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March 5th, NaDa day to forget

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p4NDemik
Profile Blog Joined January 2008
United States13896 Posts
Last Edited: 2012-03-05 00:21:55
March 05 2012 00:19 GMT
#1
I've been posting these on Reddit where many newly initiated StarCraft fans reside, in an effort to try to bring forth some of the great stories that BW had that everyone who follows either BW or SC2 should know about. I'll be posting them both there and here in my blog from here on, enjoy.



March 5th: NaDa day to Forget
Lee Yoon Yeol's 2005 IOPS OSL Championship & 2009 Lost Saga MSL Ro8 story


Click here to view the complete VOD playlist





March 5th, 2005 – NaDa def. July 3-0 to win 2nd OSL

Why it is significant: Late 2004 and early 2005 would be defined by the power struggle between (T)NaDa (Lee Yoon Yeol) and the two best Zerg players of the day, (Z)July (Park Sung Joon) and (Z)GoRush (Park Tae Min). The three would clash again and again, in the three biggest individual leagues at the time, the KT-KTF Premier League, You Are the Golf King MSL, and IOPS OSL.

NaDa had reigned supreme in the previous season of the KT-KTF Premier League, defeating fellow Terran legends such as
(T)XellOs and (T)BoxeR on his way to the championship. He continued to storm through the next season until he was defeated at the hands of July 2-0 on New Year’s Eve 2004. July would go on to take the title, defeating GoRush 3-2. NaDa would have to settle for 3rd.

Two weeks later NaDa would meet GoRush in the YATGK MSL Winner’s Bracket Finals. For nearly 5 years GoRush had been an important member of Greatest Ones’ (later known as CJ Entus) roster, but had never put together a run at a championship. He was playing the best StarCraft of his career, and ZvT showed to be his statistically best match-up. Coming off two wins against XellOs and (T)Midas, fellow GO players and excellent Terran opponents in their own right, he looked to be on a roll. NaDa would dispatch of him in a hard fought 3-2 win, only to meet again 3 weeks later in the Grand Finals. This time GoRush would get revenge, winning 4-2 and taking the MSL championship badge. This NaDa vs GoRush rivalry would be immortalized by commentators Lee Seung Won and Kim Chul Min’s “AHHHH PLAYGUUUU” call in game 1 of the finals on Luna.

July and GoRush had their titles, and NaDa had gone through an intense couple of months of TvZ but had no tournament wins for all the great play he had showed. It would be in the IOPS OSL where NaDa’s hard work paid off. Yet again NaDa, July, and GoRush persevered until the semi-finals of the tournament, where NaDa would have the last laugh in his rivalry with GoRush by defeating him in comeback fashion 3-2. This set up a NaDa vs July finals, one that even NaDa expected to be a close series, saying “What I predicted was 3:2” in a post-match interview. Many saw NaDa as a player not performing to the best of his abilities and expected him to lose to July. Instead NaDa swept the Zerg 3-0 to take the most revered title of the three tournaments. You can read his post-match interview, translated in its entirety thanks to Emlary.

Following the IOPS OSL, NaDa’s performance would continue to fall off, and he would go nearly two more years before he tasted OSL gold again, persevering after his father’s death due to a drunk driver. July would continue to show good results winning one OSL and placing 2nd in another until he began to slump in mid-2006, only to rise again in the 2008 EVER OSL. Finally, GoRush would never quite reach the same heights that he did in the days of YATGK and IOPS and would play out the last 5 ½ years of his career without any more crowning achievements.



March 5th, 2009 – NaDa’s last great hurrah, falling 2-3 to JangBi in Lost Saga MSL Ro8

Why it is significant: Fast-forward 4 years from NaDa’s IOPS OSL victory. He has risen again in the fall of 2006 to win the Panasonic OSL and claim his Golden Mouse, but soon after has sunk into a slump the likes of which he has never experienced in his BW career. He is the last of the original legends that can still truly compete at the highest level, but no one expects him to put up much of a fight in his quarterfinal match-up against the PvT phenom that is (P)JangBi.

Despite having one of the most entertaining PvT’s of 2008 played between the two, best known for its “Most Psi Storm Ever" moment, no one considers the Genius Terran to be a threat and everyone but his most stalwart fans predict a 3-0 or 3-1 victory for JangBi.

The match that would unfold before everyone’s eyes was truly an eye-opener and a testament to NaDa’s resilient skill and work ethic. In his Ro16 interview NaDa stated “… because my goal is to win I am not satisfied by merely securing a seed. I think that I cannot be complacent with this and I must strive to reach a larger goal.” The five-game series would show that the statement was not all for show and that he had truly given his all to try to knock off JangBi.

Artosis would grade NaDa’s play with an A+, stating “NaDa played brilliantly. Game 1 was a thing of pure beauty. In fact, it was the closest thing to a perfect game that has been played since sAviOr was bonjwa or iloveoov before him. No one has played a game of that level in years.” You can read the rest of his comments in TL’s “Dragons and Knights” recap of the Ro8. Alas, for all his effort it would not be enough, and NaDa was defeated, 3-2.

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Every BW fans' heart broke this day


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mizU
Profile Blog Joined April 2010
United States12125 Posts
March 05 2012 00:26 GMT
#2
:[ Goddammit. NaDa love forever.

