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Disclaimer: This thread is a little old now. The "pattern" is only something interesting/fun I noticed back then. This is *not* the official definition of a bonjwa in any way, and a player doesn't need to achieve that to be considered bonjwa. A bonjwa is someone who completely and utterly dominates the game for at least 8-9 months, winning several starleagues in the process. The pattern is only a path they somehow all seem(ed) to follow.
Every four MSL, a progamer wins three out of four MSL and the following OSL, and the bonjwa* story repeats itself... Every X MSLs, a progamer wins three MSL and the following OSL, and a new bonjwa is born.
2002-2003: NaDa 2002 KPGA 2nd Tour*: NaDa wins his 1st MSL 2002 KPGA 3rd Tour: NaDa wins his 2nd MSL 2002 KPGA 4th Tour: NaDa wins his 3rd MSL 2002 Panasonic OSL: NaDa wins his 1st OSL
2003 Stout MSL: Nal_rA wins MSL ... Nada's level of play starts dropping a bit...
[Transition VODs coming soon...]
2003-2004: iloveoov 2003 TriGem MSL: iloveoov beats NaDa and wins his 1st MSL 2004 CEN Game MSL: iloveoov wins his 2nd MSL 2004 SPRIS MSL: iloveoov wins his 3rd MSL
2004 YATGK MSL: Gorush wins MSL 2004 EVER2004 OSL: iloveoov wins his 1st OSL ... iloveoov's level of play starts dropping a bit...
+ Show Spoiler [Transition VODs] + 2005-2006: sAviOr 2005 UZOO MSL: sAviOr wins his 1st MSL
2005 CYON MSL: ChoJJa wins MSL 2006 Pringles-1 MSL: sAviOr wins his 2nd MSL 2006 Pringles-2 MSL: sAviOr wins his 3rd MSL 2006 ShinHan2006-3 OSL: sAviOr wins his 1st OSL ... sAviOr's level of play starts dropping a bit...
+ Show Spoiler [Transition VODs] + 2006-2007: Bisu 2006 GOMTV MSL S1: Bisu beats sAviOr and wins his 1st MSL 2007 GOMTV MSL S2: Bisu wins his 2nd MSL
2007 GOMTV MSL S3: Mind wins MSL
2007 GOMTV MSL S4: Jaedong wins MSL
2008 Arena MSL 2008: forGG wins MSL 2008 ClubDay 2008 MSL: Bisu wins his 3rd MSL 2009 Batoo OSL (in progress): Bisu 3-0'd his group and is into Ro8.
And meanwhile, a certain Leta, born in November (ah ah) just took down Flash in the current MSL and is now one of the big favorites to win the whole thing and, maybe, take over the pattern.
Notes: 1. sAviOr couldn't take down Oov during UZOO MSL because they never faced each other. Crushed him twice in the following one, though. 2. It's also interesting to note that any bonjwa seems to be automatically jinxed vs the following one: - NaDa is 5-16 against Oov in official games (also lost during some chinese event finals) ; - Oov is 0-6 against Savior (also lost during a chinese event, but won in a SuperFight) ; - Savior is 1-5 against Bisu (something like 2-10 including special events). 3. All bonjwas were born in November (1 chance out of 1728 to happen for any given month if I'm not mistaken). Coincidence?
*OLD* Predictions:
1. Bisu will win the current MSL. 2. Bisu will also win the OSL following the next MSL's finals. 3. In the next MSL, another new bonjwa will take over and win his first starleague ever.
*bonjwa (by rinizim) - This word really is an ugly Korean slang, neither structurely nor grammatically coherent (it just doesn't make sense), but nonetheless used widely to mean the 'best'.
*KPGA 1st/2nd/3rd/4th Tour - Ex MSL.
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Nice write-up. Thanks. =]
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Nice write up History repeats itself Bisu WILL take this MSL But I have doubts him winning this OSL, its a low chance
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So if testie can get in the MSL at the correct time...
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Wow, nice one. Hope it's true, Bisu deserves it.
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On October 28 2007 02:44 niteReloaded wrote: So if testie can get in the MSL at the correct time...
exactly my point :D
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Interesting, and nice write!
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It's interesting that MSL winners are so much more dominant than OSL winners.
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It's rigged!! Haha. Thanks for the write-up .
But the way things look, Bisu will win the MSL again lol. But hopefully we get to see a rematch of GomTV S1! Savior and Bisu are on opposite sides of the bracket and their respective opponents don't look like they have much of a chance . WILL SAVIOR FINALLY BREAK THE BISU BUILD? OR WILL HE BE STEAMROLLED AGAIN. (Please not another 3-0 lol)
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We can hope
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bonjwa technically not slang, it's an old, barely used word that's been mangled so much, it might as well be slang I guess -_-
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No, Testie over Bisu
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2003 TriGem MSL: iloveoov beats TNaDa and wins his 1st MSL on his 1st MSL appearance 2005 UZOO MSL: sAviOr wins his 1st MSL on his 1st MSL appearance 2006 GOMTV MSL S1: Bisu beats ZsAviOr and wins his 1st MSL on his 1st MSL appearance
interesting shit.
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What's with all the talk about Testie in MSL? He doesn't even go to korea, I thought. Or should it be "lol at the romanian guys"?
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Actually sAviOr's first MSL was Spris and he lost to Themarine
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On October 28 2007 05:04 Konni wrote: What's with all the talk about Testie in MSL? He doesn't even go to korea, I thought. Or should it be "lol at the romanian guys"?
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