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Lim Yo-Hwan (surname Lim; born 4 October 1980), known by the pseudonym SlayerS_`BoxeR` (usually shortened to Boxer), is one of the most successful players of the real-time strategy game StarCraft to date. Dubbed The Emperor by his legions of admirers, he is the most popular Starcraft player with a fan club of more than 600,000 members and a DVD compilation of his greatest games released in South Korea.
Lim had an impressive record with 500 wins and 336 losses in his professional career. His success has brought him not only legions of fans, but also tremendous wealth. He is the highest-paid professional gamer in world history, with annual earnings that exceed $300,000 US Dollars, and endorsement contracts that bring in an additional $90,000 per year. It is noteworthy that even most video game company executives earn less money than Lim Yo-Hwan. 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." * Most wins on televised matches and most televised matches (500 and 886) * Two times World Cyber Games champion (2001, 2002 and the only StarCraft player to do this) * 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 time to hold first place in KeSPA (Korea e-Sports Association) rankings (17 months) * Earned an income of over $US 200,000 * 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 * KPGA MBC Starleague Champion February 2002 to March 2002
# 2000.06.01 1st Game-Q Starleague, 1st Place
# 2000.10.01 Samsung Digital KIGL2000 League, 1st Place
# 2000.12.20 KIGL 2000 King of Kings, 1st Place
# 2001.03.24 Zzgame.com Progamers Invitational, 1st Place
# 2001.05.05 2001 Hanbitsoft Ongamenet Starleague, 1st Place
# 2001.05.09 3rd Game-Q Starleague, 1st Place
# 2001.09.08 2001 Coca-Cola Ongamenet Starleague, 1st Place
# 2001.11.16 GGTV StarWars 2001 EP2, 1st Place
# 2001.12.07 2001 World Cyber Games, Gold Medal
# 2001.12.28 2001 SKY Ongamenet Starleague, 2nd Place
# 2002.03.10 3rd iTV Rankings, 2nd Place
# 2002.04.14 2002 1st KPGA Tour League, 1st Place
# 2002.10.12 SKY 2002 Ongamenet Starleague, 2nd Place
# 2002.11.03 2002 World Cyber Games, Gold Medal
# 2003.01.29 KTF Bigi Four Kings, 1st Place
# 2003.03.22 KTEC 2002 KPGA Winners Championship, 2nd Place
# 2003.08.30 KTF Ever 2003 Ongamenet Proleague, 1st Place
# 2004.01.13 KT-KTF Premier League, 2nd Place
# 2004.02.28 LG IBM PC MBCGame Team League, 1st Place
# 2004.07.13 G-Voice 2004 Ongamenet Challenge League, 1st Place
# 2004.07.17 SKY 2004 Ongamenet Proleague Round 1, 2nd Place
# 2004.08.28 Tucson MBCGame Team League, 1st Place
Известный как 'Император терранов', Boxer является самым популярным игроков в Старкрафт за всю историю профессиональных состязаний из-за его невероятно креативной игры и изобретения многочисленных неожиданных и эффективных тактических приемов. Он также является одним из наиболее успешных игроков: он единственный, кто выиграл чемпионат мира по Старкрафту World Cyber Games (WCG) дважды. Он также единственный, кто выиграл престижнейшую корейскую профессиональную лигу OnGameNet Starleague (OSL) два раза подряд (кроме него только 4 игрока выигрывали эту лигу дважды, но ни один из них — подряд). Boxer в пик своего расцвета удерживал первое место в рейтинге профессиональной киберспортивной ассоциации Кореи KeSPA на протяжении 17 месяцев. Попав на службу в корейскую армию, он не оставил профессионального киберспорта, став капитаном киберспортивной команды Air Force ACE, в которой иг
