SlayerS_'Boxer'

This article is a direct copy of what I read on Wikipedia. It was updated today. Read the Major Accomplishments section to know why Ben, Sai, and I are sad. I know more of you are, but only the three of us were on when I found out. It is located at the bottom part of the post.

Lim Yo-Hwan, known by the pseudonym SlayerS_`BoxeR` (usually shortened to Boxer), was one of the most successful players of the real-time strategy game StarCraft to date. He was the most popular Starcraft player with a fan club of almost 600,000 members and a DVD compilation of his greatest games released in South Korea.

Lim had an impressive record with 435 wins and 284 losses in his professional career. This success had brought him the highest salary of professional gaming, exceeding an annual income of $300,000 US Dollars per year, excluding prize money and endorsements (which would equal to ~$900,000 U.S) . In 2004 he was voted the greatest gamer of all time by readers of ESReality, one of the most popular western electronic sports websites, and in June 2006 he was included in an MTV list of "The 10 Most Influential Video Gamers Of All Time" [1].

Lim first came to fame by dominating professional Starcraft while choosing to use the Terran race at a time when this was seen as a relatively weak choice in comparison to the other two Starcraft armies. In fact, Lim admits in an interview that he actually choose Protoss as his race when starting to play early on, but choose the more defensive Terran race over the offensive Protoss or Zerg. This reign of dominance earned him the nickname the "Terran Emperor" among Koreans. During this early time in his career he innovated heavily, creating many new strategies which are still copied today, most notably making much more effective use of the Terran Dropship unit than had been achieved in the past. He also gained a reputation for being able to turn around matches against the odds and having excellent micromanagement (unit control) skills. In contrast, his weakness is thought by some commentators to be poor macromanagement (economy/unit production) skills in comparison to other top-level professional Starcraft players, although his macromanagement has improved over the last few years.

Though recently he has seen a gradual loss of dominance with other players improving at a faster pace and catching up to him, he was ranked 11th in the April 2006 Korea E-Sports Progamer Association (KeSPA) rankings, and made it to the finals of the EVER OnGameNet Starleague of late 2004 (losing to iloveOOv by three games to two) and the finals of the 2005 So1 OnGameNet Starleague (losing to Anytime by three games to two).

Lim has played professionally since version 1.07 of Starcraft, and has managed to stay competitive by constantly changing his style, and has had a great influence of the development of modern playing styles, especially for Terran players. He is the all-time leader in games played and wins. He is a two time OSL champion, MSL champion, two time WCG champion, and leader of the SK Telecom team. His is considered to have a strong eye for talent in that position, as he drew Choi Yeon-Sung (Iloveoov), among others, from the amateur ranks. His team has consistently been the strongest in the Proleague.

Last August, Lim announced at the MSL group draws that he had received his draft letter from the government, and would be entering the air force by the end of the year. He later said he would try his best to return after his 2.5 years of service.

Major Achievements
World Cyber Games champion (2001, 2002 and the only StarCraft player in the Hall of Fame)
First player to achieve 100 wins in OnGameNet Starleagues (OSL)
First player to win more than one OSL (Hanbitsoft 2001, Coca Cola 2001), and only so far to have won two consecutive OSL's
Longest player to hold first place in KeSPA rankings (17 months)
Has won the WCG twice (only player to do this, however, it should be noted that they changed the system after his 2nd win - previously the winner had been invited automatically to the next WCG, now they had to qualify again).
Won the first KPGA Tour (now MBC starleague).
Has finished 2nd in Ongamenet Starleague 4 times (2001 SKY, 2002 SKY, 2004 EVER, 2005 SO1)
Finished 2nd in the first KT-KTF Premiere league.
Retired on Oct.3, 2006

So right now, it is the very bad. No more great matches. We have lost a good player of the game this day.