Kim Taek-Yong
Encyclopedia
Kim Taek-Yong is a professional South Korea
n StarCraft
player, playing for the Protoss race. Famed primarily for sublime performance in the StarCraft: Brood War professional competitions against Protoss and, especially, Zerg, Bisu scored three successful Starleague performances, the most of any Protoss player. Bisu was also nicknamed the Revolutionist for innovating the metagame of Protoss versus Zerg matchup.
Since his transfer from MBCGame HERO to SK Telecom T1
team in 2008 Bisu, along with Stork, has been leading the Protoss players and both were called "Twin Carriages". As of June, 2011, Bisu is ranked 1st in the Elo rating system
and 6th in the overall KeSPA ranking, beneath Stork with a narrow point margin. In the Team Liquid
forum
poll Bisu was voted "the greatest Protoss player of all time".
, he lived in the city of Cheonan
with his home being next to his school. Since childhood, however, Kim did not favour studying and became gradually addicted to computers in grade school. He also used to play soccer "until the sun went down" and has been always picked first during team arrangements; he wished to become a soccer player, but following his growing interest in video games, Kim quit playing soccer and his soccer experience slowly faded away. Kim started playing StarCraft while in the fourth school grade and up to high school has been the most experienced player in his class. Before choosing StarCraft Kim tried Lineage and Fortress
, gaining some experience in the latter. Because of turning a professional gamer at age 17 Kim was unable to attend an institute of higher education. He lately entered Sejong University
.
. While being a newcomer Bisu used to watch others' games and particularly liked those of NaDa
, as well as Nal rA's strategic gameplay. Nonetheless Bisu did not have any particular role model and wanted to emulate all players. During Bisu's MBCGame HERO (Pirates of Space at the time) years his gameplay was largely influenced by Protoss player Pusan, whose games Bisu frequently watched. Bisu's coach and player Best in turn taught him everything related to Protoss builds.
Having participated in high-level competitive matchups since 2006, Bisu made his breakthrough at the 2007 MBCgame Starleague
(MSL) final, defeating experienced players Nal_rA and sAviOr
, both with 3:0. At that time Bisu was one of the few Starleague Protoss players. He qualified for the 2007 MSL automatically for having received a KeSPA distinction as the best Protoss player. Prior to the breakthrough match with sAviOr, which is sometimes referred to as "March 3rd revolution", Protoss players had a subpar performance against Zerg. During Bisu's preparations for the match with sAviOr the MBCGame HERO coaching staff, as well as Protoss and Zerg players gave Bisu some ideas. The general advice was to use Corsair units to eliminate Zerg Overlords, narrowing Zerg's observation. Following Bisu's victory several players started to emulate his winning Corsair–Dark Templar combination to fight Zerg opponents.
In the first half of February, 2008 Bisu (who was already on top of the KeSPA ranking) was transferred from the MBCGame HERO team to SK Telecom T1
. The latter team failed to score good results in leagues and confront the new generation of professional gamers, and it was decided to dismiss the entire coaching staff. Players iloveoov and Kingdom
were promoted to coaches instead. To fill the gaps and to improve the performance results, SK Telecom T1 acquired Bisu. Bisu later called his transfer "definitely a turning point" for him as a gamer. In 2009, to fill up the schedule, OnGameNet
arranged an All-Star Race Battle, where four players of each race (Protoss, Terran and Zerg) would compete in a knockout series. Bisu defeated the Terran lineup of players Flash, Hwasin, Leta and NaDa, but failed to score a win against sAviOr.
