Life (gamer)

Life
Lee Seung-Hyun
Lee Seung-Hyun at the MLG Fall Championship
Born (1997-01-11) January 11, 1997
Nationality South Korean
Current team Afreeca Freecs
League Starleague, Proleague, GSL
Nickname(s) Life, The Ling King, L'Enfant Terrible
Professional career
2011 - 2012 ZeNEX
2012 - 2015 StarTale
2015 - 2016 KT Rolster
2016 - Afreeca Freecs

Lee Seung-Hyun (Korean: 이승현) is a former professional StarCraft II player from South Korea who played Zerg under the alias Life. He was on the Korean team Afreeca Freecs,[1] which he joined in January 2016. He has also played for StarTale and KT Rolster.

On April 21, 2016 South Korean prosecutors announced that they were charging Life, along with Bbyong, with matchfixing.[2] He was convicted and sentenced to eighteen months in prison, suspended for three years, and fined 70,000,000 South Korean won. His WCS Championship was also stripped from him by Blizzard Entertainment, the publisher of Starcraft. ESPN named his match fixing the most disappointing event in ESports in 2016.[3]

Major Achievements

  • 2012 TeamLiquid StarLeague 4 - Runner-up
  • 2012 GSL Season 4 - Winner
  • 2012 MLG Fall Championship - Winner
  • 2012 GSL Blizzard Cup - Winner
  • 2013 Iron Squid – Chapter II - Winner
  • 2013 MLG Winter Championship - Winner
  • 2013 DreamHack Open: Bucharest - 3rd-4th place
  • 2013 IEM Season VIII - New York - Winner
  • 2013 DreamHack Open: Winter - Runner-up
  • 2013 ASUS ROG: NorthCon - 3rd-4th place
  • 2014 Global StarCraft II League Season 1 - 3rd-4th place
  • 2014 DreamHack Open: Bucharest - Winner
  • 2014 IEM Season IX - Toronto - 3rd-4th place
  • 2014 WCS Global Finals - Championship revoked after match fixing conviction.[3]
  • 2014 DreamHack Open: Winter - Runner-up
  • 2015 IEM Season IX - Taipei - Winner
  • 2015 GSL Season 1 - Winner

References

  1. ↑ http://www.thescoreesports.com/news/5919
  2. ↑ http://www.dailydot.com/esports/korean-starcraft-life-match-fixing/
  3. 1 2 "2016 ESPN Esports Awards - Biggest Disappointment". ESPN.com. January 7, 2017. Retrieved January 7, 2017.
Preceded by
Kim "sOs" Yoo Jin		 StarCraft II World Championship Series winner (revoked after conviction for match fixing)
2014		 Succeeded by
Kim "sOs" Yoo Jin


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