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Crazy As Me

The autobiography of Yohwan Lim, Crazy As Me was released in Korea by BookRoad Publishers in October 25, 2004. This is my translation of the book, except the following four sections which were translated by BinaryStar of Teamliquid.net, which I have made minor changes: "Hope on the Road Not Taken," "Chapter One: The Game-crazed Kid," "The Birth of the Emperor," and "The Little Prince with Three Sisters."

Career Achievements

As of October 4, 2004:

657 Total / 397W 260L / 60.4%

  • 2000.06.01  1st Game-Q Starleague, 1st Place
  • 2000.10.01  Samsung Digital KIGL2000 League, 1st Place
  • 2000.12.20  KIGL 2000 King of Kings, 1st Place
  • 2001.03.24  Zzgame.com Progamers Invitational, 1st Place
  • 2001.05.05  2001 Hanbitsoft Ongamenet Starleague, 1st Place
  • 2001.05.09  3rd Game-Q Starleague, 1st Place
  • 2001.09.08  2001 Coca-Cola Ongamenet Starleague, 1st Place
  • 2001.11.16  GGTV StarWars 2001 EP2, 1st Place
  • 2001.12.07  2001 World Cyber Games, Gold Medal
  • 2001.12.28  2001 SKY Ongamenet Starleague, 2nd Place
  • 2002.03.10  3rd iTV Rankings, 2nd Place
  • 2002.04.14  2002 1st KPGA Tour League, 1st Place
  • 2002.10.12  SKY 2002 Ongamenet Starleague, 2nd Place
  • 2002.11.03  2002 World Cyber Games, Gold Medal
  • 2003.01.29  KTF Bigi Four Kings, 1st Place
  • 2003.03.22  KTEC 2002 KPGA Winners Championship, 2nd Place
  • 2003.08.30  KTF Ever 2003 Ongamenet Proleague, 1st Place
  • 2004.01.13  KT-KTF Premier League, 2nd Place
  • 2004.02.28  LG IBM PC MBCGame Team League, 1st Place
  • 2004.07.13  G-Voice 2004 Ongamenet Challenge League, 1st Place
  • 2004.07.17  SKY 2004 Ongamenet Proleague Round 1, 2nd Place
  • 2004.08.28  Tucson MBCGame Team League, 1st Place

    • Table of Contents

    10 ∙ Progamer Lim Yohwan, the E-Sports Icon

    12 ∙ Hope on the Road Not Taken


    Chapter One: The Game-crazed Kid
    Chapter Four: A Period of Loss

    16 ∙ The Birth of the Emperor
    176 ∙ I Also Want to Play

    20 ∙ The Little Prince with Three Sisters
    186 ∙ The Slump I Cannot Acknowledge

    23 ∙ Arcades and Soccer
    190 ∙ ‘Pro’ in Games, ‘Amateur’ in Love

    28 ∙ You want to repeat the high school exam?
    196 ∙ The Way to the Cemetery

    33 ∙ Starcraft! Captured by Its Magic
    201 ∙ Fight Against Prejudice

    40 ∙ PC bang? What’s that?

    46 ∙ The Game that Overthrew the Academy
    Chapter Five: I Will Not Stop

    53 ∙ Learning to Win by Losing
    208 ∙ Let’s Not Regret After Losing

    57 ∙ Choosing Terran
    211 ∙ Captain of a 200 Million Won Salary

    214 ∙ 10th Starleague Entrance

    Chapter Two: Birth of a Progamer
    222 ∙ Strength of 500,000 Supporters

    66 ∙ Not an Internet Café Bum, but a Progamer
    226 ∙ Lim Yohwan of Korea

    72 ∙ Dropship

    78 ∙ Hope of Terran
    Chapter Six: Dreaming of a Progamer In His 30s

    88 ∙ Using the Team Melee Method
    232 ∙ There Is No Shortcut

    93 ∙ From 'Hope of Terran' to 'Emperor'
    236 ∙ The Challenge Continues

    104 ∙ A Frog in a Pond to a World Champion
     


    Chapter Three: The Hidden Passion Explodes
    Translator's Notes

    118 ∙ A Fool for Victory
    Excerpts from Book Reviews

    128 ∙ I am Not a God
     

    136 ∙ Standing By Myself...I Must Win
     

    146 ∙ Twenty-Three Years Old, A Hundred-Millionaire
     

    156 ∙ 1 Percent of Hope Destroys the 99 Percent of Despair
     

    166 ∙ The Best Coach, the Best Players
     

    author | Yohwan Lim

    He is a professional gamer that carries dazzling nicknames, such as the "Emperor of Terran," and "Hope of Terran." During his 11th grade, while at a friend's house to study, he accidentally came across the game Starcraft; he now spends the most of his time playing this game. He chose Terran, which was considered inferior, and used the dropship, which was ignored by many because of its slow speed, to promote the "entertainment of watching" to the fans of Starcraft. With every given moment, he practices his games relentlessly. With over 500,000 members of the online Daum fan cafe (Lim Yohwan's Dropship: cafe.daum.net/yohwanfan) alone, he has established his stardom.

    Debuting in the fall of 1999 as a pro-gamer with the team IS, he began with his victory in the SBS Multi-Game Championship, and made his id SlayerS_`BoxeR` known to the public. After exhibiting brilliant plays that brought his accession from the "Hope of Terran" to the "Emperor of Terran," he placed 1st in the 2001 World Cyber Games and elevated the stature of Korean progamers. Moving to the team sponsored by Orion in 2002, he set the record as the first progamer with a salary of 100 million won. In October 2004, at the age of 25, he is now the captain of the team SK Telecom T1, with an annual salary exceeding 200 million won.