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News

Tving Ongamenet Starleague Finals (56 comments)

( Major News: SC)

Posted by esdf @ 16:08 CDT, 3 August 2012 - iMsg

Scheduled: 04:00 CDT, 4 August 2012 to 07:30 CDT, 4 August 2012
Schedule: Passed

This is it. The end of over a decade long professional eSports in Korea as we know it. With first OGN Starcraft 2 Starleague right behind the corner, we are left with one last look at professional Brood War at it's best.

This year's finals is a reprisal of last year's in which JangBi completed Legend of the Fall against Fantasy to seal his first ever OSL title which left

Fantasy in the Kong Line.

Starting tomorrow from 04:00 CDT we will find out if

JangBi becomes only protoss alongside Garimto to win two OSL titles and repeats a feat only matched by BoxeR and Jaedong - to win a back-to-back OSL title. Also, this is the last chance for

Fantasy to break his Kong curse and become immortalized as the last Brood War OSL champion ever.

Update:

JangBi takes home the last Brood War OSL ever in what proved to be a complete rape of

Fantasy! Well done \o/ GG NO RE. Fantasy remains King of Kong.

Streams: OGN, Sayle, OminouS, oOOoOphidian, ESports TV
Links:

Official stream (KR), Official stream (EN), Liquipedia entry for Tving OSL 2012

Edited by esdf at 07:18 CDT, 4 August 2012 - 11518 Hits

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<< Comment #1 @ 16:17 CDT, 3 August 2012 >>

By

donka '

Cricket

<< Comment #2 @ 16:49 CDT, 3 August 2012 >>

By

son1dow

I was going to write the news, now I can't you bastard :(

Anyway, here are a few links:
Teamliquid's hype writeup, highly recommended.
This thread is going to have all the stream links. If not, look at TL's stream sidebar.
Moletrap's writeup, interviews, links and an English stream.
Fantasy's GG timing thread.
Ideas' writeup.

Get everybody to tune in - your friends, your girlfriend, your brother and even your grandmother. It's likely that we won't see such skill displayed in an esport live for the next 10 years, as these are the last top tier BW progamers to deliberately practice BW full time.
I'm joining the group of spectators that are going to root for BW tommorow.

Edited by son1dow at 16:56 CDT, 3 August 2012

<< Comment #11 @ 03:10 CDT, 4 August 2012 >>

By

esdf ' - Reply to #2

hey, thanks for including the links, i'd do so myself but i just came home yesterday night from a trip and was too tired to do anything else then a quick writeup

<< Comment #3 @ 16:56 CDT, 3 August 2012 >>

By

ddk

This is going to be awesome, fuck yeah!

<< Comment #4 @ 18:16 CDT, 3 August 2012 >>

By

xou

Fantasy! o/

<< Comment #56 @ 19:00 CDT, 4 August 2012 >>

By

esdf ' - Reply to #4

he-he. :D:D:D

<< Comment #5 @ 18:34 CDT, 3 August 2012 >>

By

rehepapp

JANGBANG

<< Comment #6 @ 19:21 CDT, 3 August 2012 >>

By

nemecel

SC2 sucks compared to BW.

<< Comment #40 @ 07:23 CDT, 4 August 2012 >>

By

rareh - Reply to #6

both sc2 and bw suck
At least sc2 is a strategy game and not a apm game.

<< Comment #44 @ 07:26 CDT, 4 August 2012 >>

By

son1dow - Reply to #40

Ah... Just STFU if you have not a clue

<< Comment #7 @ 19:57 CDT, 3 August 2012 >>

By

YoJJi

SC2 sucks

<< Comment #27 @ 06:07 CDT, 4 August 2012 >>

By

Fulgore - Reply to #7

Try Quakecon instead

<< Comment #8 @ 01:16 CDT, 4 August 2012 >>

By

Thorin

If you're staying up late or have woken up early for the final I've written up a preview with a twist: instead of focusing on minutae like the map pool and the players's most recent form I've looked at the historical implications a win or loss will have on their legacies as players.

