Chang Yong-suk

This is a Korean name; the family name is Chang.
FreedoM
Chang Yong-suk
Nationality South Korean
Games StarCraft
WarCraft III
Chang Yong-suk
Hangul 장용석
Revised Romanization Jang Yong-Seok
McCune–Reischauer Chang Yongsŏk

Chang "FreedoM" Youngsuk (born April 26, 1988) is a professional esports player of the real-time strategy games StarCraft and WarCraft III. He is known by his pseudonym FreedoM or FreeDoM. Chang entered the E-sports world in 2004 where he started his career playing as the Night Elf race in the game WarCraft III.

Chang represented South Korea in WarCraft III at the World Cyber Games 2004, winning the 2004 national Korean qualifier. In 2005, he once again placed first on the World E-sports Festival. After the "MBC Map Scandal" where maps were rigged in order to make the Orc race more powerful,[1] Freedom decided to quit playing WarCraft III and move onto playing StarCraft in 2006. Since then, his team Samsung Khan, won the championship for the StarCraft Pro-League 2006-2007 season.

Currently he is one of the most successful Korean poker players. He has won 4th place at the 2008 Asian Poker Tour (APT) Manila where he took over $38,000 in prize money.[2]

Tournament placings

Poker

References

  1. "MBC Map Scandal Update". sk-gaming.com. Retrieved 2013-09-29.
  2. "Team Liquid Progaming Database - Player Information". TeamLiquid.net. Retrieved 2009-08-12.
  3. "2008 PokerStars.net APPT Manila Main Event". Pokernews. Retrieved 2008-11-16.

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