Lee Seung-hyun (e-athlete)

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Lee Seung-hyun
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Player information
Full name Lee Seung-hyun
Nickname Life
Date of birth January 11, 1997
country code Korea SouthSouth Korea South Korea
game StarCraft 2
preferred game party Zerg
Former teams ZeNEX, StarTale ,
KT Rolster , Afreeca Freecs

Lee "Life" Seung-hyun (born January 11, 1997 ) is a professional South Korean esportsman in the computer game StarCraft 2 .

Career

Lee Seung-hyun drew attention to himself at the beginning of his Starcraft 2 career through his young age, combined with his promising achievements. His first publicly broadcast game was in the course of the 2012 GSTL Season 1 (Team League) for his then team ZeNEX. This made him the third-youngest player to be seen in a publicly broadcast game.

But this should only open the impressive year for the young player. He made a name for himself during the Iron Squid Chapter 1 and the IPL Tournament of Champions. He was also able to score an all-kill against Team Liquid in the GSTL Season 2 participation . After ZeNEX was taken over by StarTale in summer 2012, it reached second place at TSL 4. Shortly afterwards, he was able to qualify for Code S via the Up & Down matches and was to become the first player to win the GSL Code S for the first time .

Shortly thereafter, Lee Seung-hyun also won his first international title by winning the 2012 MLG Fall Championship in Dallas. More victories followed, including the GSL Blizzard Cup 2012 and the Intel Extreme Masters Season VIII in New York, as well as a second place at DreamHack Winter 2013.

At the end of 2014, he defeated Terran player Mun "MMA" Seong-won 4: 1 in the final of the World Championship Series Finals at Blizzcon and thus won the main prize endowed with $ 100,000. A few weeks later, he took second place at DreamHack Winter 2014.

In February 2015 he switched to the KT Rolster team . Shortly afterwards he won the GSL for the second time after a 4: 3 final victory over Won "PartinG" Lee-sak . At the end of the year he made it to the final of the WCS Finals at Blizzcon again, but this time lost to Protoss player Kim "sOs" Yoo-jin . At the beginning of 2016 he switched from KT Rolster to Afreeca Freecs.

Betting manipulation scandal

In April 2016, it was officially announced that he had been found guilty of deliberately losing two games in the Kespa Cup for an amount of 70,000,000 won (approximately $ 62,000). Backers had then bet on his defeat. This was not the first incident of its kind in professional StarCraft, shortly before that, the somewhat lesser known players Choi Byeong-Heon (YoDa) and Choi Jong-Hyuk (BBoongBBoong) were convicted of fraud and in StarCraft: Brood War, the predecessor of StarCraft 2, there was another major manipulation scandal that centered on Ma Jae-yoon (sAviOr) .

On July 14, 2016, Life was sentenced to 18 months' imprisonment and payment of 70,000,000 won (approximately $ 62,000) by the Changwon District Court.

It was also banned for life by the KeSPA , the South Korean umbrella organization for e-sports, for all professional events.

Life after winning BlizzCon 2014

successes

year competition space Prize money
2012 TeamLiquid StarLeague 4 2nd place 00$ 7,000
2012 GSL Code S Season 4 1st place 0$ 42,630
2012 MLG Pro Circuit - Fall Championship 1st place 0$ 25,000
2012 GSL Blizzard Cup 1st place 0$ 37,200
2013 IronSquid Chapter II 1st place 0$ 12,500
2013 MLG Winter Championship 1st place 0$ 25,000
2013 IEM Season VIII - New York 1st place 0$ 10,000
2013 DreamHack Winter 2nd place 0$ 15,244
2014 WCS Season 1 Korea 3rd / 4th space 00$ 7,491
2014 DreamHack Bucharest 1st place 0$ 10,000
2014 WCS finals 1st place $ 100,000
2014 DreamHack Winter 2nd place 0$ 15,000
2015 IEM Season IX - Taipei 1st place 0$ 10,000
2015 GSL Season 1 1st place 0$ 36,099
2015 Kung Fu Cup Season 2 1st place 00$ 9,366
2015 WCS finals 2nd place 0$ 50,000

See also

Web links

Commons : Lee Seung-hyun  - Collection of Images, Videos and Audio Files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Life on Liquipedia
  2. ↑ WCS 우승자 이승현, KT 로 전격 이적 esports.dailygame.co.kr
  3. ↑ The life of Life: Chronicling the rise and fall of Lee "Life" Seung Hyun espn.go.com
  4. ↑ YoDa, B4, Gerrard arrested for match-fixing teamliquid.net
  5. ↑ 2015 Match-Fixing Scandal - Liquipedia - The StarCraft II Encyclopedia. In: wiki.teamliquid.net. Retrieved November 19, 2016 .
  6. ↑ TSL 4 wiki.teamliquid.net
  7. ↑ 2012 GSL Code S S4 gomtv.net
  8. ↑ 2012 MLG case majorleaguegaming.com
  9. ↑ 2012 GSL Blizzard Cup wiki.teamliquid.net
  10. ↑ IronSquid Chapter II ironsquid.tv
  11. ↑ 2013 MLG Winter Championship wiki.teamliquid.net
  12. ^ IEM Season VIII - New York wiki.teamliquid.net
  13. ↑ 2013 Dreamhack Winter wiki.teamliquid.net
  14. ↑ 2014 WCS Korea S1 wiki.teamliquid.net
  15. ↑ 2014 Dreamhack Bucharest wiki.teamliquid.net
  16. ↑ 2014 WCS Finals wiki.teamliquid.net
  17. ↑ 2014 Dreamhack Winter 2014 wiki.teamliquid.net
  18. ↑ IEM Season IX - Taipei wiki.teamliquid.net
  19. ↑ 2015 Global StarCraft II League Season 1 wiki.teamliquid.net
  20. ↑ 2015 Kung Fu Cup Season 2 wiki.teamliquid.net
  21. ↑ 2015 WCS Finals wiki.teamliquid.net
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, Seung-hyun is the first name.
personal data
SURNAME Lee, Seung-hyun
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Life
BRIEF DESCRIPTION South Korean e-athlete
DATE OF BIRTH January 11, 1997