Kim Yoo-jin (), better known by his gaming handle sOs, is a Korean professional ''

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'' player. He is the first two-time

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winner, claiming the title in 2013 and 2015. Kim spent most of his career playing for the

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team, from 2013–2020. He is a

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player. He announced his retirement from professional gaming in 2021.

Career

In 2013, sOs beat

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at the World Championship Series (WCS). In 2015, he repeated his WCS title after beating

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in the finals. In 2018 he made another deep run in the WCS. soS defeated his Jin Air teammate Cho "Maru" Seong Ju 3:0 in the quarterfinal; Maru was one of the favorites after Maru had won three GSLs in a row. sOs lost 0:3 to Kim "Stats" Dae-yeob in the semifinal. sOs left Jin Air Green Wings for a new Korean team, Team NV, in November 2020. In September 2021, sOs announced his retirement from StarCraft on Team NV's Instagram.

Tournament results

* 3-4th - 2013 WCS Season 1 Korea GSL * 2nd - 2013 WCS Season 1 * 1st - 2013 WCS Global Finals * 2nd - Red Bull Battle Grounds New York City * 1st -

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- World Championship * 1st - 2014 Hot6ix Cup * 3-4th - 2015

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Season 2 * 1st - 2015 MSI Masters Gaming Arena * 3-4th - 2015

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Open: Stockholm * 1st - 2015 WCS Global Finals * 2nd - 2016 Global StarCraft II League Season 2 * 2nd - 2017 Global StarCraft II League Season 3 * 2nd - 2018 IEM Season XII - PyeongChang * 2nd - 2018 AfreecaTV GSL Super Tournament 2 * 3-4th - 2018 WCS Global Finals

Playstyle

sOs is known for his creative play, often going for unusual build orders and "cheeses": high risk, high reward unconventional openings such as cannon rushing.sOs: 'Being an underdog is not too bad'
/ref> For example, at the finals of IEM Katowice 2014, sOs opened with the extremely high-risk proxy gateways (placing production buildings in the opponent's own base) strategy twice in a row in a best of seven against herO (Kim Joon-Ho) and won both games with it, and won the entire series 4–1.A new StarCraft II champion has been crowned
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References

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