With the recent surge of SC2 onto the scene, Brood War has pretty much been relegated to the role of an afterthought. Had Brood War not been such a popular game, who knows how many people would take any interest in SC2? The game of Brood War has evolved rapidly through the years, but still remains one of the most balanced and competitive games ever.

Only three players have ever won the coveted Golden Mouse

Pretty much throughout the history of competitive Starcraft, the OSL (OnGameNet Starleague) has always been the most prestigious title that all players covet. While some might say Proleague has taken more precedence as of late, they know that deep down it's the glory of winning individual gold that makes the OSL so prestigious. The tears of joy that every OSL winner exhibits after a win, the sheer elation from thousands of fans and supporters in the crowd. From Xellos' emotional win in Olympus to Anytime's heroic triumph over the Emperor in So1 to Stork's emotional tears of joy after finally winning gold. All these moments capture the essence of winning an OSL finals.

Tears of joy for the second silver surfer

The OSL finals have graced us with some of the greatest games of all time. From JulyZerg's comeback on Forte against GooDFrienD to GGPlay's insane defiler defense against Iris on Python, the OSL has brought us many incredible series that will we shall forever remember. Nada's struggle against Anytime, Boxer falling short against his protege Oov, Yellow's failure to win gold. All encompassed by the OSL.

Anytime, what would OZ be without you?

Since SC2 Beta came out, I became slightly depressed as I saw the overall viewer count during OSL/MSL/PL drop over time. Thus, I went searching for old games to revive some of that passion I used to have for watching Brood War games. While it took a long time to find some of them, I was eventually able to find all but the '99 Progamer Korea Open. Thanks to oskyloveo and some random Chinese sites, I was able to grab all the vids from each and every OSL finals and upload them for you guys to share. These games bring back great memories of the past and really does show how much the game has evolved over the course of 10 years. Plus, the spacesuit outfits in the earlier finals are amazing.

Without further ado:

99/00 Hanaro Communication Tooniverse - (P)

Grrrr... vs (Z)

H.O.T-Forever [url blocked]
Fa 00 Freechal Open - (P)

GARIMTO vs (Z)

SKELTON [url blocked]
Sp 01 Hanbitsoft - (T)

BoxeR vs

JinNam [url blocked]
Su 01 Coca-Cola - (T)

BoxeR vs

YellOw [url blocked]
Fa 01 SKY 2001 - (P)

GARIMTO vs (T)

BoxeR [url blocked]
Su 02 NATE - (T)

Sync vs

H.O.T-Forever [url blocked]
Fa 02 SKY 2002 - (P)

Reach vs

BoxeR [url blocked]
Wi 02 Panasonic - (T)

NaDa vs

ChoJJa [url blocked]
Sp 03 Olympus - (T)

XellOs vs

YellOw [url blocked] [url blocked]
Fa 03 MyCube - (P)

Kingdom vs (P)

Nal_rA [url blocked]
Sp 04 NHN Hangame - (P)

Nal_rA vs

Zeus [url blocked]
Su 04 Gillette - (Z)

July vs

Reach [url blocked]
Fa 04 EVER 2004 - (T)

iloveoov vs (T)

BoxeR [url blocked]
Sp 05 IOPS - (T)

NaDa vs

July [url blocked]
Su 05 EVER 2005 - (Z)

July vs

Goodfriend [url blocked]
Fa 05 So1 - (P)

Anytime vs (T)

BoxeR [url blocked] [url blocked]
Sp 06 Shinhan Bank - (T)

iloveoov vs (Z)

July [url blocked]
Su 06 Shinhan Bank Season 1 - (T)

Casy vs

ChoJJa [url blocked]
Fa 06 Shinhan Bank Season 2 - (T)

NaDa vs

Anytime [url blocked] [url blocked]
Wi 07 Shinhan Bank Season 3 - (Z)

sAviOr vs

NaDa [url blocked]
Su 07 Daum - (Z)

GGPlay vs

Iris [url blocked] [url blocked]
Fa 07 EVER 2007 - (Z)

Jaedong vs (P)

Stork[gm] [url blocked]
Sp 08 Bacchus 2008 - (T)

Flash vs

Stork[gm] [url blocked]
Su 08 EVER 2008 - (Z)

July vs

BeSt[HyO] [url blocked]
Fa 08 Incruit 2008 - (P)

Stork[gm] vs by. (T)

fantasy [url blocked] [url blocked]
Sp 09 Batoo 2009 - (Z)

Jaedong vs by. (T)

fantasy [url blocked]
Fa 09 Bacchus 2009 - (Z)

Jaedong vs (Z)

YellOw[ArnC] [url blocked]
Wi 09 EVER 2009 OSL - (T)

Flash vs

Movie [url blocked] [url blocked]

Rus_Brain has kindly mirrored them all on reps.ru if you can't use Megaupload! Big thanks!
http://pub.reps.ru/osl/OSL_FINALS/

While I know that most of these games you can watch on Youtube, I just enjoy having these videos on hand so I don't have to dig through everything and search on Youtube. Plus, some series like Yellow vs Xellos in Olympus are incomplete on Youtube. Might not be spoiler free stuff, but I feel as if most people know the results of most of these already. Oh, and I apologize cause each download link is the entire series. Didn't feel like uploading every single game so I just rarred em all up into a pack.

