EDIT: Check out photo coverage, which moopie has rehosted from DES. It's a couple posts down, and there are some ... very awesome pictures in the spoiler

EDIT 2: Additional photos now at the end of the post

On the 23rd, the KeSPA football cup between the 9 progamer teams (besides ACE) was held on the national team's training field. KT and STX valiantly fought into the finals, but thereupon the exchange of fire with North Korea occurred. Worried about the players' safety, KeSPA decided to postpone the final game.

In the Ro8, STX defeated Samsung 3:0, with Calm kicking two in and hero adding a goal of his own, showing off their immense strength.

Hwaseung Oz, known as the "Hwaseung Football Club," came to a deadlock with Hite. In a penalty shootout, Oz advanced 4:1 into the Ro4.

In the prelims, Hite had defeated KeSPA's team 2:0 after a quick goal by Movie sealed the win.

The semifinal match between Hwaseung and STX was pretty much an earlier finals game. Lomo got Oz on the board early, but STX countered with two goal from coach Jo Gyu Baek for a comeback win. Hwaseung was stranded at the Ro4.

Out of the Ro8 matches, the most anticipated was the one between telecommunications rivals KT and SKT. Both sides had issued declarations of war, and that neither side would let the other score, and in fact during the first half the neither team earned a single goal. In the second half, however, SKT coach Kwun Oh Hyuk opened the scoring, but KT's head coach Lee Ji Hoon evened the game out and it went to penalties. However, in the penalty shootout, goalie Reach demonstrated the talent of a prodigy, and his courageous control led KT to a 4:3 win of the shootout.

KT's Ro4 opponent was FOX, fresh off a win against Stars' female team. KT, however, had played a prelim match, so their strength was deterioriating after their two earlier games. WeMade, capitalizing on this weakness, applied early pressure to their opponents. However, the miraculous Reach once again displayed his power; as goalie, his contributions were invaluable to keep the score at 0:0. In the penalty shootout, Reach continued his spectacular run by blocking three shots in a row, keeping WeMade to zero points and sending his team to the finals. Reach was undoubtedly KT's hero of the day.

As stated earlier, the finals match between KT and STX was delayed due to KeSPA's concerns about the players' safety as the artillery fire was exchanged with North Korea.

Here's a bracket:

Calm was honored as the king of shooting.

Out of the players who participated in the KeSPA cup, the one who shone the most was STX's Calm. He was fast and precise, and with two goals scored he earned honors as the best scorer. Even the teams who faced STX felt Calm's overwhelming offensive presence. In the blink of an eye, the short, quick runner could be past you. Even when pinned by the defense, Calm could assist his teammates with his passing. One spectator remarked, "This is like the skill of a professional."

After the tournament, Calm said, "Today I ran very actively, so I was able to score twice. To be honest, there was a lot of luck involved. I will do my best in our match with KT as well."

In other news, since Woongjin's female team [T/N according to CSheep, the Chinese community just likes to label Woongjin as effeminate] was eliminated early, their main player Zero acted as a cheerleader. He also revealed his brand new cellphone to the reporter. To the reporter's surprise, the background of the phone was famous singer IU! [T/N I think...] Zero laughed, "This is the girl of my dreams."

source: http://bbs.plu.cn/thread-1360409-1-1.html

Additional photo coverage
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Ikonn

Netherlands1958 Posts

November 23 2010 21:45 GMT

Reach is not to be fucked with

tree.hugger

Philadelphia, PA10406 Posts

November 23 2010 21:48 GMT

Movie wanted to be a professional football player at one point, I'm surprised he couldn't win the tournament single-handedly for Hite Entus.

Sworn

Canada920 Posts

November 23 2010 21:49 GMT

Mantoss just being a boss. I hope STX wins though calm will not be stopped.

moopie

12605 Posts

November 23 2010 21:55 GMT

Short video coverage from DES:
http://mgucc.mgame.com/mgucc/ftp/dailygame/movie/2010/11/24/DailyGame_101124022416.flv

Photo Coverage:
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(rofl)

LunarDestiny

United States4177 Posts

November 23 2010 22:04 GMT

On November 24 2010 06:49 Sworn wrote:
Mantoss just being a boss. I hope STX wins though calm will not be stopped.

Mantoss got only one weakness: Tossgirl. That will be STX's trump card.

infinitestory

United States4053 Posts

November 23 2010 22:21 GMT

oh my god
those shots of zero and that picture of oov as goalie

Holgerius

Sweden16951 Posts

November 23 2010 22:23 GMT

It's great to see the progamers doing something that doesn't involve playing BW for once. :D

Go KT!

neobowman

Canada3324 Posts

November 23 2010 22:24 GMT

MANTOSSS!

If I were watching live, I'd have rooted for MBC.

Eishi_Ki

Korea (South)1667 Posts

November 23 2010 22:30 GMT

#10

Reach is my god damn hero!

zerious

Canada3803 Posts

November 23 2010 22:32 GMT

#11

zero is such a cutie lol

Spazer

Canada8031 Posts

November 23 2010 22:32 GMT

#12

Haha, Reach owning it up like the man he is. And I thought MBC was supposed to be good...

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Is that the boothgirl? I can't really tell.

alypse

2771 Posts

November 23 2010 22:36 GMT

#13

FUCK YES

Reach!

KT for Championship. Apparently PL Championship is not enough.

What's (T)

ToSsGirL doing there? Cheerleader ? lol

(T)

HiyA looks hilarious as always.

(T)

Flash's face in that line is =]

Is (Z)

ZerO dancing haha.... and who's that girl in his cell?

blahman3344

United States2015 Posts

November 23 2010 22:38 GMT

#14

Whoo mantoss! Showing that his manliness extends the borders of just progaming by showing how awesome of a goalie he is. That picture of reach in the goal....that's my new desktop picture. :3

infinitestory

United States4053 Posts

November 23 2010 22:44 GMT

#15

Part 2 is up! Calm was honored somehow, and an explanation of Zero's cellphone.

Harem

United States11390 Posts

November 23 2010 22:44 GMT

#16

Those zero pics satisfy my inner fanboy way too much.

Zero #1 cheerleader

TheNessman

United States4158 Posts

November 23 2010 22:45 GMT

#17

! so THIS is what all those tweets were about lol. I saw a bunch but the pictures didn't make much sense because i can't read korean. I'm glad that progammers do something outside every once and a while.

Kibibit

United States1551 Posts

November 23 2010 22:45 GMT

#18

Hahahaha, Fuck yeah, Reach! I'm amused to no end. XD

Carnivorous Sheep

Baa?21243 Posts

November 23 2010 22:47 GMT

#19

Calm imba.

The woman's team comment just refers to the fact that the Chinese community likes to nickname/portray Stars as a really effeminate team, due mainly to free and Zero <3