• Log InLog In
  • Register
Liquid`
Team Liquid Liquipedia
EST 10:59
CET 16:59
KST 00:59
  • Home
  • Forum
  • Calendar
  • Streams
  • Liquipedia
  • Features
  • Store
  • EPT
  • TL+
  • StarCraft 2
  • Brood War
  • Smash
  • Heroes
  • Counter-Strike
  • Overwatch
  • Liquibet
  • Fantasy StarCraft
  • TLPD
  • StarCraft 2
  • Brood War
  • Blogs
Forum Sidebar
Events/Features
News
Featured News
[ASL22] Finals Preview: Sweet Victory!12[ASL22] Ro4 Preview: Mirror Mirror6[ASL22] Ro8 Preview: Within Reach5[ASL22] Ro8 Preview: In A Tizzy11[ASL22] Ro16 Preview: Holy Diver5
Community News
Weekly Cups (October 19-25): Clem triples first in 5.0.175Evil Geniuses - shutting down21ISSL (IntoTheTV x SOOP SC2 League): Premier6Weekly Cups (October 12-18): 5.0.17 era begins1[$1250] International ShieldBattery League97
StarCraft 2
General
No more SC2 streamers on team liquid? Evil Geniuses - shutting down Behind the Blue - Team Liquid History Book SC2 Power Rank: epic29 Weekly Cups (October 19-25): Clem triples first in 5.0.17
Tourneys
Stellar Fest TWO the Moon (Dec 16-20) Sparkling Tuna Cup - Weekly Open Tournament RSL goes to London! 2026 Offline Finals Nov 21-22 ISSL (IntoTheTV x SOOP SC2 League): Premier RSL 2026 Offline Finals LCQ Sign-Ups
Strategy
[H] ZvP Mid-Late Game: Stalkers Collossi HT
Custom Maps
[D] the control group Simple Questions/Answers [G] How to playtest arcade maps [A] Nemrods 1/4 players
External Content
The PondCast: SC2 News & Results Mutation # 549 Endless Sparkles Mutation # 548 Shining Bright Mutation # 547 Temple Of Terror
Brood War
General
BW General Discussion Rollback Netcode in Brood War Mathematicians needed to calc "Low Econ Epicness" SCHNAIL now supports Remastered Ziemie's Starcraft 1 Prequel Campaign
Tourneys
[$1250] International ShieldBattery League [Megathread] Daily Proleagues [ASL22] Grand Finals 2v2v2v2 Tournament Stage 1: Community Poll
Strategy
50,000-Word Terran Builds Memo 2026-10-22 Cliff Jump Revisited (1 in a 1000 strategy) Simple Questions, Simple Answers
Other Games
General Games
Deus Ex 3!? Stormgate/Frost Giant Megathread Nintendo Switch Thread Mobile Legends: Bang Bang Armies of Exigo - YesYes?
Dota 2
Dota 2 Champions League Season 3 Begins April 25!
League of Legends
[TL LoL EUW IHs] Teemo shall perish
Heroes of the Storm
Heroes of the Storm 2.0
Hearthstone
Deck construction bug
TL Mafia
TL Mafia Community Thread
Community
General
Canadian Politics Mega-thread Russo-Ukrainian War Thread US Politics Mega-thread Things Aren’t Peaceful in Palestine European Politico-economics QA Mega-thread
Fan Clubs
Reynor Fan Club The Flash Fan Club Serral Fan Club
Media & Entertainment
Anime Discussion Thread Movie Discussion! [Manga] One Piece
Sports
Football (Soccer) Thread TeamLiquid Health and Fitness Initiative For 2023 MLB/Baseball 2023
World Cup 2022
Tech Support
Computer Build, Upgrade & Buying Resource Thread
TL Community
Recent Gifted Posts
Blogs
Why I built Repalyzer (1.1.…
BlueStar
Innovate or Game Over?
TrAiDoS
ShieldBattery on Mac
Kraekkling
[ASL22] Ro4 Day1 Ticket Giv…
bITt.mAN
Can Bots Beat Pros?? Starcr…
namkraft
Customize Sidebar...

Website Feedback

Closed Threads



Active: 8167 users

[OSL] The time has come... - Page 2

Forum Index > News
Post a Reply
Prev 1 2 3 4 Next All
251
Profile Blog Joined March 2008
United States1401 Posts
June 11 2008 15:58 GMT
#21
excellent writeup! you guys just got me excited about an OSL that I previously had no interest in. seriously, 5 protoss....wtf age are we in?

