The wait is over. We started from over 200 progamers, and after weeks of cutting and withering, we come down to the final 32. It's time for the main event to start.
Introducing....
Sponsor As you all know GomTV sponsored the last MSL, and over time has been increasingly involved in the progaming scene, broadcasting live of MSL and KeSPA Cup over the internet. With their success, they've decided to sponsor another season of MSL, and added plenty of $$ for it.
Format As previously reported, MSL has decided to expand their league, doubling their numbers from 16 to 32. Meanwhile, they completely disgarded the Survivor League all together. So instead of players who fall from MSL going down to a minor league, they go straight to the offline prelims.
Round of 32 Round of 32 will start like Ro16 did last couple of a season. They will have 8 groups of 4, and each group will play a Dual-Tournament like group match. There will be a game 1, then a game 2, a winners match, losers match, and a final match. The winner of the Winners and Final match will advance to the next round.
Round of 16 From round of 16 to the finals will be a single-elimination tournament. Sadly, MSL has almost completely disbanded their double elimination style. Instead, the 16 players will play a bo3, and the winners will advance to the Quarter Finals.
Quarter Finals and up. Continuing from Round of 16, the next 8 players will continue to play in the tournament, except from here on the matches will be bo5. That's right. That's 4 bo5's in Quarters, 2 bo5's in semis, and a Final. All together that makes 7 bo5's.... 4 more than they had last season.
Meanwhile, the top 8 will be seeded for the next MSL. Therefor, a player is only required to pass by the Group stages and the first round of the tournament to be guaranteed a spot.
Prize Money The good news is that the maximum prize money for MSL has nearly doubled. The total amount of prize money last season was around $70,000. GomTV2 will be a total of about $120,000. The Winner will scrape in an incredible $50,000, which is the largest amount of money yet. Shinhan3 last season was $40,000.
Schedule With MSL's insane amount of games, and the elimination of Survivor league, there is really no reason for MBC to play only once a week. Thus, they will follow OGN's lead, and hold 2 events a week. These days are every Thursday at 6:30PM (Korea Time) and Saturday at 6:30PM (Korea Time).
Group Selection Ceremony: April 26th - Thursday, 6:00PM First Match: May 3rd - Thursday, 6:30PM
Awesome l2w, disappointed that Lecaf doesn't have anyone but i wonder how having 5 players is going to affect MBC's proleague performance further down the line. (now that i think about probably not that much because they have that many good players).
It entirely depends on the maps. I would just like to stress again that I absolutely HATE Nemesis. Lets give everyone a protected gas nat and a luna style middle! It will be awesome!
On April 22 2007 20:10 Last Romantic wrote: How will those eight groups be chosen?
I was just about to ask the same thing, are they going to be chosen at random? Will the seeds from the previous MSL be split up first? They obviously can't pick their own groups, since there weren't enough seeds, though it sounds like in future MSL's there will be 8 seeds and they could potentially do group selections.
If you notice almost all Z and P players who qualified are well-known names ... not so with the terran players, that's how fu@#ed up the maps are in this tournament (OSL is much worse though). I wish someone would do something about it.
Hope boxer, jangbi or much get far in this tournament. They all deserve it I dont think I have to hope for savior and bisu to make it far... Being on the level they are, unless they run into eachother they will make it to the semis by default
Go Stork bisu and nal_rA! Oh, just for the hell of it, I'm cheering for Child. Come on, atleast take a game off someone. It's so disheartening seeing him get thrashed so badly every game. He's good enough to make it to the big leagues (good or lucky, I'm not sure), he deserves atleast one good showing.
The army will garantee boxer extra hours for practise if he might be able to make it to the best of 8 or something. Eventually the army will also benefit from it when boxer stim some crazy shit out of his ass
On April 23 2007 15:36 JtF)ApoKalyPs3 wrote: err, i didnt read previous posts, so this might have been mentioned, but that's a picture of Monty Hall and the caption above it says Geometry? :p
On April 23 2007 15:36 JtF)ApoKalyPs3 wrote: err, i didnt read previous posts, so this might have been mentioned, but that's a picture of Monty Hall and the caption above it says Geometry? :p
hey where do can you watch these reps? ive heard of replays.net but thats so dam confusing with all the question marks and chinese writing . Can you list some sites to watch reps (not youtube type) but real reps. thx
On April 23 2007 15:36 JtF)ApoKalyPs3 wrote: err, i didnt read previous posts, so this might have been mentioned, but that's a picture of Monty Hall and the caption above it says Geometry? :p
It's neither Monty Hall nor Geometry. It's called Blue Vagina.
EPT
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. Can you list some sites to watch reps (not youtube type) but real reps. thx 
