2011 in review [Broodwar Edition]

Long live the continuing dominance of broodwar ( Dune 2000 reference of course )




Welcome to my 2011 in review , basically I have time on my hand and decided to write up maybe a 50% coverage of what happen in 2011 , major events and disheartening sad events .Though not everything is really that bad to say .To be truthful , when I noticed there was a 2011 in review of sc2 , I was jealous to the core and I thought to my self ? Hey if the teamliquid team is busy with their work , maybe I could do one for broodwar and so here it begins .


Teams Disbanding

The year 2011 hasn't been kind to bw at all , not at all , three major teams being disbanded because sponsors in their execution thought of other means of delivering their product to the targeted audience and using bw to deliver that promotion has been costly . It's really speculative and it can be other reason's the company may pull out of the broodwar scene but on what basis their true motives was for disbanding ? We probably will never know .

Financing a pro gaming team especially a starcraft team requires lots of money investment and than relying on this system to provide exposure of their brand to consumers is quite risky .Although team's which are famous and that are doing well , relating pro gamers with the brand may automatically aligned spectators and fan's to buy their product ( I know I am one of them ) . Sadly this isn't happening for teams as seen below .

As there were not performing as much as much as team's like Skt1,Samsung Khan and KT rolster . This three teams were performing really badly even in the stx tournament cup because of the rumours of the team disbanding and it's really sad to hear about them going through this kind of phase and asked to perform well . When they know , there is possibilities that this is their last time they are playing this game .


Three major casualties have affected broodwar scene as we know , MBC game removal,Wemade Fox and Hwazeung Oz . In the memory of

WemadeFox




Hwazeung Oz



MBC Game Hero





Team's disbanding has always been part of broodwar , although it has never hit bw scene as hard as this one did, Wemade fox once the home of legendary player Nada now longer exist as a place to honour his victory,Hwazeung Oz once a major team full with talent, MBC game which holds some of the most interesting players ranging from Saint , Shark,Hyun, home to former god of war July and previously Bisu .

Disbanding this team's only means one thing , it created a domino effect to the remaining players , since young rookies and older players such as Midas,Anytime,Hiya,Ruby who are all famous players which carried their teams to victory . Having no place to go to, to seek refuge and comfort with their former team mates .

Anytime the protoss hero who shape up his team protoss line had to hand in the resignation form , despite him having a significant's to the bw scene . Paying his salary isn't worthy because of the history he is carrying , this also applies to Midas who was still performing well in individual leagues and proleague , Hiya who also was a A teamer decided to follow the same step and call it quits and even Ruby .

Remaining teams who have their own players to care for , could not receive the influx of players from other teams , this also means young fresh blood who are aspiring to be next bisu's , flash and jaedong had their dreams shattered , because of this sudden removal of their teams . Some quitted from the scene ,Some were lucky to get a chance to play again and found a home in other teams , Some still stream in afreeca , Over all most of them gave up their pro gaming career .

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Formation of Team 8



Kespa being the parent which spawned this franchise and brand , Of course could not allow of the talented players from this disbanded team to go to the waste . Taking what they can to salvage the remaining players from the three disbanding teams , Kespa taking in to consideration of the coaches that were available, decided that Coach Joo , Coach han are the best choice to be supervising this dream team .

Rising from the ashes of Hwazeung Oz , was Jaedong the tyrant , Killer a promising young zerg, From the sudden disbandment of MBC Game hero , Were no stranger to anyone , is Sea, Tyson and Jaehoon who were performing well in their proleague games , Also BaBy from Wemadefox a young and talented terran player and Ryul , Sang were recruited in to the team .

Also being nick name the dream team by many fans , despite them being called the dream team currently they are sitting in a tight position being rank no 8 on kespa ranking because of not being able to seal the deal when situation calls for such action to do so . Though it may sound really negative in perspective to call them a hype team , they do have the talent at hand , all players that are recruited in to this team are no scrubs .

With that I wish Team 8 , all the best in their endeavours and I hope they will find a sponsor to bring them the much needed comfort and monetary compensation they all really deserve.

