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United States33388 Posts
Source: PlayXP
PlayXP was a major community site for Warcraft III in Korea. After being somewhat inactive for a period, it has come back in force for Starcraft II.
PlayXP and Gameplex are going to hold a the first Blizzard approved SC II Beta tournament in Korea. It will be a weekly tournament, with 64 or 128 players competing each week. It begins this Saturday, March 6th with a small invitational tournament between top ladder players in Korea.
UPDATE - The tournament was completed, and the replays are up!
Basic Info
Organizers: PlayXP, Gameplex
Format: Single elimination tournament. Single games for the first round, best 2 of 3 for top 4 and above.
Time and Date: March 6th, 3PM.
Live Broadcast: Daum TV Pot.
VODs: VODs will be available on PlayXP and GomTV.
Official Site: http://playxp.com/sc2/news/view.php?article_id=1921806
Here's the list of invited players for Week 1.
Players
Kim Byung Jun (Z) - Love
2nd place division 2. 500-301
Choi Jung Min (Z) - ZenioWerra
2nd place division 1. 417-152
Kim Tae Ho (T) - Hyo
4th place division 5 - 359 - 268
Park Jae Shin (P) - Thanatoss (Progamer "Eve" from Warcraft III)
5th place division 7 - 251-163
Kim Jinwoo (T) - isskin
6th place division 2 - 136-72
Lee Jae Hyuk (P) - Arena
7th place division 2 - 234-117
Chang Du Seop (P) - ChangDuSeop (Progamer "Who" from Warcraft III)
2nd place division 6 - 154-65
Kong Tae Suk (P) - kkong
8th place division 1 - 118-47
Looks fun to me! I hope the VODs are easily watchable by people outside Korea as well.
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Awesome! Looking forward to some vods/reps released.
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It's starting. And you know why I mean by "it" :p!
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On March 06 2010 03:46 Waxangel wrote:
Kim Byung Jun (Z) - Love
2nd place division 2. 500-301
damn...
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800 games khsg;hka
koreans already doin it up real big in sc2: [
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mrmin123
Korea (South)2971 Posts
Sick looking forward do this :D
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There's vote going on about where the VOD will be released - GomTV, Daum TVPot, Mygame TV, and Youtube. Voted for Youtube since it would be most convenient for us I think.
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how do we watch it live?
install GOM tv again?
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ye awesome, I'm excited to see some Koreans play
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Canada5565 Posts
very cool! is there a prize pool or is it just for fun? either way this is awesome, can't wait for VoDs
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Russian Federation1612 Posts
Rooting for Who. Nice that he chosed Protoss
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Good to see Who still playing!
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On March 06 2010 04:15 Xxio wrote:
very cool! is there a prize pool or is it just for fun? either way this is awesome, can't wait for VoDs
Maybe an entry fee that goes to the pot? Im a little curious about htat too. Its a weekly so thats kinda what i imagine it will be
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On March 06 2010 03:52 G.s)NarutO wrote:
It's starting. And you know why I mean by "it" :p!
Yep. This is the beginning, folks!
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T.O.P.
Hong Kong4685 Posts
Time to take out notepad and copy korean build orders up to 60 food.
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51447 Posts
should add kkong is one of the webmasters of the ygosu site.
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Awesome news. Enjoyed watching the PlayXP tournaments for war3.
Gogo WhO!
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LOL! None of the listed players are first in his division!
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3PM what time zone? Korean?
Anyways, any chance of replays?
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How can i watch these VODS or the livestream?
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awesome. so it seems like zenio is still very good vs protoss, since from what i remember he claimed it to be so easy for zerg 
Hyo should be Go)Hyo, a WC3 player too. link
by the way, i would be pretty thankful if someone had a korea division leader/top5 list... have seen only korea/europe
edit: is that "Eve" that ex MeetYourMakers player MYM]EVE ? that guy like never ever played in the WC3 leagues cause he wasn't that good, but stayed on the team for a very long time. but that is already 2 years ago or something, since MYM disbanded and got recreated.
