years status nationality article_title birth_date nickname id name games
2002-2009 active france tod
 20 march 1985 tod tod yoan merlo warcraft iii
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yoan `` tod '' merlo -lrb- born march 20 , 1985 -rrb- is a french professional player of the real-time strategy games `` warcraft iii '' , playing as the race human , and '' '' playing as protoss ; he was signed to the top esports team in the united kingdom , four kings , until november 7 , 2007 when he decided not to renew his contract for unspecified reasons .
he later explained in one of the interviews that dissatisfying results of 4k team were the real reason for his departure .
after much speculation , merlo unexpectedly joined the team mousesports on december 1 , 2007 .
he is one of the most successful warcraft iii players ever , holding among other achievements first places at the world e-sports games , blizzard worldwide invitational and cyberathlete professional league competitions .
he is also a world cyber games silver and bronze medalist .
he was recognized as the `` warcraft iii ' player of 2007 .
yoan recently gave an interview with gomtv.net , an e-sports organization based in seoul , korea .
during the interview , he hinted that his e-sports career is not over , and that has begun to compete in starcraft 2 , in which he has achieved moderate success , winning some small tournaments and qualifying for world cyber games 2011 .
as of july 2014 , merlo 's winnings from tournaments exceed $ 160,000 usd .