In the fall of 2008 Zerg players adopted a three-base five-Hatchery strategy against Protoss and nearly all attempts to counter it failed. Protoss players had a particular difficulty with using Zealots against Hydralisks in a choke battle as the Zealots could not spread out effectively, while Hydralisks could clump easily, not allowing Zealots to take advantage from their speed upgrade. Bisu managed to successfully use speed-upgraded Zealots to obtain map control and engage the Hydralisks before they reach mass numbers. While other professional Protoss players have around a 60% win ratio against Zerg, Bisu's ratio against that race reached over 90% in the 2010–2011 competitional season. During the 2010–2011 Shinhan Bank
Proleague Bisu also achieved the largest number of wins. In the past, however, Bisu was not particularly favored against any good Zerg player. On April 2, 2011 Bisu, having defeated Jaedong in the Shinhan Winners League playoff, broke what he called "a vicious cycle" of his Protoss versus Zerg gameplay. He once revealed, that only after learning the skill of combining different units he began to enjoy playing against Zerg.
Bisu's matchup against Protoss players is statistically in the middle between Zerg and Terran and could be traced back to 2005. From then and until February 2006 he had been in a 3-loss streak against Protoss players and played with intermittent success until the matchup with Nal rA. In February 2007 Bisu achieved a 3-win streak against him, which contributed to Bisu's uninterrupted 6-win streak against Protoss in the same year.
Bisu's win rate against Terran players has been the lowest when compared to Protoss or Zerg, although he managed to defeat veteran Terran players SlayerS `BoxeR` and NaDa
already in his early career. Bisu acknowledged his poor performance particularly against Terran Siege Tanks, as well as his subpar control of Carriers. On November 17, 2007 Bisu lost to then little known Terran player Mind during the GOMTV MSL final despite being an absolute tournament favorite; Mind instead became the youngest MSL champion, at 16 years old. Bisu then went on a slump, making a comeback in the next year by winning the ClubDay MSL final against another Protoss player, JangBi. From July to August, 2010 Bisu had been in one of his worst streaks, with 5 losses against Terran players. On March 5 of that year he was eliminated from the Korean Air
OSL by losing to Terran player go.go in the 36th round. Following Bisu's elimination he was given a break, explained by exhaustion from busy schedule and poor physical form. Bisu picked Stork's play pattern against Terran as the one he wants to learn.
Together with Stork, Flash and Jaedong Bisu made up a high-tier quartet called "Taek–Bang–Lee–Ssang", after the players' given names and Stork's nickname "Bang". Showing a relatively low win rate against Stork and Flash (41.67% and 38.46%, respectively, as of June 2011), Bisu achieved a 60% rate against Jaedong. Bisu and Jaedong had a period of tight rivalry against each other, competing for the top place of the KeSPA rankings: during the 2008-2009 Shinhan Proleague season both players finished the 4th round with a total tally of 44 wins, while their individual league wins equaled to three at certain point. On par with Stork, Bisu established what is occasionally called the "Taek–Bang era" of professional StarCraft. However, as opposed to Stork, Bisu's OSL title has been elusive. After competing in three OSL qualifiers in 2006–2007 Bisu unsuccessfully pursued the OSL titles of 2008, 2009 and 2010. Nonetheless, as of June, 2011, Bisu collected five Monthly MVP titles, equaling that achievement with Flash
, Jaedong and SlayerS_`BoxeR`. On June 7, 2011, having defeated Protoss player Flying, Bisu equaled Flash's record of 57 victories in a StarCraft Proleague season. In addition Bisu managed to advance to the main group stage of the MSL tournament for 11 times in a row, approaching to the sAviOr's record of 13. He also scored the unprecedented result of four all-kills (a form of StarCraft competitions, where one team is eliminated by a single player of the other team). In 2010 Bisu was nominated by Fomos for the titles of Player of the Year and Protoss of the Year.
Bisu's game performance, as well as of Protoss in general, has been influenced by maps on which the StarCraft matches are played. Although StarCraft is considered a balanced game in that all three races have successful professional players, the maps differ from each other in properties such as the terrain openness. Being a forgetful person, Bisu has been also tending to make memos during practice.
Protoss versus Zerg gameplay.
