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KBK - What happened?

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rushz0rz
Profile Blog Joined February 2006
Canada5300 Posts
June 26 2007 13:11 GMT
#1
Basically, what the title says. What happened to KBK?

Also, where can I find some KBK maps.
IntoTheRainBOw fan~
FakeSteve[TPR]
Profile Blog Joined July 2003
Valhalla18444 Posts
June 26 2007 13:15 GMT
#2
a white guy won and that is simply unacceptable
Moderatormy tatsu loops r fuckin nice
rushz0rz
Profile Blog Joined February 2006
Canada5300 Posts
June 26 2007 13:17 GMT
#3
really? are you referring to [GG99]Slayer?
IntoTheRainBOw fan~
OhThatDang
Profile Joined August 2004
United States4685 Posts
June 27 2007 01:08 GMT
#4
indeed
troi oi thang map nai!!!
CharlieMurphy
Profile Blog Joined March 2006
United States22895 Posts
June 27 2007 04:47 GMT
#5
lol
..and then I would, ya know, check em'. (Aka SpoR)
tehsex
Profile Joined April 2007
296 Posts
June 27 2007 05:23 GMT
#6
kbk maps are the ladder maps as far as i can remember
FirstBorn
Profile Blog Joined March 2007
Romania3955 Posts
June 27 2007 05:29 GMT
#7
Can some1 kindly explain to me what exactly KBK is/was ?
SonuvBob: Yes, the majority of TL is college-aged, and thus clearly stupid.
Meat
Profile Blog Joined September 2002
Netherlands3751 Posts
June 27 2007 05:32 GMT
#8
Knights bridging korea,
the goal was to get as many fake wins as possible on the online ladder and then you got a free ticket to the finals in korea.
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Liquid`Jinro
Profile Blog Joined September 2002
Sweden33719 Posts
Last Edited: 2007-06-27 05:34:37
June 27 2007 05:33 GMT
#9
A ladder that culminated in an offline tournament in korea for the top X.

The last one held was in uh..... 2003? 2004? KBK Jeju anyway, and a bunch of non-koreans were supposed to go (daaman, willet, whiz I think...? but some complications came up and some of the non-koreans currently there ended up going, not sure who.. was it Assem/Elky/Leg or just Elky/Leg?).

Blah, I don't remember if all of the 3 people I mentioned qualified but at least 2 of them did I think!

The first 3 were like..

TheMarine beating some guy,
Slayer (the norweigan) beating i.love.star
TheMarine beating slayer (or maybe he didn't beat slayer in the finals but he beat him sometime during KBK I'm almost certain).
Moderatortell the guy that interplanatar interaction is pivotal to terrans variety of optionitudals in the pre-midgame preperatories as well as the protosstinal deterriggation of elite zergling strikes - Stimey n | Formerly FrozenArbiter
FirstBorn
Profile Blog Joined March 2007
Romania3955 Posts
June 27 2007 05:37 GMT
#10
Wow... A really nice concept. Pretty sad it's over.
SonuvBob: Yes, the majority of TL is college-aged, and thus clearly stupid.
Guybrush
Profile Blog Joined December 2002
Spain4744 Posts
Last Edited: 2007-06-27 06:00:51
June 27 2007 05:38 GMT
#11
Rainbow won the 4th kbk btw in 2003.

Themarine beat the same guy that Slayer beat in the first KBK in the final.

Sonjjang was 2nd in the 3rd KBK that TheMarine won. Elky 3rd and Sir@Soni 4th.

I THINK Rainbow beat Boxer in the final of the 4th but Im not sure.

Some searching helps

On December 21 2004 07:45 Malmis wrote:
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On December 21 2004 07:42 SonnyBlack wrote:
oh btw who won this ladder?

