already lost against TaeJa the day before, when they faced each other in the Grand Finals of StarCraft 2 League, and won 3-0. By winning 2013 DreamHack Open: Bucharest, he was the second player to win two DreamHack Opens.





After a mixed performance in WCS, finishing the year on a high note (October 2013 — December 2013) [ edit ]

From TaeJa's previous performance in WCS Season 2 America, he was seeded into the WCS Season 3 America Premier League. In the Round of 32, he played against MajOr who defeated TaeJa 2-1. TaeJa defeated Top 2-0, before once again facing MajOr in the match for the second place, where he defeated him 2-0, advancing to the Round of 16. TaeJa then played in Group A for the Round of16. In his first match, he defeated Sen, then lost to Jaedong, putting him against Heart in the final match of the group. He lost 0-2, knocking him out of Premier League.

TaeJa then forfeited his match against Minigun in the Bracket stage of Challenger League.[19] However, he participated in the Group stage, winning 2-0 his two matches against JonSnow and Revival.

With his good performance throughout the year, TaeJa was ranked 11th at the end of the 2013 WCS regular season, meaning he qualified to the Global Finals in the beginning of November. However, in the first round, TaeJa faced Dear, the Korean Protoss player who made his way to the 6th place of the WCS standings, by winning 2013 WCS Season 3 Korea GSL and 2013 WCS Season