<< Comment #14 @ 03:14 CDT, 4 August 2012 >>

By

esdf ' - Reply to #8

nice writeup!

also, regarding legend of the fall, you're missing reach on that list of people completing the LotF vs boxer :D

<< Comment #9 @ 03:06 CDT, 4 August 2012 >>

By

baron Railgun :

what happened with Flash?

<< Comment #10 @ 03:09 CDT, 4 August 2012 >>

By

esdf ' - Reply to #9

fantasy trashed him 3-0 in the semis.

<< Comment #25 @ 05:26 CDT, 4 August 2012 >>

By

baron Railgun : - Reply to #10

seen the results now
sorry for my silly question :)

<< Comment #12 @ 03:10 CDT, 4 August 2012 >>

By

miNd

how do i filter sc2 news out?

<< Comment #13 @ 03:13 CDT, 4 August 2012 >>

By

duumed - Reply to #12

site->filters

<< Comment #41 @ 07:24 CDT, 4 August 2012 >>

By

rareh - Reply to #13

thx

<< Comment #15 @ 03:56 CDT, 4 August 2012 >>

By

esdf ' - Reply to #12

it's not sc2 news so you're asking in the wrong thread.

<< Comment #17 @ 04:09 CDT, 4 August 2012 >>

By

aeoL - Reply to #12

Hope you don't mind.

<< Comment #16 @ 04:08 CDT, 4 August 2012 >>

By

eh

What a show, this gonna be great!

<< Comment #18 @ 04:33 CDT, 4 August 2012 >>

By

which stream should i watch?

<< Comment #20 @ 04:46 CDT, 4 August 2012 >>

By

esdf ' - Reply to #18

any of the two official ones :D

<< Comment #19 @ 04:36 CDT, 4 August 2012 >>

By

esdf '

last legend match boxer vs yellow!

wish yellow finally wins :<

<< Comment #21 @ 04:52 CDT, 4 August 2012 >>

By

jaysson

aaaaand he did
thx for majoring again, would've missed it otherwise.

<< Comment #22 @ 04:54 CDT, 4 August 2012 >>

By

eh

Now they dance???? :DD

<< Comment #23 @ 04:56 CDT, 4 August 2012 >>

By

esdf '

KONG DANCE

GIVE ME COMMAND

Edited by esdf at 04:56 CDT, 4 August 2012

<< Comment #24 @ 05:18 CDT, 4 August 2012 >>

By

annihiluzz - Reply to #23

http://i.imgur.com/PZ2qK.gif

<< Comment #26 @ 05:53 CDT, 4 August 2012 >>

By

esdf '

update: kim carrier going apeshit insane over jangbi's carriers, jangbi up 1-0

Edited by esdf at 05:54 CDT, 4 August 2012

<< Comment #28 @ 06:19 CDT, 4 August 2012 >>

By

maza

more plusses than qcon day 2 jee

<< Comment #29 @ 06:53 CDT, 4 August 2012 >>

By

ZeriouS

"The fans going absolutely crazy!!"

<< Comment #30 @ 07:05 CDT, 4 August 2012 >>

By

ZeriouS

What are those slim ladies in white doing on the side of the players?

<< Comment #31 @ 07:05 CDT, 4 August 2012 >>

By

esdf ' - Reply to #30

they're the booth babes. :)

<< Comment #32 @ 07:08 CDT, 4 August 2012 >>

By

ZeriouS

Aaaand, the English commentators said the three guys on stage (also in white) casted for 13 or 30 years together? Impressive.

<< Comment #33 @ 07:16 CDT, 4 August 2012 >>

By

lol Moletrap is having a heart attack

<< Comment #34 @ 07:17 CDT, 4 August 2012 >>

By

ZeriouS

"THE TANK GOES DOWN ;;; ABSOLUTE CRUSHING DEFEAT FOR FANTASY ;;; :JANGBI IS THE WINNER" damn, these casters are awesome!

<< Comment #35 @ 07:19 CDT, 4 August 2012 >>

By

ookami

Jangbi Won, yea \o/. Was fun to watch it. Great play folks, and thank you BW! :)

<< Comment #36 @ 07:19 CDT, 4 August 2012 >>

By

esdf '

haha dno i was watchin korean stream... just hearing Kim Carrier go batshit crazy, even tho i could not understand a word, was priceless...