1st place:IntoTheRainbOw (Won 10.000$)
2nd place:Crystal[Inca] (Won 4.500$)
3rd:BoxeR (Won 3.000$)
4th: t.3)yun.KyuNG (Won nothing)
Edit: Found price money
Live2Win is awesome. Happy new year scarabi!
Locked
Profile Joined September 2004
United States4182 Posts
Last Edited: 2007-06-27 11:19:45
June 27 2007 11:19 GMT
#12
wow i never realized there was even a fourth KBK O_o

thanks for that, i thought it was over after 3
UMS map pack http://teamliquid.net/forum/viewmessage.php?topic_id=50442
tehsex
Profile Joined April 2007
296 Posts
June 27 2007 11:52 GMT
#13
grrr ever qualified ? which year ?
dronefromhell
Profile Joined May 2007
Canada199 Posts
June 27 2007 12:02 GMT
#14
didnt u have to pay to play in kbk
Liquid`Jinro
Profile Blog Joined September 2002
Sweden33719 Posts
Last Edited: 2007-06-27 12:06:58
June 27 2007 12:06 GMT
#15
I wasn't around for the first 3, but in the 4th one you didn't no.

Although they had this annoying bug so that non-koreans couldn't register for a really long time IIRC (I actually called their customer support like 3 times :D).

I think the first 3 were free as well btw.
Moderatortell the guy that interplanatar interaction is pivotal to terrans variety of optionitudals in the pre-midgame preperatories as well as the protosstinal deterriggation of elite zergling strikes - Stimey n | Formerly FrozenArbiter
zulu_nation8
Profile Blog Joined May 2005
China26351 Posts
June 27 2007 12:24 GMT
#16
crystal[inca] is by.crystal? he's been playing sc for that long?
Liquid`Jinro
Profile Blog Joined September 2002
Sweden33719 Posts
June 27 2007 12:29 GMT
#17
Yeah, he got back from the army like... Last autumn or something? I can't remember.
Moderatortell the guy that interplanatar interaction is pivotal to terrans variety of optionitudals in the pre-midgame preperatories as well as the protosstinal deterriggation of elite zergling strikes - Stimey n | Formerly FrozenArbiter
Kacas
Profile Joined July 2003
Brazil3143 Posts
June 27 2007 12:55 GMT
#18
slayer99 vs ilovestar was thefirst vod i ever saw.

i may still have all vods from that kbk
I Love Hyori Lee =* icq: 41760400 / msn: kayen_chn at hotm
himurakenshin
Profile Blog Joined April 2006
Canada1845 Posts
June 27 2007 13:23 GMT
#19
On June 26 2007 22:15 FakeSteve[TPR] wrote:
a white guy won and that is simply unacceptable

A white guy won the OSL too...
Texas
Profile Blog Joined March 2006
Germany2388 Posts
Last Edited: 2007-06-27 15:52:44
June 27 2007 15:51 GMT
#20
Vod from KBK 2000, TheMarine (t) vs. freemura (z) @ LT. download in case someone is interested in this nostalgic stuff ;x

Storchen
Profile Joined September 2006
Sweden4385 Posts
June 27 2007 15:57 GMT
#21
I remember the hype in the swedish community when Daaman, Willet and Whiz were supposed to go. And the disappointment when they didn't.
Willet got really really sad I think. He was on fire at the time.
GTR
Profile Blog Joined September 2004
51566 Posts
June 27 2007 16:27 GMT
#22
holy shit thanks for vod texas

any more?
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Texas
Profile Blog Joined March 2006
Germany2388 Posts
Last Edited: 2007-06-27 18:06:47
June 27 2007 17:57 GMT
#23
some random stuff i found
kbk masters 2000 #1;
[image loading]

1 Lobotomy
2 Unfaithful
3 X'Ds~Grrrr...
4 [DEF]Kosh
5 [BG]Mr.X
6 {Manners}
7 Kev-The-Feared
8 ~jolly~
9 Masochist..
10 Storm-[SDT]

kbk masters 2000 #2;
[image loading]

