Liam “Boxer” Yo Hwan
2000's era Gamer
Class of 2022 Inductee
Lim Yo-hwan is a former professional player of the real-time strategy computer game StarCraft. He is often referred to as “The Terran Emperor”, or simply “The Emperor”, and is widely considered to be one of the most successful players of the genre.
BoxeR is most renowned for his creativity; often building proxy barracks.
In many games, he has gone for quick attacks (“rushes”) or special ops units (“ghosts”) which make the games extremely entertaining.
Following his retirement from eSports, Lim became a professional poker player.
He won his first Asian Poker Tour title in September 2018 and his second in January 2019.
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Major Accomplishments:
Individual titles
1999 SBS Multi-Game Championship
2000 Samsung Digital Cup KIGL King of Kings
2000 M.police Game League
2000 Korea.cnet Game Tournament
2001 World Cyber Games
2001 Coca-Cola Ongamenet Starleague
2001 Hanbitsoft Ongamenet Starleague
2001 3rd Game-Q Starleague
2001 Zzgame.com Progamer 32 Invitational
2002 World Cyber Games
2002 KPGA 1st Tour
2003 KTF Bigi 4 Kings
2003 Toona BIG 4 SPECIAL
2004 KT Megapass Nespot Premierleauge
Team titles
2003 KTF EVER Cup (Orion)
2003–04 LG IBM MBC Team League (Orion)
2004 Tucsan MBCGame Team League (SK Telecom T1)
2005 SKY Proleague Season One (SK Telecom T1)
2005 SKY Proleague Season Two (SK Telecom T1)
2005 SKY Proleague Grand Final (SK Telecom T1)
2006 SKY Proleague Season One (SK Telecom T1)
2008–09 Shinhan Bank Proleague (SK Telecom T1)
2011 GSTL March (SlayerS)
2011 GSTL May (SlayerS)