Lee Jae-dong

Lee Jae-dong / 이제동
Player information
Full name	Lee Jae-dong / 이제동
Nickname	Jaedong
Date of birth	January 9, 1990
country code	South Korea
game	Starcraft Broodwar , StarCraft 2
preferred game party	Zerg
Former teams	Evil Geniuses , Team 8, Lecaf OZ (later Plus), Hwaseung OZ

Korean spelling
Hangeul	이제동
Hanja	李帝東
Revised Romanization	I je-dong
McCune- Reischauer	Yi Che-tong
See also : Korean name

Lee "Jaedong" Jae-dong (born January 9, 1990 ) is a professional South Korean e-athlete in the computer games Starcraft: Brood War and StarCraft II .

He is one of only 4 players who could win a "golden mouse", which is awarded for winning three OSL tournaments. Jaedong participated in the 2012 WCS eliminations South Korea and the 2012 GSL Code S Season 4 and was one of the first professional Brood War players to switch to Starcraft 2.

2013 he passed by his second place finish at the WCS finals on the BlizzCon meantime Johnathan Wendel e-athletes with the most prize money earned. Currently (2018) he has won the equivalent of around 637,000 US dollars in tournaments.

Career

Even in his first year as a professional in Starcraft Broodwar, Lee Jae-dong was the zerg with the second highest profit share among professional players at the end of the year. This year his "win rates" against Zerg and Protoss in particular were very high at over 70%. This earned him the title of "Rookie of the Year". In 2007 Jaedong was also able to eradicate his weakness against Terrans and presented a 12-to-0 run against Terrans like NaDa and others. This strength in every match-up earned Lee Jae-dong the first OSL title in 2007.

At the beginning of 2008, Jaedong also rose to be the best Zerg player in the KeSPA rankings. Later that year, Jaedong also held its own for four months as number 1 on the KeSPA All Breed Ranking. In addition, Lee Jae-dong could win his first MSL title. In 2009 Jaedong was also able to win the "golden mouse" with his third win at an OSL (EVER, Batoo, Bacchus). In the same year Jaedong was able to win the WCG 2009 title against Stork in Chengdu, China. In 2010, the great rivalry with Flash was defined , as the two Starcraft Broodwar greats met in five finals, three of which went to Flash. Still, Jaedong was still the best zerg player according to the KeSPA ranking.

In 2011 Jaedong's achievements fell sharply, and since the first rumors arose at the end of 2010 that Jaedong would switch to StarCraft 2 , many were expecting this switch to one of the greatest Starcraft Broodwar legends.

In mid-2012, this change also became official when Lee Jae-dong took part in the 2012 WCS Korea Nationals and was able to take part in the 2012 GSL Code S Season 4 through a KeSPA headquarters. In both tournaments, however, his performance was rather modest. Jaedong played very well, but could rarely find the right time to win games in which he had an advantage. So he fell from Code S to Code A and also lost his first game there.

On December 6, 2012 it was announced that Jaedong has switched to the American team Evil Geniuses . In 2013 Jaedong reached five finals in five major tournaments, but he couldn't win any until the ASUS ROG at Northcon, where he clinched his first tournament win in 2013 in the final against Scarlett in December . His last victory was in September 2014 e-sports at the World Championships, where he beat Snute of Team Liquid .

On November 1, 2016, he retired from professional sports. Evil Genius closed its Starcraft II division the following year. Since then, Jaedong has been without a team and is back in leagues and tournaments for StarCraft: Brood War.

