself the 6th seed for GOM TV 2 MSL, and came 1st in his group. Jae Ho would lose to eventual finalist and teammate Bisu in the first round and again to the other finalist Stork in the first round of the wildcard matches. Jae Ho also qualified for Daum OSL where he lost 1-2 to another tough group.^[1]

For his entire career Light has been known for his top class TvZ, but his weaker TvP has prevented him from advancing farther in Starleagues. His deepest Starleague run to date was in the 2010 Bigfile MSL, where he defeated Effort 2-1 to advance to the semifinals against Jaedong. In a close series, Light displayed his phenomenal late-game play in games 2 and 3 to take the lead. However, he was shaken by Jaedong's unorthodox mass muta-queen build in the 4th set and subsequently failed to defend an aggressive 2 hatch mutaling in game 5 to lose the series 2-3.

[edit] Facts

Has one of the scariest TvZ of 2010. Going 21-2 (91.3%) which nearly matches iloveoov's 33-3. (As of July 31th 2010). During Winners League, he actually remained unbeaten against Zerg opponents.
Jaedong, possibly the best ZvT zerg ever, accounts for 12 of Light's 49 TvZ losses, which is about 24% of all of Light's TvZ losses.

[edit] Accomplishments

Light won the 2006 OnGameNet Super Rookie Tournament, defeating Justin 2-1 in the final.
Light had some of the strongest showings in the 08-09 Proleague, finishing with the result of 36 wins and 17 losses.
Light had the most wins in the '10 Winner's League.