Hey TL, as an avid stream watcher of Illusion, this is all I have to say. Team Vile's Illusion (Chris Lee) has been gone unnoticed for way too long! He deserves to be featured, and his name get put out there.
For those that do not know Illusion, he is a Korean Terran player born in America, who has lived in America for all of his life. He is playing very high caliber games at the age of 15! He is obviously at the top of North America, beating players who are dedicated full time to this job. He respects others, looks forward to making Starcraft 2 a profession and his dedication should not be undermined. He streams hours for days, sometimes 16 hours in one day, showing his rigorous practice and motivation. True Dedication.
Although he is young and very talented, vileIllusion is not a very well known figure in the community even though he is a fantastic player, as well as a great streamer! He had a fantastic run @ MLG (placing 24th running through players such as Sheth, Spanishiwa, Attero, Kawaiirice) - all of which are featured. He was playing so well that people were wondering if he was Illusion, smashing through the brackets. Some are still misinformed, and do not know that it was vileIllusion
He plays in many online cups and streams them. In addition to playing in the MLG Raleigh, Orlando and Providence, he also has participated in KOTHs and Showmatches. Recently, he played a showmatch vs featured streamer Desrow
He has a unique style of play, where he utilizes his multitasking by doing multiple drops at the same time and splitting his units crazily (Watching him warm up in Marine split Challenge is crazy, level 25!). Here are a few games that have won me over, http://drop.sc/67229 (MLG, Illusion vs Sheth) http://drop.sc/67227 (MLG Illusion vs TLO) Which should definitely be casted!
(Illusion vs Russano in Thundertoss KOTH, Watch from 11:18 for multitask capacity). + Show Spoiler +
(Look at that game... Not many can pull a trick out of their hat like that!) + Show Spoiler +
These games showcase his harassment techniques, incredible macro, as well as his micro. His level of play is obviously high enough to meet the requirements of "High Skill" for a featured stream.
- High skill - Stream viewers - Contribution to TL - Entertainment/stream involvement etc
On a regular day, he will get ~100+ stream viewers. If he is on the front page, his viewer count increases tremendously (can only imagine how much more popular he would be if he was featured, always on the main page!) Many people don’t bother to check out the streamers in the unfeatured section of TL, and because of that, his viewer count will not see its full potential.
He contributes to TL in indirect ways. He lurks around in the Strategy section, posting replays of strategies as well as giving critiques to curious posters. In addition to this, he posts replays of his games on the stream! He also does replay analysis while streaming and commentates his process in the middle of a ladder match. Illusion definitely cares for his viewers, as anyone who visits would see that he is always interactive, whether there are 30 viewers or 500 (When dreamhack ended, his channel blew up!). Of course helping the stream viewers isn't exacting contributing to TL, but many of the viewers are from TL and they are of course benefiting from his stream.
He streams his Tournaments, Practice games, Ladder and anything to fill up time. He is always doing something ( even if he goes to eat dinner, he puts on a replay temporarily and his stream chat is usually interactive enough to let everyone else know ). He plays on the NA, EU and KR server and is GM on NA/EU, Masters on KR (but he says the delay is too impactful on his play).
As well as being a great player, he is very mannered and I am not sure why much of TL has not heard of him yet. Oh wait, he hasn't had much coverage. He wasn't mentioned in http://www.teamliquid.net/forum/viewmessage.php?topic_id=289749, a huge article that was read thousands of times. The author did apologize, but this was a big missed opportunity for him that he might not be able to get in a very long time.
He was covered on MLG but this was during the middle of the tournament and MLG's news Feed quickly filled up and his interview got buried very quickly. http://www.majorleaguegaming.com/news/vile-illusion-an-american-prodigy-eliminates-spanishiwa-and-sheth. It wasn't even a video, no face to the name. Him beating Spanishiwa was emphasized in this interview, but many forget that he beat Spanishiwa 2-1 at MLG Raleigh Round 1 of the Open Bracket. He isn't covered much on Starcraft 2 channels either but the ones that are, he plays fantastic!