1 T to rule them all
"If you can chill..........then chill."
Plexa
Profile Blog Joined October 2005
Aotearoa39261 Posts
June 11 2008 16:08 GMT
#22
On June 12 2008 00:57 lololol wrote:
Show nested quote +
On June 12 2008 00:15 Plexa wrote:
On June 11 2008 23:48 JoxxOr wrote:
[image loading]

Who is this? There are like 20 ppl on these forums who got this icon :S
It's me obviously


It's still better to have an unique indentifier.
it was an oversight by mani
Administrator~ Spirit will set you free ~
Mastermind
Profile Blog Joined April 2008
Canada7096 Posts
June 11 2008 16:18 GMT
#23

Best is simply on another level at the moment, he only just lost out to an inform Stork (best PvP in the world) in Bacchus OSL - and this time he's going all the way.


Jangbi's last PvP adventure was a pair of games against Stork, which he won. But Stork sucks, so who cares?

Who cares that he beat the best pvp in the world?
Kyuki
Profile Joined February 2008
Sweden1867 Posts
Last Edited: 2008-06-11 16:22:44
June 11 2008 16:21 GMT
#24
On June 11 2008 23:48 JoxxOr wrote:
[image loading]

Who is this? There are like 20 ppl on these forums who got this icon :S

I'm guessing Plexa

*edit* Man I had not updated the thread before I posted... Ah well, I guessed right!
Mada Mada Dane
Goosey
Profile Blog Joined September 2005
United States695 Posts
June 11 2008 16:27 GMT
#25
Awesome writeups. I love that finally BackHo's skills are getting acknowledged. I am not really a BackHo fan, but he has been on a roll recently and it seems like everyone has wanted to keep pretending like every game he wins is some crazy fluke.

Great coverage!
#1 Shuttle Fan.
Plexa
Profile Blog Joined October 2005
Aotearoa39261 Posts
June 11 2008 16:42 GMT
#26
On June 12 2008 01:18 NeoStorm wrote:
Show nested quote +

Best is simply on another level at the moment, he only just lost out to an inform Stork (best PvP in the world) in Bacchus OSL - and this time he's going all the way.

Show nested quote +

Jangbi's last PvP adventure was a pair of games against Stork, which he won. But Stork sucks, so who cares?

Who cares that he beat the best pvp in the world?
important to note is that Stork sucks right now, and that without doubt Best has the best PvP in the world. Stork was the best PvP from around late 05 through to today (imo atleast) which he inherited from Reach. There was a bit of a fight for the title between himself and Bisu - but that was settled in Ever07. Then after he completely blew out after Bacchus he just lost it. He wasn't playing like the stork we use to know and well, Bests PvP is just better.

Basically, keep in mind the timing of events when you make those comparisons.
Administrator~ Spirit will set you free ~
raga4ka
Profile Joined February 2008
Bulgaria5679 Posts
Last Edited: 2008-06-11 17:05:56
June 11 2008 16:54 GMT
#27
Epic news we have here if Much takes out Free in MSL he will have a good shot of takeing out BEST . BackHO is good PvPer he should win this , July versus Rock well my fav two players are playeing it could go either way , Flash vs Lux don't know i'm expecting the curse to kick out Flash eny minute now .

Edit: Is there going to be a discussion , about the MSL too ?
KwarK
Profile Blog Joined July 2006
United States44403 Posts
June 11 2008 16:57 GMT
#28
<3 BackHo
ModeratorThe angels have the phone box
aZnvaLiaNce
Profile Joined June 2007
United States942 Posts
June 11 2008 17:41 GMT
#29
backho looks like a fag
Isnt that worth fighting for? Isnt that worth dying for? - Morpheus
AnyOne
Profile Joined January 2008
Chile547 Posts
June 11 2008 18:36 GMT
#30
JULYZERG FTW
go #1 kespa for 11 more moths ]]]
STX SOuL FightinG~ Inter.Calm FigthinG ~
Barbarne
Profile Joined August 2007
Sweden458 Posts
June 11 2008 19:57 GMT
#31
"The kid that nobody believed in walked over Jaedong and Casy to qualify for the OSL - then defeated Much and Bisu to qualify as D1"

Oh really? I found this amusing as they where two 100% cheese games, after GGplay raping the shit out of (not so) poor backho. And his win versus bisu isn't as impressive if you take Bisu's wrist into account.

