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Bisutopia19364 Posts
![[image loading]](http://i.imgur.com/RLA07WW.jpg) Tuesday Time Warp #1February 1-7
A brief intro to this segment. The mission of these articles is to share past events that occurred this week in Brood War. It's our version of "This week in Starcraft" but the past instead of present.
In February 2008, GOMTV invited 16 of the top Korean players to play in a one month invitational. The tournament was unique in that it was the first Korean event that provided full English coverage for foreigners, streaming the games online with commentary done by Nick "Tasteless" Plott.
After leaving MBCGame HERO and signing with SK Telecom Team 1 in February 2008, Bisu entered into a slump; during this approximately half-year period, Bisu's win rate dropped to 50%. Bisu was knocked out of the individual leagues during their early stages and displayed disappointing Proleague results
He was No.1 overall KeSPA Rank from April 2009 till February 2010 (for eleven straight months). Lee Jae Dong was the WCG 2009 champion and has won five major league titles: the EVER Starleague 2007, the 2008 GOMTV MSL Season 4, the Batoo Starleague, the Bacchus Starleague 2009, and the NATE MSL. Jaedong took out YellOw[ArnC] in the Bacchus Starleague 2009 in a 3–0 sweep, becoming the third Golden Mouse holder and the second progamer (after SlayerS_`BoxeR`) to win back-to-back Starleagues.
What began as a showmatch between Princeton and MIT [1] grew rapidly into an intercollegiate league in which 26 colleges competed in StarCraft: Brood War. The official season began in February 2009. Schools participated in six rounds of Swiss-format play, after which the top eight schools entered playoff matches. 26 teams participated in the 1st Season of the CSL, including 24 American and 2 Canadian schools.
Retired from StarCraft in early February 2010. He was well known for beating Midas in the group in WCG 2006, in a closely fought game. His nickname comes from the character Draco Malfoy from the Harry Potter books.
#3 Score: Elky 4-0 Beast February 5, 2003
Liquibition started in 2002 as a result of Rekrul's desire to bring together the then young Teamliquid site together with show matches between top foreigner players or sometimes Korean players. In its early rendition, players were limited to 5 matches, though there has not been any player capable enough to win 5 consecutive matches regardless of the fact that the limitation has now been removed. To date, there have been 30 Liquibition matches and two special Liquibition matches.
In 2008:
February 7, iNcontroL leaves ToT)[8], February 7, Yosh joins ToT)[9]
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intresting idea, can't wait^^
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Norway25712 Posts
Lovely idea! Always fun to find out about more BW history. Didn't know anything about Draco for example.
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Pretty cool idea, this'll be interesting 
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Croatia9538 Posts
Thx, this is awesome!
I still remember being sad when Draco retired 
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Nice idea ^^ I didn't follow much of the BW scene between 2007 and 2010 so a lot of this is actually new to me
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Cool idea! I'll be looking forward to reading more. Hopefully some obscure bits of knowledge pre-08-09.
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Bisutopia19364 Posts
On February 06 2013 07:03 chaosTheory_14cc wrote:
Cool idea! I'll be looking forward to reading more. Hopefully some obscure bits of knowledge pre-08-09.
There will be tons more content next week. I just had the idea for this got excited and made a thread lol.
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Draco will forever be my number #1 foreigner. TSL 1 <3
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Norway25712 Posts
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nice read. I'd appreciate links to the relevant games as well either for newcomers or to refresh one's memory.
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Wow what a trip down memory lane. It was actually the gom invitational that got me into following bw. Can't remember which game in particular but one of the lomo v jaedong games made me a big fan of his.
Edit: my mistake it was the tg sambo intel season that hooked me.
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Bisutopia19364 Posts
On February 06 2013 20:55 KristofferAG wrote:
More vods? :>
Yeah Def Vods from Feb 7-14 next week. Gonna be fun finding some good ones. Also notable LR results.
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Bisutopia19364 Posts
All of them do, wow. I didn't know to distinguish them. Thanks!
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http://wiki.teamliquid.net/starcraft/Liquibition
F91 was the guy who win traded in the TLS, right?
He won 4 Liquibets in a row over really notable players... why would somebody as good as that cheat in a ladder stage?
Make that four with Broodsport #1 - F91 5-2 IdrA February 21, 2009 this makes me even more confused...
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United States10454 Posts
this is amazing. wonder how long we can keep this active. seems like a great idea!
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United States11393 Posts
On February 06 2013 23:05 moochu wrote:
Wow what a trip down memory lane. It was actually the gom invitational that got me into following bw. Can't remember which game in particular but one of the lomo v jaedong games made me a big fan of his.
Edit: my mistake it was the tg sambo intel season that hooked me.
http://www.gomtv.net/classic/vod/237
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On February 07 2013 15:26 thezanursic wrote:http://wiki.teamliquid.net/starcraft/LiquibitionF91 was the guy who win traded in the TLS, right? He won 4 Liquibets in a row over really notable players... why would somebody as good as that cheat in a ladder stage? Make that four with Broodsport #1 - F91 5-2 IdrA February 21, 2009 this makes me even more confused...
because chinese players were banned from TSL2, except TL gave him a break if he could fly out and play his games from taiwan instead of china. f91 agreed, but he didn't have enough time to fly out to play all the games if he didn't place high enough in the ladder to go to the last qualifier stage. he was like 1 or 2 places out of the qualifier stage he needed to get to actually be able to play towards the end so he wintraded. the funny thing is if he hadn't wintraded he would have been in the qualifier he wanted to due to other people ahead of him in the ladder getting banned for cheating. kind of sad, but there you go.
i'm actually a little fuzzy on why f91 was even allowed to play where lx, pj, jaystar, fengzi etc weren't. iirc you weren't allowed to play if you grew up in a place with a professional scene, and china's g-league counted, plus there is the notorious chinese lag issue. tsl2 would have looked pretty different if pj or lx had played, i think. or maybe their being on SKT at one point dq'd them? though that probably wasn't it or the admins excuse for letting idra play would have been even dumber
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Nice idea, golden days of Brood War running full and strong. I miss Proleague... I will also never forget watching my first FPVOD of Intotherain being absolutely amazed or watching polish players sometime in 2001 at a tournament in Prague. Blown by their apm and keyboard ussage at those times. Thanks for this thread, hope it keeps going.
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EPT
2008 XNote GOMTV Star Invitational![[image loading]](http://wiki.teamliquid.net/starcraft/images/d/d5/GOMTV_Star_Invitational.PNG)
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