• Log InLog In
  • Register
Liquid`
Team Liquid Liquipedia
EDT 08:26
CEST 14:26
KST 21:26
  • 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
[ASL21] Ro16 Preview Pt2: All Star10Team Liquid Map Contest #22 - The Finalists16[ASL21] Ro16 Preview Pt1: Fresh Flow9[ASL21] Ro24 Preview Pt2: News Flash10[ASL21] Ro24 Preview Pt1: New Chaos0
Community News
2026 GSL Season 1 Qualifiers19Maestros of the Game 2 announced92026 GSL Tour plans announced15Weekly Cups (April 6-12): herO doubles, "Villains" prevail1MaNa leaves Team Liquid25
StarCraft 2
General
MaNa leaves Team Liquid Maestros of the Game 2 announced 2026 GSL Tour plans announced Team Liquid Map Contest #22 - The Finalists Blizzard Classic Cup @ BlizzCon 2026 - $100k prize pool
Tourneys
2026 GSL Season 1 Qualifiers INu's Battles#14 <BO.9 2Matches> Sparkling Tuna Cup - Weekly Open Tournament GSL CK: More events planned pending crowdfunding RSL Revival: Season 5 - Qualifiers and Main Event
Strategy
Custom Maps
[D]RTS in all its shapes and glory <3 [A] Nemrods 1/4 players [M] (2) Frigid Storage
External Content
Mutation # 522 Flip My Base The PondCast: SC2 News & Results Mutation # 521 Memorable Boss Mutation # 520 Moving Fees
Brood War
General
BGH Auto Balance -> http://bghmmr.eu/ FlaSh: This Will Be My Final ASL【ASL S21 Ro.16】 BW General Discussion ASL21 General Discussion Data needed
Tourneys
Escore Tournament StarCraft Season 2 [Megathread] Daily Proleagues [ASL21] Ro16 Group C [ASL21] Ro16 Group D
Strategy
Simple Questions, Simple Answers What's the deal with APM & what's its true value Any training maps people recommend? Fighting Spirit mining rates
Other Games
General Games
Nintendo Switch Thread Dawn of War IV Diablo IV Total Annihilation Server - TAForever Starcraft Tabletop Miniature Game
Dota 2
The Story of Wings Gaming
League of Legends
G2 just beat GenG in First stand
Heroes of the Storm
Simple Questions, Simple Answers Heroes of the Storm 2.0
Hearthstone
Deck construction bug Heroes of StarCraft mini-set
TL Mafia
Vanilla Mini Mafia Mafia Game Mode Feedback/Ideas TL Mafia Community Thread Five o'clock TL Mafia
Community
General
US Politics Mega-thread Canadian Politics Mega-thread Things Aren’t Peaceful in Palestine Russo-Ukrainian War Thread YouTube Thread
Fan Clubs
The IdrA Fan Club
Media & Entertainment
[Manga] One Piece Anime Discussion Thread [Req][Books] Good Fantasy/SciFi books Movie Discussion!
Sports
2024 - 2026 Football Thread Formula 1 Discussion McBoner: A hockey love story Cricket [SPORT]
World Cup 2022
Tech Support
Strange computer issues (software) [G] How to Block Livestream Ads
TL Community
The Automated Ban List
Blogs
Sexual Health Of Gamers
TrAiDoS
lurker extra damage testi…
StaticNine
Broowar part 2
qwaykee
Funny Nicknames
LUCKY_NOOB
Iranian anarchists: organize…
XenOsky
Customize Sidebar...

Website Feedback

Closed Threads



Active: 1182 users

Knight`s Bridge of Korea (KBK)

Forum Index > BW General
Post a Reply
Tom Phoenix
Profile Blog Joined January 2009
1114 Posts
December 28 2009 19:48 GMT
#1
Although I started following StarCraft progaming barely a year and a half ago, I love learning about the history of the progaming scene. That is why I am curious about the Knight`s Bridge of Korea or KBK tournament. All I know about it is that it was a preety important event back in the day...and by back in the day, I mean when (T)Slayer and (T)TheMarine were playing.

