The former u5 player was one of the greatest U.S players in Warcraft III history, but has been inactive since early November last year. However with his participation in the American qualifiers being his first offline tournament in almost a year, it is a job well done.

He disposed of both Hamish Luke 'Kowi' Parker and Martin 'apm' Sanfacon with a clean sheet in the opening day of the tournament, and eventually qualified for the finals at the Anaheim Convention Center in Anaheim, California after a 2-1 win against Jonathan 'KiWiKaKi' Garneau in the upper bracket final.

The first place and the cheque for $5,000 will go to another U.S Human player, Nikolaus 'SonKiE' Cassidy. SonKiE came from the lower bracket where he cruised his way through to the overall final and then managed to pull off two 2-1 wins against NilknarfLP in the Grand Final. NilknarfLP received a cheque for $2,000 for his valiant efforts.

Participant list of Battle.net Season VI Global finals

Hyeong Ju 'Check' Lee (KR)
June 'Lyn' Park (KR)
Sung Sik 'ReMinD' Kim (KR)
Dmitriy 'Happy' Kostin (RU)
Pedro 'LucifroN' Moreno Durán (ESP)
Kim 'SaSe' Hammar (SE)
Franklin 'NilknarfLP' Pearsall (US)
Nikolaus 'SonKiE' Cassidy (US)

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