These download links shouldn't ever die unless Megaupload just decides to die one day. Was thinking about putting these on the tracker, but I didn't think anyone was gonna be interested in a 20 GB+ torrent.

Edit: Upped to tracker! http://www.teamliquid.net/vods/torrents/OSL_Finals_VODs.torrent

Enjoy these classics!

Chaos

United States772 Posts

March 18 2010 02:45 GMT

Great compilation! Have I mentioned lately that I love you?

sung_moon

United States10110 Posts

March 18 2010 02:46 GMT

dam gosu roffles

getting teh older ones as i type

Kouda

United States2205 Posts

March 18 2010 02:46 GMT

I love you. Like a whole lot. More than Bisu's hair.

2WeaK

Canada550 Posts

March 18 2010 02:48 GMT

Amazing post, I was looking for a few of those. ^^:

Xxio

Canada5565 Posts

March 18 2010 02:48 GMT

THANK YOU THANK YOU
This is so awesome, seriously. Front page spotlight this shit.

hyomin godtier

Canada367 Posts

March 18 2010 02:49 GMT

hmm and I thought all u were good for was kpop. I guess now I can go watch some of those early OSL's and imagine how Flash would have crushed those so called Bonjwas.

De4ngus

United States6533 Posts

March 18 2010 02:49 GMT

Roffles is a hero.

On March 18 2010 11:46 Kouda wrote:
I love you. Like a whole lot. More than Bisu's hair.

Uhhh, I don't think that works.

Xech

United States17 Posts

March 18 2010 02:52 GMT

damn, Roffles hella gosu

gorgoino18

Korea (South)109 Posts

March 18 2010 03:10 GMT

#10

Thanks a lot, never got the chance to watch all of them hehe

saritenite

Singapore1680 Posts

March 18 2010 03:13 GMT

#11

Bookedmarked, you're a hero.

StarN

United States2587 Posts

March 18 2010 03:15 GMT

#12

you deserve a second star for this. holy shit man gj.

Roffles

Pitcairn19291 Posts

March 18 2010 03:19 GMT

#13

On March 18 2010 12:15 StarN wrote:
you deserve a second star for this. holy shit man gj.

Haha, there are plenty of starred users that deserve the second star more than I do. I'm not even sure if I deserve this star to begin with.

Heyoka

Katowice25012 Posts

March 18 2010 03:20 GMT

#14

This is incredible, great work

HeartOfTofu

United States308 Posts

March 18 2010 03:24 GMT

#15

Wow.. sweet collection of vids... I lost all my SC files about a year or so back when my harddrive decided to die on me and I haven't been able to find a lot of the older videos to download. Thanks a lot. Out of curiosity, does anyone know if there's any source where one might be able to find any other older vods for download?

Thanks so much for uploading these. I'm going to start DLing them now. ^^

Roffles

Pitcairn19291 Posts

March 18 2010 03:25 GMT

#16

On March 18 2010 12:24 HeartOfTofu wrote:
Wow.. sweet collection of vids... I lost all my SC files about a year or so back when my harddrive decided to die on me and I haven't been able to find a lot of the older videos to download. Thanks a lot. Out of curiosity, does anyone know if there's any source where one might be able to find any other older vods for download?

I haven't had any luck aside from trying on random Korean file sharing places. Torrents are plentiful for newer stuff, but the old stuff doesn't appear that often. =(

konadora

Singapore66155 Posts

March 18 2010 03:27 GMT

#17

Where the heck did you get all these lol

CB?

boesthius

United States11637 Posts

March 18 2010 03:27 GMT

#18

--- Nuked ---

HeartOfTofu

United States308 Posts

March 18 2010 03:29 GMT

#19

On March 18 2010 12:25 Roffles wrote:
I haven't had any luck aside from trying on random Korean file sharing places. Torrents are plentiful for newer stuff, but the old stuff doesn't appear that often. =(

Such a damned shame... I wanted to cry when I lost all those videos, especially since I knew that I'd probably never get most of them back since torrents tend to die fairly quickly. Well, this is a step at least..