Is it obvious that I really don't like backho?

Very nice anyway, I'm 200% hoping for luxury to win, the reason why I see a clear favor for the terran is because of the map since every map in the OSL is terran favoured in TvZ. Check TLPD and watch some games if you don't believe me. I just hope this trend in maps change soon since balanced TvZ is one of the greatest things there is in starcraft.

My prediction for the games is this: Flash will play standard or cheese. If he plays standard, Luxury will try some different builds and stuff to overcome the map dissadvantage. You will marvel at his nice play and think that he might take it, but in the end, the more boring, turtling terran will come out on top and we will be left with an appetite for some more balanced maps next season. Not saying they are bad, I love to play on them, I just don't wanna see my zergs get fucked by the map pool.
eat
Profile Joined February 2008
United Kingdom88 Posts
June 11 2008 19:59 GMT
#32
Looking forward to Flash v Much if that bracket goes to form. Im also looking forward to anyone beating flash :D
/clearstats YES
B1nary
Profile Blog Joined January 2008
Canada1267 Posts
June 11 2008 20:16 GMT
#33
I don't see any reason Flash won't win the entire thing. None of the players there seem to have a chance against him.
thunk
Profile Blog Joined March 2008
United States6233 Posts
June 11 2008 20:29 GMT
#34
On June 12 2008 05:16 B1nary wrote:
I don't see any reason Flash won't win the entire thing. None of the players there seem to have a chance against him.



There has only been 1 player that has won the OSL twice in a row, and that player is Boxer. So, do you feel lucky, punk? There aren't that many people that are better than Boxer.

That said, I think Best has a legimate chance at taking him out. Maybe Jangbi, if he makes it that far, which I sincerely doubt.
Every time Jung Myung Hoon builds a vulture, two probes die. || My post count was a palindrome and I was never posting again.
Born)Slippy
Profile Joined October 2002
Norway1904 Posts
June 11 2008 21:19 GMT
#35
Excellent article, guys. Thanks a lot for the read!
GrandInquisitor *
Profile Blog Joined May 2005
New York City13113 Posts
June 11 2008 21:28 GMT
#36
i made a bracket!! my predictions
What fun is it being cool if you can’t wear a sombrero?
fusionsdf
Profile Blog Joined June 2006
Canada15390 Posts
June 11 2008 21:30 GMT
#37

Jangbi's last PvP adventure was a pair of games against Stork, which he won. But Stork sucks, so who cares? Jangbi is in for a hellacious time with BackHo, simply because if BackHo's builds counter Jangbi's in any way, he is dead.


yeah I know fakesteve, stork has horrible pvp
[image loading]
SKT_Best: "I actually chose Protoss because it was so hard for me to defeat Protoss as a Terran. When I first started Brood War, my main race was Terran."
intotherainx
Profile Blog Joined March 2007
United States504 Posts
June 11 2008 22:10 GMT
#38
too bad we cant see flash vs best in finals
War_Minister
Profile Joined March 2008
Canada86 Posts
June 11 2008 22:32 GMT
#39
Wow! Magnificent write-up!

Thanks a lot, Plexa!
Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards. - Soren Kierkegaard
dinmsab
Profile Blog Joined January 2008
Malaysia2246 Posts
Last Edited: 2008-06-11 23:02:08
June 11 2008 22:57 GMT
#40
On June 12 2008 06:30 fusionsdf wrote:
Show nested quote +

Jangbi's last PvP adventure was a pair of games against Stork, which he won. But Stork sucks, so who cares? Jangbi is in for a hellacious time with BackHo, simply because if BackHo's builds counter Jangbi's in any way, he is dead.


yeah I know fakesteve, stork has horrible pvp
[image loading]


Yeah FS, Stork sucks so bad. In fact, everyone agrees that the biggest hurdle for jangbi in the tiebreakers was Nada, not stork right? Bullshit. Ok, we all know you hate the guy but he's far away from bad. Although I agree his PvP has definitely gone downhill(losing to 5 PvP games out of 6), he's pretty much even in the amount of wins and losses.

Imho Stork is indeed not the killer toss he used to be, but he's still pretty far away from bad.


