Community Choice Awards

The "King in the North" used both skill and luck to become the only foreigner to qualify for the World Championship Series Global Finals at BlizzCon. Just three weeks prior to BlizzCon, he fought tooth and nail to take points out of IEM-New York in his last WCS-sanctioned tournament, and then watched intensely as every remaining Premier League and Season 3 Finals result unfolded in his favor. Even then, he only guaranteed himself a trip to Blizzard headquarters to face Revival in a play-in game on the eve of the Global Finals.

The 2012 World Championship Series Canada and North American Champion entered the 2013 WCS carrying the mantle of not only her own accomplishments, but the hopes of fans all over North America and around the world. Scarlett did not disappoint.

She took third place in the Ritmix Russian StarCraft II League Season 5 Finals in July with a win over Hyun. In August, she came tantalizingly close to the Grand Final of WCS America Season 2, falling 2:3 to Jaedong in the round of four. In November at the Red Bull Battlegrounds in New York, Scarlett started really showing her stuff -- defeating Bomber and Golden in the group stage before taking out the Boss Toss 2:0 to win 3rd place. To cap off a strong finish to 2013, she won her group, then defeated both StarDust and Life en route to a 2nd place finish at ASUS ROG Northcon.

After convincing wins over HuK, Leenock, Rain, and MC gave him a solid third place in the first Heart of the Swarm major tournament -- the MLG 2013 Winter Championship in Dallas, TX -- it was anybody's guess what the (then) 19-year-old INnoVation would do in the World Championship Series. He came out swinging.

Season 1 of WCS Korea saw INnoVation defeat everyone who stood in his way, right up until, with a 3:0 lead in the best-of-seven grand final, Soulkey found a way to take four consecutive games from the pro formerly known as Bogus. With a chance at retribution on the line, INnoVation then tore through the field at the Season 1 Finals, crushing sOs 4:0 in the grand final to become the Season 1 Grand Champion.

He then continued to perform on a level that earned him the second-highest total WCS points in the world in 2013, with top four finishes at WCS Korea Season 2, DreamHack Bucharest, DreamHack Winter, and ASUS ROG: NorthCon.

In 2013, Jaedong earned over $110,000 through multiple tournament placings and yes, two tournament wins. He started the year by defeating MC to win the Kingston HyperX 10-Year Anniversary tournament, and ended 2013 with a first place win over Scarlett at ASUS ROG: NorthCon.

He also took 2nd place in an astonishing number of events, including DreamHack Summer (to StarDust), DreamHack Valencia (to HyuN), WCS America Season 2 Premier League (to Polt), WCS Season 2 Finals (to Bomber), and the 2013 WCS Global Finals at BlizzCon (to sOs).

Jaedong entered the 2013 WCS Global Finals at BlizzCon seeded at #3 in the world, despite not having won a single WCS or or WCS Tier event. He then defeated Mvp, Dear, and Maru before losing 1:4 to the BlizzCon champion, sOs, in the Grand Final.

Thanks to his 2nd place finish at BlizzCon, Jaedong became the eSports player with the highest career total prize money.