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 GomTV3 MSL (9/13/07 - 11/17/07) -Mind> Bisu GomTV4 MSL (1/3/08 - 3/8/08) -Jaedong> Kal Arena MSL (5/1/08 - 7/26/08) -fOrGG> Jaedong
The Players
Terran - The Pride of War (17) #1 Seed fOrGG - 박지수 - Park Ji Soo #3 Seed Flash - 이영호 - Lee Yung Ho #5 Seed Lomo - 손주흥 - Son Ju Heung #7 Seed Hwasin - 진영수 - Jin Yung Soo NaDa - 이윤열 - Lee Yoon Yeol Canata - 고인규 - Ko In Kyu Sea - 염보성 - Yum Bo Sung firebathero - 이성은 - Lee Sung Eun UpMagiC - 신희승 - Shin Hee Seung Memory - 주현준 - Ju Hyun Jun fantasy - 정명훈 - Jung Myung Hoon FrOzean - 김동건 - Kim Dong Kun Iris -변형태 - Byun Hyung Tae RuBy - 민찬기 - Min Chan Ki go.go - 김창희 - Kim Chang Hee Dongrae - 이학주 - Lee Hak Ju Leta - 신상문 - Shin Sang Moon
Zerg – Overcome All (5) #2 Seed Jaedong - 이제동 - Lee Je Dong sAviOr - 마재윤 - Ma Jae Yoon YellOw[ArnC] - 박명수 - Park Myung Soo type-b - 문성진 - Moon Sung Jin ZerO - 김명운 - Kim Myung Eun
Protoss – Victory After Victory (10) #4 SeedMuch - 박영민 - Park Yeong Min #6 Seed free - 윤용태 - Yoon Yong Tae #8 Seed Kal - 김구현 - Kim Ku Hyun Bisu - 김택용 - Kim Taek Yong JangBi - 허영무 - Hu Yung Moo HerO - 한동훈 - Han Dong Hoon Stork - 송병구 - Song Byung Goo BackHo - 손찬웅 - Son Chan Woong Tempest - 박재영 - Park Jae Yung Bul_T - 권오혁 - Kwun Oh Hyuk
One map has been kept from the previous season, Athena, but has returned as an updated version. That leaves us with three new maps: Destination, Byzantium 2, and Medusa.
The Steal Draft is a somewhat long and complicated process, not helped at all by the large number of players that now qualify for each MSL season. Here’s how it works:
The first eight seeds are placed into groups A through H, with the first seed in Group A and the eighth seed in Group H. The first eight seeds may never be moved by any player, they remain in the groups in which they are seeded. Seeds nine through sixteen are determined by previous MSL appearances and performance, with more obviously being better. Seeds nine through sixteen are placed into the other pair in groups A through H, but in reverse order. Seeds eight and nine would be in the same group, then seven and ten, six and eleven and so on up until the first and sixteenth.
Once players are placed into the groups, the remaining players are also ranked based upon previous MSL appearance and performances. Starting with the seventeenth, and ending with the thirty-second, each player takes his own name and places it in an open spot next to the player he wishes to play against.
After everyone has been placed upon the board, the stealing begins. It starts in ascending order at the sixteenth seed and moves all the way up to the first. Seed nine through sixteen are allowed three options: (1) Exchange himself with another player, (2) Exchange his current opponent with another player, or (3) Pass the turn and exchange no one.
Seeds three through eight work a little differently. They are able to pick two moves from the following: (1) Exchange a player in their group with another player, (2) Exchange any two other players with each other, or (3) Pass the turn and exchange no one. Seeds two and one earn a few more decisions. They are able to switch any player with another player and may do so up to three times or until they wish to pass.
Results and Standings for the Round of 32
Once again we return to a group stage for the round of thirty-two. Each group consists of four players; the Steal Draft determines their placement in each group. Each group must go through a double elimination format to determine which players will advance and which players are eliminated. If a player can get two wins before he gets two losses, then he advances to the next round. If he can’t, then he is eliminated. Two players from each group of four will have the chance to continue to fight for this season’s title.
Group A 1. fOrGG 2-0 ► Advances to Round of 16 2. Iris 2-1 ► Advances to Round of 16 3. Leta 1-2 ► Eliminated 4. ZerO 0-2 ► Eliminated
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 not only who will advance to the next round, but who will earn seeds into the following MSL.
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.