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800 games? Rofl!
I can't wait to watch these VODs and see how Korean SC2 players play.
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what time is this in CET time, any EU player know?
sidenote... 800 games?? wtf
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probably not the most games ... wouldn't be surprised if someone had even more. would love to see someone posting ladderdivision screenshots
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WhO was there....nice
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omg o.o "it" really has begun
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Russian Federation1612 Posts
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Cant wait to see VODs of this
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On March 07 2010 00:14 HolydaKing wrote:
edit: is that "Eve" that ex MeetYourMakers player MYM]EVE ? that guy like never ever played in the WC3 leagues cause he wasn't that good, but stayed on the team for a very long time. but that is already 2 years ago or something, since MYM disbanded and got recreated.
yes I think it's the Undead player who was okay (not that great but not bad).
I wish Lucifer would pick up the game.... but I think he's in the army now.
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Anyone know whats happening to Zacard these days? He's surely finished his military service now.
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United States4126 Posts
Lack of Terrans :/
Sad to see they got eliminated so quickly.
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On March 07 2010 07:27 GTR wrote:Show nested quote +On March 07 2010 00:14 HolydaKing wrote:
edit: is that "Eve" that ex MeetYourMakers player MYM]EVE ? that guy like never ever played in the WC3 leagues cause he wasn't that good, but stayed on the team for a very long time. but that is already 2 years ago or something, since MYM disbanded and got recreated. yes I think it's the Undead player who was okay (not that great but not bad). I wish Lucifer would pick up the game.... but I think he's in the army now.
Or ever better, if Susiria picked it up as well and they both played the same race to recreate the awesome luci/susi 2v2 ud team.
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im good friends with hyo, he gave me his whole replay folder
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On March 07 2010 07:27 GTR wrote:Show nested quote +On March 07 2010 00:14 HolydaKing wrote:
edit: is that "Eve" that ex MeetYourMakers player MYM]EVE ? that guy like never ever played in the WC3 leagues cause he wasn't that good, but stayed on the team for a very long time. but that is already 2 years ago or something, since MYM disbanded and got recreated. yes I think it's the Undead player who was okay (not that great but not bad). I wish Lucifer would pick up the game.... but I think he's in the army now.
EVE was a Night Elf player. He was pretty strong in early TFT but you're right, he never had much of an impact later on at MYM.
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Anything on Youtube for this yet?
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51447 Posts
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Converting the final 3 games to Youtube-friendly format right now. These might take an hour or two to get up and process though.
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^ thx.
but how weird that they didnt upload it to youtube in the first place. on the site the announcement asked where it should be uploaded and virtually everyone said youtube, because it would allow foreigners to watch. TT
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On March 07 2010 08:23 JoshSuth wrote:
Converting the final 3 games to Youtube-friendly format right now. These might take an hour or two to get up and process though.
Thanks please let us know when its up. =)
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On March 07 2010 10:31 MetalMarine wrote:Show nested quote +On March 07 2010 08:23 JoshSuth wrote:
Converting the final 3 games to Youtube-friendly format right now. These might take an hour or two to get up and process though. Thanks please let us know when its up. =)
Results in Spoiler: + Show Spoiler +CowGoMoo hacks BNet2.0 servers, and rapes Koreans. GG.
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I wanna see CGM play against these koreans
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Game 1: Showed the possible imbalance of a certain controversial unit when handled by a top player
Game 2: Very nice harassment in this game, it was an interesting strategy I hadn't seen before but pretty risky for the harasser because if he didn't pull it off he was done
Game 3: Just a terrible build by the loser. Not worth watching and a shame the critical game came down to this.
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I agree, the third and final game was a sad one. =\
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Sweden33719 Posts
Match 1 doesn't show any imbalance, it simply shows Ps build sucked. I mean why didn't you argue game 3 showed the imbalance of lings? It's about the same situation ;/
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wow, i cant believe these current top pro games.
zerg coulda won all 3 cuz game 1 and 2 toss just teching
and game 3, wtf bisu build?
