With the recent news that pretty much confirms that GSL will be back this year. I wanted to write this article previewing an up and coming korean player who i think will be making quite a bit of surprising results this year.

Who is Zoun

Zoun is a korean protoss player who debuted for team Prime in the proleague 2015 season, where he sadly lost against the heavily favored Maru. The following round of Proleague saw Zoun go 2-0 and be Primes best player for the round. In may of 2015 Zoun joined SK Telecom T1 but wasn’t fielded until the 2016 proleague season where he lost to a wierd carrier HT strategy by sOs.

Outside of a few qualifiers where he didnt get far, we didnt see much of Zoun after this point. Not until the end of 2019 where he played in the BaseTradeTV Yee-Haw Fun-Time Buck-A-Roo Roundup #1. Since then we have been seeing Zoun consistently playing in almost all of the weekly cups in the Korean scene. Quickly he made the grand finals of the Olimoleague 2019 Monthly October final where he lost against Gumiho 3-4 taking out: Dream, SuperNova and Ragnarok on his way there.

Recently we have been seeing Zoun making it further and further in the online cups. With him recently winning the ESL Open Cup #6 in Korea 3-1 over the chinese Terran player TIME.

The GSL

Zoun has consistently been getting better and better in the online tournaments. His best matchup has been PvT with recently taking out big names like Dream, TIME and INnoVation both 3-0 and 2-0. His PvZ has been his least impressive matchup with only getting wins of off Ragnarok but Ragnarok himself has been on the rise recently. His PvP has been pretty 50-50 but he has still been getting wins over: Astrea, Drogo, Zest and Patience.

If he continues this consistent improvement over the year Zoun is going to have real potential in upsetting some big names. And with a Korean scene that hasn’t been getting almost any newcomers Zouns results has been a pleasant surprise. We have previously seen that good online results in the korean scene has been a good indicator for upcoming succes by a player.

Zoun will definitely be a player to look out for in the coming months and through IEM Katowice next week. With his opening match against Patience in a Protoss dominated bracket.

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