Along with Corsair and Shuttle harass, Bisu's multitasking and Zealot timing rushes are considered standard for his matches against Zerg players. During the 2011 Shinhan Winners League match against Zerg player Peace, in particular, Bisu dispatched Zealots to Peace's two bases at different locations while eliminating Overlords with his Corsairs; after this split Bisu focused his Zealots on eliminating Peace's Drones while micromanaging his Corsairs to evade opponent's Scourges, making it seem as if four different persons were playing for Protoss.
In his gameplay against Protoss Bisu successfully used the so-called Manner Pylons to block direct access to his opponent's mineral fields and disrupt his economy. During the 2007 Shinhan Bank
Proleague Bisu scored a fulminant victory over PokJu by placing a Manner Pylon close to PokJu's Probes and warping in two Gateways nearby. PokJu surrendered the game after three minutes. In the 2008 Incruit
OSL Bisu applied the Manner Pylon against Much twice in a row, managing to keep the opponent behind by a slight margin. In the following year, at the WCG
Grand Final, Bisu put two consecutive Manner Pylons at player PJ's base.
While hotkeying, Bisu usually sets F2
for the main Nexus, F3 for Gateways and F4 for the natural expansion. As described by Bisu in one of the interviews, his hotkey setup against Zerg, for example, could be "1" and "2" for Zealots, "3" for Dragoons, "4" for High Templars, "5" for Observers and "6", "7", "8", "9" for Gateways. Bisu's APM
rate may oscillate around 332–391, as in his 3-game matchup against Stork in 2008 in particular.
Bisu dated several girls, but, according to him, all of them could not understand his tight progamer schedules and lifestyle. While acknowledging he always wanted to date a girl, Bisu revealed that he would get anxious as his match records would fall. Bisu once expressed a wish to "meet a girlfriend who is considerate of others".
South Korea
The Republic of Korea , , is a sovereign state in East Asia, located on the southern portion of the Korean Peninsula. It is neighbored by the People's Republic of China to the west, Japan to the east, North Korea to the north, and the East China Sea and Republic of China to the south...
n StarCraft
StarCraft
StarCraft is a military science fiction real-time strategy video game developed by Blizzard Entertainment. The first game of the StarCraft series was released for Microsoft Windows on 31 March 1998. With more than 11 million copies sold worldwide as of February 2009, it is one of the best-selling...
player, playing for the Protoss race. Famed primarily for sublime performance in the StarCraft: Brood War professional competitions against Protoss and, especially, Zerg, Bisu scored three successful Starleague performances, the most of any Protoss player. Bisu was also nicknamed the Revolutionist for innovating the metagame of Protoss versus Zerg matchup.
Since his transfer from MBCGame HERO to SK Telecom T1
SK Telecom T1
SK Telecom T1 is an e-Sports -works team of the South Korean telecommunications company SK Telecom. At the end of 2003, SK Telecom took the StarCraft Team Orion by Lim Yo-Hwan under contract and set up so that the team First. Lim Yo-Hwan took the role of team captain...
team in 2008 Bisu, along with Stork, has been leading the Protoss players and both were called "Twin Carriages". As of June, 2011, Bisu is ranked 1st in the Elo rating system
Elo rating system
The Elo rating system is a method for calculating the relative skill levels of players in two-player games such as chess. It is named after its creator Arpad Elo, a Hungarian-born American physics professor....
and 6th in the overall KeSPA ranking, beneath Stork with a narrow point margin. In the Team Liquid
Team Liquid
Team Liquid is a popular StarCraft news website and community, as well as a successful StarCraft team, founded by Victor Goossens and Joy Hoogeveen.-History:...
forum
Internet forum
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poll Bisu was voted "the greatest Protoss player of all time".
Early life
Kim was born in the South Korean county of Yesan. In his early years, before moving to SeoulSeoul
Seoul , officially the Seoul Special City, is the capital and largest metropolis of South Korea. A megacity with a population of over 10 million, it is the largest city proper in the OECD developed world...
