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Primary Race: Night Elf WC3L Season X Player Rank: 56th Home Map: Twisted Meadows No player epitomized the struggles of MYM this season more than the Night Elf player christened Fantasista by his forest of followers—Moon. For the better part of ‘06, however, it seemed like the Moon had been eclipsed. Once deemed untouchable by mortal cursors, Moon was on the losing end of six CWs, most of them mirror matches. It was an inexplicable and disturbing twist of fate, as Moon has long learned to thrive in mirror matches to survive in the Night Elf-infested realm of Kalimdor. There was a time when the only players thought to be capable of beating Moon in a mirror match were Check and FreeDoM. Apparently, no one got the memo this year. Moon endured successive mirror losses to Chec K, TitaN, Qazzi, and Bifrost. It got to the point where MYM appeared to do the unthinkable. After his PD 8 loss to Bitfrost, Moon was surreptitiously removed from MYM’s lineup, perhaps for fear of crippling their superstar’s confidence. The Moon has not risen in WC3L play since. Thankfully, if we’ve learned anything from high school astronomy, it’s that the moon behaves in cycles. By the end of ’06, the Moon was once again full—and brimming with newfound confidence. In perhaps the most anticipated showdown of the year, Moon beat the bane of NEs everywhere, Sky, at the IEST Finals. He followed that up with a victory over Grubby, who was coming off his own tourney win at the WSVG, in a titanic Super Fight especially set up to pit the two players against one another. MYM fans better check their ’07 calendars and hope the new year doesn’t start of with a half-moon.
Kim Jae “Storm” Wong It’s practically an old wives’ tale, an urban legend. It’s called the sophomore slump. It hits actors, artists, athletes and, apparently, pro-gamers. A year ago, Kim Jae Wong was considered the best Human player to come out of Korea since Swain [FrienZ]. Storm was a Korean anomaly in the sense he played a distinctly European style, ditching the rifle/caster staple that had been torn apart by every race (especially Undeads) since Swain’s first retirement. Most Koreans still resisted the tech to tier 3, even in mirrors, but Storm had no qualms about busting out the heavy metal offered by Inner Fired Knights, Mortars and tri-heroes, while staying true to his rifle/caster roots. Storm used his multinational style to help MYM win the Season IV title, and with it, Newcomer of the Year honors. In the playoffs, Storm was at his best, taking out two of the very best Humans in the world-- at their own game: Sky, the best tier 2 Human in the game today, and ToD, the game’s best at tier 3. Of course, he was freshman then. Alas, no amount of micro could beat back a history of second act letdowns that has evolved into a near living, breathing curse to plague mankind; just ask. In 8 playdays, Storm barely made it to .500 at 4 and 4; you could see the scuff marks on his knees as he crawled to the 50% plateau. It’s not to say he didn’t have his moments, namely a tightly-contested win over ONE’s best player, Farseer, and his main competition for the newcomer award the year before, verGe’s own Rainman. There’s still a chance MYM will throw a monkey wrench and field BerA or EVE as their fourth soloist for their showdown with MYM, but with LT a starting map, and ToD a mortal lock to that map, Storm is the most likely of the three to get called to action against 4K; in which case, MYM can only hope that the old Storm has passed, and a new, more powerful one is brewing over the horizon.
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