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[HSL] StarCraft Cuban League sponsored by Redbull

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oo_xerox
Profile Blog Joined January 2009
United States852 Posts
Last Edited: 2010-04-17 20:29:21
February 13 2010 03:01 GMT
#1
ADEC Organized:



That video is from the Final of the 11th Edition of the HAVANA STAR LEAGUE, the main event in the StarCraft Scene in Cuba.

From 1999 to 2006, several attempts were made to organize Cuban StarCraft players in a league, and several low-pretension tournaments were played, but it was not till January 8, 2007, that the first national event was held, thus marking the beginning of the Havana StarCraft League (HSL, by its Spanish acronym)

These tournaments have three qualifying events, called “preliminaries”, which guarantee 32 tickets for the HSL, where participants make eight groups of four. The system copies that of the soccer World Cups.

The event’s results are logged and tabulated for a StarCfrat ranking, based on the ELO system used in chess. The current Ranking will be uploaded later.

In this event Roger "Rockstar" Recio , a zerg player from the o.O team (one&Only), known as the bronze titan for his 4 Bronze medals achieved in the tournament, faced Angel Yasmany "Hokage" Sanchez, a protoss player from the MaX team FOR THE GOLD MEDAL OF THE TOURNAMENT in a Best of 5.

The results were :
+ Show Spoiler +
o.O]Z[RockStar > MaX)Hokage @ Gods Garden
o.O]Z[RockStar < MaX)Hokage @ Destination
o.O]Z[RockStar > MaX)Hokage @ Neo Medusa
o.O]Z[RockStar < MaX)Hokage @ Neo EarthBreak Ridge
o.O]Z[RockStar < MaX)Hokage @ Fighting Spirit


While at the same time, Yordani "Slipkorn" Quintana from one&Only team will face Yoel "Ready" Moya from Max team for the bronze medal in a Best of 3.

The results were:
+ Show Spoiler +
o.O]Z[Slipkorn > MaX)Ready @ Gods Garden
o.O]Z[Slipkorn > MaX)Ready @ Neo Medusa


Not a single player has been able to win 3 hsls. Considered to be the curse of the HSL in cuba, one player manage to win 2 in a row, terran player o.O]T[XerOx, and another to win with two different races, Boundless[Link], who win with both Zerg and Protoss

Thanks to the financial support of Red Bull and RBOL, the event stood as the best to the moment, with over 350 people attending the event. ADEC organized the event with the help of PMM and Maxim Rock Theather, the place at which the event was made. ADEC is Asociacion de Deportes Electronicos de Cuba (Cuban E-Sports asociation) Responsible for all starcraft events in the island.

On april 20, the final of the HTL (Habana Team league, the cuban proleague) Will be held, no concrete finalists are determined. But the current favorites are one&Only, MaX and CH.

Why is Cuba not known to the world?: Cuba does not participe in any foreign tourney, nor can access any type of B.net due to having a very poor internet conection, myself have 56kb modem conection right now. So we have our own National pro scene, similar to the likes of Korea And China.

LAME SELF PROMOTION:
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Im also a player, i was the first terran to win a HSL, and to win 2 in a row, wining the last one and the before.
Due to me losing in the ro8, i stayed as the spanish comentator of the event.
Im the manager of the one&Only team.


Main Cuban SC Teams:
+ Show Spoiler +
MaX /// 1 htl gold and 1 htl silver
one&Only /// 1 htl gold.
CH /// 1 HTL Silver
King /// Oldest team with an un-edited name.
ACE /// Cuba has also mandatory military service....not that has anything to do with the name.
SxE /// Its leader is the youngest SC player in cuba, Ernesto "CHI", with only 13 years old.
STAR /// Newest Team.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OSGHJjlgTMU
More Vods and Pictures coming up soon.

EDIT: Since everyone really support us, i will update this everytime i can with more vods and pictures that will be edited by the end of the month, also, ill make a different OP about the HTL finals, which are also very exciting. Thank you TeamLiquid.net, your posts in this thread have made a LOOOOOOOOT of people very very Happy.

