KPGA 1st Tour (2/14/02 - 4/14/02) -BoxeR> YellOw Reebok KPGA 2nd Tour (4/18/02 - 6/22/02) -NaDa> YellOw Pepsi Twist KPGA 3rd Tour (7/4/02 - 10/5/02) -NaDa> Reach Baskin Robbins KPGA 4th Tour (10/25/02 - 1/18/03) -NaDa> ChoJJa Stout MSL (4/17/03 - 7/19/03) -Nal_rA> NaDa TriGem MSL (9/4/03 - 11/6/03) -iloveoov> YellOw HanaFOS CENGAME MSL (1/8/04 - 4/18/04) -iloveoov> NaDa SPRIS MSL (5/20/04 - 8/29/04) -iloveoov> Kingdom You're the Golf King MSL (9/30/04 - 2/6/05) -GoRush> NaDa UZOO MSL (4/21/05 - 8/6/05) -sAviOr> Reach LG CYON MSL (10/6/05 - 1/14/06) -ChoJJa> sAviOr Pringles 1 MSL (4/6/06 - 7/16/06) -sAviOr> Nal_rA Pringles 2 MSL (8/17/06 - 11/11/06) -sAviOr> Silver GomTV MSL (11/30/06 - 3/3/07) -Bisu> sAviOr GomTV2 MSL (5/3/07 - 7/14/07) -Bisu> Stork
The Players
Terran - The Pride of War (18) #4 Seed firebathero - Lee Sung Eun #6 Seed Hwasin - Jin Yung Soo #7 Seed 910 - Kang Gu Yeol RuBy - Min Chan Ki Flash - Lee Young Ho Hery - Kim Yoon Hwan TheManiaMST - Ju Hyun Jun NaDa - Lee Yoon Yeol Canata - Ko In Kyu Mind - Park Sung Gyoon Shine - Ahn Sang Won Shudder - Oh Chung Hoon fOrGG - Park Ji Soo Sea - Yum Bo Sung Lomo - Son Ju Heung iloveoov - Choi Yun Sung Light - Lee Jae Ho XellOs - Seo Ji Hoon
Zerg - Overcome All (7) #3 Seed GoRush - Park Tae Min #5 Seed sAviOr - Ma Jae Yoon #8 Seed July - Park Sung Joon OversKy - Lee Joo Yeong Orion - Kwun Soo Hyun Kwanro - Han Sang Bong YellOw[ArnC] - Park Myung Soo
Protoss - Victory After Victory (7) #1 Seed Bisu - Kim Taek Yong #2 Seed Stork - Song Byung Goo Nal_rA - Kang Min MuJuK - Park Dae Kyung free - Yoon Yong Tae LuCifer - Lee Young Ho SangHo - Shin Sang Ho
The MSL returns to the format from last season, beginning with the Round of 32. The qualified players take part in a Steal Draft, dividing them into eight groups of four. Each group will go through the process of double elimination to determine which players will advance to the next round. If a player loses two games during the group stage, he is eliminated. If he wins two games, he secures a spot in the next round of the tournament.
The number of remaining competitors has been halved as the tournament continues into the Round of 16. Beginning with this round, the tournament becomes single elimination. The players who finished first out of their groups last round will be paired against a player that finished in second. Each pair of players will play a best-of-three match to determine which player will advance to the next round.
Thumbs Down Since there are four maps, there will be one map in each best-of-three match that will not be played. The players who finished first out of their group are given the opportunity to give a “thumbs down” to one of the maps. What this means is that the player will get to choose one of the four maps that he will not have to play on during this round. This allows the player the advantage of getting to remove a map that does not fit his play style or that he thinks may be imbalanced in a particular match-up.
Schedule for the Round of 16
October 11 – Game 1 for Matches: B, D, F and G October 13 – Game 1 for Matches: A, C, E, and H October 18 – Game 2 (and 3 if necessary) for Matches: B, C, D, E and F October 20 – Game 2 (and 3 if necessary) for Matches: A, G, and H
***fOrGG was disqualified in game three. His disqualification came due to his use of an illegal bug. He used an SCV holding minerals and spammed the return cargo hotkey while attempting to move up Nal_rA's ramp, which allowed him to bypass Nal_rA's probe block. The game was not completed and fOrGG was announced as disqualified.
Nal_rA 2-1 -> Advances to Quarterfinals fOrGG 1-2 eliminated due to disqualification
Bisu 2-1 -> Advances to Quarterfinals Hwasin 1-2 eliminated
Results and Standings for the Quarterfinals
It has been narrowed down to the final eight players. Each of the remaining competitors will be awarded with a seed in next season's MSL for having made it this far. Additionally, best-of-three matches are no more as we move on to a best-of-five format in the quarterfinals to determine who will advance and who will have to wait for his chance at victory when next season arrives.
