Im a very loyal fan of Arch_Koven, and today I took a piece of my time to investigate what is he doing now. Fortunately, I found some nice info about him, but none related about AoC or RTS genre.
I remember back in DeX web clan, Kkab told me that Koven was playing a very famous shooter game on Korea, even told me he was Nº1 at this game, so my first step was to search wich game is it. Back in my days of Starcraft (very famous in Korea), I watched many videos about Starcraft Pro-league and I rembembered from a Youtube Channel about "Special Force" (SF from now), a FPS wich also has a Professional league. Was Koven playing this game? I started to investigate. I was on the right way.
Arch Koven's name is Jae Lee Back, according to WCG.com info. Searched a lot by Jae Lee Back, but I didnt find anything related to him. Later, in a Korean web about AoC, I found that his name is 이재백 in Korean characters, wich in our characters it is Jae Lee Baek. This was my jump to get the main info about him.
He was Special Force Pro-Gamer. Was the captain of his team, IT Bank Razer and captain of Korea's national team. He participated on Korean SF Pro-League, and many Lan Tourneys around the world. Yeah, he earned a lot of money as Pro-gamer.
All my info, is from Korean webs. I don't have to say that I don't know any word in korean 11, but google translator gave me a hand. All I can say, is that he is Koven. I mean, I compared old photos of him with current photos, and his facial features are the same. He is 30 years old now, he doesnt look like old days.
This 2 hours of recolecting information about him, took me suddenly to my old times, when I didnt know every hotkeys; when I used cheats to defeat medium AI; when Teutons with his Teutons knights were my favorite Civ; When I watched again and again only 5-6 recs (all of Koven) because I didnt know what "WorldTime Error" was and didn't know how to fix it. I still remember perfectly many pG_Lancer, 2v2 Storm and some VK vs AK 3v3 recs. Damn, while I'm writing this, I feel an enormous nostalgic...
Arch_Koven quit as a Pro-Gamer, and now he is TV-commentator of Special Force Pro-League.
Thanks for all memories LJB, we will never forget you.
I remember back in DeX web clan, Kkab told me that Koven was playing a very famous shooter game on Korea, even told me he was Nº1 at this game, so my first step was to search wich game is it. Back in my days of Starcraft (very famous in Korea), I watched many videos about Starcraft Pro-league and I rembembered from a Youtube Channel about "Special Force" (SF from now), a FPS wich also has a Professional league. Was Koven playing this game? I started to investigate. I was on the right way.
Arch Koven's name is Jae Lee Back, according to WCG.com info. Searched a lot by Jae Lee Back, but I didnt find anything related to him. Later, in a Korean web about AoC, I found that his name is 이재백 in Korean characters, wich in our characters it is Jae Lee Baek. This was my jump to get the main info about him.
He was Special Force Pro-Gamer. Was the captain of his team, IT Bank Razer and captain of Korea's national team. He participated on Korean SF Pro-League, and many Lan Tourneys around the world. Yeah, he earned a lot of money as Pro-gamer.
First one is Koven, holding Korean flag
All my info, is from Korean webs. I don't have to say that I don't know any word in korean 11, but google translator gave me a hand. All I can say, is that he is Koven. I mean, I compared old photos of him with current photos, and his facial features are the same. He is 30 years old now, he doesnt look like old days.
Arch_Koven in WCG 2001. He gave that NY hat to L_Clan_Chris.
Arch_Koven back in 2001 (or 2002?)
Arch_Koven now.
1:45 He looks like a stone in front of cameras. Suddenly he read a joke at the screen and smyle. He is human.
This 2 hours of recolecting information about him, took me suddenly to my old times, when I didnt know every hotkeys; when I used cheats to defeat medium AI; when Teutons with his Teutons knights were my favorite Civ; When I watched again and again only 5-6 recs (all of Koven) because I didnt know what "WorldTime Error" was and didn't know how to fix it. I still remember perfectly many pG_Lancer, 2v2 Storm and some VK vs AK 3v3 recs. Damn, while I'm writing this, I feel an enormous nostalgic...
Arch_Koven quit as a Pro-Gamer, and now he is TV-commentator of Special Force Pro-League.
Thanks for all memories LJB, we will never forget you.