Can anyone who has good knowledge of proscene tell me anything about it? Why was it called Knight`s Bridge? What was the format? Was there anything special about it or was it just another tournament?
You and your "5 years of competitive RTS experience" can take a hike. - FrozenArbiter
NarutO
Profile Blog Joined December 2006
Germany18839 Posts
December 28 2009 19:51 GMT
#2
You can check the tournament games here:

http://www.teamliquid.net/tlpd/search.php?search=KBK&type=all&x=0&y=0
CommentatorPolt | MMA | Jjakji | BoxeR | NaDa | MVP | MKP ... truly inspiring.
mdb
Profile Blog Joined February 2003
Bulgaria4059 Posts
Last Edited: 2009-12-28 19:52:39
December 28 2009 19:52 GMT
#3
There was ladder on b.net and the top players would qualify for a offline final for KBK in Korea. The ladder was full of cheating and abuse. Almost all everyone cheated in fact. There were a lot of stories for the ladder , but I dont remember many of them anymore.

I think Nazgul can say much more about this, as he was one of the players who took part in the qualifications.
yhnmk
Profile Joined August 2009
Canada630 Posts
December 28 2009 20:07 GMT
#4
donno why slayer is counted as a terran, since he played zvp zvt tvz.
arcticStorm
Profile Joined January 2009
United States295 Posts
December 28 2009 20:48 GMT
#5
On December 29 2009 05:07 yhnmk wrote:
donno why slayer is counted as a terran, since he played zvp zvt tvz.


In TLPD, 3 out of the 4 games are him playing tvz
This statement is a lie.
XinRan
Profile Blog Joined August 2008
United States530 Posts
December 28 2009 22:04 GMT
#6
I believe Boonbag wrote a blog about KBK in his narrative: http://www.teamliquid.net/blog/pgt. Pubbanana also has great knowledge of the pro scene's history. I also love reading up about the old proscene. Maybe some history major should compile a history, that would be quite the contribution.
"To be fair, Kal played like absolute garbage. His noted inconsistency and bad record versus Jaedong high fived into a cacophony of suck." - TwoToneTerran
Kacas
Profile Joined July 2003
Brazil3143 Posts
December 28 2009 22:25 GMT
#7
oh
the first starcraft pro match that i saw was gg99-slayer vs ilovestar ...txz

nostalgic
I Love Hyori Lee =* icq: 41760400 / msn: kayen_chn at hotm
Legionnaire
Profile Joined January 2003
Australia4514 Posts
Last Edited: 2009-12-29 12:01:00
December 29 2009 11:56 GMT
#8
I remember watching a tv match of one of the old schoolers, asmodey? i think. (way before my time even).
It was P @3 vs T @12 on LT.
He went pylon, pylon, gateway, pylon, gas. (vs boxer who did 1 fact starport)

Ahhh... the good old days of awesome builds

I went to one KBK, it was held on jeju island, elky, giyom and assem were also there. We all made it past the first round (i think). Elky let the team down, he was meant to beat this zerg guy then i was meant to beat elky! It didn't work out that way though. Elky got raped, then the zerg raped me.
I seem to remember watching one of the games in elky's first match, and he killed his own CC with vultures. It took about 5 minutes for the vultures to kill it too. I seem to remember he did that on TV once as well.

It was just 64 players in a normal playoff. Bo3 each round to advance. To qualify you had to play in a online tournament (like iccup nowadays) and top 48?? went through, then they did some invites or preseeds or something or other.

It was just another tournament afaik. I don't have knowledge of early progaming though.
My hope is one day stupid people will feel the same pain when they talk, as the pain the rest of us feel when we hear them. Twitter: @Legionnaire_au
GTR
Profile Blog Joined September 2004
51586 Posts
December 29 2009 12:00 GMT
#9
asmodey 3-0'ing his osl group to proceed to 0-3 his ro8 group. priceless.
Commentator
[-Bluewolf-]
Profile Blog Joined January 2003
United States609 Posts
December 29 2009 17:20 GMT
#10
Some more information on KBK Jeju (the most known one as it gave trips to the top foreigners, and started Elky's progaming career):

As pointed out, a lot of people cheated during the ladder portion. Further complicating things was the a disconnect did not detract points nor did it give the winner any points for some incredibly stupid reason.

Elky and his team abused their way to the top along with many other big names, but KBK didn't care, and to this day Elky will defend his ladder abuse (ah, how things have changed with TSL! Many people cheating doesn't get one off.... blew my mind).

There were legit players on the ladder, but sadly, qualifying legitimately was difficult. For example, one of my games was against one of Elky's clanmates, Chobo (actual tag, sans the clan name that I have forgotten). To be more accurate, it was against his smurf name in the ladder. I won the game conclusively and was destroying his base, but like most people on the ladder, he choose to disconnect rather than accept the loss. I was actually his last real game as well - after losing to me and being a fag, he began his abuse with his clan mates to qualify. Elky himself at the time kind of sucked - his record was 2-4 against my younger brother at the time (my brother also gave up on the ladder due to the rampant cheating). Regardless, Elky would go on to impress at the LAN finals, and raise his skill to quite an impressive level.

