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In 2006, Jun TY Tae Yang, formerly known as BaBy, became the youngest StarCraft: Brood War player to go pro. At the age of 15 and only three years into his professional career, he was hailed as a prodigy. During the early years of his debut, he had shown promise in both individual leagues and the Proleague, taking down impressive names (including high-profile players like Heo Jangbi Yeong Moo) despite his young age.In a poll conducted by OGN, coaches, players and pundits were asked which Terran rookie -- Park Mind Sung Gyoon, Lee Flash Young Ho or TY -- was likely to become a star. The majority chose Mind at 70 percent, TY garnered 17 percent of the votes and Flash was picked last.TY was a player with real potential with no weakness in any matchup. His style of aggressive multitask, mechanically heavy play was alluring and exciting. Add all of that to his young age with a decade more of play time and you could see why people hyped up TYs future. He had all the makings of a champion.And here we are, 10 years, one game and two expansions later, and TY has no title to show for it.His entire Brood War career amounted to one Round of 8 Korean OSL 2010. Going into StarCraft II, the story remained the same: He had no weak matchups. He was an exciting player and a great team player.But when it came to the individual leagues, hed always drop out again, and again and again. After playing SCII for two years, hed never gotten out of a group stage of a tournament in South Korea. The two international tournaments he attended didnt go much better. At DreamHack: Bucharest, he was one of the favorites but got upset by Jang MC Min Chul in the Round of 16. The same thing happened again at HomeStory Cup X, where he lost to Hwang Losira Kang Ho.In eight years of play, he had only two Ro8 appearances to show for it. For a worse player, perhaps this could be considered an OK result. For a player with his talent, skill, mechanics and potential, you cant help but look at this as a failure.This all finally changed in 2015.Its hard to say what changed about TY that year. Gameplay wise, it was the same. He was just more consistent at bringing it out, and he seemed to have a much better grasp of series play. It could have been the introduction of Ryu Won as coach of KT (multiple Global StarCraft II League champions have credited Ryu Won as having a large positive effect on their game).Whatever the case, TY broke the drought as he reached his second Ro8 placing in a South Korean tournament at GSL Season 1, five years after his OSL placing in 2010. By the end of the year, he reached the semifinals of StarCraft II StarLeague Season 3 and Intel Extreme Masters Shenzhen.And now, we get to 2016.This has been TYs best year of competitive play in the last decade. He has had the best results of any Terran player all year and has been widely considered either the best or second-best Terran playing in the world at any given moment. This was also the year of his first finals against teammate Joo Zest Sung Wook in the first season of GSL. And though he lost there, given the projection of his results and skill, it seemed inevitable that he would win at least one of the Star Leagues this year.And now is the time. There are four players who stand above the rest: Zest, TY, Park Dark Ryung Woo and Kim Stats Dae Yeob. Three have been eliminated. Now, theres no one left that should be able to stand between TY and the championship title he has been looking for all of this time. After 10 long years, this is the best chance TY will likely ever get to finally win a title.There are only two players left that have a shot at upsetting TY: Baek Dear Dong Jun, who has shown remarkable skill throughout 2016 and is set to play him in the Ro8, and Kim sOs Yoo Jin, who is on the other side of the bracket.Another exciting match is between sOs and Kim herO Joon Ho. This rivalry isnt traditional in any sense. Theyve only met a few times in Proleague and individual leagues, but the match between sOs and herO at the IEM World Championships in 2014 is one of the defining moments for both players. In that match, herO came in as the golden child of IEM. The triple IEM winner and the favorite to win the tournament. Everyones beloved champion.And then sOs proxy gated him. Twice.It was a no-holds-barred beatdown as sOs made herO look like a fool. It was doubly painful for herO, as it was a winner-take-all tournament and sOs left with the entire prize pool of $100,000 USD. 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During the second weekend, ESL will host an expo event, similar in style to that of its sister company DreamHack.Traditionally, IEM Katowice, one of the largest tournaments in esports, takes place all on the same weekend. In 2016, however, the event suffered from scheduling issues due to all three tournaments being hosted on the main staage at the Spodek on the final day of the event.ddddddddddddThis event is growing every year, ESL Vice President of pro gaming Michal Carmac Blicharz said in a press release. We will have the highest prize money in IEM history and will host more gamers than ever before. Last March we thought we needed two arenas to really satisfy the number of people that wanted the worlds best gamers to compete at Intel Extreme Masters. We were obviously unable to construct a second indoor arena, so weve expanded the World Championship to take place over two major esports weekends.Additionally, the event will feature over $600,000 in prize pools across the two weekends. ESL did not announce how it plans to distribute that money. ' ' '