As many Starcraft fans and viewers may know, the end of 2011 brought about the dawn of a new online tournament in the Korean scene, the KSL is a series of daily matches between top Korean players from the teams Prime, oGs, NSHoSeo, MvP, ZeNEX, StarTale, Incredible Miracle, and FXOpen.

Starting at 15:00Cet or 23:00KST

16.01 IM vs NSHoseo
17.01 Startale vs oGs
18.01 FXO vs Prime
19.01 MVP vs zenex

28.01 winner of IM vs nshoseo vs winner of startale vs ogs
29.01 winner of fxo vs prime vs winner of mvp vs zenex

Check out the event page :
THE KSL

Black Gun

Germany4482 Posts

January 15 2012 19:25 GMT

awesome!!

i love your korean team league. in the long run, sc2 is gonna need teamleagues to continue to thrive. only the gsl individual league wont be enough.

im most pumped for ST vs oGs.

opterown

Australia54784 Posts

January 15 2012 20:54 GMT

is this going to be a BO11?

ragnorr

Denmark6097 Posts

January 15 2012 22:54 GMT

On January 16 2012 05:54 opterown wrote:
is this going to be a BO11?

Yes it is.

Really looking forward to it, gonna have it playing in the background while doing my exam all week

OnFiRe888

United States629 Posts

January 15 2012 23:01 GMT

I wonder if they will bring back the old "individual daily" format. IE, picking 8 players to play every day and have them duke it out for $100. Even though I enjoyed the "opening ceremonies", and the "grand opening tournament", this feels kind of redundant because we already had a KSL team league tournament with the exact same format and teams less than two weeks ago. Oh well, I guess the Korean New Years is coming up soon, and maybe things will go back to normal once that is finished.
Either way, these tournaments are great and are really good for the exposure and the "pumping in money" to the korean code b'ers.

Sumahi

Guam5609 Posts

January 15 2012 23:16 GMT

I wish the KSL would get more attention. It's good to have it there for when a night of GSL fails to entertain.

I was so hyped for the last one, only to see DRG crush Startale in the Grand Finals. I'm hoping that this time they'll have a better overall plan, since in the last round they seemed to rely too much on the "have Squirtle and Bomber" save us strategy.

redloser

Korea (South)1725 Posts

January 16 2012 00:07 GMT

Awesome! I just freakin' love team leagues

lyrlian

Netherlands257 Posts

January 17 2012 13:13 GMT

Startale vs oGs BO11 starting in 50 minutes :D

koko775

Germany43 Posts

January 17 2012 16:54 GMT

I missed the games. Can someone tell me if any of the QxG players played for ST today (is that even possible, I mean they have a partnership, but can they play for ST?)?

Orome

Switzerland11984 Posts

January 17 2012 17:00 GMT

#10

I don't think they're part of this team league. In any case, no QxG players played for ST today.

Odoakar

Croatia1837 Posts

January 17 2012 17:16 GMT

#11

KSL needs to set up a proper league, 8 teams round robin. Like BW proleague. I would pay to watch that. I really dislike bracket style tournaments for teams.

anxiouspanda

United States56 Posts

January 18 2012 16:35 GMT

#12

On January 18 2012 01:54 koko775 wrote:
I missed the games. Can someone tell me if any of the QxG players played for ST today (is that even possible, I mean they have a partnership, but can they play for ST?)?

I could be mistaken but... didn't the partnership end?

opterown

Australia54784 Posts

January 18 2012 16:38 GMT

#13

they should try a proleague-style tournament to differentiate themselves from the GSTL

GhandiEAGLE

United States20754 Posts

January 18 2012 17:25 GMT

#14

why no TSL?

VirgilSC2

United States6151 Posts

January 18 2012 17:28 GMT

#15

On January 19 2012 02:25 GhandiEAGLE wrote:
why no TSL?

Unfortunately TSL is not one of the 8 teams involved with the KSL. I'm not sure on the specifics but I believe one of the facets stems from lack of roster depth.

As far as I'm aware the Quantic players cannot play for StarTale, and the Complexity/EG players cannot play for MvP/SlayerS either.