Jang Jae Ho
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Jang "Spirit_Moon" Jae Ho (born December 14, 1986) is a South Korean professional gamer of the popular Blizzard real-time strategy game called Warcraft III. Jang Jae Ho is currently playing for the world renowned gaming team Meet Your Makers. He is seen by many as the best Night Elf player in the world. Jang Jae Ho is currently ranked #3 in international competition and #1 in Korean competition throughout history.
He is particularly known by for his excellent micromanagement and innovative strategies. He is often seen using strategies that later set the benchmark for many Night Elf players and was nicknamed the "5th Race" by Gametv.com.
As a player he has gained global fame for one of the most dominant tournament win streaks in the history of the game Warcraft III The Frozen Throne. In 2005, he almost went completely undefeated and had summed up a grand total of approximately $83,000 USD from tournaments and league prize money alone.
A rivalry between him and Manuel "Grubby" Schenkhuizen developed late 2004 as both players won several major tournaments but rarely met themselves due to Jang Jae Ho mainly entering professional tournaments taking place in South-Korea and Manuel Schenkhuizen mainly participating in international competition. They met several times since, high profile matches include:
- The semi-finals of the World E-Sport Games Masters (a major televised league in Asia) for a chance to compete in the $37,000 USD finals. Jang Jae Ho lost 1-3.
- Match 1 of the second edition of SuperFight (a televised competition in South-Korea) which had $10,000 USD at stake. Jang Jae Ho won 2-0.
- The finals of the first season of MBCGame's World War in 2007 (the most important televised WarCraft III competition in recent times) which had $15,000 at stake and would give the winner a chance to compete again next season. Jang Jae Ho won 3-0.
Jang Jae Ho remains one of the strongest players of recent times, recently re-signing his contract with Meet Your Makers until February 2008.
He plays 2v2 with his teammate Jae Wook "Lucifer" Noh in various leagues and tournaments.
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[edit] Major Accomplishments
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- 2007 1st MBCGame World War II (Korea) ($10,000 USD)
- 2007 1st Game-X (Russia) ($38,120 USD)
- 2007 1st MBCGame World War I (Korea) ($10,000 USD)
- 2006 1st MBCGame World War III (Korea)
- 2006 1st MBCGame World War II (Korea)
- 2006 1st Lenovo IEST (China) ($20,000 USD)
- 2006 1st Superfight 2 (Korea) ($10,000 USD)
- 2006 1st Digital Life Gaming Tournament 2006 (USA) ($5,000 USD)
- 2006 4th World E-Sport Games Masters (China) ($1,000 USD)
- 2005 1st World E-Sports Festival (China)
- 2005 1st China Korea Cyber Games (China) (10,000$ USD)
- 2005 1st World E-Sports Games Season I (Korea) (20,000$ USD)
- 2005 1st World E-Sports Games Season II (Korea) (20,000$ USD)
- 2005 1st MBCGame Warcraft League Season I (Korea)
- 2005 2nd OnGameNet War3 TFT Invitational (Korea)
- 2004 9th World Cyber Games (USA)
- 2004 3rd World Cyber Games, Korea (Korea)
- 2004/2003 1st MBCGame Prime League V (Korea)
- 2004/2003 1st MBCGame Prime League II (Korea)
Team and League Competitions
- 2007 2nd WC3L Season 10 (Germany) (with Team MeetYourMakers)
- 2006 1st Stars War II (China) (with Team Korea)
- 2006 1st Transatlantic Finals (USA) (with JaeWook "Lucifer" Noh)
- 2006 1st WC3L Season 9 (Germany) (with Team MeetYourMakers)
- 2006 1st NGL-League One (Germany (with Team MeetYourMakers)
Online
- 2006 1st inCup #11 2on2 (with JaeWook "Lucifer" Noh)
- 2005/2006 1st in 6 InCups
[edit] Awards
- 2005 KeSPA's Greatest Player Award
- 2006 KeSPA's Greatest Player Award
[edit] Strategies and Techniques
- AoW Creeping Technique: Jae Ho is known for his excellent use of the Ancient of War to aid in taking out difficult creep camps. In addition, his hero and/or units will take only a minimal amount of damage.
- Master Talons Strategy: Jae Ho is known for not creating, but popularizing and improving this strategy against Orc by using Firelord or Tinker as 3rd-Hero. He used this strategy to defeat Manuel "Grubby" Schenkhuizen many times.
- Night Elf Towering/Tower Push Strategy: The Night Elf towering/tower push is one of Jae Ho's signature and classic strategies. He uses this strategy mainly for the Undead vs. Night Elf match-up.
- Night Elf Tri-Hero Pitlord Strategy: Jae Ho is highly praised for his incorporation of the pitlord in his playing. He uses this strategy specifically for the Night Elf vs. Human match-up. Although the Pitlord is regarded as a weak hero by players, Jae Ho denies this opinion with his effective use of the Pitlord to decimate the Human casters.
- Mass Master-Bears Strategy : Jae Ho popularized the use of master Druid of the Claw vs Orc. Today this strategy is very common in the Night Elf vs. orc match-up.
- Orb of Venom Strategy : Jae Ho was among the first who equipped his heroes with an Orb of Venom in order to counter harassment by Undead gargolyes.
- Mass Expansion Strategy : When Jae Ho started to use this strategy, Blizzard Entertainment (the developers of Warcraft III) tried to weaken it by releasing a patch. Today it is still used by many Night Elves, especially in combination with the "Mass Archer/Talons + Priestess of the Moon - Strategy" vs Undead on the map Lost Temple.
- Many people think that Spirit_Moon invented the Druid of the Talons strategy, but in fact he just upgraded it.
[edit] Trivia
- Jang “Spirit_Moon” Jae Ho plays most of his games using the alias MYM]Moon.
- In the middle of 2006, Jang “Spirit_Moon” Jae Ho was not playing very well. Many fans believed that the "old Moon" was gone. However, he has recovered from his slump as of October-November 2006 with victories at Digital Life and Super Fight 2. Dutch professional player of real-time strategy game Warcraft III Manuel "Grubby" Schenkhuizen stated after losing to Jang “Spirit_Moon” Jae Ho at Super Fight 2, "I think the old Moon, the Moon from 2005 is back."
- Jang “Spirit_Moon” Jae Ho is referred to, by gamestv.com, as "The Fifth Race". Gamestv.com considers him, "A great player. A marvelous elf." In addition gamestv.com states, "With surprising tactics, no one can ever guess what his next move is."
- Jang “Spirit_Moon” Jae Ho is currently ranked 6th in the GosuGamers Top 30 Players Database.
- Jang "Spirit_Moon" Jae Ho's Korean nickname is "The Fantasista".