THE HTL FINALS ARE HERE!:
http://www.teamliquid.net/forum/viewmessage.php?topic_id=120078

Any questions referent to this league, or any suggestions please send a Mail to
ADEC@rbol.org.
I could get a more coherent article by gluing a Sharpie to a dog's cook and letting it hump the page.
FortuneSyn
Profile Blog Joined July 2008
1826 Posts
February 13 2010 03:08 GMT
#2
whaaaaaaaaaaaaaat
Vasoline73
Profile Blog Joined February 2008
United States7801 Posts
February 13 2010 03:10 GMT
#3
wtf indeed haha.
oo_xerox
Profile Blog Joined January 2009
United States852 Posts
February 13 2010 03:16 GMT
#4
Oh, i forgot, here are the results:

Bronze medal:
Yordani "o.O]Z[Slipkorn" Quintana one of the oldest SC players in cuba won 2-0 over Yoel "MaX)Ready" Moya

o.O]Z[Slipkorn > MaX)Ready @ Gods Garden
o.O]Z[Slipkorn > MaX)Ready @ Neo Medusa

Gold Medal:
Royal Roader Yasmany "MaX)Hokage" Sanchez won over the Bronze titan Roger "o.O]Z[RockStar" Recio 3-2 in a very tight final.

o.O]Z[RockStar > MaX)Hokage @ Gods Garden
o.O]Z[RockStar < MaX)Hokage @ Destination
o.O]Z[RockStar > MaX)Hokage @ Neo Medusa
o.O]Z[RockStar < MaX)Hokage @ Neo EarthBreak Ridge
o.O]Z[RockStar < MaX)Hokage @ Fighting Spirit

The entire recording of the event is about 20 hours of recordings, so the edited Vods will come out a little later. Any questions be free to ask.

More info on the HSL and HTL (HTL is like the proleague) enter here:
http://www.radiorebelde.cu/english/sports/sports-1-030210.html
HTL Is the cuban Proleague, its in 3rd edition and the first winners are

Team Max > Team CH with Yoel "Ready" Castillo achieving a 3 kill

Team o.O > Team Max with an all-kill from Roger "RockStar" Recio
I could get a more coherent article by gluing a Sharpie to a dog's cook and letting it hump the page.
oo_xerox
Profile Blog Joined January 2009
United States852 Posts
Last Edited: 2010-02-15 03:46:27
February 13 2010 03:21 GMT
#5
We have had this tournaments for a while now, 2 years maybe, we just didnt go this serious until the last feew months. I went to europe on vacations and achieved high ranking on iccup, so we are really good players, dont underestimate us, cuba has very poor internet conections, mine right now is 56k modem, so we are completely aisolated from the world, only myself have traveled since im not born cuban. The play level here its extremely high.
I could get a more coherent article by gluing a Sharpie to a dog's cook and letting it hump the page.
Pokebunny
Profile Blog Joined June 2008
United States10654 Posts
February 13 2010 03:22 GMT
#6
Wow. This is like finding out there's a bw scene on mars.
Semipro Terran player | Pokebunny#1710 | twitter.com/Pokebunny | twitch.tv/Pokebunny | facebook.com/PokebunnySC
oo_xerox
Profile Blog Joined January 2009
United States852 Posts
Last Edited: 2010-02-15 04:04:55
February 13 2010 03:24 GMT
#7
The crowd reactions and social payment are very good. Are you comparing this country to mars? O.o LOL
I could get a more coherent article by gluing a Sharpie to a dog's cook and letting it hump the page.
aikepah
Profile Joined November 2009
United States115 Posts
February 13 2010 03:29 GMT
#8
On February 13 2010 12:24 oo_xerox wrote:
The payment its actually very very good. Are you comparing this country to mars? O.o LOL


I think he just means that it's a shock to know that there are starcraft tourneys in Cuba. I don't think anybody would have expected it. Like you said, it's a small country and you don't have good internet there, so nobody here really knew that you guys played starcraft, let alone competitively.
oo_xerox
Profile Blog Joined January 2009
United States852 Posts
February 13 2010 03:33 GMT
#9
I was kidding, i know what he meant ^^. We just want to share this to the world, and hopefully one day those barriers wont exist and we can show you how skilled we are at the game, the top players here dream about that.
I could get a more coherent article by gluing a Sharpie to a dog's cook and letting it hump the page.
AoN.DimSum
Profile Blog Joined September 2008
United States2983 Posts
February 13 2010 03:44 GMT
#10
wow this is really amazing
by my idol krokkis : "U better hope Finland wont have WCG next year and that I wont gain shitloads of skill, cause then I will wash ur mouth with soap, little man."
ErOs_HalO
Profile Joined January 2010
United States167 Posts
February 13 2010 03:46 GMT
#11
WOW How did they get RedBull to sponsor ???