, he lived in the city of Cheonan
Cheonan
Cheonan is a city located in the northeast corner of South Chungcheong, a province of South Korea, and is 83.6 km south of the capital, Seoul...
with his home being next to his school. Since childhood, however, Kim did not favour studying and became gradually addicted to computers in grade school. He also used to play soccer "until the sun went down" and has been always picked first during team arrangements; he wished to become a soccer player, but following his growing interest in video games, Kim quit playing soccer and his soccer experience slowly faded away. Kim started playing StarCraft while in the fourth school grade and up to high school has been the most experienced player in his class. Before choosing StarCraft Kim tried Lineage and Fortress
Fortress (video game)
Fortress is a tower defense video game developed by Pipe Dream Interactive and published by Majesco Games for the Game Boy Advance handheld game console.-Reception:...
, gaining some experience in the latter. Because of turning a professional gamer at age 17 Kim was unable to attend an institute of higher education. He lately entered Sejong University
Sejong University
Sejong University is a private university located in Seoul, Republic of Korea. The history of Sejong University dates to 1940 when a trust established the Kyung Sung Humanities Institute...
.
Gamer career
Kim considered to become a professional gamer while being a freshman in high school. He began playing StarCraft: Brood War when one of his relatives took him to an internet caféInternet cafe
An Internet café or cybercafé is a place which provides internet access to the public, usually for a fee. These businesses usually provide snacks and drinks, hence the café in the name...
. While being a newcomer Bisu used to watch others' games and particularly liked those of NaDa
Nada
Nada may refer to:*In common English usage, "nothing", Nada may refer to:*In common English usage, "nothing", Nada may refer to:*In common English usage, "nothing", (borrowed from Spanish at least 1867. It comes from the Latin word "nata" (small, insignificant thing; literally (thing)...
, as well as Nal rA's strategic gameplay. Nonetheless Bisu did not have any particular role model and wanted to emulate all players. During Bisu's MBCGame HERO (Pirates of Space at the time) years his gameplay was largely influenced by Protoss player Pusan, whose games Bisu frequently watched. Bisu's coach and player Best in turn taught him everything related to Protoss builds.
Having participated in high-level competitive matchups since 2006, Bisu made his breakthrough at the 2007 MBCgame Starleague
MBCgame Starleague
The MBCgame StarCraft League, also known as MSL, is a StarCraft tournament hosted by MBCGame. The tournament started outin 2002 under the name of KPGA, and in 2003 it was renamed the MSL.-League Championships:-2009 Avalon MSL:...
(MSL) final, defeating experienced players Nal_rA and sAviOr
Ma Jae-Yoon
Ma Jae-Yoon , known by the pseudonym sAviOr , and dubbed The Maestro, is a former professional South Korean e-sports gamer of the real-time strategy game StarCraft...
, both with 3:0. At that time Bisu was one of the few Starleague Protoss players. He qualified for the 2007 MSL automatically for having received a KeSPA distinction as the best Protoss player. Prior to the breakthrough match with sAviOr, which is sometimes referred to as "March 3rd revolution", Protoss players had a subpar performance against Zerg. During Bisu's preparations for the match with sAviOr the MBCGame HERO coaching staff, as well as Protoss and Zerg players gave Bisu some ideas. The general advice was to use Corsair units to eliminate Zerg Overlords, narrowing Zerg's observation. Following Bisu's victory several players started to emulate his winning Corsair–Dark Templar combination to fight Zerg opponents.
In the first half of February, 2008 Bisu (who was already on top of the KeSPA ranking) was transferred from the MBCGame HERO team to SK Telecom T1
SK Telecom T1
SK Telecom T1 is an e-Sports -works team of the South Korean telecommunications company SK Telecom. At the end of 2003, SK Telecom took the StarCraft Team Orion by Lim Yo-Hwan under contract and set up so that the team First. Lim Yo-Hwan took the role of team captain...
