After  battling acute leukemia for over a year, 23 year old starcraft progamer, Wu “Violet” Jung Ho passed away today. Violet had been a professional gamer for KT Rolster since 2007, and contributed heavily to his team’s 09-10 Proleague championship as their Protoss ace.

Violet was one of the first Protoss players who were trialed to take over Reach’s place as the head Protoss of KTF. He made his debut in late 2007, starting out with small amounts of promise until a flurry of losses in Proleague caused him to drop to the KTF B team. While out of the spotlight, Violet played in little more than a few games here and there in Proleague and the GOMTV Classic, having minimal success. However, he caused quite a stir when he exploded in 2009 with the start of the 4th round of the 08-09 Proleague, going 14-3, showing a lot of promise to become a S class player.

Violet continued his streak in the 09-10 Proleague, scoring an impressive 7-0 in round 1 and leading a revival of the KT Protoss lineup. However, he was unable to maintain his streak and his play became much more erratic as the season wore on. Violet played poorly in individual league qualifiers, and his sole accomplishment in them was qualifying for the ro16 of the Bigfile MSL, where he was unfortunately paired against his teammate Flash and lost 0-2 (despite displaying a cheeky sign in his booth asking for Flash to take it to game three).

Statement from KT Rolster:

Hello,

Our Jung Ho left our side in the early morning today. To all of our fans, who pooled their blood credits and funds, to those who donated blood lately, thank you for always caring and cheering him on.

Please pray for Jung Ho so that he be bright, happy, and healthy on the other side.

Thank you

 

You will be missed, thank you for the wonderful games. RIP and GG