Blizzcon marked the last tournament played by 20-year Norwegian Warcraft III player Olav "Creolophus" Undheim in his short but distinguished career as a professional gamer. In the last three months, Creolophus went inactive from the scene, not playing in any online tournaments to focus on his studies. Come this October, he returns to play his final LAN in the World Cyber Games.

He joined four-fold Warcraft 3 Champions League (WC3L) champions (as well as three-fold runner-up) Four Kings in May of 2006.

Creolophus had a strong background in Warcraft III up till that point with successes under the flag of 64AMD and Team fnatic. He had been runner-up of a WC3L season and finished top eight in a World Cyber Games (WCG). He was not on the same level as such Four Kings super stars as Manuel "Grubby" Schenkhuizen, Dae Hee "FoV" Cho or Yoan "ToD" Merlo, but he had shown the potential from one day of being able to reach it.

His personality and attitude were (and are) regarded well, he was known as a amiable guy and he was perceived as someone that both publicly and privately would fit in the tight knit group of the Four Kings.

Upon joining he took a one year break from his studies and announced he would focus on playing professionally for a year before returning to his studies.

Being the first player accepted into Four Kings in 34 months, Creolophus had huge expectations to meet. Many (likely including Four Kings themselves) had hopes he would fill up the Night Elf void in the team left by the superb performance of the top three worldwide Orc (Grubby), Human (ToD) and Undead (FoV) players that called Four Kings their home.

His first few months brought mixed successes, Creolophus qualified for Stars War III in Xi'an (June 2006, a month after joining Four Kings) and was one of the stronger players at the event, beating Kim Tae "Rainbow" In, Kang Seo "ReiGn" Woo, Jung Hee "Sweet" Chun, Jun "Lyn" Park and losing to Su "suhO" Hao. But overall, he was not consistent at tournaments and usually found himself finishing below the world's absolute best.

Despite obvious talent and grooming by Four Kings, he had a hard time breaking into being a top tier player.

He lost closely to fnatic player Mikhail "XyLigan" Ryabkov at the round of 8 of the 2006 WCG in October (five months after joining Four Kings). A month later he failed to qualify for the fourth edition of the Battle.net season global finals (losing all his group stage matches in the qualifiers versus Michael "Giacomo" Hladik, Grubby, Radoslav "DieSeL" Kolev and Daniel "LiiLD.C" Claesson), despite having put a lot of effort into his preparation.

Many lowered their expectations of the Norwegian super star at this point, but he showed not to be counted out yet at the WC3L season X finals (which took place alongside the global finals of Battle.net Season IV in January of 2007) as he brought Four Kings a winning point in their decisive war versus Meet Your Makers by defeating Jung Ko "Susiria" Ho (after having lost to him earlier in the tournament).

After this, Creolophus showed a gradually improving line in his performance, beating top players on a more consistent basis. He would go on to cement his name as one of the strongest European Warcraft III players by taking third place in the Extreme Masters and a fourth place in the Samsung European Championship two months after the WC3L finals.

He was statistically the strongest non-Korean player at the NGL ONE (1st season) finals, beating the likes of ReiGn, Kevin "RotterdaM" van Der Kooi and Seong Deok “SoJu” Lee.

Finally living up to the kind of hope that got him into Four Kings in the first place, in an interview Four Kings veteran and 2006 Electronic Sports World Cup (ESWC) runner-up Ivica "Zeus[19]" Markovic reminded everyone that Creolophus' retirement was looming and that he would definitely pick up his studies again.

The Norwegian had one big opportunity coming to leave a lasting mark on the Warcraft III scene and retire someone else then a player that could have been, he set his eyes on the 2007 ESWC taking place in July in Paris (the one in France).

He bested WCG Pan-American champion Bernardo "PaTo" Rodrigues as well as ESWC (and WCG) Korea champion SoJu in the first group stage of the tournament. He went on to take revenge for past losses on XyLigan and Grubby in the second group stage and would qualify for the single elimination bracket without having lost a match.

Meeting PaTo in the round of 8 and Grubby in the round of 4, Creolophus seemed to attract re-matches as he would face Soju in the finals of the tournament. Creolophus was at this point the favorite to win the title, not having lost a single match throughout the event (SoJu lost to Creolophus and Insomnia), and in what seems to be the trademark of an ESWC Final, he was defeated relatively easily by the eventual champion SoJu.

This devastated the hopes of many (especially Creolophus himself) in ending his career with a bang.

Creolophus certainly was taking his time “retiring”, as 3 weeks after ESWC (which is said to be his “last event) – everyone forgot that Creolophus also qualified for the Battle.net Season V Finals in the USA. Creolophus flew to California to fulfil his Warcraft-ly duties, dominating the tournament by defeating Grubby, Moon and then ReMinD in the grand finals.

Creolophus finally had his gold medal win – against some of the world’s best players – and finally went truly inactive.

Three months after that momentous win, Creolophus returns to the World Cyber Games to represent his country. This wasn’t a return from inactivity – rather, Creolophus already qualified for Norway before his complete retirement, and mentioned that he will indeed participate despite being out of the loop.

Creolophus started practicing a few weeks before the event itself. People expected the Night Elf player to go far, but question his “shape” as he has been inactive for some time. When Creolophus lost to sLh in his first group match, people started doubt, feeling that Creolophus is merely a shadow of his former self.

However, Creolophus quickly turned the tide around. He took down German youngster XlorD, then xiaOt fresh off his victory against SoJu, then finishing off XyligaN for a spot for the finals.

In a year's time Creolophus went from a friendly guy with a lot of talent to become the other half of a highly anticipated Grand Final. We will see less of Creolophus after the World Cyber Games, but he’ll always be remembered in the Warcraft III community.