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Upcoming MSL Season - Pringles (No. 2)

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Carnac
Profile Blog Joined December 2003
Germany16549 Posts
Last Edited: 2006-08-23 16:56:14
August 22 2006 03:58 GMT
#1
It appears as if some CEOs think Koreans teenagers may need a change of diet, because for the second time in a row the MBCGame Starleague is being sponsored by Pringles.


Savior, the defending champion, thinking about new ways to make ZvP look imbalanced at the group drawing ceremony


The first Pringles MSL edition ended with Savior winning 3-1 over Nal_rA, whose count of major titles is now 2! It was the third Zerg championship title in a row, which may sound a bit surprising, because except for Nal_rA winning once, all the previous KPGA and MSL titles had been claimed by Terrans. After all it is here that the two legendary Terrans NaDa and iloveoov made their biggest impact.

Let me introduce you to everything you need to know about this upcoming MSL. The system itself has not changed since last season, so you may look it up in one of TLnet's earlier newsposts.


From left to right, top row: BoxeR, Midas, Kingdom, Chojja, Jju, Shark, NaDa, Terato
bottom row: Silver, Nal_rA, Savior, XellOs, DaezanG, YellOw[Name], Pusan, Bifrost


The Players

The four best players of last season were automatically qualified (they are also seeded each into one group):
  • 1st - Savior (Z)
  • 2nd - Nal_rA (P)
  • 3rd - Midas (T)
  • 4th - Kingdom (P)
The other 12 players had to fight their way through the Survivor League, the following made it:
  • BoxeR (T)
  • Chojja (Z)
  • NaDa (T)
  • XellOs (T)
  • JJu (Z)
  • SiLvEr (Z)
  • TerAtO (P)
  • PuSan (P)
  • YellOw[Name] (Z)
  • DaezanG (P)
  • Bifrost (T)
  • Shark (Z)

As one can see the result is a pretty even race distribution witch five Terran, five Protoss and six Zerg players. Lets just hope the racial balance lives up to its expectations for once.

The team distribution looks like this:
  • SKTelecom T1: 3
  • OGN Sparkyz: 3
  • MBC Hero: 2
  • KTF MagicNs: 2
  • CJ Entus: 2
  • Pantech Ex: 2
  • Samsun KHAN: 1
  • Hanbit Stars: 1
  • Lecaf Oz: 0
  • STX-SouL: 0
  • eNature Top: 0



I'm a happy Zergling, kekeke ^_^


The Groups
Like always, MBCGame held a group selection ceremony, for pictures of it, look here:
  • Pictures - part 1 (Figherforum)
  • Pictures - part 2 (Figherforum)

The groups were drawn and then some players were switched around following a system, which Live2win explained last season in this WGT news post.

This is what the final groups look like:
  • Group A: Savior vs. Terato, Yellow[name] vs. Bifrost
  • Group B: Nal_rA vs. Boxer, Silver vs. Pusan
  • Group C: Midas vs. Jju, Daezang vs. Chojja
  • Group D: Kingdom vs. Nada, Xellos vs. Shark



'Oh God, I need to get out of here'


The Maps

As usual the map pool consists of a mix of maps from previous seasons, as well as new maps.

We know Arcadia alread, since it has been used last season. Blitz and Longinus are completely new maps and the fourth map - New Peaks of Beakdu - is on loan from OGN, where it's former version was used last season.

Arcadia 2.00


Blitz 1.00


Longinus 1.01


New Peaks of Beakdu 2.2


The map pack, with Melee versions, Observer versions and Training versions, as well as the pictures can be downloaded here.

The Opening Matches - Week 1 and 2

Week 1 - August 24th
  • Savior (Z/CJ) vs. Terato (P/OGN) @ Longinus
  • Yellow[Name] (Z/OGN) vs. Bifrost (T/OGN) @ New Peaks of Baekdu
  • Nal_rA (P/KTF) vs. BoxeR (T/SKT) @ Blitz
  • Silver (Z/Pantech) vs. Pusan (P/MBCgame) @ Arcadia

Week 2 - August 31st
  • Midas (T/SKT) vs. Jju (Z/Samsung) @ New Peaks of Baekdu
  • Daezang (P/Hanbit) vs. Chojja (Z/KTF) @ Blitz
  • Kingdom (P/SKT) vs. NaDa (T/Pantech) @ Arcadia
  • XellOs (T/CJ) vs. Shark (Z/MBCgame) @ Longinus



XellOs shoing an emotion? I don't believe it!


Personal notes of mine

In no more than two days we will now witness what may become the start of Boxer's last Starleague ever. As everyone should know by now, he will start his mandatory service in the Korean army in September and since he has not been able to qualify for the OSL, MSL is all that is left. I really, really hope he can display something special. The

What's also interesting to see, is that iloveoov for the first time ever did not qualify for the MSL. But not only that, he also failed to get into OSL, while NaDa, who was absent for so long over there, is now back.

Looking at the first round matches I must say that I am very exited. Much more exited than I could possibly be about the upcoming OSL. It's just the beginning and so many classics -know ones, as well as potential ones- are already coming up: Boxer vs. Nal_rA, the duel of the strategic masterminds, NaDa vs. Kingdom, Midas vs. Jju, two extremely hungry players, XellOs vs. Shark, wow. And it goes on. This will be interesting.

Credits

Thanks to Live2win, HonestTea and many more for the original input.