That picture makes me so sad.
if happy ever afters did exist <3 @watamizu_
LuckyFool
Profile Blog Joined June 2007
United States9015 Posts
Last Edited: 2012-03-05 00:32:42
March 05 2012 00:31 GMT
#3
I agree that game 1 of that nada vs jangbi series was one of the best TvP's ever played.

watching it again now...
GhandiEAGLE
Profile Blog Joined March 2011
United States20754 Posts
March 05 2012 00:39 GMT
#4
Great now I have to go and watch that game again >:[
Oh, my achin' hands, from rakin' in grands, and breakin' in mic stands
Necosarius
Profile Blog Joined September 2009
Sweden4042 Posts
March 05 2012 00:40 GMT
#5
I remember watching Nada vs Janbi live. I was cheering for Nada so much and I was so filled with hope after game 1. That game was just amazing to watch! And when he pulled the two fact on destination being down 1-2, I was so nervous, I could barely watch. And that epic mine in the probe line was glorious

Then my heart broke
bITt.mAN
Profile Blog Joined March 2009
Switzerland3693 Posts
March 05 2012 00:44 GMT
#6
History: it needs to be known.
This is why I'm a NaDa fan, watching my MSL finals VOD collection, or OSL... Makes me all the more proud seeing him continue in SCII. Trust me, when I cheer him on in 2012, it's not because I only care about what he's done since 2010.
BW4LYF . . . . . . PM me, I LOVE PMs. . . . . . Long live "NaDa's Body" . . . . . . Fantasy | Bisu/Best | Jaedong . . . . .
p4NDemik
Profile Blog Joined January 2008
United States13896 Posts
March 05 2012 00:49 GMT
#7
For those who don't browse reddit or may have missed them here are the threads for the last two editions:

March 4th, 2006 - iloveoov destroys July 3-0 to win 2nd OSL
March 3rd, 2007 - Bisu starts a Revolution, Toppling the Seemingly Unstoppable sAviOr
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Mawi
Profile Joined August 2010
Sweden4365 Posts
March 05 2012 00:53 GMT
#8
Man I remember i was so young and started to cry when i saw my hero Nada cry...
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dekuschrub
Profile Joined May 2008
United States2069 Posts
March 05 2012 00:58 GMT
#9
NOOOOOO

dont make me sad with this

most depressing day ever
StarStruck
Profile Blog Joined April 2010
25339 Posts
March 05 2012 00:59 GMT
#10
The Wonder Years.
bjornkavist
Profile Blog Joined June 2009
Canada1235 Posts
March 05 2012 01:00 GMT
#11
Dude nerdchills, great article. That Jangbi Nada series was one of the first series of BW I ever watched live, I fell in love instantly
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PH
Profile Blog Joined June 2008
United States6173 Posts
March 05 2012 01:32 GMT
#12
Ugh. I remember that series between Jangbi and Nada. It was so fucking close...and I think Nada would have walked away with it if Byzantium hadn't been such a pain in the ass for T in the matchup. The second game on that map was frustrating.

That series really was Nada's last hurrah in BW. After that, he really fell off until he switched to SC2. Even though I also really like Jangbi, it really made me sad. Nada's play was terrific that day.
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V3ndx
Profile Joined April 2011
Peru42 Posts
March 05 2012 01:45 GMT
#13
His play vs July was perfect...

Even though he lost the series vs Jangbi, he played amazingly. That day was a very sad day for us (NaDa fans) indeed.
Anyways, he's still a terran hero and will ever be!

NaDa s2!!
You are what you think you are.
DoX.)
Profile Joined December 2008
Singapore6164 Posts
March 05 2012 02:08 GMT
#14
FUCK CARRIERRRSSSS Being in that live report thread was so amazing. As the first game unfolded EVERYONE was screaming
"NADA"
"Holy fuck what could Jangbi have done against that"
...It was unbelievable
endy
Profile Blog Joined May 2009
Switzerland8970 Posts
March 05 2012 02:25 GMT
#15
Great post. That series against Jangbi made me hate him for so long.
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bkrow
Profile Blog Joined October 2010
Australia8532 Posts
March 05 2012 02:35 GMT
#16
What a fantastic idea and post

These are awesome p4 =D thanks
In The Rear With The Gear .. *giggle* /////////// cobra-LA-LA-LA-LA-LA!!!!
Kiett
Profile Blog Joined March 2011
United States7639 Posts
March 05 2012 02:55 GMT
#17
On March 05 2012 11:25 endy wrote:
Great post. That series against Jangbi made me hate him for so long.

It probably would have been okay if Jangbi had actually gone on to win. But then he fucked it up and lost to Luxury lol

I think everyone might have hated him again if he had knocked Flash out of Jin Air, just to lose to SoO. Thank god that didn't happen.
Writer:o
Black[CAT]
Profile Blog Joined July 2010
Malaysia2589 Posts
March 05 2012 03:12 GMT
#18
I'm a huge Nada fan...that loss was painful...
You mean ESPORTS isnt a synonym for SC2? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ -Proud owner of a Filco Majestouch 2 with Cherry Blue Switches- BW or SC2? Why not both?
flamewheel
Profile Blog Joined December 2009
FREEAGLELAND26781 Posts
March 05 2012 03:35 GMT
#19
Great post, p4NDemik.
Writerdamn, i was two days from retirement
SnowFantasy
Profile Blog Joined September 2006
4173 Posts
March 05 2012 04:07 GMT
#20
I hate this thread.
As a huge NaDa fan, that series against jangbi made me so sad. I don't want to remember it.
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