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'' team. As a Terran player he was known for his excellent macromanagement, leading to his nickname "Cheater Terran". However he is better known as "Monster Terran" (Gweh_Mool Terran) because of his ability to produce a massive number of units. The 'oov' in his nickname is believed to be the ASCII emotion icon of a face and two fingers forming letter 'V' which stands for victory.

Career

He sees

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, who was on the same team as him, as an older brother or mentor. Lim scouted Choi through a match in battlenet after losing to Choi's Terran, Zerg and Protoss. Choi beat Lim 3:2 in 2004 during the Ongamenet Ever Starleague finals. He announced his retirement as a pro-gamer as a result of a

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, to become a coach for his team. Since then, Choi returned to the active roster as a "

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". In 2016 SK Telecom T1 disbanded their Starcraft 2 roster and Choi became head coach for the Afreeca Freecs League of Legends team. He led the team to a quarterfinals berth at the

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but was ultimately defeated 3-0 by Cloud9 and eliminated. In subsequent seasons he failed to replicate his success, failing to qualify for the World Championship in 2019 and also failing to make playoffs in the 2020 Spring Split. In November 2020, Choi parted ways with Afreeca Freecs.

Personal life

In April 2008, Choi announced his engagement to his girlfriend. Choi and his fiancée had been together for six years, even when he was training to become a professional gamer.

Tournament results

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MSL Champion – September – November 2003 *HanaFOS MSL Champion – January – March 2004 *Gillette OnGameNet Starleague 3rd place – April – July 2004 *Spris MSL Champion – May – August 2004 *Ever OSL Champion – August – November 2004 *UZOO MSL 4th place – June – August 2005 *So1 OSL 3rd place – August – November 2005 *CKCG China-Korea Cyber Games Champion – October 2005 *CYON MSL 3rd place – October – January 2006 *Shinhan OSL Champion – December 2005 – March 2006 *

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Champion – October 2006 *Second player to win 3 MSLs, along with NaDa. *

5-8th Place - October 2018

Streaks

His streaks versus Zerg are particularly notable. Record: 79 wins – 37 losses (68.10%) Best Streak: 27 wins Worst Streak: 4 losses Current Streak: 1 win

Overall Record

*All: 228–143 (61.46%) *vT: 82–62 (56.94%) *vZ: 79–37 (68.10%) *vP: 67–44 (60.36%)

References

External links

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gg.net: Player profile & game record and last played games
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