After five games, Kim "sOs" Yoo Jin was proclaimed 2013 WCS world champion. The Woongjin Protoss dominated EG's Lee "Jaedong" Jae Dong for which he was awarded the WCS trophy and a $100,000 cheque.
sOs opened the series with a cannon rush to force a cancel on Jaedong’s natural but the Tyrant was quick on the recovery. Once three bases were set up for the Zerg, a hydra/roach tech was initiated and arrived just in time to repel sOs’ sentry push and stabilize the game.
A transition to a five-base viper was Jaedong’s next step. Carried by his blooming economy, EG’s Zerg easily established map control and through abducts severed sOs’ colossus count to just a few. By the 15th minute, Jaedong was maxed out and his relentless siege onto the Protoss began.
Stuck on three bases to Jaedong’s five was not a favorable situation for sOs. The initial roach/hydra/viper wave was backed up by an ultralisk transition and every attack made sOs’ life harder. His failed attempt to snipe hatcheries through zealot warp-ins further helped Jaedong to establish a commanding position on the map.
The tables turned once sOs got to a critical deathball mass. An archon/immortal/colossus army with phoenix support walked out of the northern Akilon Wastes base and trampled everything along its path. Jaedong tried to counteract with a base trade but in vain: game one would go to sOs.
An elaborate sequence of harassment broke Jaedong in game two. Once again sOs opened with a cannon rush but transitioned into mass phoenix production – forcing a corruptor-heavy response from Jaedong – and then immediately switching to a zealot-based army to make the majority of Zerg’s army obsolete. Without much fighting chance, Jaedong gave game two to his opponent.
Intricate mindgames came to dictate the opening minutes of game three. Convinced he has cannon rushed Jaedong into submission, sOs decided to switch around and go for a ninja expansion diagonally opposite to his spawning location, dropping just a single forward pylon to scare off the Zerg. Jaedong, however, was even more steps ahead. Gambling that sOs won’t do a third cannon rush in a row, the Tyrant went double hatch before pool and put himself in the macro state necessary for a stable late game.
sOs’ proxy expo remained unscouted for the entire game but that would not stop Jaedong on his way to his first win in this series. The EG Zerg played his characteristic zergling-heavy early game, backed up with an infestor-centric mid-game and a massive mutalisk switch for the closing punch and soon enough the score was back to a one-game difference.
Game four turned out to be another short one. Avoiding any standard play whatsoever – as is his habit – sOs went for a sentry-less immortal push which was all too devastating to the EG Zerg. It didn’t take long before the Protoss was on match point.
Game five on Bel’Shir Vestige put an end to the 2013 WCS competition. Similarly to the Derelict Watcher set, sOs opened mass phoenixes and backed it up with heavy zealot pressure to cripple Jaedong economy enough as to preemptively negate his bust intentions. Before Jaedong could muster an adequate army and move across the map, sOs brought a blink/colossus deathball to his doorstep and trampled through towards the 2013 world championship trophy.
Besides said trophy, sOs also banked $100,000 and became the second Protoss world champion after PartinG triumphed in China last year. For Jaedong there’s the consolation prize of $45,000 – coming with his fifth silver medal this year – and the fact that he is officially the highest earning progamer in eSports history, overtaking the legendary Fatal1ty.
| 1st |   sOs | $100,000 |
| 2nd |  Jaedong | $45,000 |
| 3rd-4th |  Bomber | $17,500 |
| Maru | $17,500 | |
| 5th-8th | Soulkey | $7,500 |
| Polt | $7,500 | |
| Dear | $7,500 | |
| Duckdeok | $7,500 | |
