SAviOr
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Ma Jae-yoon |
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| Hangul | 마재윤 |
| Hanja | 馬在允 |
| Revised Romanization | Ma Jae-yun |
| McCune–Reischauer | Ma Chae-yun |
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| Status | Retired, banned from KeSPA events |
| Born | 23 November 1987 |
| Nationality | Republic of Korea |
| Role | Zerg |
| Games | Starcraft: Brood War |
| Nickname(s) | sAviOr, IPXZerg, The Maestro |
| ???? - 2006-04 | Greatest Ones |
| 2006-04 - 2010-06-09 | CJ Entus |
Ma Jae-yoon
Ma Jae-yoon (Korean: 마재윤; born 23 November 1987), known by the pseudonym sAviOr (previously IPXZerg), and dubbed The Maestro, is a former professional South Korean e-sports gamer of the real-time strategy game StarCraft. He played the Zerg race and was one of the most successful and popular players of all time. Savior was one of several players implicated in the 2010 match fixing scandal, and as a result he was banned from KeSPA-run competition for life. After retiring as a pro-gamer, sAviOr began streaming on AfreecaTV, but AfreecaTV made the decision to ban several players implicated in match-fixing offenses from the platform, including sAviOr. Ma Jae-yoon was a member of CJ Entus, a professional StarCraft: Brood War e-sports team sponsored by CJ CGV, an entertainment subsidiary of the CJ Corporation.
Ma Jae-yoon has been rated first in the Korean e-Sports Player's Association (KeSPA) ratings nine times. sAviOr is widely considered to have been the most dominant professional Brood War player of 2006. He has won three MSLs (MBCGame Starleague) and one OSL (Ongamenet Starleague). But all of these records have been removed.
During the 2007–2008 seasons Ma Jae-yoon lost several important matches. He especially faltered in the latest season of matches, where he was eliminated in the first round of both the MSL and the OSL with a total record of 0–5. But all of these records have been removed. One theory of his decline in performance during this time is that he was devastated and never recovered from his 0–3 loss to Kim Taek-Yong (Bisu) in the GOM TV Season 1 MSL finals on 3 March 2007; and then later, in November 2007, he lost to Bisu again in the quarterfinals of the 2007 Ever OSL 1–2.
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