and then narrowly edged out a 2-1 against XiGua. HerO also managed to go through in the group. In the second Group Stage, TaeJa went up against HyuN, who had eliminated him from Season 1, Pigbaby, who had eliminated him from Season 2, and Jaedong, who TaeJa had defeated at IEM Shenzhen. The matches played out similar, with TaeJa first winning against the Tyrant Jaedong, and then losing to HyuN and Pigbaby, to be eliminated from Premier League Season 3.

In between the first two Group Stages of WCS Premier League, TaeJa participated in the fourth event in the 2014 Red Bull Series, being the 2014 Red Bull Battle Grounds: Detroit. With TaeJa's last chance for an invite to 2014 Red Bull Battle Grounds: Washington, the Grand Finals ofteammate Bunny knocked Polt into the Loser's match, where Zest eliminated him, and went on to exit the Group Stage in second place, before TaeJa's teammate. In the Playoffs, TaeJa first met viOLet, who stood no chance and was eliminated 3-1. The Semifinals featured the other player emerging from the Asian Qualifier of this IEM in the Ultimate Weapon, Flash himself. Being a crowd favorite himself, he had just eliminated TaeJa's teammate Snute as so many enemies of TaeJa had done before. This time however, TaeJa was unable to take revenge, and fell to Flash 1-3 in a great TvT series. Flash won the Finals versus his teammate Zest.

At this point, everyone was preparing for 2014 WCS Global Finals, and few other tournaments were going on. TaeJa also