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Sources: DailyEsports (1), (2), PGR21.com, official KeSPA press materials. Thanks to Supernovamaniac for starting this thread, which has been appropriated.
Broadcasting: SK Telecom will be sponsoring the 2014 Proleague, and it will be broadcasted exclusively on SPOTV Games and SPOTV2. Matches will be viewable through Naver, Youtube, and Twitch.
Matches are played on Sunday, Monday, Tuesday at 10:00 GMT (+00:00), and two Bo5 matches are played a day. The matches will be played from a new esports stadium established by Nexon in the Gangnam area of Seoul.
Teams: SK Telecom T1, KT Rolster, CJ Entus, Jin Air Green Wings, Incredible Miracle, Prime, Team MVP, Samsung Galaxy Khan
Tournament Format: There will be four rounds this season, and teams will earn points at the end of each round depending on their placement. The four teams with the most points will advance to the season-end playoffs for the Proleague championship. Each round will be played as a round robin, with matches being Bo5 in Proleague style.
Points for placing in a round: 1st: 81 / 2nd: 71 / 3rd: 61 / 4th: 51 / 5th: 45 / 6th: 40 / 7th: 35 / 8th: 30
Also, each ROUND itself has its own "post-season" (playoffs) between the top four teams where they play for the round championship. Those matches are played Bo7 winners league (all-kill) style. The winning team gets 40 points extra points, and 15,000,000 won in prize money. The second place team gets 10 points at 5,000,000 in prize money.
The season end playoffs is played as a best Bo3 of Bo7 matches, with the format alternating between Proleague, All-kill, and Proleague again. The format has changed to be a single elim, with the #1 seed playing the #4 seed, and the #2 seed playing the #4 seed. The GRAND FINALS are played as a single Bo7 match. The Proleague champions win 50,000,000 won, while the runner-up wins 20,000,000.
Individual awards: 5,000,000 won to player with most wins, 2,000,000 won to rookie of the year, 1,000,000 won to head coach of the year, 3,000,000 won to finals MVP.
The MVP winner and other players with top rankings in the Proleague will be given support to compete in WCS class international tournaments.
Maps: Ladder: Bel'Shir Vestige, Frost, Star Station, Yeonsu.
New Maps: Sejong Science Base, Outboxer.
ETC: Event matches with eSF teams or foreign teams are being considered.
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juicyjames
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OGN... 
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Wait so will they play in the small little venue they always play in or will they play in those big ass soundproof booths cuz it seems like OGN is the studio with the large soundproof booths
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On December 14 2013 11:41 juicyjames wrote:
So unless OGN runs an OSL, does this mean OGN is done completely with SC2?
I'm not surprised. There was a rumor earlier this week that OGN was not going to broadcast Proleague, and there were some things on facebook that hinted at this possibility.
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Korea (South)11232 Posts
In case you missed it the sponsor is SK Telecom for this proleague
prizemoney:
Winner of a Round: ~15 000 dollars
2nd of a Round: 5 000 dollars
Post Season Winner: 50 000 dollars
Post Season 2nd: 20 000 dollars
if you add everything together its the biggest prizepool in proleague history apparently
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no more OGN studio? sad
and bo5 instead of bo7? ((
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TheMarine and GoRush are now casting Sonic Proleague instead. OGN is out of SC2 most probably.
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OGN has moved on to LoL and the Korean Fan girls who fawn over those sweet LoL players.
Not hugely surprised, OGN is a broadcast network and they follow the viewers, not the other way around.
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On December 14 2013 11:45 Chexx wrote:
In case you missed it the sponsor is SK Telecom for this proleague
prizemoney:
Winner of a Round: ~1500 dollars
2nd of a Round: 500 dollars
Post Season Winner: 50 000 dollars
Post Season 2nd: 20 000 dollars
if you add everything together its the biggest prizepool in proleague history apparently
Some minor corrections:
Winner of a Round should be ~$15,000, not 1500
2nd of a Round is also ~$5000, not 500
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Korea (South)11232 Posts
On December 14 2013 11:55 [Violet]Bidong wrote:Show nested quote +On December 14 2013 11:45 Chexx wrote:
In case you missed it the sponsor is SK Telecom for this proleague
prizemoney:
Winner of a Round: ~1500 dollars
2nd of a Round: 500 dollars
Post Season Winner: 50 000 dollars
Post Season 2nd: 20 000 dollars
if you add everything together its the biggest prizepool in proleague history apparently Some minor corrections: Winner of a Round should be ~$15,000, not 1500 2nd of a Round is also ~$5000, not 500
oh missed two 0's edited it
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well since OGN seems gave up proleauge is there any possibility for spotv and gomtv have some sort of cooperation...and...
p.s. i love it when counting all the 0s of the prize money lol
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Any news on how long the seasons are going to be in total, will the end finals be late Summer?
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Bad for SC2. Can't really blame OGN though, the LoL trend in Korea is crazy right now - higher than Starcraft at its height.
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so this means smn and whiplash cast? :D
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Bo5 is kind of a let down
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Wow wasn't expecting such a massive prize-pool for Proleague.
Seriously people, you have nothing to bitch about. Nothing. Stop the whining over OGN. They didn't want to broadcast it, so too bad for them. This prize pool is big and better than any of us were expecting. Like someone else said, I believe it's the biggest in Proleague history.
If SC2 starts catching on again in Korea, I'm sure it'll get picked up for TV. This was expected though, regarding OGN changing to LoL.
P.S. I have no idea why they would do Bo5 over Bo7, but I'm o.k. with it either way.
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