Bisu 2-0 ► Advances to the Quarterfinals Hwasin 0-2 ► Eliminated
Results and Standings for the Quarterfinals
It is showtime. The competition heats up as the number of players are reduced again and the number of games per match increase. All of the advancing players will be meeting up with the other person that qualified from their Round of 32 Group, while the other four groups didn;t quite cut it. Each match is now a best-of-five, a more challenging series as each player has already secured a seed for the next MSL, their only goal now should be championship. When the dust clears after this round, we can only hope there will still be a player to stand against Protoss, if only for the interest of not feeling like being trapped in a house of mirrors.
Thumbs Down As we transition to the the quarter finals, with the format changing into a best-of-five series with two equally ranked players, the Thumbs Down system also changes. Both players will pick a map that they do not want to be repeated in the five map set. (As there are four maps in the tournament, one is repeated for a best-of-five match.)
Bisu 3-0 ► Advances to the Semifinals firebathero 0-3 ► Eliminated
Results and Standings for the Semifinals
There are only four players left. Thumbing down works the same for this round as it did last round. Each will be eager to prove they are worthy of a championship and only have one matchup to practice until then. Unfortunately that means three best of five mirror matches for us. A Protoss will be taking home the trophy this season. Which one will prove himself to be the newest of Protoss kings?
Bisu 3-1 ► Advances to the Grand Finals free 1-3 ► Eliminated
Results and Standings for the Grand Finals
It is down to the final two Protoss players. Like the OSL Finals just a few weeks ago, the Samsung-SK Telecom rivalry is at stake. Will Jangbi be able to hoist the crown as his teammate Stork has or will Bisu earn his third finals victory and avenge his own teammate Fantasy?
On September 12 2008 11:24 Roffles wrote: Easily the second best name. I hated all the food sponsors like Baskin Robbins and Pringles. Everytime I watched, I craved food.
So true. I gained like five pounds from watching the second Pringles MSL~
On September 12 2008 11:24 Roffles wrote: Easily the second best name. I hated all the food sponsors like Baskin Robbins and Pringles. Everytime I watched, I craved food.
So true. I gained like five pounds from watching the second Pringles MSL~
I'm a savior fan, but damn even I wished for him to lose in the last game. What's the point if he's gonna play like this next round? Better to get got early than go on dragging this sham out.
BTW how's it going semiold, I'm back from a long break. .dragoon is back yo!
This is going to be an awesome MSL. Most if not all of those matchups look promising, except Frozean and Nada, and probably Jaedong vs Free cause Jaedong is going to rape him, but that's still fun to watch.
On October 13 2008 02:24 ahole-surprise wrote: I want a Jaedong - Bisu semifinal where Jaedong obliterates Bisu so hard that Bisu collapses in on himself like the emo blackhole that he is.
e btw Nice bracket!
Why is Bisu emo? People call Bisu and JD emo, for what seems like no reason.
On October 12 2008 05:07 Hot_Bid wrote: Since semioldguy is living it up at Blizzcon, i updated this with Group F and Group D results, and new banner made by yours truly!
Thanks Ken!
I'll get some more updates to thread for the Ro16 tonight when I get home from work... still haven't been home since last week.
I have this nagging feeling in my gut that we're going to have an all protoss Ro4. At best I see one of firebathero/NaDa managing to win. Yarnc stands no chance. With a 1-5 career record against JangBi he'd stand a better chance at making it with every one of the wonder girls than defeating JangBi.
On October 24 2008 08:06 Camlito wrote: Woah this could easily be an all protoss semis.
True... I really hope it won't happen.
Consider the records of Jangbi and free versus the records of Nada and Yarnc lately, it is really looking like at least 3 protoss will be in the semis.
Only tossup is fbh versus bisu, although fbh's record vs protoss is terrible he has done well recently. On the other hand, Bisu's record vs T is also bad and he has lost to fbh recently. Because it's a series though, I think Bisu can pull it out.
On September 29 2008 23:32 xgc-Infinite wrote: I really appreciate all the work done on this thread, makes following results and standings so much easier. Thanks!
word yo!
Bisu is going to win this MSL! seraiously look at his coming opponents! ^^ only threat is Stork, but it would be only at finals so that NO PROBLEM! :-D
I'd say Bisu would beat Free in a Bo5. PvP is Free's worst match-up and hasn't played it well lately. Bisu on the other hand played a lot of PvP. He was pretty even against Stork and beat Much, Kal and Backho recently.
Interestingly enough he lost his last three Proleage games against Free. But then Bisu hasn't been great in Proleague in a pretty long time.
so it's Kal vs Jangbi and Free vs Bisu? Those 4 are all so good at pvp that it's impossible to tell the outcome, but I've always liked Jangbi so I hope he can get himself a title.
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