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MBC game turn into a Music Channel



Mbc game channel has been a prominent channel for starcraft and all esport related games not only it had the best commentator in my opinion , It hosted more than many individual tournaments which created legends of the game ranging from Boxer,Iloveoov ,Savior ,Bisu ,Flash, Stork, Jaedong and many more . It's definitely a individual league which has a lot of prestige to it . From a personal point of view , I held the msl as a much more prestigious tournament than the OSL , It had a great entertaining group selection which includes having players doing silly stuff and cool ceremonies like Firebathero and even to a Drunken Hyun .

To think that all of this memories , will never be relived again due to mbc game changing it's direction to a music channel in the name of kpop for monetary purposes . Broke my heart in to pieces and most importantly , I will never be able to enjoy another commentary of msl best trio of commentators ever again because of this changes . Made this a sad parting , that I wish never happen in 2011 .

With mbc game no longer being a secondary competitor , OGN no longer has any opposition to compete against it's channel .Possibly OGN will benefit from the retirement of mbc game from the gaming scene but to us fan's , the lack of more games to watch and individual leagues to scream about . Has left us broodwar fan's asking for MORE.......



I want more of this please OGN -_-





Thank you Msl for the memories

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OGN hire's former Msl commentator



At first with the recent news that has fallen upon us that msl is no longer to be existent and mbc game are to be changed into a music channel . Is definitely a bad new's to the bw scene and it's seem to be that way until this new's was released by fomos that ogn actually is hiring former msl commentators to commentate their games .

This was indeed a very commendable move by ogn for hiring this talented commentators and as evident lee sung woon and former commentators have been rocking the ogn game's with their great commentaries.

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KT's violet get well movement by NeverGG




Last year one of kt's protoss player Violet was diagnosed with cancer and with that he was rush to the hospital , Luckily due to the koreans great attention in keeping their appearance good at all time , this maligned disease was able to detected early . In response to this Teamliquid.net not only put a yellow ribbon on the banner to show respect to violet and Nevergg in her effort rallied most of us to give supporting messages to violet and with the deliverance of it .

KT's players and coach were touch by it and with that were blessed with a video of Reach,Yellow , Coach Henry and even Flash left us a message as seen in the video above . I just want to say thank you and I love you Nevergg for doing this , it really made me happy .

Link to the thread http://www.teamliquid.net/forum/viewmessage.php?topic_id=200849

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SK sponsors Proleague


Shinhan bank no longer sponsoring proleague while sk planet will be the official sponsor for proleague .The changes to the proleague system from bo 7 with ace match to bo5

More details in here http://www.teamliquid.net/forum/viewmessage.php?topic_id=288400
and here http://www.teamliquid.net/forum/viewmessage.php?topic_id=289085

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Legend of the Fall




Jangbi's osl cinderella story

Who would have thought Jangbi Could have done it ? Winning a Tie breaker ? Destroying Flash , Smack talking about how he has great confidence that he will be taking down every opponent in his way ? . The miracle happen , the legend of the fall that in every autumn a protoss hero will rise and win the osl .

Also it is written that a pure hearted warrior , will claim the lords of shadow oopps and yes Jangbi has the same Aura of Grabiel from castlevania lord of the shadows . To be truthful I meant a protoss hero will win the osl and Jangbi of coursed did it with style not only fan's all across the globe was screaming "OMG Jangbi Won the 2011 osl " , I think he revitalised the starcraft scene and made people interested about the game again . For that Jangbi will always have my respect for this and I hope he will continue dominating .



Jangbi : "Hardwork never betray's"

PC bang of horror "Prophecies that jangbi will win the OSL " because of yellow retirement from the bw scene . http://www.teamliquid.net/blogs/viewblog.php?topic_id=238074




It's good that the manly race win's the osl again and possibly this win by jangbi actually made another broodwar revival in the korean scene .

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KT win's the grand proleague final



Read my coverage for more details

http://www.teamliquid.net/forum/viewmessage.php?topic_id=257768

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Thank you for reading this




I want to say thank you for tl.net for allowing us bw fans a place to reside , talk about our favourite games , Go crazy about how bisu is cute(Kiett favourite player ) and that of course I don't like him , I think tl.net has become part of my extended family and I have learn a lot from the pm's from the moderator about my previous history of rage when sc2 and bw is involve about the topic . I want this to last forever and I hope bw too will also do the same .....

I want everyone to have a good year ahead and be successful in every resolution they want to pursue in . I hope you enjoy reading this closure of 2011 .