There were other KBK tournaments before Jeju as well (I believe there were two that the ladder was open for foreigners to compete in). They had less abuse and hacking then Jeju did, but were not exactly "clean tournaments". Don't remember much from them sadly - been so long. :p
The melody of logic always plays the notes of truth.
Please log in or register to reply.
Live Events Refresh
WardiTV Map Contest Tou…
11:00
Playoffs Day 3
Classic vs SHIN
MaxPax vs Percival
herO vs Clem
ByuN vs Rogue
WardiTV917
Ryung 764
IntoTheiNu 387
Rex122
Liquipedia
[ Submit Event ]
Live Streams
Refresh
StarCraft 2
Ryung 764
SortOf 172
Rex 122
Railgan 94
StarCraft: Brood War
Horang2 19691
Sea 16657
Hyuk 1067
EffOrt 402
Stork 367
actioN 256
Hyun 223
Last 182
Pusan 159
ggaemo 116
[ Show more ]
ToSsGirL 111
Backho 72
Sharp 55
[sc1f]eonzerg 49
Barracks 47
Free 35
HiyA 31
yabsab 24
soO 24
Sacsri 22
JulyZerg 21
GoRush 15
Noble 6
Dota 2
Gorgc3919
Counter-Strike
allub481
Heroes of the Storm
Khaldor248
Other Games
singsing2228
B2W.Neo824
DeMusliM292
Lowko290
XcaliburYe170
XBOCT157
MindelVK26
RotterdaM21
Organizations
Dota 2
PGL Dota 2 - Main Stream14849
StarCraft 2
Blizzard YouTube
StarCraft: Brood War
BSLTrovo
[ Show 14 non-featured ]
StarCraft 2
• AfreecaTV YouTube
• intothetv
• Kozan
• IndyKCrew
• LaughNgamezSOOP
• Migwel
• sooper7s
StarCraft: Brood War
• iopq 1
• BSLYoutube
• FirePhoenix0
• STPLYoutube
• ZZZeroYoutube
League of Legends
• Jankos1914
• TFBlade1228
Upcoming Events
Ladder Legends
2h 35m
Bunny vs GgMaChine
ByuN vs Percival
MaxPax vs Krystianer
Solar vs Cham
uThermal 2v2 Circuit
2h 35m
BSL
6h 35m
Sparkling Tuna Cup
21h 35m
WardiTV Map Contest Tou…
22h 35m
Ladder Legends
1d 2h
BSL
1d 6h
CranKy Ducklings
1d 11h
Replay Cast
1d 20h
Wardi Open
1d 21h
[ Show More ]
Afreeca Starleague
1d 21h
Soma vs hero
Monday Night Weeklies
2 days
Replay Cast
2 days
Replay Cast
2 days
Afreeca Starleague
2 days
Leta vs YSC
Replay Cast
4 days
The PondCast
4 days
KCM Race Survival
4 days
Replay Cast
5 days
Replay Cast
5 days
Escore
5 days
Replay Cast
6 days
Replay Cast
6 days
Liquipedia Results

Completed

Escore Tournament S2: W4
RSL Revival: Season 4
NationLESS Cup

Ongoing

BSL Season 22
ASL Season 21
CSL 2026 SPRING (S20)
IPSL Spring 2026
KCM Race Survival 2026 Season 2
StarCraft2 Community Team League 2026 Spring
WardiTV TLMC #16
Nations Cup 2026
IEM Rio 2026
PGL Bucharest 2026
Stake Ranked Episode 1
BLAST Open Spring 2026
ESL Pro League S23 Finals
ESL Pro League S23 Stage 1&2
PGL Cluj-Napoca 2026

Upcoming

Escore Tournament S2: W5
Acropolis #4
BSL 22 Non-Korean Championship
CSLAN 4
Kung Fu Cup 2026 Grand Finals
HSC XXIX
uThermal 2v2 2026 Main Event
Maestros of the Game 2
2026 GSL S2
RSL Revival: Season 5
2026 GSL S1
XSE Pro League 2026
IEM Cologne Major 2026
Stake Ranked Episode 2
CS Asia Championships 2026
IEM Atlanta 2026
Asian Champions League 2026
PGL Astana 2026
BLAST Rivals Spring 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.