recently won the last installment of HomeStory Cup.

Instead, TaeJa focused on his invitation to IEM Season IX - Shenzhen, taking place in the latter half of July 2014. With Life coming through the first Group Stage, TaeJa's group in the second group stage also included TvT specialist MMA and the hungry Chinese Protoss Jim. Being matched up against MMA first, TaeJa quickly advanced to the winner's match, with a 2-0 victory, where he met Jim, who had upset Life. TaeJa's recent PvT weakness showed in this series, as Jim was able to defeat him 2-0, knocking him down to the rubber-band match, where he faced one of his arch-enemies Life. The series ended up being the best of the group, with TaeJa edging out a close 2-1 witha decisive Hellbat push in game 3. Coming out of the second Group Stage as the second place of Group D, his next matchup in the Elimination Phase of the tournament was against the winner of Group A, Zest. In dominating fashion TaeJa dismantled the KT Rolster Protoss in a spectacular 3-0, moving on to face the Tyrant himself, Jaedong, who had just defeated TaeJa's teammate Snute in the previous round. Taking revenge for Snute, TaeJa took the series decisively with a 3-1 victory, showing an incredible quality of games. From the other bracket, another Zerg had emerged as the victor. Having destroyed INnoVation and Jim in two 3-0 series, Solar was TaeJa's final boss on his way to a third title in two months. Going the full