China's first StarCraft 2 world champion Li Peinan announced his retirement and said he would start a new chapter in his life

In the early morning of January 7, local time, China's first StarCraft 2 world champion Li Peinan (ID: TIME/Oliveira) announced his retirement. In his personal dynamic post on B-League, he said that he would start a new chapter in his life.

Oliveira, 24, is a well-known professional StarCraft II player and one of the representatives of the Chinese e-sports community. He entered the e-sports industry at the age of 14 and played for Newbee E-sports Club and KZ E-sports Club. .

As a player with outstanding performance, Oliveira has won many honors, including the 2017 IEM Pyeongchang China Championship, the 2018 Gold League Season 1 Championship, and the 2018 Gold Finals Championship. However, his most commendable achievement is In February 2023, at the IEM9 Katowice Station, he defeated the runner-up Reynor (Italy, Zerg), the second-placed herO (South Korea, Protoss) in the EPT world, and the first-placed Maru (South Korea, Terran). ) won the championship and became the first world champion of the "StarCraft" project in the history of Chinese e-sports.