Wasn't sure if I should make a new topic for this, but I just took so many photos and I know everyone's kind of Brood War deprived right now, so... enjoy!
also, seems pretty obvious, but spoiler warning.
Gotta say, their player boxes were kind of fail. You couldn't see either of them at all, because the window was so small, and the glare was pretty bad (so one of the camera guys had to hold up a black sheet to block the sun whenever they did a closeup.
the last GG moment. Game 5 was fantastic. Cant wait for everyone to see it :D
Bisu gets swarmed as he leaves the stage.
Stork (and his SKT jacket haha) <3
Bisu in the Press tent doing his interviews.
lol what are you doing
fighting!
People were asking him to sign all sorts of things: cellphone cases, park maps, money, anything they could find.
my favorite ♥
Afterwards, Bisu and Coach Park went to go watch the Beyblade tournament.
I guess the Bakugan guys were big fans of SC too.
Just as I was about to leave, Stork came back for the awards, so I followed to see if I could get some pictures of Taekbang moments ^^
They hung out with each other the rest of the night and seemed pretty close, which made me happy xD I did manage to get a picture with them both, and go here to see it.
STX Special Force team wins first place.
Aaaaand Stork gets his 2384723487134th silver.
Yes guys. Bisu is the champion of Starcarft. lol.
All of the foreign players that attended. The guys in blue are all from China.
EDIT:
On October 10 2011 07:59 allen_ami wrote: Semifinal
On October 10 2011 00:02 Black[CAT] wrote: Those foreign players, are they all players of the Starcraft competition or are they including other games?
The foreign players in the last photo? That was for all the other games as well. But I'm assuming it's only the ones who actually won first through third place, because I don't see a couple of the foreign Special Force teams that were there on Friday.
On October 09 2011 23:59 Hyde wrote: Look at that Bisu smille :D Thanks for sharing
Do you know which other countries participated?
I'm not sure about the other games, but for Starcraft, there were players from Korea, China, Colombia, Kyrgyzstan, Thailand, and Uzbekistan.
Truly an International Esports Festival.
They should have picked up DotA or LoL or SC2 if they really believed in globalization of Esports.
It's pretty much IEF prerogative to do whatever they want and in these case to support their local scene . Sc2 has their gsl and all the hype events already .
On October 10 2011 00:09 J1.au wrote: Great photos, thanks for sharing. How many spectators turned out for the event? It's hard to tell from the pictures.
There were about 200 spectators in the seats I think. The festival wasn't just the e-sports tournaments. I'd say most of the people there were locals who brought their kids to enjoy the various activities provided (it was kind of like a fair, with games and booths). Because Yongin is pretty far from Seoul (it took me about 2 hours to get there from where I live), I don't think any of the usual SC fans bothered to travel that far to watch.