Let the games begin.
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danmooj1
Profile Blog Joined November 2004
United States1855 Posts
Last Edited: 2006-08-22 04:01:33
August 22 2006 04:00 GMT
#2
man those matches are gonna be interesting!
XellOs fighting!!
it's nice to see him smiling
#1 XellOs fan!
mR.Sephiroth
Profile Joined April 2005
Germany296 Posts
Last Edited: 2006-08-22 04:04:53
August 22 2006 04:02 GMT
#3
BoxeR!!!
it smells like the best msl ever
Coulthard
Profile Joined September 2005
Greece3359 Posts
Last Edited: 2006-08-22 04:05:42
August 22 2006 04:03 GMT
#4
wow this msl rox man,so many big names _^ we are going to see some great games.
Lim yo Hwan FTW

great news post by the way !!!
thedeadhaji
Profile Blog Joined January 2006
37664 Posts
August 22 2006 04:04 GMT
#5
you said 3-1 over Reach.

It should be 3-1 over Nal_rA

=P
Carnac
Profile Blog Joined December 2003
Germany16549 Posts
August 22 2006 04:07 GMT
#6
yeah... -.-
Maybe I was thinking of another sad 1-3 from the Protoss perspective... Reach 1-3 July in Gillette OSL.
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ManaBlue
Profile Blog Joined July 2004
Canada10458 Posts
August 22 2006 04:18 GMT
#7
Nice post Carnac. This tournament is shaping up to be the most entertaining of all the new ones.
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PuertoRican
Profile Joined April 2004
United States5709 Posts
August 22 2006 04:28 GMT
#8
Nice write up, Carnac.
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OverTheUnder
Profile Blog Joined November 2004
United States2929 Posts
Last Edited: 2006-08-22 04:33:29
August 22 2006 04:32 GMT
#9
i am so pumped for boxer vs nal ra:X

edit: on new map


*goes into uncontrolable spazms*
Honor would be taking it up the ass and curing all diseases, damn how stupid can people get. -baal http://puertoricanbw.ytmnd.com/
Musli
Profile Blog Joined February 2004
Poland5130 Posts
August 22 2006 04:33 GMT
#10
Awesome post, Carnac ;-)
as always ^^;
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Slayer91
Profile Joined February 2006
Ireland13204 Posts
August 22 2006 04:35 GMT
#11
rofl savior is damn evil picking poor terato

also that picture of him "Thinking of new ways of making ZvP look more imbalanced" In money ^_^
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SuperJongMan
Profile Blog Joined March 2003
Jamaica11556 Posts
August 22 2006 04:42 GMT
#12
On August 22 2006 12:58 Carnac wrote:
<b>Personal notes of mine</b>

In no more than two days we will now witness what may become the start of Boxer's last Starleague ever. As everyone should know by now, <b>he</b> will start his mandatory service in the Korean army in September and since he has not been able to qualify for the OSL, MSL is all that is left. I really, really hope he can display something special. The

What's also interesting to see,[...]


Hey buddy, you forgot to finish some thoughts. I would like to know what you personally think that left off at THE...

Good write up as usual and yeah... Xellos is becoming more and more human as time passes... and even his play is becoming more and more human and less perfection ~_~ but still..
Xellos Fighting!! It's been awhile since he's lived up to his name. This MSL looks good for it.
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Carnac
Profile Blog Joined December 2003
Germany16549 Posts
August 22 2006 04:46 GMT
#13
Haha, dunno what I was thinking about when I was writing there. I usually jump forward and back within the post when I am writing it. Let me think of something to add there
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PoP
Profile Blog Joined October 2002
France15082 Posts
Last Edited: 2006-08-22 04:51:35
August 22 2006 04:47 GMT
#14
On August 22 2006 13:07 Carnac wrote:
yeah... -.-
Maybe I was thinking of another sad 1-3 from the Protoss perspective... Reach 1-3 July in Gillette OSL.


More likely Savior 1-3 Reach in Uzoo MSL. :p

Great news, this MSL sounds awesome.
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da)incognito
Profile Joined October 2003
United States512 Posts
August 22 2006 04:53 GMT
#15
nice post! i liked the captions
"I'm a happy Zergling, kekeke ^_^"
haha
*insert witty comment*
Lukeeze[zR]
Profile Joined February 2006
Switzerland6765 Posts
Last Edited: 2006-08-22 05:11:32
August 22 2006 05:05 GMT
#16
Watch Pusan on the 2nd pic

nice write-up, I wonder who's gonna face savior in the final~

Terran & Potato Salad.
Purind
Profile Blog Joined April 2004
Canada3511 Posts
August 22 2006 05:18 GMT
#17
On August 22 2006 14:05 Lukeeze[zR] wrote:
Watch Pusan on the 2nd pic

nice write-up, I wonder who's gonna face savior in the final~



Haha, awesome
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red.venom
Profile Joined October 2002
United States4650 Posts
August 22 2006 05:35 GMT
#18
Group play is definitely gonna be hot this season. : D

Gogo Ra, IPX and Chojja!!
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Wasabi
Profile Blog Joined August 2006
United States3085 Posts
August 22 2006 06:08 GMT
#19
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Manifesto7
Profile Blog Joined November 2002
Osaka25671 Posts
August 22 2006 06:30 GMT
#20
Awsome work Carnac. This really sets the table for the new season nicely. Now it is time to feast!

All hail the Emporer!
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