Especially sponsor a bunch of noobs..
Pretty imaginitive, huh?
Rostam
Profile Blog Joined December 2008
United States2552 Posts
February 13 2010 03:46 GMT
#12
This is awesome, I had no idea such a thing existed in Cuba. Can't wait to see some vods!
BW forever || Thall
nonduc
Profile Joined May 2009
Russian Federation405 Posts
February 13 2010 03:47 GMT
#13
Good news!
The island of progaming in the west part of the world!
티라노사저그 렉스 화이팅~!
oo_xerox
Profile Blog Joined January 2009
United States852 Posts
Last Edited: 2010-02-15 03:53:19
February 13 2010 03:50 GMT
#14
On February 13 2010 12:46 ErOs_HalO wrote:
WOW How did they get RedBull to sponsor ???

Especially sponsor a bunch of noobs..


Heeeh, no. We arent noobs. ill accept that from anyone but a noone like you. Srry. RedBull adn Rbol saw future in the PLayers, and the skill level i must say is very high, i ll ask permission to upload training replays from each team if you like. Being unknow to you =/= being noob.
I could get a more coherent article by gluing a Sharpie to a dog's cook and letting it hump the page.
oo_xerox
Profile Blog Joined January 2009
United States852 Posts
Last Edited: 2010-02-15 04:05:23
February 13 2010 03:53 GMT
#15
On February 13 2010 12:47 nonduc wrote:
Good news!
The island of progaming in the west part of the world!


If SC2 kills BroodWar, then Cuba will be one of the few to have a solid BW Pro Scene, we cant play SC2 in a competitve way, so, if everything stays according to plan, we wont update BroodWar. we cant anyways with the poor internet available.
I could get a more coherent article by gluing a Sharpie to a dog's cook and letting it hump the page.
sixghost
Profile Blog Joined November 2007
United States2096 Posts
February 13 2010 03:56 GMT
#16
On February 13 2010 12:50 oo_xerox wrote:
Show nested quote +
On February 13 2010 12:46 ErOs_HalO wrote:
WOW How did they get RedBull to sponsor ???

Especially sponsor a bunch of noobs..


Heeeh, no. We arent noobs. ill accept that from anyone but a noone like you. Srry. RedBull saw future in the PLayers, and the skill level i must say is very high, i ll ask permission to upload training replays from each team if you like. Being unknow to you =/= being noob.

lmfao
mG.sixghost @ iCCup || One ling, two ling, three ling, four... Camp four gas, then ultra-whore . -Saracen
KawaiiRice
Profile Blog Joined May 2007
United States2914 Posts
February 13 2010 03:57 GMT
#17
Wowow. Let's all move to Cuba to protest SC2 ahhh !
@KawaiiRiceLighT
nonduc
Profile Joined May 2009
Russian Federation405 Posts
February 13 2010 04:00 GMT
#18
On February 13 2010 12:53 oo_xerox wrote:
If SC2 kills BroodWar, then Cuba will be one of the few to have a solid BW Pro Scene, we cant play SC2 in a competitve way, so, if everything stays according to plan, we wont update BroodWar. Not with the poor internet we have.

No. No. Just NO!
SC2 will not kill BroodWar in any way! Korean pros will not play SC2 without LAN-support.
티라노사저그 렉스 화이팅~!
oo_xerox
Profile Blog Joined January 2009
United States852 Posts
February 13 2010 04:03 GMT
#19
On February 13 2010 13:00 nonduc wrote:
Show nested quote +
On February 13 2010 12:53 oo_xerox wrote:
If SC2 kills BroodWar, then Cuba will be one of the few to have a solid BW Pro Scene, we cant play SC2 in a competitve way, so, if everything stays according to plan, we wont update BroodWar. Not with the poor internet we have.

No. No. Just NO!
SC2 will not kill BroodWar in any way! Korean pros will not play SC2 without LAN-support.


i really hope you are right.
I could get a more coherent article by gluing a Sharpie to a dog's cook and letting it hump the page.
nttea
Profile Blog Joined July 2008
Sweden4353 Posts
February 13 2010 04:06 GMT
#20
lol that's sick, i had NO IDEA ^_^.
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