Dae Hui Cho

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Dae Hui "FoV" Cho (February 21, 1985-) is a South Korean professional player of the real-time strategy game Warcraft III The Frozen Throne. Dae Hui Cho uses the Undead Scourge race. He has left the Chinese professional gaming team BeT. Dae Hui Cho gained international popularity among competitive players when he defeated the Swedish professional player of Warcraft III, Fredrik "Mad]Q[Frog" Johansson, at ESWC 2004. His victory over Fredrik at the 2004 Electronic Sports World Cup made Dae Hui Cho the first Korean professional player of Warcraft III to win a major international tournament.

Dae Hui Cho was ranked 4th in the second edition of the WCReplays & SK Gaming Warcraft III World Rankings and ranked 3rd in the second edition of the WCReplays & SK Gaming Warcraft III Asian Rankings in February 2006. He is currently ranked 3 in the GosuGamers Top 30 Database and with 1628.9 points for 1on1, he is currently ranked 4. Due to his very successful career in professional gaming, Dae Hui Cho is widely considered to be one the best Warcraft III players in the world.

Dae Hui Cho is known by many Warcraft III fans for his surrounds. In Warcraft III, a surround is a difficult, skilled trapping maneuver that immoblizes an enemy unit or hero so it can be easily destroyed. Dae Hui Cho, in general, uses the small and fragile ghouls in the majority of his games, and often gains an early advantage with a surround. Dae Hui Cho maintains an aggressive stance throughout most games, and ghouls allow him to set the pace very early on.

Dae Hui Cho has won many fans for beating other professional Warcraft III players, especially those who use the Night Elf race, including Jang "Spirit Moon" Jae Ho, as he is popularly known, is widely regarded as the best Night Elf player on the professional circuit and thus one of the best Warcraft III The Frozen Throne players in the world. Dae Hui Cho holds a winning record vs. Jang "Spirit Moon" Jae Ho and a losing record vs. Manuel "Grubby" Schenkhuizen, another top Warcraft III professional.

Winning national qualifiers for some of the world's most recognized gaming tournaments, he has attended the Electronic Sports World Cup (currently hosting preliminaries in over 50 countries and with a prize purse of 400,000$ dollar) every edition since July 2004. He also represented his country at the world's leading gaming tournament, the World Cyber Games in 2005. Making him the player having represented the world's leading competitive gaming country the most (various events from 2004 to 2006) as well as the only one to have represented South-Korea at various of the world's leading gaming tournaments.

For comparison, the runner-up Korean professional gamers have only represented their country at events of this scale in a period of two years in a row (2001-2002 Lim "Boxer" Yo-Hwan, 2005-2006 Lee Sung “SoJu” Duk, 2005-2006 Kyung "SelecT" Hyun Ryoo) and none of them at more than one event.

He was also one of the keyplayers of the 2005's eSport team of the year, the warcraft 3 division of the professional gaming team Four Kings.

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[edit] Major Accomplishments

[edit] 1 on 1

  • 2007 1st CEG Changchun Tour ($2,700 USD) (China)
  • 2007 1st International e-sports Festival 2007 ($4,000 USD) (China)
  • 2007 2nd Blizzard Worldwide Invitational ($5,000 USD) (Korea)
  • 2007 2nd NSL ($1,250 USD) (China)
  • 2007 2nd Game-X ($9,530 USD) (Russia)
  • 2007 1st Replays.net The All Stars Series ($750 USD) (Online)
  • 2006 1st China Internet Games ($625 USD) (China)
  • 2006 2nd MBCGame World War II (Korea)
  • 2006 3rd World Series of Video Games Finals ($5,000 USD and a computer system) (USA)
  • 2006 3rd Pro Gamer League Invitational 2006 ($640 USD) (China)
  • 2006 2nd World Series of Video Games, China ($2,500 USD) (China)
  • 2006 4th KODE5, global finals (China)
  • 2006 1st MBCGame International League ($4,000 USD) (Korea)
  • 2006 1st KODE5, Shanghai (China)
  • 2005 3rd MBCGame Warcraft League (Korea)
  • 2005 1st China Internet Games (China)
  • 2005 5th-8th World Cyber Games 2005 (Singapore)
  • 2005 1st World Cyber Games, Korea (Korea)
  • 2005 5th-8th World E-Sport Games Season II ($500 USD) (Korea)
  • 2005 9th Electronic Sports World Cup (France)
  • 2004 5th-8th World E-Sport Games Season I ($500 USD) (Korea)
  • 2004 5th-8th MBC Prime League 5 (Korea)
  • 2004 1st Electronic Sports World Cup ($10,000 USD) (France)
  • 2004 1st Electronic Sports World Cup (Korea)

[edit] League/Teams

[edit] Clan History

  • BET
  • wNv Warcraft (November 2006 - )
  • 4Kings.Intel (September 2004 - November 2006)
  • ArmaTeam (May 2004 - September 2004)

[edit] Trivia

  • In the WCReplays.com interview, FoV stated that his name was an abbrevation for "ForeVer." However, in an MYM forum, FoV stated that his name stands for "For the Victory"
  • FoV is nicknamed by many fans as the "Night Elf Slayer" or "Night Elf Killer" for his winning record against Spirit Moon and many other professional Night Elf players. Recently, FoV lost his winning record against Spirit_Moon.

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