. The latter team failed to score good results in leagues and confront the new generation of professional gamers, and it was decided to dismiss the entire coaching staff. Players iloveoov and Kingdom
Park Yong-Wook
Park Yong-Wook is year old former professional StarCraft player and from South Korea who played under the alias Kingdom. He has since retired to become a commentator....
were promoted to coaches instead. To fill the gaps and to improve the performance results, SK Telecom T1 acquired Bisu. Bisu later called his transfer "definitely a turning point" for him as a gamer. In 2009, to fill up the schedule, OnGameNet
Ongamenet
Ongamenet is one of two South Korean cable television companies , that specializes in broadcasting video game-related information and matches, which include StarCraft, Warcraft III and others. It is a subsidiary of On-Media, an owner of several cable channels....
arranged an All-Star Race Battle, where four players of each race (Protoss, Terran and Zerg) would compete in a knockout series. Bisu defeated the Terran lineup of players Flash, Hwasin, Leta and NaDa, but failed to score a win against sAviOr.
In the fall of 2008 Zerg players adopted a three-base five-Hatchery strategy against Protoss and nearly all attempts to counter it failed. Protoss players had a particular difficulty with using Zealots against Hydralisks in a choke battle as the Zealots could not spread out effectively, while Hydralisks could clump easily, not allowing Zealots to take advantage from their speed upgrade. Bisu managed to successfully use speed-upgraded Zealots to obtain map control and engage the Hydralisks before they reach mass numbers. While other professional Protoss players have around a 60% win ratio against Zerg, Bisu's ratio against that race reached over 90% in the 2010–2011 competitional season. During the 2010–2011 Shinhan Bank
Shinhan Bank
Shinhan Bank , is a bank, headquartered in Seoul, Korea. Historically it was the first bank in Korea, established under the name Hanseong Bank in 1897. The bank was reestablished in 1982. It is part of the Shinhan Financial Group, along with Jeju Bank...
Proleague Bisu also achieved the largest number of wins. In the past, however, Bisu was not particularly favored against any good Zerg player. On April 2, 2011 Bisu, having defeated Jaedong in the Shinhan Winners League playoff, broke what he called "a vicious cycle" of his Protoss versus Zerg gameplay. He once revealed, that only after learning the skill of combining different units he began to enjoy playing against Zerg.
Bisu's matchup against Protoss players is statistically in the middle between Zerg and Terran and could be traced back to 2005. From then and until February 2006 he had been in a 3-loss streak against Protoss players and played with intermittent success until the matchup with Nal rA. In February 2007 Bisu achieved a 3-win streak against him, which contributed to Bisu's uninterrupted 6-win streak against Protoss in the same year.
Bisu's win rate against Terran players has been the lowest when compared to Protoss or Zerg, although he managed to defeat veteran Terran players SlayerS `BoxeR` and NaDa
Nada
Nada may refer to:*In common English usage, "nothing", Nada may refer to:*In common English usage, "nothing", Nada may refer to:*In common English usage, "nothing", (borrowed from Spanish at least 1867. It comes from the Latin word "nata" (small, insignificant thing; literally (thing)...
already in his early career. Bisu acknowledged his poor performance particularly against Terran Siege Tanks, as well as his subpar control of Carriers. On November 17, 2007 Bisu lost to then little known Terran player Mind during the GOMTV MSL final despite being an absolute tournament favorite; Mind instead became the youngest MSL champion, at 16 years old. Bisu then went on a slump, making a comeback in the next year by winning the ClubDay MSL final against another Protoss player, JangBi. From July to August, 2010 Bisu had been in one of his worst streaks, with 5 losses against Terran players. On March 5 of that year he was eliminated from the Korean Air
Korean Air
Korean Air Lines Co., Ltd. , operating as Korean Air, is both the flag carrier and the largest airline of South Korea, with global headquarters located in Seoul, South Korea. Korean Air's international passenger division and related subsidiary cargo division together serve 130 cities in 45...
OSL by losing to Terran player go.go in the 36th round. Following Bisu's elimination he was given a break, explained by exhaustion from busy schedule and poor physical form. Bisu picked Stork's play pattern against Terran as the one he wants to learn.
