So I do not know exactly when this happened, but it appears that Chinese Protoss player, xiaOt has decided to stop playing SCII to work in a management role within his team.
For those that do not know xiaOt, he is widely considered the very best player inside all of China, and was a very successful Warcraft III player.
In the Gigabyte StarsWar 6 Tournament (one of the only Chinese tournaments to make it to English fans) he put up impressive results taking a 3rd/4th (?) place finish. What was impressive is that on his route to the Top 4 finish, he took out (in order): MarineKingPrime.WE, NsHS.San, and EG.IdrA while only dropping one game!
His game vs MarineKing was the one of the two surprising matches in the Round of 32 in that tournament that let everyone know the Chinese are here, and they are damn good!
Frankly I just found out on TL, but I figured the best player in China not playing anymore was something people may want to know! So instead of tons of quotes and whatnot, I present you some xiaOt games!
I saw potential in his game when he played in gigabyte cup, such a shame he takes on the management role. I would had think he could be something big as a player... Oh well, can only dream.
On August 06 2011 17:56 Jakkerr wrote: hmm ok I guess. Never saw any of his games and prolly never will now ^^.
If you only ever see one xiaOt game, make it the one in the OP vs MarineKing, Game 2. You see his awesome decision making, multitasking, macro, micro, and just generally makes MKP look a very amateur player.
He was in the team that got bought for 6 million usd right?
It does seem like that tycoon want to start a new generation of chinese e-sport athletes so to speak. He probably wants xiaoT to teach his skills to budding 15-16 years old chinese
EPT![[image loading]](http://a0.att.hudong.com/05/53/01300000209538121749533728620.jpg)
MarineKingPrime.WE, 
NsHS.San, and 
EG.IdrA while only dropping one game!
Oh well, can only dream. 
