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"Upgrade My Pride, To The Next Level" - Banner by KizZBG What you need to know about the Starchallenge LeagueImage courtesy of Hot_Bid, Redesigned by KizZBG
There are 6 groups of 4 players (equating to 24 at the start of the tournament) which duke it out every week in a Dual Tournament-style round robin. The player advancing from the winners game goes onto a play-off, while the winner of the final game goes on straight to the ODT. The rest get sent back to the PSL (Offline Qualifiers).
The 6 winners play each other in a bracket style best of 3 knock out. But, I'm sure you must be saying, "There will be only three winners? Huh?". The fourth seed from the last OSL (this season, EVER), gets sent straight to the semi-finals to try his luck for a chance for his/her fourth seed.
History
October 2002 for Panasonic -  XellOs >  IntoTheRain 3-1
March 2003 for Olympus - Kingdom > Nal_rA 3-1
July 2003 for mycube -  Side_LeGenD > JunioR 3-2
November 2003 for HanGame - GoRush > JJu 3-0
March 2004 for Gilette - XellOs > Sync 3-1
July 2004 for EVER 2004 - BoxeR > Qoo)Max 2-1
November 2004 for IOPS - ChoJJa > SaferZerg 3-2
March 2005 for EVER 2005 - Stork > fOru 3-1
July 2005 for So1 - Anytime > Rock 3-2
November 2005 for Shinhan 2005 - Midas > Casy 3-2
March 2006 for Shinhan 2006 Season 1 - Sea > Nal_rA 3-2
July 2007 for EVER 2007 - Rock > Jaedong 3-1
Maps
Fantasy II
+ Show Spoiler [Map Picture] +
Katrina
+ Show Spoiler [Map Picutre] +
Blue Storm
+ Show Spoiler [Map Picture] +
Players
Seeds in bold
Terran (9)
Sea (Yum Bo Sung, MBCGame HERO)
910 (Kang Gu Yeol, MBCGame HERO)
Canata (Go In Kyu, SK Telecom T1)
Midas (Jeong Sang Wook, SK Telecom T1)
XellOs (Seo Ji Hoon, CJ Entus)
SkyHigh (Jo Byung Sae, CJ Entus)
Yooi (Han Sung Yeop, Hanbit Stars)
HiyA (Gu Sung Hoon, Lecaf Oz)
Sync (Byun Gil Sup, KTF MagicNs)
Zerg (9)
Luxury (Park Chan Soo, OGN Sparkyz)
YellOw[ArnC] (Park Myung Soo, OGN Sparkyz)
HoGiL (Kim Sang Wook, OGN Sparkyz)
Flower (Kim Kwang Sup, OGN Sparkyz)
Jy (Jang Wook, CJ Entus)
Shark (Seo Kyung Jong, MBCGame HERO)
Raid (Park Jun Woo, KTF MagicNs)
Rumble (Yoon Jong Min, SK Telecom T1)
Protoss (6)
BackHo (Son Chang Woon, Lecaf Oz)
Anytime (Oh Yoong Joong, Lecaf Oz)
Reach (Park Jung Seok, KTF MagicNs)
Much (Park Yeong Min, CJ Entus)
BeSt (Doh Jae Wook, SK Telecom T1)
Jaehoon (Kim Jae Hoon, MBCGame HERO)
Group Results
Group A - 24/10/07
Luxury < Fantasy II > Much
910 < Fantasy II > Raid
Much < Katrina > Raid <- Much advances to play-offs.
Luxury < Katrina > 910
Raid < Blue Storm > Luxury <- Luxury advances to ODT
Group B - 31/10/07
Reach < Fantasy II > Jy
YellOw[ArnC] < Fantasy II > HiyA
YellOw[ArnC] < Katrina > Jy <- YellOw[ArnC] advances to play-offs.
Reach < Katrina > HiyA
Jy < Blue Storm > HiyA <- Jy advances to ODT.
Group C - 07/11/07
BackHo < Fantasy II > Rumble
Flower < Fantasy II > Sync
Rumble < Katrina > Sync <-Rumble advances to play-offs.
BackHo < Katrina > Flower
Sync < Blue Storm > BackHo <- BackHo advances to ODT.
