What is the eOSL ? eOSL is a tournament organised by eGG-one a French structure. eOSL stands for “Egg One Star League”. It's also a tribute to the famous Korean league. Summer '11 is the second of our tournaments right after Winter '10. It's still a french-only tournament with online and offline qualifies. Then 16 players are selected. Our specificity is a strong focus on audiovisual contents.
Season one and two recap
Season one has been won by former aAa player Sarens. We shot short documentaries on the best 8 players of that season (French/not yet subbed). Here is SarenS’ one. You can find the seven others there
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Season two started in May with 16 players among whom Adelscott, Stephano, ToD, Sarens, MoMaN, TuZeR, hG, AureS… To know the current status of these players within the tournament just check the spoiler tag below !
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Group stage # 1 – broadcasted 14th May
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Group A
SarenS
hG
Group B
TuZeR
ToD
Group stage # 2 – broadcasted 21st May
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Group C
Laukyo
Origine
Group D
Stephano
AureS
Quarter Finals # 1 – broadcasted 28th May
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SarenS vs.
Quarter Finals # 2 – broadcasted 28th May
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Quarter Finals # 3 – broadcast scheduled : 4th June
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Origine vs.
Quarter Finals # 4 – broadcast scheduled : 4th June
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AureS vs.
Semi Finals # 1 – broadcast scheduled : 11th June
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Semi Finals # 2 – broadcast scheduled : 11th June
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AureS vs.
Third-place Final – broadcast scheduled : 19th June
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Final – broadcast scheduled : 26th June
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Prize Distribution
1st. €2,000
2nd. €800
3rd. €300
4th. €200
5th-8th. €100
Audiovisual Content
Our main goal is to do something as much entertaining as possible. Not only broadcasting Starcraft II matches. That’s why we are doing our very best to produce contents which could appeal newcomers and please regular viewers of Starcraft II events. Here are our most recent contents (English subs embedded) :
The first video we realized as an introduction to eOSL season 1 was a mock-trailer called “StarLeague” (subbed in English). You can see it right there :
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You can watch all our other videos there.
The Ceremony
There is also a “Ceremony” with quarter finalists. Four of them have been granted special powers. Those powers will allow them to change the tournament tree in some ways. For example here is the original Quarter Final tree :
Then, after the spoiler tag you will find the changes made by the players.
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SarenS’ power was the ability to switch two matches.
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ToD’s power was the ability to switch two players.
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Origine’s power was the ability to lock a match (then it was impossible for the other players to apply one power on it).
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AureS’ power was the ability to redraw the position of two players in the tree, unfortunately for him it changes nothing.
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Then the final tree is :
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We made videos of this « Ceremony ». It’s a reality show-like montage because it suited this funny moment well :
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How to watch the eOSL ?
Every part of the tournament is streamed on NetGamingTV
Stream is in French only alas, if international people are interested in, we will try to do something for them in a future season.
Website
If you have any question regarding the tournament (replays, VoDs…), please DO NOT refrain to do so
Maybe some French viewers will have something to say about the event in itself, and maybe international readers could make some comments/advices/criticizes on the overall concept ?