Shine
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Shine
See Shine (Choi Kyung Min) for the player with the same ID (also a Zerg). Lee "Shine" Young Han is a retired StarCraft progamer from South Korea. He played Zerg previously for Samsung Galaxy and now works as GSL Observer.[1]
Biography[edit]
Shine was a WeMade FOX Zerg that showed promise, making the quarterfinals of the 2009 EVER OSL and defeating notable players like FanTaSy and EffOrt.
Wings of Liberty[edit]
Shine played his first official StarCraft II match during the hybrid 2011-2012 Proleague Season 2, he went 5-15 during the season.
In the GSL 2013 Season 1 Shine made it to the RO24 before getting knocked out by Squirtle 0-2. On his run he beat HuK 2-0 and FanTaSy 2-1.
Heart of the Swarm[edit]
2013 GSL and OSL seasons[edit]
In the first season of GSL Korea 2013 Shine made it to RO16. On his run, he placed second in his group for the RO32, getting beaten by Symbol 0-2, but then beating KeeN, Squirtle and KeeN again with continuous 2-0's. Having made it to the RO16, he faced off against Bomber, TaeJa and sOs. He placed last going 1-4 in matches, he lost to TaeJa 1-2 and then to Bomber 0-2.
Now in OSL Season 2, Shine was seeded into the RO48. He took out Seed 2-0 but was knocked out by MarineKing 1-2 and was knocked out of WCS 2013 placing worst than last season, only making it the RO32.
Shine was back again for GSL Season 3 where he placed even worse than last time around. Having been seeded into the RO48 through the Up and Down matches, he faced off against Creator and lost 1-2 thus ending his GSL run.
2014 WCS; Korea GSL[edit]
He did not place into Season 1.
In Season 2 Shine made to Code S. He made it through Code A by placing second in his group, taking out Panic 2-0 and Flash 2-1, not before losing to Hydra 0-2. In Code S, Shine made in through the Ro16, and in doing so he placed second in his group. He lost to sOs 0-2, but won against YongHwa 2-0 and sOs 2-1. Shine was drawn into group D of the Ro16, along with Soulkey, Zest and INnoVation. However, he lost 0-2 to both Soulkey and INnoVation and was knocked down into Code A.
Shine participated in Season 3 and made it out of his Code A group. Although he lost to TY 0-2, Shine managed to defeat both sKyHigh and ByuL 2-0 and returned to Code S. He was placed into Group A with EffOrt, sOs, and Classic. After losing to sOs 1-2, similarly to the previous season, he managed to defeat the reigning champion Classic 2-1 to face sOs in a rematch. Although Shine beat sOs in the previous season's Ro32 rematch, he was unable to repeat the feat and lost 0-2. He was therefore in Code A until Season 1 of 2015.
Trivia[edit]
- Lost to Dear in his first official SC2 match.
- Maintained a perfect 5-0 record against Soulkey in SC2 until he lost 0-2 during the Round of 16 of GSL Season 2.
Interviews[edit]
2014[edit]
- 2014-07-17 |
2014 GSL Season 3 Code A Winners by inven eSports (trans. 
) - 2014-05-06 | 2014 GSL Season 2 Code S Ro32 Groups A, B, C, D, E, F, G, H Winners by inven eSports (trans. )
2013[edit]
- 2012-03-04 | 2013 GSL Season 2 Up/Downs Group B Winners by This Is Game
- 2013-02-20 | 2013 GSL Season 1 Code A Ro32 Day 3 Winners by This Is Game
- 2013-02-05 | 2013 GSL Season 1 Code A Ro48 Day 1 Winners by This Is Game
- 2013-01-30 | 2013 GSL Season 1 Code A Qualifiers Day 1 Winners by This Is Game
- 2013-01-13 | SPL Season 1 Round 2 Samsung KHAN vs STX SouL Winner by Daily eSports