Group D - 05/12/07
Shark < Fantasy II > Midas
XellOs < Fantasy II > Anytime
Midas < Katrina > XellOs <- Xellos advances to play-offs.
Shark < Katrina > Anytime
Midas < Blue Storm > Anytime <- Midas advances to ODT.
Group E - 21/11/07
Yooi < Fantasy II > HoGiL
Jaehoon < Fantasy II > Canata
HoGiL < Katrina > Jaehoon <- HoGiL advances to play-offs.
Yooi < Katrina > Canata
Jaehoon < Blue Storm > Canata <- Canata advances to ODT.
Group F - 28/11/07
Sea < Fantasy II > BeSt
Calm < Fantasy II > sKyHigh
Sea < Katrina > sKyHigh <- Sea advances to play-offs.
BeSt < Katrina > Calm
sKyHigh < Blue Storm > BeSt <- BeSt advances to ODT
Summary
Qualified to playoffs - YellOw[ArnC], XellOs, Much, Rumble, Sea, HoGiL
Qualified to OGN Dual Tournament - BeSt, Canata, Midas, BackHo, Jy, Luxury
Playoff Results
YellOw[ArnC] vs XellOs[yG] - 12/12/07
Set 1 - Blue Storm < - XellOs Wins
Set 2 - Fantasy II <- YellOw[ArnC] Wins
Set 3 - Katrina <- YellOw[ArnC] Wins
YellOw[ArnC] advances, XellOs goes to ODT.
Much vs Rumble - 12/12/07
Set 1 - Katrina <- Rumble Wins
Set 2 - Blue Storm <- Much Wins
Set 3 - Fantasy II <- Much Wins
Much advances, Rumble goes to ODT.
Sea vs HoGiL - 12/12/07
Set 1 - Fantasy II <- HoGiL Wins
Set 2 - Blue Storm <- Sea Wins
Set 3 - Katrina <- Sea Wins
Sea advances, HoGiL goes to ODT.
YellOw[ArnC] vs Much - 12/21/07
Set 1 - Katrina <- Much Wins
Set 2 - Blue Storm <- YellOw[ArnC] Wins
Set 3 - Fantasy II <- Much Wins
Much advances to final, YellOw[ArnC] goes to ODT.
Sea vs UpMagiC - 12/21/07
Set 1 - Fantasy II <- Sea Wins
Set 2 - Blue Storm <- Sea Wins
Set 3 - Katrina
Sea advances to final, UpMagiC goes to ODT.
Final: Much vs Sea - 12/12/26
Set 1 - Katrina <- Much Wins
Set 2 - Fantasy II <- Sea Wins
Set 3 - Blue Storm <- Much Wins
Set 4 - Katrina <- Sea Wins
Set 5 - Fantasy II <- Much Wins
Much is your fourth seed for the next OSL!
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thanks for the R+S GTR :D
are you doing the R+S for this type of Tourny from now on?
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Thanks Gtr-2-Go, I'm always confused by this process.
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good distribution of races 9/9/6
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South Africa4316 Posts
Thanks for the awesome pic GTR. I recently figured the system out, but it's much easier to remember now  I'm sad raid didn't make it.
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United States5262 Posts
Oh no, XellOs group is going to be a ggochu. Anytime, Shark, and Midas. What happened to Midas though? He seriously just disappeared after failing in Gom TV 2 losing to a gay TT on stupid Monty Hall.
Oh nvm, thank God for TLPD. =].
Midas after falling in Gom TV 2 to TT has been somewhat active via Proleague but flopped in the last MBC Survivor.
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midas was beaten by kwanro if i remember corectly this season
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On November 06 2007 23:20 Daigomi wrote:Thanks for the awesome pic GTR. I recently figured the system out, but it's much easier to remember now I'm sad raid didn't make it.
Hehe, your PM is what inspired our attempts to make a coherent diagram.
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United States7488 Posts
Thanks GTR, also very excellent diagram!
Also no Terrans have made it in yet! Although there are a couple that i do hope make it, like Xellos, and Sync (although I don't think Sync will make it).
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good stuff, and still no terran qualified (from this stage)!
i see at most 3-4 terrans advancing, hopefully less.