Together with Stork, Flash and Jaedong Bisu made up a high-tier quartet called "Taek–Bang–Lee–Ssang", after the players' given names and Stork's nickname "Bang". Showing a relatively low win rate against Stork and Flash (41.67% and 38.46%, respectively, as of June 2011), Bisu achieved a 60% rate against Jaedong. Bisu and Jaedong had a period of tight rivalry against each other, competing for the top place of the KeSPA rankings: during the 2008-2009 Shinhan Proleague season both players finished the 4th round with a total tally of 44 wins, while their individual league wins equaled to three at certain point. On par with Stork, Bisu established what is occasionally called the "Taek–Bang era" of professional StarCraft. However, as opposed to Stork, Bisu's OSL title has been elusive. After competing in three OSL qualifiers in 2006–2007 Bisu unsuccessfully pursued the OSL titles of 2008, 2009 and 2010. Nonetheless, as of June, 2011, Bisu collected five Monthly MVP titles, equaling that achievement with Flash
Lee Young-Ho
Lee Young-Ho is a South Korean professional StarCraft player who plays under the alias By.FlaSh or simply Flash. Lee currently plays for KT....
, Jaedong and SlayerS_`BoxeR`. On June 7, 2011, having defeated Protoss player Flying, Bisu equaled Flash's record of 57 victories in a StarCraft Proleague season. In addition Bisu managed to advance to the main group stage of the MSL tournament for 11 times in a row, approaching to the sAviOr's record of 13. He also scored the unprecedented result of four all-kills (a form of StarCraft competitions, where one team is eliminated by a single player of the other team). In 2010 Bisu was nominated by Fomos for the titles of Player of the Year and Protoss of the Year.
Bisu's game performance, as well as of Protoss in general, has been influenced by maps on which the StarCraft matches are played. Although StarCraft is considered a balanced game in that all three races have successful professional players, the maps differ from each other in properties such as the terrain openness. Being a forgetful person, Bisu has been also tending to make memos during practice.
Playing style
Like other Protoss players, Bisu generally starts the games with commencing a second base, Corsair harass when confronting Zerg and subsequent attack of mixed units, including High Templars. Conducting a relentless, often harassing Probe scouting and known for superlative multitasking, Bisu widely uses Corsairs to gain air superiority and Dark Templar insults against Zerg. Bisu's harassment style and the use of Shuttles were praised particularly by Stork. Bisu popularized the associated opening against Zerg, which has been called "Bisu build": a Protoss player in such opening would warp in a Forge, skipping weapon upgrades, and having warped in a second Assimilator early, would ultimately proceed to Corsairs and Dark Templar harass, followed by extensive Gateway gameplay. Bisu subsequently qualified Corsairs and Dark Templars as his favorite units. With a few minor adjustments, Bisu’s fast base expansion, secured by one or more Photon Cannons, can be used further in StarCraft IIStarCraft II
StarCraft II: Wings of Liberty is a military science fiction real-time strategy video game developed and released by Blizzard Entertainment for Microsoft Windows and Mac OS X. A sequel to the award-winning 1998 video game StarCraft and its expansions, the game was released worldwide on July 27, 2010...
Protoss versus Zerg gameplay.
Along with Corsair and Shuttle harass, Bisu's multitasking and Zealot timing rushes are considered standard for his matches against Zerg players. During the 2011 Shinhan Winners League match against Zerg player Peace, in particular, Bisu dispatched Zealots to Peace's two bases at different locations while eliminating Overlords with his Corsairs; after this split Bisu focused his Zealots on eliminating Peace's Drones while micromanaging his Corsairs to evade opponent's Scourges, making it seem as if four different persons were playing for Protoss.