Thumbs Down As with last round, there is a thumbing down of maps. However, as we move into the best-of-five matches the thumbing down changes slightly. Due to the five game format it becomes possible for a match to go to the final game in which one of the maps will be played twice. Both of the players will thumb down a map that he will be guaranteed not to have to play on twice. This ensures that he will not have to play on a map more than once if he feels it is not to his style or particularly imbalanced in a particular match-up.
Bisu 3-0 -> Advances to Semifinals Kwanro 0-3 eliminated
Results and Standings for the Semifinals
Only four players remain. While the losers from last round will get to come back next season, they have lost their chance at victory for this one. The thumbing down of maps will work exactly as it did last round. The best-of-five matches continue as we enter into the semifinals and the remaining four players battle themselves down to two.
Bisu 3-1 -> Advances to Finals XellOs 1-3 eliminated
Results and Standings for the Finals
It is another best-of-five match with thumbing down working as it did during the last two rounds. Two players have fought their way to the final stage. The defending champion will fight to protect his title against the up-and-coming rookie. This is it. One of these two players will immortalize themselves as this season's champion. The other guy will have to settle for being runner-up.
We are nearly a month into the MSL and there isn't an R&S thread yet. If a staff member or someone had been planning on doing this, then they could close this I suppose. If not, I'd be happy to keep this thread updated.
Jkilla was, but as you say, it's ~3 weeks into MSL and the need for the R&S thread is being heavily felt. I can't blame you for making this, and should honestly say thanks for taking the initiative.
Jkilla I presume you won't have much of a problem with this? I haven't seen you post in quite some time now .
This is my bad. My current school schedule and work has really forced me to spend a lot less time on TL.net. At best, I would probably be half-assing a R&S page with my current schedule, so I greatly appreciate your help semioldguy!
Hmm, with the current bracket, I don't think there will be anyone that can stop Bisu if he gets past Hwasin in the BO3. Especially if July wins 2-0 in his group and winds up on the opposite side of the bracket.
On September 29 2007 13:31 semioldguy wrote: We are nearly a month into the MSL and there isn't an R&S thread yet. If a staff member or someone had been planning on doing this, then they could close this I suppose. If not, I'd be happy to keep this thread updated.
Thank you so much for doing this.
A great member of the community steps up as always. God I love this site.
Updated with Round of 16 information. I think that they would keep the thumbs down from last season, but I'm not sure. The unplayed map could have been chosen at random. If someone has confirmation of this that'd be great.
Thanks Bob, I suppose some of it had to be changed because of Proleague scheduling or some such. October 18th could be so long if all or even some of those matches go to game three.
On October 16 2007 12:44 jkillashark wrote: How fun would it be to see XellOs and Nal_rA play each other during the quarterfinals. You know those two would be chatting all game long. =]
When I first saw the bracket I was really hoping it would happen, the two of them have each been in more MSL's than any other players, at eleven of twelve apiece (not counting the KPGA Tours).
Hopefully Xellos has some amazing play this week to make it happen, I don't think Nal_rA has too much in his way of advancing to the next round.
The round of 8 is crazy! So many things that excite me:
XellOs vs. Nal_rA The two oldest of the old school players remaining. Each of these two players is in their eleventh MSL! More than any other player. Not only that, they've each guaranteed themseves a spot for their twelfth.
Bisu vs. Kwanro The returning champ and notorious Zerg killer pitted against a new hyper-aggressive rookie zerg who has the most difficult path imaginable toward victory.
CJ Entus vs. All Four players from CJ Entus have made it this far and none of them are playing each other. Never before has there been such dominance by a team in the individual leagues at this stage. Potentially the final four could be all CJ players.
sAviOr vs. free These two played in Korea WCG to see who would get to represent their country in Seattle. free will be looking for revenge for sure. Will he be able to tak down sAviOr the second time around?
Mind vs. TheManiaMST Okay... I'll admit this isn't very exciting.
On October 21 2007 05:58 semioldguy wrote: CJ Entus vs. All Four players from CJ Entus have made it this far and none of them are playing each other. Never before has there been such dominance by a team in the individual leagues at this stage. Potentially the final four could be all CJ players.
i think this next round will definitely be the most interesting up until the finals, just because we're not 100% sure what to expect from the underdogs of their respective matches (free and kwanro). imo i can't really see kwanro taking down the best pvz, in light of his previous round. let's just say it seemed shakey and i don't think that will cut it tbh. as for free, i have yet to see his pvz in action, but his win% in pvz is solid.. but then you look at savior who only really stuggles zvp against the likes of bisu. i think he has a negative stigma on his zvp simply because of bisu's rape. it was infallible up until that point and he, quite frankly, is probably still the best zvp against non-ninjas.
obvious picks, but savior and bisu to advance. the other two matchups are irrelevant in my mind.