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Yea these idiots are in for a surprise when they face foreigners. Bad builds, bad players.
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Everyone is so bitter that Korean SC has had more backing 
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On March 07 2010 12:53 LaLuSh wrote:
Yea these idiots are in for a surprise when they face foreigners. Bad builds, bad players.
It's strange because some of these guys have like 500-800 games played, and are still trying to do textbook bw builds.
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On March 07 2010 12:53 LaLuSh wrote:
Yea these idiots are in for a surprise when they face foreigners. Bad builds, bad players.
my mind was blown watching those replays. They kind of suck.
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They are watching a lot of demos from us, especially CGM's and KHB's (just check out their forums). Don't worry, they'll catch up
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On March 07 2010 13:18 squ1d wrote:They are watching a lot of demos from us, especially CGM's and KHB's (just check out their forums). Don't worry, they'll catch up
lol koreans watching foreign replays? The world has been turned upside down! (ill take your word for it since i can't read korean)
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Well, we watch their demos to be amazed by their mechanical play. While they watch our demos to be amazed at our ability to innovate. Seems to me a great way to develop the meta-game :p
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On March 07 2010 13:20 t3tsubo wrote:Show nested quote +On March 07 2010 13:18 squ1d wrote:They are watching a lot of demos from us, especially CGM's and KHB's (just check out their forums). Don't worry, they'll catch up lol koreans watching foreign replays? The world has been turned upside down! (ill take your word for it since i can't read korean)
if you look at sc2.replays.net (chinese site) you can clearly see they've posted the khb/cgm replay packs even without being able to read the language--the names of the players appear in english characters
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lol i did actually believe him, its just funny because its true ;P
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LOL Blizzard trying to put some shit together before the community does ahahahhahhaahahahahahahahha HURRY BEFORE YOU REALIZE HOW MUCH BETTER WE ARE AT ESPORTS
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On March 07 2010 13:18 squ1d wrote:They are watching a lot of demos from us, especially CGM's and KHB's (just check out their forums). Don't worry, they'll catch up
awesome if theyre learning from khb theyll never improve
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On March 07 2010 14:08 IdrA wrote:Show nested quote +On March 07 2010 13:18 squ1d wrote:They are watching a lot of demos from us, especially CGM's and KHB's (just check out their forums). Don't worry, they'll catch up awesome if theyre learning from khb theyll never improve
Yeah. Wouldn't want to become a gosu like you, amirite?
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I think what Idra means is that KHB is mostly using weird strats that won't work more than once, or versus players who are aware of counters or whatever.
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On March 07 2010 14:31 CharlieMurphy wrote:
I think what Idra means is that KHB is mostly using weird strats that won't work more than once, or versus players who are aware of counters or whatever.
I was being specious.
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On March 07 2010 14:56 Rothbardian wrote:Show nested quote +On March 07 2010 14:31 CharlieMurphy wrote:
I think what Idra means is that KHB is mostly using weird strats that won't work more than once, or versus players who are aware of counters or whatever. I was being specious.
I think CM knew you were. I think he was trying to support Idra's opinion to show you didn't have room to be specious.
>.>
Bad mannered or not, Idra almost always has a point.
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i actually thought those were pretty intimidating games, ie. foreigners would have a hard time beating them just like SC.
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Far from intimidating, Zenio is pretty much the only one playing at the level of the EU top Platinum ranks.
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Who's build order in that third Youtube video just plain confused me. Forge but no cannons? No army? What gives?
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On March 08 2010 00:50 Liquid`Nazgul wrote:
Far from intimidating, Zenio is pretty much the only one playing at the level of the EU top Platinum ranks.
That sounds biased to me.
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Either way, I'm glad that skill level is now internationalized and is no longer hoarded by mass of Korean locals. Should make competitive gaming in SC2 much more interesting when it comes to being.
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EPT