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Melbourne5338 Posts
A winner hasn't been set to bold in the match between 910 and by.raid in Group A
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South Africa4316 Posts
I must say, this list of players doesn't really excite me. I know that most of the "strong" players have already qualified for the ODT through the OSL etc. But still, there's no young player here that I would really like to see in the OSL next season. So far, I'm only interested in seeing Jy and Raid in the OSL, and Raid has dropped out already.
I guess I wouldn't mind Calm qualifying either, but where are the exciting CJ players like Kwanro or TheMania, and where are players like Lucifer, or Haran. Maybe I'll feel a bit more attached to Best or Skyhigh if they manage to qualify, but for now I feel like all the more exciting talents are not here.
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When will Group D be held?
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Melbourne5338 Posts
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+ Show Spoiler [cornerning MSL results] +This season clearly shows the disadvantages of the idea of having OSC and OSL simultaneously. The offline qualifiers for the next OSL were held on August 20th. At this point noone could predict Mind winning the MSL. Thats why he was put in a group with Anytime to whom he lost 0-2. So the current MSL champion wont have a chance to participate in OSL until at least April 2008. 
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MaTRiX[SiN]
Sweden1282 Posts
ehr... mind's offline qualifier seeding for the OSL wouldnt have changed based on his MSL performance so him winning the msl has no relevance.
it is however kinda neat how anytime 2-0'd him and at the time no one thougt twice about it and now he might be the next star player :D
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GrandInquisitor
New York City13113 Posts
that picture at the top is quite possibly the most explanatory picture i have ever seen on this site
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On November 20 2007 00:29 MaTRiX[SiN] wrote:
ehr... mind's offline qualifier seeding for the OSL wouldnt have changed based on his MSL performance so him winning the msl has no relevance.
it is however kinda neat how anytime 2-0'd him and at the time no one thougt twice about it and now he might be the next star player :D
Sorry, youre wrong. The seeds for the the offline qualifiers are based solely on the kespa rankings on which winnig the MSL has quite an impact.
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the last 2 groups are hard that will be played
group D
anytime is 11-3 in proleague
xelllos was in the semi-finals of MSL
midas is a good player hummm
shark is a relatively good player
group F
skyhigh qualifyed for the MSL prelim with a perfect 6-0
Best qualifyed too
calm is a good player
sea well he is...sea
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On November 20 2007 02:18 GrandInquisitor wrote:
that picture at the top is quite possibly the most explanatory picture i have ever seen on this site
Agreed. I've always been confused with osc/odt but not anymore. Thx.
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major kudos on the explanation pic. i always wondered wtf was up with all the qualifiers for OSL. really man, kudos.
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Hong Kong20321 Posts
wow most balanced race distribution ever or what? ahha
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group D sure looks tough. gogo Shark and Anytime.
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lol if we count the race distributions of players in playoffs now :
3 zerg
1 protoss
if we count the race distribution of players that qualify for ODT or playoffs its :
5 zerg
2 protoss
1 terran
IMBA ZERG !!!!!
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United States7488 Posts
Sea vs Bisu would be interesting, as teammates always have a lot of knowledge on each others' playstyles. The remaining four(five) players all have what it takes to win imo, I wouldn't be surprised at any of them taking seed four. I hope Yarnc takes it though.
Plus I thought this R&S thread could use a bump.
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that picture explanation thing is really sick, nice job kizz (and hotbid probably also has some gay lawyer copyright on it so nice job hotbid)
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wow that OGN format picture is amazing. thank you so much.
edit: deleted dumb part of post
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much > Yarnc
sea > Upmagic
sea > much
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for the record, can you tell us newcomers what the acronyms stand for?
OSC = ?
ODT = ?
and
OSL = ?
OGN = ?
nvm, i got them all now.
ogn star challenge
ogn dual tournament
ogn star league
OnGameNet. =)
i really like the OSL setup. Compared to MSL, it seemed complicated and tedious at first with the multiple sub-leagues, but its a very beautiful system that rewards and punishes how you finish in each sub-league extensively, and very neatly in groups of 6's too. WHO IS THE GENIUS BEHIND THIS?!
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