Then as it was, then again it will be
Though the course may change sometimes,
rivers always reach the sea...
"Ten Years Gone" -- Led Zeppelin
Though the course may change sometimes,
rivers always reach the sea...
"Ten Years Gone" -- Led Zeppelin
A subscriber to nevake named keiblerstacy recently contacted me to ask if I could upload the 2001 Coca-Cola OSL, normally I don't really upload older games unless someone actually gives me the source directly, but the reason he requested this specific OSL was because he said it was the first StarLeague played after Patch 1.08 was released, and as a result was quite interested to see it. That bit of information piqued my curiosity too.
Patch 1.08 was the last patch that made balance changes to Brood War -- some of which were fairly significant. This was released at the end of May 2001 and was the beginning of Brood War as we know it today.
While I have owned Starcraft since 1998, we did not get internet until 2001, and living in rural Ireland I had to suffer the slowest dial-up connection known to man until about 2005 when my parents finally decided to get broadband. As a result, not only did I never play Starcraft multiplayer before then, I never had any of the patches, so my poor Photon Cannons were doing explosive damage to my computer opponent's Zerglings for about 7 years (not that I played against the computer that frequently to be honest).
So when I began following professional BW during the sAviOr era, I had not seen too much early games. Since then I have gone back and watched some classic games but the idea of watching the games from the first tournament of Brood War as it is now appealed to me -- perhaps I'm just getting old and nostalgic. There are only a few BoxeR games from that OSL on YouTube currently so I decided I would go on a mission, an adventure delving me deep into the history of progaming; I'm like the Indiana Jones of Brood War, and here's my find:
On the 15th of June 2001 -- ten years ago today -- the Coca-Cola OSL began.
Update: I fixed the syncing issues on (hopefully) all of the VODs, if there are any errors or any of the VODs are out of sync please pm me and I will try to correct it. Download the full tournament here.
BoxeR, V-Gundam, TheMarine, Sync, Lee, [NC]...Marine, Lotem
YellOw, Enough, SinDoki, Gorush, JinNam, sigamari, Isaac
IntoTheRain, Reach
Round of 16
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15 June 2001
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22 June 2001
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29 June 2001
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6 July 2001
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13 July 2001
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20 July 2001
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Round of 16 Results:
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Group A
BoxeR vs Gorush
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Group B
Reach vs V-Gundam
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Group C
sigamari vs Lee
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Group D
Isaac vs IntoTheRain
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BoxeR vs Gorush
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Group B
Reach vs V-Gundam
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Group C
sigamari vs Lee
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Group D
Isaac vs IntoTheRain
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22 June 2001
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Group A
Enough vs SinDoki
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Group B
YellOw vs TheMarine
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Group C
Sync vs JinNam
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Group D
[NC]...Marine vs Lotem
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Enough vs SinDoki
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Group B
YellOw vs TheMarine
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Group C
Sync vs JinNam
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Group D
[NC]...Marine vs Lotem
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29 June 2001
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Group A
SinDoki vs Gorush
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Group B
Reach vs TheMarine
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Group C
Sync vs Lee
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Group D
IntoTheRain vs Lotem
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SinDoki vs Gorush
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Group B
Reach vs TheMarine
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Group C
Sync vs Lee
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Group D
IntoTheRain vs Lotem
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6 July 2001
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Group A
BoxeR vs Enough
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Group B
V-Gundam vs YellOw
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Group C
sigamari vs JinNam
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Group D
[NC]...Marine vs Isaac
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BoxeR vs Enough
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Group B
V-Gundam vs YellOw
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Group C
sigamari vs JinNam
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Group D
[NC]...Marine vs Isaac
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13 July 2001
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Group A
SinDoki vs BoxeR
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Group B
YellOw vs Reach
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Group C
Sync vs sigamari
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Group D
IntoTheRain vs [NC]...Marine
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SinDoki vs BoxeR
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Group B
YellOw vs Reach
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Group C
Sync vs sigamari
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Group D
IntoTheRain vs [NC]...Marine
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20 July 2001
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Group A
Enough vs Gorush
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Group B
TheMarine vs V-Gundam
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Group C
Lee vs JinNam
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Group D
Isaac vs Lotem
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Enough vs Gorush
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Group B
TheMarine vs V-Gundam
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Group C
Lee vs JinNam
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Group D
Isaac vs Lotem
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Round of 16 Results:
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Round of 16 Tie-breaks
25 July 2001
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27 July 2001
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25 July 2001
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Group A
BoxeR vs SinDoki
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Enough vs SinDoki
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Enough vs BoxeR
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Group C
sigamari vs JinNam
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sigamari vs Lee
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Lee vs JinNam
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BoxeR vs SinDoki
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Enough vs SinDoki
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Enough vs BoxeR
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Group C
sigamari vs JinNam
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sigamari vs Lee
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Lee vs JinNam
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JinNam through to Round of 8
27 July 2001
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Round of 8
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3 August 2001
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10 August 2001
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17 August 2001
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Round of 8 Results
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3 August 2001
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Group A
Enough vs Isaac
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V-Gundam vs JinNam
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Group B
YellOw vs Sync
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BoxeR vs IntoTheRain
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Enough vs Isaac
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V-Gundam vs JinNam
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Group B
YellOw vs Sync
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BoxeR vs IntoTheRain
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CdMb0x_7CMU
10 August 2001
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Group A
JinNam vs Isaac
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V-Gundam vs Enough
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Group B
YellOw vs BoxeR
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Sync vs IntoTheRain
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JinNam vs Isaac
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V-Gundam vs Enough
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Group B
YellOw vs BoxeR
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Sync vs IntoTheRain
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17 August 2001
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Group A
Enough vs JinNam
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V-Gundam vs Isaac
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Group B
YellOw vs IntoTheRain
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BoxeR vs Sync
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Enough vs JinNam
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V-Gundam vs Isaac
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Group B
YellOw vs IntoTheRain
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BoxeR vs Sync
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Round of 8 Results
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Round of 8 Tie-breaks
22 August 2001
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22 August 2001
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Group A
Isaac vs JinNam
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JinNam vs Enough
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Enough vs Isaac
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Group B
IntoTheRain vs YellOw
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Sync vs IntoTheRain
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YellOw vs Sync
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Isaac vs JinNam
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JinNam vs Enough
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Enough vs Isaac
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Isaac through to semi-final
Group B
IntoTheRain vs YellOw
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Sync vs IntoTheRain
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YellOw vs Sync
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YellOw through to the semi-final
Semi-Finals
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24 August 2001
YellOw vs V-Gundam
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BoxeR vs Isaac
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YellOw vs V-Gundam
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cn3BggLhYcI
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YellOw wins 2-0
BoxeR vs Isaac
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BoxeR wins 2-0
Third-Fourth Place Play-Off
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31 August 2001
V-Gundam vs Isaac
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V-Gundam vs Isaac
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V-Gundam wins 2-0
Final
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Thanks to X)Benny (who's birthday is today too!) for this article which helped a lot for compiling this.