In his gameplay against Protoss Bisu successfully used the so-called Manner Pylons to block direct access to his opponent's mineral fields and disrupt his economy. During the 2007 Shinhan Bank
Shinhan Bank
Shinhan Bank , is a bank, headquartered in Seoul, Korea. Historically it was the first bank in Korea, established under the name Hanseong Bank in 1897. The bank was reestablished in 1982. It is part of the Shinhan Financial Group, along with Jeju Bank...
Proleague Bisu scored a fulminant victory over PokJu by placing a Manner Pylon close to PokJu's Probes and warping in two Gateways nearby. PokJu surrendered the game after three minutes. In the 2008 Incruit
Incruit
Incruit Corporation , is an Internet corporation, established in 1998, that manages the Incruit.com providing Internet Resume and jobs. Incruit Corporation is headquartered at the Seoul in Korea, and employs over 200 people. Incruit is the first Internet recruiting marketplace site between job...
OSL Bisu applied the Manner Pylon against Much twice in a row, managing to keep the opponent behind by a slight margin. In the following year, at the WCG
World Cyber Games
The World Cyber Games is an international competitive video-gaming event operated by South Korean company World Cyber Games Inc., and sponsored by Samsung and Microsoft...
Grand Final, Bisu put two consecutive Manner Pylons at player PJ's base.
While hotkeying, Bisu usually sets F2
Function key
A function key is a key on a computer or terminal keyboard which can be programmed so as to cause an operating system command interpreter or application program to perform certain actions...
for the main Nexus, F3 for Gateways and F4 for the natural expansion. As described by Bisu in one of the interviews, his hotkey setup against Zerg, for example, could be "1" and "2" for Zealots, "3" for Dragoons, "4" for High Templars, "5" for Observers and "6", "7", "8", "9" for Gateways. Bisu's APM
Actions per minute
Actions Per Minute, commonly abbreviated as APM, is a term used in the real time strategy field of cybersport which refers to the total number of actions that a player can perform in a minute....
rate may oscillate around 332–391, as in his 3-game matchup against Stork in 2008 in particular.
Statistics
| As of June 22, 2011 | vs. Protoss | vs. Terran | vs. Zerg | vs. all |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wins | 113 | 148 | 149 | 410 |
| Losses | 66 | 87 | 68 | 221 |
| Win rate | 63.13% | 62.98% | 68.66% | 64.98% |
| Best streak | 9 wins | 10 wins | 10 wins | 12 wins |
| Worst streak | 5 losses | 5 losses | 4 losses | 6 losses |
| 1st | 2009 WCG World Cyber Games The World Cyber Games is an international competitive video-gaming event operated by South Korean company World Cyber Games Inc., and sponsored by Samsung and Microsoft... Korea Finals |
| 2nd | 2009 Averatec-Intel Classic Special Match |
| 3rd | 2009 WCG World Cyber Games The World Cyber Games is an international competitive video-gaming event operated by South Korean company World Cyber Games Inc., and sponsored by Samsung and Microsoft... |
| 1st | 2009 GOMTV Averatec-Intel Classic Season 2 |
| 1st | 2008 ClubDay MBCgame Starleague MBCgame Starleague The MBCgame StarCraft League, also known as MSL, is a StarCraft tournament hosted by MBCGame. The tournament started outin 2002 under the name of KPGA, and in 2003 it was renamed the MSL.-League Championships:-2009 Avalon MSL:... |
| 3rd | 2007 EVER OnGameNet Starleague |
| 2nd | 2007 GOMTV MBCgame StarLeague Season 3 |
| 1st | 2007 GOMTV MBCgame StarLeague Season 2 |
| 1st | 2006–2007 GOMTV MBCgame StarLeague Season 1 |
Personal life
Not having any particular hobbies, Bisu usually stays inside the practice house, spending time by himself. When not practicing, he watches TV or goes on the internet.Bisu dated several girls, but, according to him, all of them could not understand his tight progamer schedules and lifestyle. While acknowledging he always wanted to date a girl, Bisu revealed that he would get anxious as his match records would fall. Bisu once expressed a wish to "meet a girlfriend who is considerate of others".