New MSL group drawing

Emlary

China3334 Posts

April 13 2005 20:57 GMT

Two weeks later than OSL, new season of MSL kicks off today. (it's sponsored by UZOO.com, an esport-related website) Reading through the report on www.pgr21.com I suppose that MSL comes back to its original format. It starts with double elimination, while there is only one game in the first two rounds instead of bo3 last season. And NO MORE any historical bo7 final! All of the final, final of winners' group and losers' group are bo5 like what it used to be.

maps: Neo Requiem, Luna The Final, Raid Assault 2, Rush Hour_UZOO

Groups

A) GoRush vs Jju VS Kingdom vs Oov (WTF!!three players from SKT)
B) Chojja vs ForU VS July vs BoxeR
C) NaDa vs IPXzerg VS Zeus vs Yellow
D) XellOs vs Mingu VS Reach vs TheMarine

schedules of the first week:
April 21st
A1: GoRush vs Jju on Rush Hour
A2: Kingdom vs Oov on Luna the Final
B1: Chojja vs ForU on Neo Requiem
B2: July vs BoxeR on Raid Assault 2

taken from
http://www.pgr21.com/zboard4/view.php?id=newvod&no=3745

GTR

51567 Posts

April 13 2005 21:24 GMT

the sponser must be that Uzoo site (Rush Hour_Uzoo, it's like EVER_Forte and MyCube_Paradoxxx)

FunFluffyBunny

Sweden1696 Posts

April 13 2005 21:33 GMT

Sucks for both SKT and KTF (since they have 3 players in group D)
They're guaranteed to have at least 2 players in the losersbracket after the 2 first rounds

Emlary

China3334 Posts

April 13 2005 21:37 GMT

o, ic. i hear that uzoo is an uprising esport site. so they sponsor MSL? hoho...that's cool. and this time the prize for champ is 25K US$, pretty nice

uzoo also took some pix of participators
http://www.pgr21.com/zboard4/view.php?id=GameNews&no=2012
http://www.pgr21.com/zboard4/view.php?id=GameNews&no=2011
http://www.pgr21.com/zboard4/view.php?id=GameNews&no=2010

GTR

51567 Posts

April 13 2005 21:39 GMT

whats with all the thumbs down :O

priceless

Sweden540 Posts

April 13 2005 21:41 GMT

So sad! This could have been so much funnier to watch. Group D will be slaughtering from v´both XellOs and Reach. ZeuS first major tournament in a long time and he hooks up with YellOw =]. NaDa vs IPXzerg and Chojja/Foru and Boxer/July could be really great games though. GoRush vs JJu, zvz, bleh. Kingdom vs Oov will be interesting since last time they met. Bot where in their prime, especially Kingdom. But now both are slumping so we'll see who's slump is the strongest.

X)Benny

France1270 Posts

April 13 2005 21:44 GMT

what a lineup... the only real big name missing is Ra.

Resonate

United Kingdom8402 Posts

April 13 2005 21:53 GMT

Really looking forward to Zeus/Nada games (they do have to play right?)

suffeli

Finland772 Posts

April 13 2005 21:58 GMT

GO uniform looks the most fashionable of the three

Slaughter

United States20254 Posts

April 13 2005 22:00 GMT

#10

Yellow will crush his group.

RowdierBob

Australia13324 Posts

April 13 2005 23:48 GMT

#11

Strong League :O

SoMuchBetter

Australia10606 Posts

April 14 2005 00:03 GMT

#12

Beautiful line up. I'm really looking forward to the games that this league will produce

WickeD

Slovakia789 Posts

April 14 2005 00:29 GMT

#13

Hmm this season MBC>>OGN ?

Cambium

United States16368 Posts

April 14 2005 02:39 GMT

#14

On April 14 2005 09:29 WickeD wrote:
Hmm this season MBC>>OGN ?

Not by that much, I'll give them one greater than sign.

This season, MSL > OSL

Gryffindor_us

United States5606 Posts

April 14 2005 05:57 GMT

#15

Sorry, but I completely disagree ;p.

This MSL seems weak and the only reason I think you (collectively not one of you) feel it is strong is the fact that Boxer is in it this time. The groups suck and the player lineup is anti-climactic. I am happy that Boxer is back in though because he might spark things up a bit but there are some major players missing from this MSL. Then again, MSL always has pretty good games but there is just something about this one that I'm feeling. I just hope it turns out to be a great season.