Profit (gamer)

Park Joon-yeong (Korean: 박준영), better known by his online alias Profit, is a professional South Korean Overwatch player for the Seoul Dynasty of the Overwatch League (OWL). Prior to the OWL's inception, he played for GC Busan, winning OGN's APEX Season 4 was named the APEX Finals most valuable player. In the Overwatch League, Park signed with the London Spitfire of the OWL in its inaugural season. He won the league's first Grand Finals with the Spitfire, after they defeated the Philadelphia Fusion, and was named the Grand Finals most valuable player.

Profit
박준영 (Park Joon-yeong)
Personal information
Born	November 19, 1999 (age 21)
Hometown	Jinju, South Korea
Nationality	South Korean
Career information
Status	Active
League	Overwatch League
Current team	Seoul Dynasty
Games	Overwatch
Role	Damage
Career history
2017	GC Busan
2018–2019	London Spitfire
2020–present	Seoul Dynasty
Career highlights and awards
OWL champion (2018) OWL Grand Finals MVP (2018) No. 13 retired by London Spitfire OWL Stage champion (2018) 3× OWL All-Star (2018, 2019, 2020) OGN APEX champion (2017) OGN APEX Finals MVP (2017) APAC Premier champion (2017)

Early years

Park was born on November 19, 1999 in Jinju, South Korea.[1][2]

Professional career

GC Busan

Park began his Overwatch career with Korean team GC Busan in April 2017.[1] The team competed in OGN's APEX Season 4, a premier Overwatch tournament series in South Korea. After defeating Cloud 9 KongDoo in the semifinals, they were set to take on RunAway in the best-of-seven finals.[3] Park amassed 134 kills, 44 more than any other player, to only 55 deaths in the series, and led his team to a close 4–3 victory to win the championship. He was named the APEX Finals most valuable player for his performance throughout the series.[4] He picked up another major championship after GC Busan defeated RunAway in the 2017 APAC Premier finals in China.[2][5]

London Spitfire

Park, along with the entire GC Busan roster, signed with Cloud9's Overwatch League team London Spitfire in November 2017.[5] Within the first two weeks of the 2018 season, Park was fined US$1,000 for giving the finger to his face camera during a league match; although he claimed that it was in response to a joke that was made off-camera by his team backstage, he publicly apologized for the gesture.[6]

The team found early success, reaching the Stage 1 Finals. In as 3–2 win over the New York Excelsior in the finals, Park participated in 38.2 percent of his team's kills, better than any other player in the Stage 1 Playoffs.[7] At the end of the 2018 regular season, Park was the highest-rated DPS player across all heroes.[8] The Spitfire defeated the Los Angeles Gladiators and Los Angeles Valiant in the quarterfinals and semifinals, respectively, of the 2018 season playoffs; Park averaged 8,790 damage per 10 minutes in those two matches, second to Philadelphia Fusion's Josh "Eqo" Corona for all players in the playoffs.[8] The Spitfire played the Fusion in the 2018 Grand Finals. In 3–1 and 3–0 victories over the Fusion, Park performed exceptionally well, most notably securing five final blows playing Tracer in the final 93 seconds on Volskaya Industries to secure a 1–0 lead in the best-of-three series.[9] With numerous highlight-level plays throughout the series, Park was named the Grand Finals Most Valuable Player.[10]

As a member of the inaugural season champions, the Spitfire retired Park's number 13 jersey on January 15, 2020.[11]

Seoul Dynasty

On October 22, 2019, the Spitfire agreed to transfer Park, along with teammates Hong "Gesture" Jae-hee and Choi "Bdosin" Seung-tae, to the Seoul Dynasty.[12] With Park as a consistent starter, the Dynasty made a deep playoff run in the 2020 season, but lost in the Grand Finals to the San Francisco Shock, 4–2.[13]

References

1. Handzuik, Alex (August 10, 2018). "Profit: The Story of an Overwatch League MVP". CGMagazine. Retrieved December 13, 2019.
2. Akshon Esports (June 20, 2018). PROfiles: Jun Young "Profit" Park | London Spitfire's DPS Prodigy | Overwatch League Player Profile – via YouTube.
3. "Letters for the Future Fan – GC Busan". Esports Heaven. December 7, 2017. Retrieved December 13, 2019.
4. Nguyen, Steven (October 21, 2017). "GC Busan completes Royal Road at APEX". ESPN. Retrieved December 13, 2019.
5. Bae, Junseok; Shin, Yeonjae (November 5, 2017). "GC Busan, the APEX Royal Roader, joins the Overwatch league London Spitfire". InvenGlobal. Retrieved December 13, 2019.
6. Carpenter, Nicole (January 25, 2018). "London Spitfire's Profit fined for "obscene gesture" on the OWL broadcast". Dot Esports. Retrieved December 13, 2019.
7. ESPN Stats and Info (February 12, 2019). "OWL by the numbers: Why the London Spitfire won". ESPN. Retrieved December 13, 2019.
8. Woolums, Kenneth (July 24, 2019). "London, Philly on even footing ahead of Overwatch League final". ESPN. Retrieved December 13, 2019.
9. Waltzer, Noah (July 27, 2019). "London Spitfire takes 1-0 lead in Overwatch League finals". ESPN. Retrieved December 13, 2019.
10. Barth, Nicholas (July 28, 2019). "London Spitfire's Profit Named MVP of Overwatch League Grand Finals". Twin Galaxies. Retrieved December 13, 2019.
11. London Spitfire [@Spitfire] (January 15, 2020). "Before the start of OWL 2020, we wanted to take the time to honour the 7 players we won the first finals with, by retiring their jersey numbers" (Tweet) – via Twitter.
12. Richardson, Liz (October 22, 2019). "Seoul Dynasty acquire Gesture and Profit from London Spitfire". Dot Esports. Retrieved December 13, 2019.
13. Richardson, Liz (2020-10-10). "San Francisco Shock win 2020 Overwatch League championship". Dot Esports. Retrieved 2020-10-10.