1 Hasulurker [iDEF]Slayer
2 Henry_ho
3 Wize Man
4 Maynard
5 StorM-[SDT]
6 [GG1]Elky@DR
7 Zarma.Npg
8 Tillerman
9 [O]Mr.X
10 Hasudrone [9]NTT

kbk finals 2001 (results);
+ Show Spoiler +

TheMarine (Terran, Korea)
Pro.NT_Sonjjang (Protoss, Korea)
[GG1]ElkY (Terran, France)
sir@soni(Zerg, Korea)


replays kbk masters 2001
note: patch is 1.08b, you have to use 1.08 in order to watch them. 2 games, marine vs. sonjjang, played october 01
PhilGood2DaY
Profile Joined September 2005
Germany7424 Posts
June 27 2007 18:11 GMT
#24
these names are so sick..
they make me feel so nostalgic
wtf kosh..omg... kosh lol ^^
isnt there a vod where u can see slayers speed which was so fast that grrrr burst out laughing in disbelief..

so fast for that time..
hatred outlives the hateful
FakeSteve[TPR]
Profile Blog Joined July 2003
Valhalla18444 Posts
June 27 2007 18:28 GMT
#25
On June 27 2007 22:23 himurakenshin wrote:
Show nested quote +
On June 26 2007 22:15 FakeSteve[TPR] wrote:
a white guy won and that is simply unacceptable

A white guy won the OSL too...


oh young grasshopper... Giyom isn't just any white guy
Moderatormy tatsu loops r fuckin nice
red.venom
Profile Joined October 2002
United States4651 Posts
June 27 2007 18:33 GMT
#26
kbk was really hardcore for its time. I remember me and a friend of mine who was even worse than me signed up and man we got owned so bad; ] then it became impossible to get games cuz our records were like 0-10.

lineups for those first two are just :O so many old names.
Broom
SpiritAshura
Profile Joined March 2007
United States1271 Posts
June 27 2007 20:25 GMT
#27
tillerman? heh i forgot about him i just remember him from wc3.
Honk2000
Profile Joined April 2003
Germany698 Posts
June 27 2007 20:41 GMT
#28
On June 28 2007 00:51 HiTexas wrote:
Vod from KBK 2000, TheMarine (t) vs. freemura (z) @ LT. download in case someone is interested in this nostalgic stuff ;x



nice oldschool vod, but the zerg guy is not freemura, it's "I_Love.Star".

i think in 99 there was also a kbk, which an unknown terran player won.


oHInsane
Profile Joined February 2005
France727 Posts
June 27 2007 21:21 GMT
#29
On June 28 2007 03:11 MaGic~PhiL wrote:
these names are so sick..
they make me feel so nostalgic
wtf kosh..omg... kosh lol ^^
isnt there a vod where u can see slayers speed which was so fast that grrrr burst out laughing in disbelief..

so fast for that time..


Yes i totally feel the same, i am glad someone still remembers the mighty kosh, not the play, but the babylon5 one

I am gonna wath all the seasons of it right now i think
Elsi
Profile Joined October 2002
United Kingdom8173 Posts
June 27 2007 21:57 GMT
#30
From 01 onwards, the Koreans owned the foreigners
merz
Profile Blog Joined July 2004
Sweden2760 Posts
June 27 2007 22:48 GMT
#31
The KBK where Willet and WhiZ were supposed to go was around 2005? I think. Although something messed up, not sure what, I'm sure whiz knows what happened, and they couldn't go.


It was when you could play it online among all the koreans and the top2 foreigners would qualify for the offline tournament in korea.
Winners never quit, quitters never win.
Guybrush
Profile Blog Joined December 2002
Spain4744 Posts
Last Edited: 2007-06-27 23:19:07
June 27 2007 23:17 GMT
#32
2005 ? November/December 2003.

Found this fine thread by FA http://teamliquid.net/forum/viewmessage.php?topic_id=8994#1
Live2Win is awesome. Happy new year scarabi!
pubbanana
Profile Blog Joined June 2005
United States3063 Posts
June 28 2007 05:54 GMT
#33
I remember back then, H.O.T wrote on his fan cafe that Leg scared him or something while they were taking a bus to the tournament location and that Heaven[30D.O.M] was tripping his balls off because he was so excited to win a trip to Jaeju (so much so that he did awful in the actual tournament)

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