Yoan Merlo

Yoan Merlo
Player information
Full name	Yoan Merlo
Nickname	Death
Date of birth	March 20, 1985
country code
game	Starcraft 2
preferred game party	Protoss
team	XMG
Former teams	u. a. 4Kings , mousesports , Millenium , Fnatic

Yoan "ToD" Merlo (born March 20, 1985 ) is a French e-athlete .

During his playing career, he was one of the best Warcraft III players in the world. Together with Manuel “Grubby” Schenkhuizen he formed the core of the legendary 4Kings team and won the ESL WC3L Series several times. After the team disintegrated, he switched to the German mousesports clan , which was followed by brief engagements at Gravitas Gaming and Wicked Gaming.

The Frenchman ended his career in Warcraft III in April 2009, but switched to Starcraft 2 in November 2010 . From January 9th to May 1st 2011 he played for the Millenium team. On July 9, 2011, however, due to various successes, he returned to Team Millenium , but left it again on September 8 and was under contract with Fnatic from September 10, 2011 . ToD was part of the XMG team between April 2013 and June 2015 . He has since retired as a pro gamer and appears as a professional SC2 caster.

Clans

• armaTeam (March 2004 - September 2004)
• 4Kings (September 2004 - November 2007)
• mousesports (December 2007 - July 2008)
• Gravitas Gaming (August 2008 - January 2009)
• Wicked Gaming (February 2009 - April 2009)
• Millenium (January 2011 - May 2011 and July 2011 - September 2011)
• Fnatic (since September 2011)
• XMG (since April 2013)

successes

year	competition	space	Prize money
WarCraft III
Nov 2004	World Cyber ​​Games 2004	3rd place	0$ 5,000
March 2005	WCG Euro Championship 2005	2nd place	0€ 3,000
Oct 2005	CPL Summer 2005	1st place	0$ 6,000
March 2006	Intel Extreme Masters I.	1st place	€ 15,000
May 2006	World e-Sports Games Masters	1st place	$ 30,000
Sep 2006	KODE5 Global Finals	2nd place	0$ 4,000
Oct 2006	World Cyber ​​Games 2006	2nd place	$ 10,000
March 2007	Intel Extreme Masters II	2nd place	$ 10,000
May 2007	Blizzard Worldwide Invitational 2007	1st place	$ 10,000
Oct 2007	International Electronic Sports Tournament 2007	2nd place	80,000 yen
StarCraft II
July 2011	EPS France Season X	1st place	0€ 2,500
Oct 2011	WCG Euro Championship 2011	1st place	0$ 3,000

Web links

Commons : Yoan Merlo  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Yoan Merlo in the Electronic Sports League

Individual evidence

1. ↑ readmore.de: Warcraft legend ToD hangs up the mouse
2. ↑ millenium.org: ToD rejoint Millenium
3. ↑ millenium.org: SC2: ToD quitte l'équipe Millenium
4. ↑ wiki.teamliquid.net: Liquipedia: Team Millenium
5. ↑ http://www.esl-world.net/masters/history/#season1
6. ↑ http://www.esl-world.net/masters/history/#season2