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Ajae League Season 1 brought to you by AfreecaTV

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lemmata
Profile Blog Joined October 2013
468 Posts
Last Edited: 2017-04-06 23:48:47
April 06 2017 16:09 GMT
#1
Ajae (pronounced ah-jay) is Korean slang which means middle-aged man. It is mostly used in a slightly derogatory sense. They are poking fun at themselves for being old. All participants are 30+ in age and have completed military service. This is their criteria for being an "ajae".

The Ajae League is something that firebathero has been running over the past few months to great acclaim on an irregular basis and received many views on YouTube. I believe that GoRush is the official organizer of this version, which will be sponsored by AfreecaTV. However, the idea really is a brainchild of firebathero, who has been pushing this format (involving older players) and showing that it can be successful.

Team Live Draft Video


Team (T)NaDa
(Z)HyuN
(P)Rock

Team (P)Zeus
(T)PianO
(T)firebathero

Team (P)Nal_rA
(Z)ggaemo
(T)ClouD

Team (P)Pusan
(T)Iris
(Z)GoRush


Format:

Round of 4: Double-elimination in BO5
Three 1v1s + 2v2 + 1v1 Ace Match


Schedule:

2017.4.10~2017.4.26
Monday/Wednesday 8pm KST


Prize Pool:

First place: 2,500,000 KRW
Second place: 1,500,000 KRW
Third/Fourth place: 600,000 KRW

Prizes are split evenly among the team members


Draft Result:

Round 1. NaDa takes Hyun
Round 2. Zeus takes Piano
Round 3. Nal_ra takes Ggaemo
Round 4. Pusan takes Iris
Round 5. Zeus takes firebathero
Round 6. NaDa takes Rock
Round 7. Pusan takes GoRush
Round 8. Nal_ra takes Cloud


If you want to seem some of the exciting past Ajae League games organized by firebathero, some videos are behind the spoiler.

+ Show Spoiler +
Garimto v Cloud


Cloud v Rainbow


Iris v Cloud

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BisuDagger
Profile Blog Joined October 2009
Bisutopia19307 Posts
April 06 2017 16:12 GMT
#2
Hard not to think team Nada will win the whole thing.
ModeratorFormer Afreeca Starleague Caster: http://afreeca.tv/ASL2ENG2
thezanursic
Profile Blog Joined July 2011
5497 Posts
April 06 2017 16:21 GMT
#3
Seems fun, not quite A tier, but should be fun to see some of these players play again
http://i45.tinypic.com/9j2cdc.jpg Let it be so!
purakushi
Profile Joined August 2012
United States3301 Posts
Last Edited: 2017-04-06 17:32:13
April 06 2017 17:31 GMT
#4
not the best players, but this league seems fun xD

great to see all of them working together on stuff
T P Z sagi
byj
Profile Joined November 2015
494 Posts
April 06 2017 17:38 GMT
#5
Not sure how big prize pools usually are, but seems quite nice to get 2,5M Won for such a little league. Thanks a lot Afreeca for sponsoring all those tournaments!
Jealous
Profile Blog Joined December 2011
10287 Posts
April 06 2017 18:20 GMT
#6
Can anyone elaborate on the name Ajae? Maybe that would help us understand the "theme" for these veteran players.

I'm hype to see these games! We wouldn't get to see most of these guys play in tournament because most got knocked out of ASL ):
"The right to vote is only the oar of the slaveship, I wanna be free." -- бум бум сучка!
lemmata
Profile Blog Joined October 2013
468 Posts
April 06 2017 18:28 GMT
#7
On April 07 2017 03:20 Jealous wrote:
Can anyone elaborate on the name Ajae? Maybe that would help us understand the "theme" for these veteran players.

I'm hype to see these games! We wouldn't get to see most of these guys play in tournament because most got knocked out of ASL ):

I have updated the main post to answer this question.
Akara12345
Profile Blog Joined July 2016
164 Posts
April 06 2017 18:36 GMT
#8
FBH looks old now...
onlystar
Profile Joined March 2015
United States971 Posts
Last Edited: 2017-04-06 19:31:44
April 06 2017 19:30 GMT
#9
lol ! i love it


edit i noticed FBH gets easily 5K viewers on yt when he streams.. pretty impressive
Qikz
Profile Blog Joined November 2009
United Kingdom12025 Posts
April 06 2017 19:46 GMT
#10
Yay Firebathero!

Wow, Rock is back!
FanTaSy's #1 Fan | STPL Caster/Organiser | SKT BEST KT | https://twitch.tv/stpl
wabe.PrayHard
Profile Joined October 2011
Bolivia45 Posts
April 06 2017 20:51 GMT
#11
so great to hear about ir, in my mind is firabathero throwing the water bottle when winning KeSPA league with Samsung Khan
the force is in prayer
[AS]Rattus
Profile Joined March 2017
428 Posts
April 06 2017 23:50 GMT
#12
will this also appear on the AfreecaTV-youtube channel and will there be an english cast by anyone?
prech
Profile Joined March 2014
United States2948 Posts
April 07 2017 00:18 GMT
#13
Very cool, thanks lemmata. Will the live stream for this team league be at GoRush's Afreeca?
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lemmata
Profile Blog Joined October 2013
468 Posts
Last Edited: 2017-04-07 00:36:58
April 07 2017 00:28 GMT
#14
On April 07 2017 09:18 prech wrote:
Very cool, thanks lemmata. Will the live stream for this team league be at GoRush's Afreeca?

It will definitely be streamed live on Afreeca on GoRush's page. It should also be streamed live on all participants' Afreeca streams. However, unless there's something I missed, I think that it should be on firebathero's YouTube and Twitch live streams as well.
CuckFapitalism
Profile Joined December 2016
22 Posts
April 07 2017 00:31 GMT
#15
On April 07 2017 03:36 Akara12345 wrote:
FBH looks old now...


I think it's a lot to do with the fact that he's put on a lot of weight, he really was stick thin back in the day.

Loving the idea of this league though, Finally get to see some old greats competing again. Specifically Nal_Ra and NADA!
Chris_Havoc
Profile Joined August 2016
United States600 Posts
April 07 2017 00:34 GMT
#16
I like the idea of an "younger than me but still kinda old" tournament.
Owner of the SC2 Esports Anthology channel on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/SC2EsportsAnthology
juvenal
Profile Joined July 2013
2448 Posts
April 07 2017 02:55 GMT
#17
Holy shit, didn't realize Piano was that old.
Michael Probu
classicyellow83
Profile Joined June 2016
United States2393 Posts
April 07 2017 04:41 GMT
#18
Team Zeus is OP
Reach!!! Come back to BW!!
Ziggy
Profile Blog Joined June 2013
South Korea2106 Posts
April 07 2017 05:24 GMT
#19
Should be fun, but still, I think it would be wiser of them to organise more rookie-targeted events.
WriterDefeating a sandwich only makes it tastier. @imjustziggy
Xeln4g4
Profile Joined January 2005
Italy1209 Posts
April 07 2017 06:08 GMT
#20
On April 07 2017 01:12 BisuDagger wrote:
Hard not to think team Nada will win the whole thing.


I bet 1 beer they will not (win the whole thing)
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