Tournament successes (selection)

year	competition	space	Prize money
Starcraft: Brood War
2007	EVER OSL	1st place	$ 35,000
2008	GOMTV MSL Season 4	1st place	$ 44,000
2008	Arena MSL	2nd place	$ 20,000
2008	GOMTV TG-Intel Classic Season 1	1st place	$ 40,000
2009	Batoo OSL	1st place	$ 35,000
2009	Bacchus OSL	1st place	$ 35,000
2009	World Cyber ​​Games	1st place	$ 10,000
2010	NATE MSL	1st place	$ 44,000
2010	Hana Daetoo Securities MSL	2nd place	$ 20,000
2010	NATE Bigfile MSL	2nd place	$ 20,000
2010	Batoo OSL	2nd place	$ 20,000
2010	World Cyber ​​Games	3rd place	0$ 1,000
Starcraft II
2013	DreamHack Summer	2nd place	0$ 5,390
2013	DreamHack Valencia	2nd place	0$ 5,390
2013	WCS America Season 2	2nd place	$ 12,000
2013	WCS Season 2 Finals	2nd place	$ 20,000
2013	WCS Global Finals	2nd place	$ 45,000
2013	NorthCon ASUS ROG	1st place	$ 10,000
2014	Lone Star Clash 3	1st place	0$ 7,500
2014	World esports championships 2014	1st place	$ 24,400
Starcraft: Brood War
2018	KSL Season 1	2nd place	0$ 9,100

Because of conversion discrepancies, prize money is only approximate.

Play style

Lee Jae-dong changed the standard game for Zerg in many ways. So did Jaedong in the Zerg vs. Terran Matchup the 2 Hatch (only with 2 bases) Mutalisk opening very popular as well as in the Zerg vs. Zerg his extraordinary zergling game with the use of advantageous attack positions and run-bys (this is also used heavily in StarCraft II: Heart of the Swarm , i.e. if you have residues in the gas resource, you rely on increasing zergling aggression). In the Zerg vs. Protoss Matchup developed Jaedong a new counterattack against the play style of Kim "Bisu" Taek Yong with Scourge and a large number of bases.

While it is generally accepted that Jaedong's greatest strength is his micromanagement , he has refined or made popular many zerg trends by switching between very aggressive and business-based play styles.

See also

• List of the most successful e-athletes by prize money

Web links

Commons : Lee Jae-dong  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Jaedong on Liquipedia
2. ↑ ^{a b} Golden Mouse on Liquipedia
3. ↑ Jaedong: "It's an honor to be the highest-earnings esports player ever" on ongamers.com
4. ↑ Excerpt from an interview with Jaedong on TeamLiquid
5. ↑ Teamliquid News: Jaedong joins Evil Geniuses
6. ↑ https://liquipedia.net/starcraft2/World_E-sport_Championships_2014
7. ↑ EVER2007 OSL on Liquipedia
8. ↑ 2008 MSL S4 on Liquipedia
9. ↑ TG-Intel 2008 Arena MSL on Liquipedia
10. ↑ TG-Intel S1 on Liquipedia
11. ↑ 2009 Batoo OSL on Liquipedia
12. ↑ 2009 Bacchus OSL on Liquipedia
13. ↑ 2009 NATE MSL on Liquipedia
14. ↑ 2010 Hana Daetoo Securities MSL on Liquipedia
15. ↑ NATE 2010 Bigfile MSL on Liquipedia
16. ↑ Korean Air Starleague Season 2 on Liquipedia
17. ↑ YouTube video of the last WCG 2010 final
18. ↑ Dreamhack winner on a Starcraft blog
19. ↑ 2013 Dreamhack Valencia on Liquipedia
20. ↑ 2013 WCS America S2 on Liquipedia
21. ↑ 2013 WCS S2 Finals on Liquipedia
22. ↑ 2013 WCS Global Finals on Liquipedia
23. ↑ ASUS ROG 2013 Northcon
24. ↑ Lone Star Clash 3 esportsearnings.com
25. ↑ World E-sport Championships 2014 esportsearnings.com
26. ↑ Korea StarCraft League Season 1 2018 esportsearnings.com
27. ↑ 2 Hatch Muta (vs. Terran) at teamliquid.net
28. ↑ Zergling described by Blizzard
29. ↑ Bisu at teamliquid.net
30. ↑ Additional description of Jaedong's style of play
31. ↑ Jaedong's style of play described by Day9

Note: This article places the family name before the person's first name. This is the usual order in Korean. Lee is the family name here, Jae-dong is the first name.