Bisu will face a hard opponent now, Kwanro. If he beats Kwanro, he will probably come face to face with the pvp master, rA. Though Bisu went 3-0 vs rA in their last encounter, if i recall right. I dont think it is ever an easy match =)
Thumbs Down Since there are four maps, there will be one map in each best-of-three match that will not be played. The players who finished first out of their group are given the opportunity to give a “thumbs down” to one of the maps. What this means is that the player will get to choose one of the four maps that he will not have to play on during this round. This allows the player the advantage of getting to remove a map that does not fit his play style or that he thinks may be imbalanced in a particular match-up.
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Results and Standings for the Quarterfinals
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Thumbs Down As with last round, there is a thumbing down of maps. However, as we move into the best-of-five matches the thumbing down changes slightly. Due to the five game format it becomes possible for a match to go to the final game in which one of the maps will be played twice. Both of the players will thumb down a map that he will be guaranteed not to have to play on twice. This ensures that he will not have to play on a map more than once if he feels it is not to his style or particularly imbalanced in a particular match-up.
After years of following the OSL and MSL, only now I understood what the map-thumbing-down step is all about, thanks to semioldguy's brilliant explanation.
I would love to see a Savior vs Bisu rematch in the finals. If Savior wins, he'd be the first to have four MSL wins. If Bisu wins, he'd join Nada, Savior and Oov with three MSL wins.
Updated with the rest of the Quarterfinals results and added some info on the Semifinals. Updated bracket.
Will add the rest of the Semifinal info when it's available/when I get it. Will also fix the group letters from the Round of 16 to accurately reflect MBC's lettering of the same groups in that round.
Don't get me wrong people, I like Bisu. He's the savior of a race I thought would perpetually struggle against Zergs and FD Terrans, but that does not surpass my love for the most beautiful skinned Terran there is (besides TossGirl of course). XELLOS!!!!!!
On November 04 2007 04:52 jtan wrote: Xellos-Savior finals would be awesome!
On October 23 2007 14:31 jkillashark wrote: As a XellOs fan I think I would be really happy to see XellOs vs sAviOr in the finals. But it seems like the XellOs fanbase really died out. =[
this is going to be my most anticipated final since NaDa vs sAviOr in shinhan 3. Bisu vs sAviOr rematch or Xellos vs sAviOr CJ Face showdown? It's so exciting I can hardly wait.
On November 05 2007 04:32 kNyTTyM wrote: this is going to be my most anticipated final since NaDa vs sAviOr in shinhan 3. Bisu vs sAviOr rematch or Xellos vs sAviOr CJ Face showdown? It's so exciting I can hardly wait.
Or Mind vs Xellos TvT, and Mind wins 3-2. Worst case scenario. T_T
savior needs training.. alot.. ok.. bisu beat him.. so he wasn't king in the vP matchups.. but he used to own vT.. lets forget about this fallen star.. or rather meteorite..
Lame finals though. I have respect for mind beating Savior, but he basically pulled a silver and beat all one race to get to the finals. Bisu's gonna bone him so hard.
3-1 for Bisu is likely (Bisu is showing very poor form on Blue Storm for some reason), but do not be surprised if Mind takes the champ the distance. I think it's a real possibility.
If Mind's smart, he will try scan rushing the fuck out of Bisu on at least two maps (or some other cheez strat).
Mind defeated Zerg, Terran and Protoss. All in best-of-five matches to get his MSL title. I hope he manages to come through with more good finishes in future events.
That set was absolutely intense. What I noticed is that Mind won in the games that tested true Starcraft mechanic. Where the settings were played out normal, Mind, somehow, could just out play every opponent he faced. In every race as well... The only games he lost is when he was attempting something risky, or a hyper-aggressive build with a shot of micro and a dash of luck got the best of him. But outlasting Oov's macro? Intense. Persistently pushing Savior back? Tough. Beating Bisu at his 3rd shot at MSL? ................I'm going to bed.
wow if anyone actually got the bracket right... what the HELL were you smoking XD
to say I am disappointed in Bisu and savior would be a massive understatement. pretty sure a lot of fans were hoping for a rematch and then they both go and lose to Mind :'(
ah well, at least there's still the OSL, right? (gonna go find out right now how savior did in that tiebreaker; I'm apprehensive, to put it mildly.)
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