The Welmu Fan Club

Welmu is a finnish protoss player. He played for Empire, eXelon, RAGE and Eclypsia. He is currently playing for the Romanian team NewRoSoft.

Welmu grew up in Kangasala, Finland with one younger brother and his first experience with an RTS was playing SC1 starting in November 2009. Initially he dismissed Starcraft because of the old graphics, however, his passion was stirred when he a saw pro game with Jaehoon. He was enthralled from start to finish. The crowd, the booths, the commentators...it was all so wonderful. It was through this that he eventually discovered Teamliquid.net. He keenly followed tournaments such as the original TSL and the EVER OSL. He continued playing Brood War at a d+ level until the SC2 beta came out. There he decided he would do his best to be up there in the booths the tension, the glory, and the cheering crowds.

Welmu currently in his first year of university in Tampere studying Computer Science.

He kept a fairly low profile during the months after release. His first major offline tournament was Assembly Winter 2011, where he fell in the group stages.

He wasn't in the spotlight again until Assembly Summer 2011. This time, he overcame a tie in the group stage to reach the championship bracket, where he faced MorroW in round of 16, and was defeated 2-1. The next day Welmu competed in the World Cyber Games 2011 Qualifiers Finland. He came out of his group undefeated, and knocked Sein out in the first round of the bracket. He then faced Sein's little brother Naama, the Dreamhack Winter champion and heavy favourite. He won against the odds, and proceeded to the winner's bracket final, where he beat elfi, earning his spot at the World Cyber Games 2011. He went on to defeat elfi again in the Grand Final.

In February 2012, Welmu participated in Assembly Winter. Once again he overcame peoples expectations to make it out of his group in second place, upsetting TitaN and Kas. However, he was then knocked out of the tournament 2-0 by Code S player Lucky.

In April 2012, he finished 2nd of the Copenhagen Games, just behind Kas for 1750 euro.

In June 2012, Welmu participated in Dreamhack Open - Summer but was eliminated in the 2nd group stage losing by SaSe 1-2 andTaeJa 0-2 but defeating White-Ra 2-1.

In June 2012, Welmu won one of the 10 TSL NA/EU qualifiers by defeating MajOr 3-2 and won 100$ in addition to a spot in the Ro32 in the TSL4.
In the TSL4 he would be knocked out early by the eventual 3rd place winner, MVPKeen.

In July 2012, Welmu qualified for 2012 MLG Summer Arena by defeating Grubby 2-0, and GoOdy 2-0 in the European qualifier. At the arena he proceeded to win 2-0 against the heavily-favored PuMa and then was knocked down to the losers bracket by TaeJa 2-0 and then knocked out of the tournament by GoOdy 2-0.

On July 28th 2012, Welmu competed in the WCS Finland Nationals. Here he defeated lesser-known Finnish players Serral, Core-FI, and Immaki before being knocked down to the losers bracket by the eventual winner Naama. In the lower bracket he lost to elfi 0-2 taking 3rd place and 600$.

In August 2012 Welmu was invited to play in Assembly Summer 2012 and was eliminated in the first group stage by Moon 2-3 and DeMusliM 2-3.

On January 5th 2013, Welmu joined the Romania-based team NewRoSoft.

On January 12th, Welmu attended the annual Finnish Lan LANTREK taking 1st place and €700 dropping only 2 maps the entire tournament, 2-0'ing elfi and 3-0'ing Naama in dominating fashion.

On January 19th, Welmu attended the ESET Winter Cup in Germany, but unfortunately losing to Strelok 1-2 and finished in the top 8 earning €500

From January 11th to January 13th, Welmu attended the Finnish lan LANTREK '13 and took first place and €1000 in dominating fashion beating elfi 2-0 in the Semifinals, Naama 3-0 in the finals and going 18-2 in the entire tournament.

In the WCS EU Season 2 Welmu made it to the Ro8 where he lost to MC 0-3, he then played the 5th/6th place matches to determine who got the seeds to the grand finals. Welmu won against Hasuobs 3-1 and took 5th/6th place with the direct seed to the grand finals.

Ro16 at Assembly Summer 2011.
2nd place at the Copenhagen Games.
Ro32 at Dreamhack Open - Summer.
Ro32 at the TSL4.
Ro16 at Assembly Winter 2012.
3rd at WCS Finland.
17th-24th at Assembly Summer 2012.
2nd at IEF 2013

Note: This one is in Finnish.

Welmu vs Lucky at ASUS ROG Winter 2012

Elfi vs Welmu - WCS - G1
Elfi vs Welmu - WCS - G2

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