The Liquipedia Door: Finally

The Brood War fate seemed to be sealed once KeSPA and Blizzard announced that they stopped fighting over copyright claims and instead wanted to lead us all toward a brighter future – with a Hybrid ProLeague. In other words, the era of almighty progaming in South Korea seemed to be over for Brood War fans. While this was definitely good news for half of this page, the shrinking minority of veterans still aching to see top notch content could not help but be disappointed.

Yet, a knight in shining armor, Sonic, appeared and gathered the retired stars. Sonic, a rather capable player in his own right, started to cause an uproar using the Korean streaming platform A Free Casting to organize an underground community. Not long after, we learned about the likes of Terror[fOu], Larva and Mong – new legends on the verge of becoming glorious warriors. Joined by former top ranked players from the KeSPA regime, namely Killer and HiyA, the so-called SOSPA movement continued the saga. The show must go on. Although the huge names of Flash, JaeDong et al. remain “lost“ to us, we do have Bisu, also JangBi (on occasion), Sea, Tyson, Shuttle and others. It turns out, like so often, Brood War did not die and it refuses to die again.

By all means, this is great. We even attracted some outsiders to the scene and remain in a somewhat interested state of hibernation. Yet, if a fan does not check the forums on a daily basis and scout for the scarce information (which hard worker bees like Stratos gather and translate) he will have a hard time figuring out what is important and who is relevant. The structure is simply not the best, but it is what we have. That is basically business as usual to us, but not to outsiders we might want to integrate into our small circle, right?

Enter: prech. In just a few months the humble Teamliquideian made his debut on Liquipedia and went from 0 edits to the gold club. This alone deserves more than just a notion and raises the question why he has neither a forum star, nor any kind of … well, token that expresses how sick his contributions actually are. What to do with that, and why is there no interview and all? It is because it is not about him, it is about what he did: his milestone.

Welcome to Brood War 2.0 on Liquipedia – today the Progaming Portal will be published. Its focus: the current Korean Brood War landscape, whose labels include the “SOSPA”, Korean Amateur, post-KeSPA, or simply, Afreeca scene. For new fans or those returning from some time away, lured back by LoveTV Season 3 or SSL 10, it is a useful gateway (pun intended) for learning more about the current “era”. For those who have remained active, the integrated and redesigned Players or Tournaments portals may be of more use and interest.



Go check it out. Finally there is a global page explaining things you would otherwise have to learn from multiple sources!