He didn’t smile at the press conference, cleaning his face with a small white tissue every couple of seconds. Only he knows if it were tears, or just the sweat coming from the heat of at least 25 cameras and the light, in the small room just besides the stage. He was just the contrast to the smiling and cheering Grubby, that was answering question after question. It left Moon as a gray shadow in the room. Yet again he had failed to win this very tournament.

Moon, the greatest WC3-player of our time, having more victories than anybody else on the circuit, is not able to win the "Olympics of Videogames" – the World Cyber Games. Once again everybody is telling him, that next year it will be his time.

When one of the journalists is asking him about the game he lost just minutes ago, Moon breaks the silence, but only barely. He is congratulating Grubby, confessing that he couldn’t sleep all-night because he felt such a pressure and was looking for one of those strategies with which he could beat his teammate in the Grand Final. He couldn’t find the perfect solutions to Grubby's game style though, and the missing hours of sleep were the reason why he started making mistakes.

In the first game he was still fresh, being able to come back out of a difficult situation, but as the match went longer and the audience was getting louder, because they felt the intensiveness of the duel, it was just getting more and more difficult for the Korean superstar. In the end he just couldn’t keep up with the intensity Grubby was driven by, in and outside of the game.
 
While Grubby's raiders were attacking Moon's base every couple of minutes and his heroes were gaining experience, you could see how the audience was enjoying the game. The Germans were cheering for their European superstar. They knew that Grubby didn’t win a big tournament for a long time and was desperate for another moment of victory. On the other hand they saw Moon as the always winning, emotionless player he was for such a long time - a machine that doesn’t make mistakes.

But that’s not the Moon you see at the World Cyber Games backstage. He is on the cell phone talking for minutes after every game, smiling and enjoying the interviews.

It doesn’t take much time before the first rumors about a girlfriend back in Korea are floating around. Moon is not the shy Asian, he was in the past, anymore. Now he is open to talk, and you don’t get the feeling that he still feels that it is a burden to speak English. Now Moon is acting like a world citizen.

Just one hour after the press conference you can see Moon at the Farewell party. In this room full of players of all different nations, the Koreans are at a table in the middle. Making pictures of the WCG Nations Trophy and talking to some of the representatives from WCG's sponsors and interested journalists who want to know how they are living in the nation of the video games, Korea.

But Moon is standing together with FoCuS – his former teammate at MeetYourMakers – in one of the corners of the room. Having a glass of apple juice in his hands and talking to other players from different nations. He is trying to be the host, offering juice from the table besides him and doing small-talk in English. When the clips from this WCG starts at the big screen, Moon is watching it and enjoys a moment when he is seen on scene, winning a match in the group stage.

It looks like he will be even more desperate to win this very trophy next year. Should he stand in a Grand Final next year in Chengdu, the crowd will support him unless he is facing a Chinese player. Because Moon deserves the title. But from deserving to winning, there is still a long way to go.