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As many of you may have read in the MSL Group Selection thread, the sponsor is NATE, a HUGE web portal in Korea owned by SK Communications (I guess you could say NATE is the 'Google' of Korea, but it rivals with Naver, which is owned by NHN).
NATE last sponsored an OSL which is infamously known as the league that no one cared about (mainly thanks to South Korea's run in the FIFA World Cup and all of the stars being eliminated in the group stage).
So, the tentative date of 19th of November is officially set as the group selection.
To make up for the lost time, MBC are holding a Prematch tournament featuring MSL 'Royal Roaders'. Spread over this Thursday and Saturday, the exhibition matches (presumably to get viewers off OGN from WCG) will have the nine royal roaders duke it out in some games.
The maps will be the same as the Survivor Tournament just passed, so Byzantium 3, Destination and Heartbreak Ridge. The lowest two KeSPA ranked players (in this case, Stats and Crazy-Hydra) will play in an extra elimination match to see who advances to the last eight.
The players will be;
 Saint, FireFist,  Stats, BeSt, GuemChi, Crazy-Hydra, Shine, hyvaa and  Bogus.
Elimination Match - Stats vs Crazy-Hydra
Round of 8 - Shine vs Saint
hyvaa vs Stats/Crazy-Hydra
FireFist vs GuemChi
Bogus vs BeSt
12th of November 18:30 KST
Semi Final - Winner of Game 1 vs Winner of Game 2
Winner of Game 3 vs Winner of Game 4
3rd/4th Place Game - Loser of Semi Final 1 vs Loser of Semi Final 2
Final - Winner of Semi Final 1 vs Winner of Semi Final 2 (Best of 3)
14th of November 15:00 KST
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Awesome! Thanks for the update GTR.
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This isn't on the calendar, do you know if this will be broadcast?
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Roffles
Pitcairn19291 Posts
Doh Jae Wook's gonna clean this shit up. The BAMF with his newfound PvZ skills will tear it up.
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Glad to hear they got sponsored
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China3334 Posts
Let me think about....NATE OSL, 2002, summer, was that Sync's OSL?
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Roffles
Pitcairn19291 Posts
On November 10 2009 21:30 Emlary wrote:
Let me think about....NATE OSL, 2002, summer, was that Sync's OSL?
Yep, Sync's lone OSL win. Don't really care what others say, Sync's still badass.
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Yay, MSL is alive! 
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Hoping for Doh Jae Wok to win this. Sadly none of the other players here really interest me 
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When I saw the title i thought some idiot bumped an old thread.
But good news.
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Going from no sponsor at all to a pretty respectable one in NATE is good news. Thanks for the info!
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Hong Kong20321 Posts
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nice to see that they've found a sponsor. but the prematch tournament lineup looks less then exciting in my eyes 
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Awesome.
Just one thing. Right now we have 8 terrans, 16 zergs, 8 protosses qualified for the MSL. Instead of this prematch, they should do a "gardening round" with just the zergs to weed out the bottom 8 of them before the tournament starts.
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Roffles
Pitcairn19291 Posts
On November 10 2009 21:45 okum wrote:
Awesome.
Just one thing. Right now we have 8 terrans, 16 zergs, 8 protosses qualified for the MSL. Instead of this prematch, they should do a "gardening round" with just the zergs to weed out the bottom 8 of them before the tournament starts.
I would totally not be opposed to this. Too many zergs these days.
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Baa?21242 Posts
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Hong Kong20321 Posts
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Braavos36362 Posts
so... the prematch things matters nothing? what does the winner get
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konadora
Singapore66063 Posts
On November 10 2009 22:45 Hot_Bid wrote:
so... the prematch things matters nothing? what does the winner get
nothing
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