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I had a project that I really wanted to post as my thousandth post here on TL, but unfortunately my father took possession of the laptop it was on and wiped the hard drive. I would have lost almost all of my files, except that I decided to back up my documents a couple of days before.
Unfortunately, I've poured so much time on making that list that I've given up on remembering what its contents were like. All I could remember was its title:
One Hundred Milestones in eSports and some of the more tongue-in-cheek lines there:
BoxeR getting ling-rushed 4 times by CheckPrime in the GSL 5 Finals marking the establishment of "Holy Check!" as the definitive SC2 statement.
HDH Invitational 2 finally gets underway; the 64 player tournament featuring 60,000 USD in prizes ends up with the unimaginable event of having no Koreans after the first round, and pioneers the use of non-Blizzard maps in tournament play.
Fantasy edges out Leta in a closely fought Afreeca MSL, setting the record for the longest Starleague final in history at seven hours and seven minutes of total play. Both players are reported to have been rushed to the hospital the next day from exhaustion and dehydration.
Hyuk redeems himself from his failure at the SPL 2010 Grand Finals by outsmarting Calm in a completely out-of-textbook ZvZ, clinching the first Bo9 finals in SPL history 5-2 for SKT T1 vs STX.
The controversial decision of the GSL to cut from 3 a year to 2, but with a much deeper qualifying cycle starting 2012.
Players in the Starcraft 2 Players association demand non-Blizzard maps for GSL 7 onwards after the rise of non-ladder tournaments.
MLG replaces Halo: Reach with Call of Duty 7: Modern Warfare 3 as its flagship console game and starts a concurrent PC-based tournament off the same game.
Bisu retires in March 2012 after winning the LG Cyon OSL against Jaedong 3-1 after defeating Flash 3-2 in a controversial semi-final match that featured equipment failure on both sides at game 5; Flash with a non-responsive keyboard, and Bisu losing all sound in the last five minutes of the game.
The Blizzard IP case ends on December 21, 2012 with a hollow victory for Blizzard, with Korean courts ruling that Blizzard does have ownership of the SC IP, but has waived control of it to "the public domain" by not asserting it from the very start; OGN and MBC being asked to pay token 1 Won fines and sign an agreement with Blizzard waiving all rights to BW tournaments to the TV stations.
Park Jae Hyuk does a complete shut-out on his path to the GSL 9 championship, coincidentally defeating oGs players in all his matches.
MLG New York 2014 in Madison Square Garden marks the beginning of the stabilization of the SC2 metagame, with the final major patches involving Hydraroaches, Battlecruisers and Archon upgrades becoming controversial topics that would plague the game for a long time.
So, what do you expect of eSports in the future?
Edit: Formatting. :p
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ALLEYCAT BLUES51102 Posts
lol Afreeca MSL.....lol MBCGame being shit broke and not finding good sponsors.
The Blizzard IP case ends on December 21, 2012
golden.
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Park Jae Hyuk does a complete shut-out on his path to the GSL 9 championship, coincidentally defeating oGs players in all his matches.
lol good one. don't forget:
2020 Park Jae Hyuk runs for president.
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Bisu retiring would cause the largest mass suicide ever.
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Hydraroaches!!! omfg
Also if Fantasy and Leta played that many long games don't you think they would drink enough in between? ^^
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LG Cyon OSL sounds good
Afreeca MSL?
lol
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The words Bisu, win, and OSL should never be used in the same sentence.
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Afreeca MSL is like Avalon MSL XD
Also not even devout Bisu fans really believe he could possibly win an OSL =\
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Stork winning OSL
Midas upset Jaedong in Ro16
Bisu winning his 4th MSL
Paralyze straightening his hair
---1 season later---
Hyuk 6th bonjwa
New Zerg era with with Hyuk, Jaedong, Soulkey, Zero, Action, Shine
Arising Protoss: Snow
Flash slump
SC2 everybody switches to protoss cuz of balance issues.
SC2 expansion set with new units
WCG starring SC2 and has ranking value.
WCG 2070 Saturn
I'll think of more.
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On January 06 2011 01:21 Jstor wrote:
The words Bisu, win, and OSL should never be used in the same sentence.
Bisu will never win an OSL.
Pretty fun read though ^^
Nice to see someone embrace both the sc2 and scbw side of things.
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Day9 win's his third straight GSL with GSL 12, in an amazing run involving no losses. The strategic mastermind had come out of hiding to the surprise of everyone, crushing all competition along the way. He is now being offered a $500,000 (USD) sponsorship by Bear Semen Drink Corp. to start his own clan, ThoughtHammers (tH), and a personal line of instructional videos, available for free through torrent, or a small price for hard copy, proceeds going to the International eSports Scholarship Fund.
TeamLiquid begins their eSports Academy. Situated in New York, promising, young players from around the world are flown in to be taught by some of the game's top pros, breeding the next generation of Starcraft bonjwas.
The MLG: American League finals displace the SuperBowl as the most watched sporting event in America. With simultaneous television, radio, and internet stream broadcast, and a prize pool of over $20million (USD) plus sponsorships, the event has become the largest in it's country. MLG: Rio de Janeiro is a close second in terms of size for an MLG event, with similar events gaining massize popularity throughout Canada and Europe.
Blizzard (finally) releases the final, fifth, expansion pack for Starcraft 2, marking a perfect attainment of racial and map balance, after a messy legal battle brought on by their separation from Activision in 2013. Wanting to go back to their roots, the company has become smaller and released several new ip's and expansions, all hailed as genre-defining games, and with the side-effect of making investors in the company filthily rich.
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idrA wins 4 GSL's in a row with zerg and still complains about zerg being underpowered then proceeds to lose the next 4 GSL in the first round to 2 rax all ins.
Huk starts dating a korean girl and drops significantly in ladder ranking. After 6 months he breaks up with her and comes back to win a GSL.
Sen switches to protoss, makes a lot of sentries, but loses to a noob zerg in qualifications
Team Liquid Takes first place in the gomtv team league.
ActionJesus qualifies for GSL and makes it code S only by 6 pooling.
Tasteless shows up completely smashed to the GSL and proceeds to cast the funniest game of his life.
Liquid`Tyler wins TSL playing against idra in the finals by going blink stalker every game.
Husky makes 17 more songs about starcraft 2 including hit titles such as "Do it like a banshee in the night", "Immortal got your back", and "It's a hard knock life for us (queens)"
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On January 06 2011 04:59 darmousseh wrote:
idrA wins 4 GSL's in a row with zerg and still complains about zerg being underpowered then proceeds to lose the next 4 GSL in the first round to 2 rax all ins.
Tasteless shows up completely smashed to the GSL and proceeds to cast the funniest game of his life.
This happening in one night would be completely screwed up.
Just imagine: "Oh my god IdrA you better drink some Bear Semen pronto! You'd need that to fend off MKP's marines and their boomsticks!"
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Hyuk.. outsmarting Calm..? What the fuck LOL
Bisu defeating Flash and Jaedong would be fuckin epiiiiic lol
so many 2012 dates rofl
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IdrA has an emotion in the year 2015 after seeing a young boy jump into a burning building to save his copy of SC2.
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OK, I just remembered one of the 2011 entries:
A massive internet failure at MLG Los Angeles forces Blizzard to release their Tournament Edition for Starcraft 2, allowing players in tournaments to play games on their b.net accounts without recording their results, and allowing limited LAN play between computers with unique Tournament Edition IDs installed.
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