Thats probably the only thing I disagreed on, everything else was great.
..
Prev 1 2 3 4 Next All
Please log in or register to reply.
Live Events Refresh
OSC
23:00
King of the Hill #266
EmpressLilyy201
Liquipedia
[ Submit Event ]
Live Streams
Refresh
StarCraft 2
ByuN 656
IndyStarCraft 279
SHIN 196
mcanning 94
DenverSC2 24
EmSc Tv 23
Harstem 22
StarCraft: Brood War
Bisu 1280
Shuttle 1249
Horang2 1034
EffOrt 439
BeSt 400
Soulkey 385
actioN 265
sorry 111
Mind 98
Zeus 86
[ Show more ]
Snow 62
Pusan 58
Dewaltoss 56
Hyun 53
Trap 46
Barracks 36
LancerX 32
Classic 31
HiyA 31
ToSsGirL 28
910 25
soO 19
Rock 16
Free 13
yabsab 13
Sacsri 9
Dota 2
Gorgc17582
syndereN345
Counter-Strike
gobbtv198
Heroes of the Storm
Khaldor214
Other Games
tarik_tv5962
singsing2244
Liquid`RaSZi1827
B2W.Neo1694
Mlord659
mouzStarbuck353
XaKoH 259
Livibee219
KnowMe172
RotterdaM128
QueenE69
Organizations
Counter-Strike
PGL1599
Other Games
ComeBackTV 369
StarCraft 2
EmSc Tv 23
EmSc2Tv 23
[ Show 17 non-featured ]
StarCraft 2
• HeavenSC 28
• Adnapsc2 19
• killerbeecast7
• Hinosc 2
• AfreecaTV YouTube
• intothetv
• Kozan
• IndyKCrew
• Laughngamez YouTube
• Migwel
StarCraft: Brood War
• FirePhoenix11
• BSLYoutube
• STPLYoutube
• ZZZeroYoutube
Dota 2
• C_a_k_e 2885
• WagamamaTV567
Other Games
• Shiphtur395
Upcoming Events
Yamato Cup
1m
IPSL
1h 1m
Artosis vs RiceHat
Kyrie vs Sony
Map Test Tournament
7h 1m
WardiTV Weekly
20h 1m
Ultimate Battle
20h 1m
Rush vs BeSt
Replay Cast
1d 7h
Rogue vs Classic
Patches Events
1d 21h
PiGosaur Cup
2 days
Kung Fu Cup
2 days
The PondCast
3 days
[ Show More ]
KCM Race Survival
3 days
IntoTheTV X SOOP
5 days
herO vs Rogue
Reynor vs Solar
ByuN vs SHIN
Clem vs MaxPax
WardiTV Invitational
5 days
IPSL
6 days
WorsT vs nOmaD
Dewalt vs andersOn
IntoTheTV X SOOP
6 days
WardiTV Invitational
6 days
Liquipedia Results

Completed

Proleague 2026-10-30
Blizzard Classic Cup 2026
HCC Season 3

Ongoing

Acropolis #5
KCM Race Survival 2026 Season 4
International ShieldBattery League
BSL Season 23
IPSL Winter 2026-27
PGL Masters Bucharest 2026
Stake Ranked Episode 5
1win Private Club #2
Thunderpick World Champ. '26
ESL Pro League Season 24
Stake Ranked Episode 4
1win Private Club #1
Logitech G Play Connect 2026
SL StarSeries Fall 2026
FISSURE Playground #3
BLAST Open Fall 2026
Esports World Cup 2026

Upcoming

1xBet Invitational
SC4ALL II: Brood War
BSL 23: Non-Korean Championship
HSC XXX
Stellar Fest 2: Lunar Cup
SC4ALL II: StarCraft II
Kung Fu Cup 2026 Grand Finals
RSL Offline Finals
BLAST Bounty Winter 2027
eXTREMESLAND 2026
PGL Major Singapore 2026
Stake Ranked Episode 6
BLAST Rivals Fall 2026
IEM Beijing 2026
TLPD

1. ByuN
2. TY
3. Dark
4. Solar
5. Stats
6. Nerchio
7. sOs
8. soO
9. INnoVation
10. Elazer
1. Rain
2. Flash
3. EffOrt
4. Last
5. Bisu
6. Soulkey
7. Mini
8. Sharp
Sidebar Settings...

Advertising | Privacy Policy | Terms Of Use | Contact Us

Original banner artwork: Jim Warren
The contents of this webpage are copyright © 2026 TLnet. All Rights Reserved.