HyuN

Overview

Results

To read about HyuN's StarCraft: Brood War career, see HyuN.

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Player Information
Name:	고석현
Romanized Name:	Ko Seok Hyun
Birth:	January 15, 1988 (1988-01-15)
Country:	South Korea
Race:	Zerg
Team:	Quantic Gaming
Alternate IDs:	TSL.HyuN, MyWay
WCS Rank (Points):	#40 (325 points)
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History
2011-11-28 – 2013-01-03 Team SCV Life

Ko "HyuN" Seok Hyun is a former Brood War progamer from South Korea. He began his StarCraft II career in November 2011 with Team SCV Life. On January 3rd 2013 he became teamless following the disbanding of TSL. On February 1st 2013, he joined Quantic Gaming.

Biography

HyuN was a Zerg progamer in Starcraft: Brood War, and was a member of team MBCGame HERO from 2005 to 2011.

His last result in the OnGameNet Starleague was an elimination in the first round of the 2011 Jin Air OSL, and he has an overall record of 84 wins and 110 losses in official Brood War matches.

Though HyuN was known as an online player for quite sometime, in late 2012, HyuN cemented himself as a legitimate tournament performer when he reached the Code S finals of the 2012 GSL Season 5 while simultaneously winning IPL Fight Club for 14 consecutive weeks.

Wings of Liberty

HyuN began playing StarCraft II in November 2011, and was able to move up to Master League within the month. On November 28th, he joined Team SCV Life. He stated that he planned to qualify for the first GSL Code A Championship of 2012, and to compete in foreign events as well. HyuN successfully earned a spot in Code A by defeating Weekend in the 2012 Global StarCraft II League Season 1 preliminaries, hence meeting the objective he set a month before. His stay in Code A was brief, however, as he lost to TaeJa in the Ro 48, falling back down to Code B. HyuN was able to qualify for Code A of the 2012 Global StarCraft II League Season 3 a second time with a victory over Choya in the usual qualification process.

On March 15th, 2012, HyuN participated in the ZOTAC Cup Monthly Final February 2012. He was able to take down Breach and Revival but was not able to get any further after fraer took him down and sent him to the 3rd/4th place match. In the 3rd/4th place match, HyuN took down Crane with a score of 2-0 and took 3rd place.

On July 2nd, 2012, HyuN participated in the ZOTAC Cup Monthly Final May 2012. He was able to take down White-Ra and Satiini but was unable to advance any further than that after he faced fraer and got sent straight to the 3rd/4th place match. In the 3rd/4th place match, HyuN destroyed Seiplo with a score of 2-0 and was able to take 3rd place.

On July 24th, 2012, HyuN participated in the ZOTAC Cup Monthly Final June 2012. He was able to take down Welmu, Happy, Bly, and went straight into the finals to face Revival. After a fierce match, HyuN won against Revival with a score of 3-2 and took 1st place.

HyuN had his best GSL run in 2012 Global StarCraft II League Season 5 when he finished second narrowly losing to champion Sniper.

Esports Weekly Match

On May 4th, 2012, HyuN participated in the EWM Season 2 Week 6. HyuN took down TriMaster, Blaka, Vampire, Revival, and YangSongE to advance in to the finals against Brown. HyuN defeated Brown by a score of 2-0 and advanced in to the EWM Season 2 Finals where he would have a shot to obtain a Code A seed if he won against the other weekly winners.

World Championship Series

2012 WCS Korea Preliminaries

On July 23rd, 2012, HyuN participated in the 2012 South Korea WCS Preliminaries. HyuN received a BYE in round one and then took down 심준보, Sage, Maru, and faced Polt in the finals. He was not able to advance any further as he lost to Polt by a score of 1:2 and took 2nd place.

IGN ProLeague

IPL Fight Club

On August 6th, 2012, HyuN was invited to participate in the IPL Fight Club. His first opponent was Squirtle. HyuN defeated Squirtle by a score of 5-3 and took his rightful seat at top of the throne.

On August 13th, 2012, HyuN faced his next opponent for the IPL Fight Club, MajOr. HyuN defeated MajOr by a score of 5-1 and remained at the top of the throne.

By October 16th, 2012, HyuN had defeated CranK, Tear, Grubby, aLive, TitaN, GuMiho, ByuN and Sea by scores of 5-1, 5-3, 5-0, 5-0, 5-1, 5-3, 5-3 and 5-1 respectively, being the first player to achieve over 3 wins in the fight club, and is currently on a 10-win streak.

On October 29th, 2012, HyuN cemented his reign over Fight Club, this time with a 5-4 win over the reigning Code S champion Life, for a total of 12 consecutive wins. This match was the first time anyone had taken more than three games off HyuN in Fight Club.

On December 11th, 2012, HyuN would at last lose his Fight Club title. After 14 consecutive wins, he would lose 5-2 to Leenock.

Achievements

In Premier Tournaments
Date		Place	Event	Result		Winnings
2012-12-01		A22nd	2012 GSL Code S Season 5	3 : 4	Sniper	$17,053

In Major Tournaments
Date	Place	Event	Result		Winnings
2013-03-31	A11st	2013 Ritmix Russian StarCraft II League Season 4	4 : 0	LucifroN	$3,000
2012-12-19	A11st	GGA Cup	3 : 0	Revival	$3,000
2012-12-13	A11st	MSI Pro Cup Worldwide	3 : 0	Scarlett	3,000 €

Complete Results in any Tournament

Interviews

2013

• 2013-02-20 | 2013 GSL Season 1 Code A Ro24 Day 1 Winners by This Is Game
• 2013-02-13 | 2013 GSL Season 1 Code A Ro32 Day 1 Winners by This Is Game

2012

• 2012-12-01 |  Hyun talks about beating INnoVation to make the GSL Season 5 Code S Final by Slasher of GameSpot.com at IPL5  (trans. )
• 2012-12-01 | 2012 GSL Season 5 Code S Ro4 Winner by This Is Game
• 2012-11-20 | 2012 GSL Season 5 Code S Ro8 Day 1 Winners by This Is Game
• 2012-11-14 | 2012 GSL Season 5 Code S Ro16 Group B Winners by This Is Game
• 2012-11-01 | 2012 GSL Season 5 Code S Ro32 Group D Winners by This Is Game
• 2012-10-09 | 2012 GSL Season 4 Code A Ro32 Day 1 Winners by This Is Game
• 2012-09-18 | 2012 GSL Season 4 Code A Ro48 Day 1 Winners by This Is Game
• 2012-04-20 | Interview with HyuN by PolarfluKe

Gallery

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External links

• HyuN's profile on the Korean Ladder