Chang Yong-Suk

This is a Korean name; the family name is Chang.

Chang Yong-Suk
Hangul	장용석
Revised Romanization	Jang Yong-Seok
McCune–Reischauer	Chang Yongsŏk

Youngsuk "FreedoM" Chang (born April 26, 1988) is a professional player of two real-time strategy games, StarCraft and WarCraft. He is known by his pseudonym FreedoM. Chang entered the E-sports world in 2004 where he started his career playing as the Night Elf race in the game Warcraft III.

Chang represented his country South Korea in Warcraft at the World Cyber Games 2004, winning the 2004 national Korean qualifier. In 2005, he once again placed first on the World E-sports Festival. Surprisingly enough, he suddenly changed his career from Warcraft to Starcraft in 2006. Since then, his team Samsung Khan, won the championship for Starcraft pro-league 2006-2007 season.

Currently he is one of the most successful Korean poker players. He has won 4th place at the 2008 APT Manila where he took over $38,000 in prize money.^[1]

Accomplishments

• 2003 MBC Sonokong Prime League III - 3rd place
• 2004 World Cyber Games Korea national qualifier - 1st Place
• 2005 MBC Land Cinema Prime League V - 3rd place
• 2005 World E-Sports Festival - 1st Place
• 2005 Ongamenet Invitational - 1st place
• 2007 Shinhan ProLeague - 1st place
• 2008 APPT Manila 2008 4th Place ($38,000)^[2]

External links

• Freedom's fan cafe (Korean)

References

1. ^ "Team Liquid Progaming Database - Player Information". TeamLiquid.net. http://www.teamliquid.net/tlpd/players/48_Freedom. Retrieved 2009-08-12. 
2. ^ "2008 PokerStars.net APPT Manila Main Event". Pokernews. http://www.pokernews.com/live-reporting/2008-appt-manila/main-event/day3/page10.htm. Retrieved 2008-11-16. ^{[dead link]}

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Date of birth	April 26, 1988
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