<< Comment #37 @ 07:20 CDT, 4 August 2012 >>

By

ZeriouS - Reply to #36

:(( The stream in Original Korean isn't available here :( :(((

<< Comment #39 @ 07:22 CDT, 4 August 2012 >>

By

ookami - Reply to #36

Yea, way better than english one. :D Loved a the commentators.

<< Comment #49 @ 07:35 CDT, 4 August 2012 >>

By

ZeriouS - Reply to #39

boooh >:(

<< Comment #50 @ 07:39 CDT, 4 August 2012 >>

By

ookami - Reply to #49

You could even watch it on twitch.tv?

<< Comment #51 @ 07:41 CDT, 4 August 2012 >>

By

ZeriouS - Reply to #50

English yes on twitch, but in Korean it was only on YouTube??

<< Comment #52 @ 07:44 CDT, 4 August 2012 >>

By

ZeriouS - Reply to #50

ok now found a stream where it works ._.
http://www.twitch.tv/ominousc2

<< Comment #38 @ 07:21 CDT, 4 August 2012 >>

By

Man, this makes me feel sad. It really will be years until we will see plays as refined as this in SC2.

Thank you BW for giving us hours upon hours of quality entertainment. See you on the other side. :eagletear:

Grats to JangBi!

Edited by madbringer at 07:21 CDT, 4 August 2012

<< Comment #42 @ 07:24 CDT, 4 August 2012 >>

By

ZeriouS

To be honest - why, why do they cancel BW tournaments at all? Which other game, has such a long running community also on a high professional level in terms of mental ability, they show great athletic abilities and sportsmanship.

SC2 may be looking better, but it's still not patched enough to have a certain in-game balance iirc?

*edit*: I don't refer to all this fancy show, to all the sponsorships and other money these players receive, but especially on the sportive aspect, where these individuals have to hit their performance limit and were gone beyond.

*edit 2*: Will there still be enough players to play some SC:BW, or are all quitting because there won't be this kind of big league tournaments anymore?

Edited by ZeriouS at 07:32 CDT, 4 August 2012

<< Comment #43 @ 07:26 CDT, 4 August 2012 >>

By

esdf ' - Reply to #42

ask blizzard :>

anyway, sc2 with it's constant balance patches will never reach the level of bw :>

bw had maybe 3 balance patches over 10 years. players did the rest on their own.

<< Comment #46 @ 07:28 CDT, 4 August 2012 >>

By

madbringer - Reply to #42

In terms of balance, it's getting there, but still has a long ways to go. Fast approaching Heart of the Swarm release will probably set it even further back. I don't think it's a stretch to say the game will only truly become balanced a year or two after Legacy of the Void gets out.

I wonder as well about this quick switchover. I think BW could easily sit comfortably alongside SC2 for a couple more years. It's probably all business related.

<< Comment #47 @ 07:32 CDT, 4 August 2012 >>

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esdf ' - Reply to #42

just saw your bw question, well basically - china osl is coming up, you can always play scbw on iccup, there's a lot of tournaments going on... or if you feel comfortable with lagspikes - play on fish. :>

<< Comment #45 @ 07:27 CDT, 4 August 2012 >>

By

son1dow

I'm going to miss BW <3

<< Comment #48 @ 07:34 CDT, 4 August 2012 >>

By

esdf ' - Reply to #45

i'll prolly not even follow sc2... i did not so far, don't plan on starting now.

might watch a game or two of kespa side of sc2 tho, just for the nostalgic feeling of brood war players :<

<< Comment #53 @ 08:55 CDT, 4 August 2012 >>

By

[mash]

Aww, I missed it, damn it. :(

Gratz to Jangbi. If you defeat Flash, you deserve to win the whole thing!

<< Comment #54 @ 09:15 CDT, 4 August 2012 >>

By

esdf ' - Reply to #53

fanta defeated flash tho... :D

<< Comment #55 @ 09:24 CDT, 4 August 2012 >>

By

[mash] - Reply to #54

Ah, got it mixed. Think I'm still drunk.^^;;

Anyway, he deserved this for his fantastic games vs. zerO. :D

Edited by [mash] at 09:25 CDT, 4 August 2012

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