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SC History: Emperor of Terran, BoxeR

[s]starcraft[/s] South Korea Lim “SlayerS_`BoxeR`” Yo-Hwan, now 23 is known to be one of, or the best Terran Player to ever play StarCraft: Brood War.

BoxeR (pictured) was born on the 4th of September, 1980 in Korea. His childhood dream was to become a pro football player. But it was only until when he was 19 when he decided to take up playing StarCraft. His first Major achievement was in Boxer.jpgthe end of 1999 when he played in the 1st SBS (Seoul Broadcasting Station) StarCraft Tournament. He won that and his fame spread like wild.

After the victory, later in 2000, he was invited to the Police Boat Game Conference, after playing through some games; he won that and was “unofficially” earned the title of “Pro-Gamer”.

His victory was heard off, and was soon approached by the Pro Team, Ideal Space, also known as IS. He decided to join under the nickname “LimTerran” or “Limyh”. After winning numerous tournaments, finally the World Cyber Games 2001 approached BoxeR; this was going to be his first challenge as a popular pro-gamer. It had the likes of Canada Giyom “Grrrr…” Patry, France Bertand “ElkY” Grospellier and South Korea Jo “V-Gundam” Jung-Hyun just to name a few. After Lim’s victory, at the World Cyber Games party, he played [GG99]Slayer and won against him.

Searching for a new name, Lim looked for a new name, searching up in an online dictionary for something ferocious, he stumbled upon the word “SlayerS”, him putting a bad word with it, which would be BoxeR, then obviously, he came up with the name “SlayerS_`BoxeR”.

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