Flash (gamer)


Lee Young-ho is a South Korean ' and StarCraft II player who played Terran for the Korean pro-gaming team KT Rolster under the alias By.FlaSh or simply Flash'. He made his debut as a StarCraft: Brood War player in 2007 and retired on December 19, 2015. Lee began playing StarCraft II competitively in 2011, until his retirement in December 2015. He subsequently returned to playing Starcraft: Brood War, and started his personal broadcast in February 2016 on the AfreecaTV personal broadcasting platform. Since returning to Brood War'', Lee has won first place in Seasons 2, 3, 4, and 8 of the Afreeca Starleague. As of 2020, he is still broadcasting personal broadcasts.

Career

Lee joined KT Rolster in 2007 at the age of 14. He quickly established himself as a top player, carrying KT in the Proleague team competition and achieving fourth place in the 2007 Daum OnGameNet Starleague. The following year, he won the Bacchus OnGameNet Starleague, becoming the youngest player to win a premier Korean tournament - a record still unbroken. His career arose to new heights in the 2009-10 season, when he reached the finals of seven premier tournaments - every one held that season - and won five. Three of those victories were against Lee Jae-dong, a famous rival of Lee Young-ho and the second-best player of the time. These achievements have cemented him as one of the greatest players of all time.
When he first emerged as a professional gamer, Lee received criticism for his use of gimmicky "rush" strategies. However, he soon developed a versatile and well-rounded play style which revolved around strong mechanics, defensive play, and exemplary late-game army control. Choi Yeon-sung has praised Lee's strategic depth, saying that "there aren't many players who set strategic moves, and in the case of , I think he's looking about 10 games ahead." Lee is famous for coming back in games where he was at seemingly insurmountable disadvantages by playing defensive and exploiting small mistakes in his opponents' play to regain the advantage.
Lee Young-ho set numerous records in. He has both the highest career win-lose ratio and highest peak ELO of any player, at 71.74% and 2443 respectively. He has won six OnGameNet Starleague and MBCGame StarCraft League tournaments, and won four of those in twelve months. He has also won the most games in the Proleague competition and has done so with the highest win-lose ratio of any player.
Lee Young-ho announced his retirement on December 1, 2015. He subsequently returned playing Starcraft: Brood War, and started his personal broadcast in February 2016 in Afreeca. Lee would go on to win the Afreeca Season 2 Starleague later that year.
In 2017, Lee competed in the Afreeca Season 3 Starleague and won first place.
In 2017, Lee won the ' Golden Trophy ' for three straight seasons in ASL alone. At the Olympic Stadium in Hanyang University, Seongdong-gu, Seoul on Friday, Lee defeated Cho Il-jang at 3:1 in the final match of KT GiGA Internet Afreeca Star League season 4. He won the championship three times in a row. Lee won a substantial amount of money by achieving a milestone that he failed to make during his career as a professional gamer. Lee Young-ho hit the 100 million won accumulated in ASL alone.
In 2018, in the finals of the "Olleh TV Afreeca TV Star League Season 6", Lee was defeated by Kim Jung-woo. Kim Jung-woo also won in OSL finals against Lee Young-ho in 2010, in a famous comeback, by 3:2.
In 2019, Lee skipped the 7th season of ASL due to his arm injury. He took longtime break skipping all major tournaments. Fortunately, his arm got better after the break and he competed in the following ASL. In ASL season8, he won his 4th ASL against Jang Yoon-chul.
After his retirement, He played in 7 seasons of ASL and Flash solely won 4 times, with a runner-up and a third place.

Accomplishments

Individual

PlaceYearEvent/LeagueOpponent
1st
2019
Afreeca Starleague Season 8
Snow
2nd
2018
Afreeca Starleague Season 6
EffOrt
1st
2017
Afreeca Starleague Season 4
Hero
1st
2017
Afreeca Starleague Season 3
Shine
1st
2016
Afreeca Starleague Season 2
Sea
2nd
2014
HomeStory Cup X
PartinG
1st
2014
IEM Season IX - Toronto
Zest
2nd
2013
MLG Pro Circuit Winter Championship
Life
1st
2011
ABC Mart MBCGame StarCraft League
ZerO
1st
2010
World Cyber Games 2010
Kal
1st
2010
Korean Air 2 OnGameNet Starleague
Jaedong
1st
2010
Bigfile MBCGame StarCraft League
Jaedong
1st
2010
Hana Daetoo MBCGame StarCraft League
Jaedong
2nd
2010
Korean Air OnGameNet Starleague
EffOrt
2nd
2009
NATE MBCGame StarCraft League
Jaedong
1st
2009
EVER OnGameNet Starleague
Movie
1st
2009
Averatec-Intel Classic Season 3
Iris
2nd
2008
Averatec-Intel Classic Season 1
Jaedong
1st
2008
Bacchus OnGameNet Starleague
Stork
1st
2008
XNote GOMTV Star Invitational
Stork

KT Rolster

StarCraft: Brood War

Records as of February 7, 2013; statistics are according to the TeamLiquid Progaming Database.

StarCraft II

Records as of November 19, 2015; statistics are according to the Aligulac Database.

Records

Most consecutive wins against Terran: 22 consecutive wins
Flash also holds the longest winning streak for TvP in sanctioned games.