Seed

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Player Information
Name:	안상원
Romanized Name:	Ahn Sahng Won
Birth:	January 13, 1991 (1991-01-13)
Country:	South Korea
Race:	Protoss
Team:	Incredible Miracle
Alternate IDs:	IMSeed , SeedSG, LG_IMSeed
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Ahn "Seed" Sahng Won is a Protoss player from South Korea, who is currently playing for Incredible Miracle.

Style

Seed is known for his smart play.

An example of his strong strategic play is his game against Hyperdub in the 2011 GSTL February in the match vs Old Generations. Hyperdub opted for the very popular at the time 1-rax Fast Expand. Seed expanded to another main base, and fooled his opponent into thinking that he was going for a 1-base all-in Immortal bust by using Hallucination to make a fake Immortal, when in fact, Seed did not even have a Robotics Facility. Hyperdub, of course, responded by making several bunkers and pulling several SCVs, thinking that if he could just hold the attack, he will win. Seed, having shown his Immortal to his opponent, made another Nexus at his natural this time. This gives Hyperdub the appearance that Seed gave up on his all-in and is simply expanding late, trying to catch up, when in fact, Seed had an economic advantage the whole time.

Another example of his smart play is his games in the 2012 GSL Season 1 Code A where he won some of his games by using unorthodox strategies, like Hallucination to fake teching to colossus, or opening with the at that time unpopular 3 gate expand.

Wings Of Liberty

Seed participates often in KSL events. He won KSL Week 3 Day 3, defeating all his opponents with the score 2-0.

Code S

Seed first participated in Code S during 2012 GSL Season 2, where he was placed in a group with SuperNova, Genius and BBoong. He ended up third in his group, winning only against BBoong with 3-4 in sets, dropping to Ro32 in Code A. After losing to Symbol in the Code A Ro32, he managed to qualify once again into Code S through the Up and Down matches, going 3-1 in his group, losing to MC, but then proceeding to win against Hack, Zenio, and Tree.

In the Ro32 of 2012 GSL Season 3 Code S, he went 2-1 in his group, with wins against Curious twice, but a loss to ByuN, advancing him into the Ro16. In the Ro16 he advanced from his group with 2-0, winning 2-1 against viOLet, and then 2-0 against TaeJa, advancing him to the Ro8. Seed faced Symbol in the Ro8. Symbol won the first 2 games, but Seed was able to come back and win the set 3-2, which advanced him to the Ro4. Seed's opponent in the Ro4 was ByuN, who he also managed to beat in a close 3-2 series. This earned Seed a spot in the finals of Code S for the first time in his StarCraft II career.

Seed winning the 2012 GSL Season 3

In the finals against MC, Seed appeared to be the heavy underdog in the match-up. Regardless, he gained a 3-0 lead and ultimately won with a score of 4-1, becoming the second Protoss GSL champion.

Code A

In 2011, Seed tried to qualify for GSL Code A. He made it to the finals in the 2011 GSL July Preliminaries, where he lost to his teammate YoDa in the finals and in the 2011 GSL October Preliminaries where he defeated Apocalypse in the Ro 8 and Hannibal in the Ro 4 before losing 2-0 to SUPERSTAR in the finals.

In 2012, Seed finally qualified for Code A in the 2012 GSL Season 1 Code A, defeating VINES in his bracket's finals and made his Code A debut in the 2012 GSL Season 1 Code A. There, he qualified for Code S winning all his opponents 2-0, not losing a map against Monster in the Round of 48, BoxeR in the Round of 32 and finally Leenock in the Round of 24.

After dropping to Code A in 2012 GSL Season 2, Seed faced Symbol in Ro32, where he lost 0-2.

GSTL

Seed made his debut for the team Incredible Miracle in 2011 GSTL February. He started in the match vs Old Generations, where he had an impressive performance, taking out such oGs players as Ensnare, TOP, and Hyperdub, before being stopped by MC.

Seed also played in the 2012 GSTL Season 1, in the match vs Team SCV Life. He lost to Symbol in the 5th set and in the match vs StarTaleQ, where he lost to Bomber in the 1st set.

Korean StarCraft II League

On December 14th, 2011, Seed participated in the KSL Daily Week 3 Day 3. Choya started off from the quarterfinals. Seed took down S and Terius in order to advance to the finals. In the finals, Seed defeated Life by a score of 2-0 and grabbed first place.

Trivia

• He is one of two Protoss GSL champions, the other being MC.
• Used MC's Murloc outfit during the interview preceding the match between LG-IM and NSH 2013 GSTL Preseason.

Achievements

2012

Date	Event	Result
2012-11-11	MSI Pro Cup WW: Asian Qualifier	Seed 3 : 2  ForGG
2012-07-27	2012 Global StarCraft II League Season 3	Seed 4 : 1  MC
2012-06-14	TeamLiquid StarLeague 4: KR Qualifier #1	Seed 2 : 3  Curious
2012-03-19	RaidCall Invitational #2	Seed 2 : 3  aLive

2011

Date	Event	Result
2011-12-14	KSL Daily Week 3 Day 3	Seed 2 : 0  Life

Championships

Global Starcraft II League Champion
2012 GSL Season 2 Preceeded By:   Mvp	2012 GSL Season 3 27 July 2012 – 20 October 2012   Seed	2012 GSL Season 4 Succeeded By:   Life

Gallery

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Interviews

2013

• 2013-02-26 | 2013 GSL Season 1 Code A Qualifiers Day 1 Winners by This Is Game
• 2013-01-30 | 2013 GSL Season 1 Code A Qualifiers Day 1 Winners by This Is Game

2012

• 2012-09-08 | GSTL 2012 Season 3 Round 1 NSH vs LG-IM by This Is Game
• 2012-08-21 | WCS Korea Winners' Round 3 Winners by This Is Game
• 2012-08-14 | WCS Korea Winners' Round 2 Day 2 Winners by This Is Game at 2012 StarCraft II World Championship Series: South Korea Nationals
• 2012-08-08 | WCS Korea Winners' Round 1 Day 2 Winners by This Is Game at 2012 StarCraft II World Championship Series: South Korea Nationals
• 2012-07-27 | GSL 2012 Season 3 Code S Finals Winner Interview by This Is Game

External links

• Seed's 1st profile on the Korean Ladder
• Seed's 2nd profile on the Korean Ladder