Overall, he is a great person, young and very motivated with a creative and unique playstyle that deserves a lot more credit.
Give him your support by commenting on this thread and..
Stream Stats: ~650,000 views ~1,150 Followers HD 720P --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Daily Streaming, always tweets if he can't and always tweets before he does.
TLDR: Kid deserves much more than he is getting, and it's a shame he's been ignored for so long after streaming on TL for more than a year. Fantastic player, personality, and kickass stream!
P.S: Hopefully other Pro-gamers who have played Illusion can speak up for him.
agreed, he plays way too much and everytime he plays, he streams, His stream has the most creative builds, especially TvZ. and his multitasking is soo good, that it makes for an entertaining stream. Also goes over what he did after every game, very good quality. what more can you ask?
illusion is easily a top 10 NA terran at this point.
also his TvZ I would rank in the top 3. The only two players I would rank ahead of him with legit TvZ are kawaii and Select. And he might even have better TvZ than kawaii right now. He's also at a point where he's literally screwing around with random shit and owning top tier players. >_<;
Also from what I've observed he still has plenty of room to improve. I think once he starts pushing himself to play a couple different styles he'll do better. (especially TvT, start going mech once in a while kk??)
overall has improved quite a bit in quite a short amount of time. Exciting player to have watched grow in terms of skill for some time now, I saw this guy when he was a terrible low masters zerg player in season 1/2...now he's one of the best terrans in NA...Pretty awesome.
I said it hours after MLG but I can say it again here, his stream absolutely deserves to be featured. especially with the lack of true solid foreign terran players.
it really sucks he wasnt given a chance for december esp since december is a month he can truly prove himself since hes 15 and he won't have too much school.
Chris is actually easily a top3 NA terran by skill. He's an extremely hard and dedicated player who has, thanks to his young age years of potential improvement ahead of him.
Please feature this kid. I know everyone in the DC area already has him as favorite stream and so do many others.
Favorited his stream long time ago... His viewer numbers have steadily been going up after several impressive MLG runs this year. I can only expect more in 2012... He definitely deserves to be featured!
I support this 100% I featured Illusion in a show match at the start of November vs desRow who is another featured streamer here on Teamliquid. If you missed any of those games check out these links. Thanks for already having game 1 listed up Dusty ^^
Completely agreed with the OP. This guy shouldn't have to be considered for it, he should just be outright featured. He is without a doubt a top palyer in North America, he's GM level on Europe as well, I just don't see why it has to have been so long for this to happen.
On December 03 2011 06:30 Zlasher wrote: Completely agreed with the OP. This guy shouldn't have to be considered for it, he should just be outright featured. He is without a doubt a top palyer in North America, he's GM level on Europe as well, I just don't see why it has to have been so long for this to happen.
he didnt beat idra and make idra break his keyboard like trimaster but......... illusion got further in a harder bracket just didnt make a splash because of fail exposure from MLG =(
On December 03 2011 06:30 Zlasher wrote: Completely agreed with the OP. This guy shouldn't have to be considered for it, he should just be outright featured. He is without a doubt a top palyer in North America, he's GM level on Europe as well, I just don't see why it has to have been so long for this to happen.
he didnt beat idra and make idra break his keyboard like trimaster but......... illusion got further in a harder bracket just didnt make a splash because of fail exposure from MLG =(
Pretty much.
It was ironic to see Trimaster be featured and then get destroyed by Attero on The "V" (when Attero wasn't featured, but Trimaster was).
VERY good player, part of a respectable team, did really, really well at past MLG, has been streaming for a long time with good quality and even commentates.
EPT
Illusion, smashing through the brackets. Some are still misinformed, and do not know that it was vileIllusion![[image loading]](http://teamvile.net/assets/players/illusion.jpg)
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