In a best of five set, Jae-Dong “JaeDong” Lee defeated Ku Hyun “Kal” Kim taking the StarCraft MSL Season 4 championship.
The set went to four games, with JaeDong losing the first map but taking the following three in powerful fashion. JaeDong potentially could have lost this set, with the Protoss versus Zerg matchup being one of his weaker ones, but he proved that conclusion wrong.
After losing Blue Storm, he defeated Kal on Katrina, a more Protoss favored map. The game was close, but a poor decision by Kal cost him his main base, while JaeDong suffered little damage. Kal soon conceded, the match reaching a tie.
Zodiac and Loki were far more one-sided games. JaeDong showed little weakness and pressured Kal in both matches, quickly shutting him down to go home and continue his reign as the top Zerg player in the world.
JaeDong now holds titles for each of the major proleagues in Korea: He is an MSL champion, an OSL champion, and his team won the most recent Proleague finals.
Over at Teamliquid.net, translator Joohyunee has brought news of a new league soon to hit the airwaves of MBC and OGN. This new Minor League will showcase the up and comers who make it onto professional teams but don’t advance into individual leagues or the Proleague rosters. There are more than 200 Brood War pro gamers yet many never get experience in front of audiences and as a result, often plateau in skill and performance. The 11 team coaches hope to remedy this issue with the new minor league.
According to the translation: “Each team will have a roster of 5-10 players, and players with less than 3 participated games in the ‘A Team’ can also participate in the ‘Minor League.’” Unlike Proleague line ups, which have four 1v1s and and 2v2, the minor league test will be a best of five with only 1v1 match ups. Some of the most interesting and exciting replays I’ve seen have been of highly skilled “no namers.” This will likely remain true with this new league, which should launch early next year.
KeSPA, the governing body of e-sports in Korea plans to start with a “test match” and based on the results will come up with the official league structure.
Source: Teamliquid
Jeon “By.Sun” Tae Yong began his StarCraft Proleague career yesterday, Dec. 5, at the young age of only 13. Tae Yong has been receiving attention due to his incredible sense of game play and was taken under the wing of four-time OSL champion Lee “Nada” Yoon Yeol.
By.Sun, of WeMade Fox, faced off with his team against the Korean Air Force team ACE. The best of five match-up ended 3-0 in favor of Fox giving Jeon Tae Yong both his first career match and career win. First-person views of Tae Yong’s screen show remarkable speed and gameplay mechanics as he easily crushed his opponent Park “Daezang” Dae Man, who is not only 24 years old, but has been playing televised matches since 2004.
In an interview with Fomos, By.Sun noted that he was very happy with his performance and will “keep working to set more records”
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Some badass StarCraft games went down in the MBC StarLeague and ProLeague over the weekend, as fans saw BoxeR return to action against World Cyber Games champion Stork and WCG Korea team member Hwasin fought Protoss stalwart Bisu.
iloveoov was in the mix as well in a Terran mirror match against Mind, and sAviOr went back to his 2v2 roots in ProLeague as he fought with CJ Entus against eSTRO. Follow for results and spoilers after the jump, and remember, VODs of these matches are available through the TeamLiquid.net tracker (Bit Torrent). Continued…
