| Moletrap United States. August 03 2012 16:47. Posts 1282 | Profile Blog # |
With this being the last Brood War OSL, a lot of people are getting sentimental these days.... for those of you that didn't know me until SC2, I casted Brood War and followed the Korean progaming scene for 3-4 years before SC2. When I watch the OSL intro video or Nuke's hype video and think about the drama and the legends that have come and gone over more than a decade of OSL, I have to admit that I get a bit teary eyed thinking about the end of an era.
I wanted to get the thoughts of the two finalists on both the end of Brood War and the finals themselves so I talked to them at the Proleague match Tuesday between SKT and Khan. They didn't have very much time to spare, but thanks to them for agreeing to talk to me for a few minutes. Big apologies for all the background noise in the interviews.. we didn't really have anywhere good to conduct the interviews and I can't afford a nice camera or microphone right now. Thanks to Supernovamaniac for translating!
The Finalists
JangBi had won 4 major tournament silver medals, and finally got first place in the Jin Air OSL Finals last season, almost a year ago, beating Fantasy 3-2 getting revenge for his teammate Stork whom Fantasy had beaten in the previous season's finals (Bacchus 2010). He is currently #3 in Kespa rankings, and beat #2 Flash in this OSL's group stage.
Jangbi: "I want to go 3-0 to secure the win, but for the fans I want it to be 3-2 with great games."
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Fantasy has a silver mouse (my term for 3 OSL second places) and one OSL first place. He has won 28 of the 32 Brood War games since he played Jangbi last season, and hasn't lost in BW to a Protoss since those finals almost a year ago. He is currently #1 in Kespa rankings, and beat #2 Flash 3-0 in the semifinals. He has not lost a single game yet this OSL.
Fantasy: "I want revenge for last season... I will win 3-0."
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Fantasy is currently up 7-6 against JangBi over their careers, unless you count offline preliminaries in which case JangBi is up 8-7.
I have talked to the OGN producers about the OSL finals a few times in the last couple months... talking about foreign fans that have been watching OSL for years online and how many are happy that OGN is starting to make their shows more available to the "foreign" audience.
OGN is excited about its foreign fans, and wants to do something to give back to the foreign community who has followed Brood War from afar, so we decided to do an English stream for the finals. TorcH and I will be casting live from Jamsil Student Gymnasium in Seoul, with Supernovamaniac alongside to translate the opening and closing ceremonies/interviews. Due to logistics, it will just be English audio over the Korean video stream, but it will be streamed at:
http://www.twitch.tv/ogn_star2
It's a dream come true to have gone from discovering the OSL online 5 years ago and being amazed at this crazy mystical world across the sea where nerds are kings, to being here in Korea working at OGN. I'm super excited to finally be able to officially cast a major Brood War finals once before there aren't any more. I've got nerd chills, as well as nerd tears welling up in my eyes... but I do believe Brood War's time has come, and I hope we can enjoy an epic finale together and think of it as the beginning of a new era as well.
Related Links:
NukeTheStars Hype Video Thread: http://www.teamliquid.net/forum/viewmessage.php?topic_id=357644
Finals Live Report: http://www.teamliquid.net/forum/viewmessage.php?topic_id=357247
Location Info: http://www.teamliquid.net/forum/viewmessage.php?topic_id=353653
FANTASTIC Hype Thread from Jin Air finals (last season): http://www.teamliquid.net/forum/viewmessage.php?topic_id=265636
GTR's Media Day Coverage: http://www.teamliquid.net/forum/viewmessage.php?topic_id=356858
Funny fake translation of last finals' opening interviews, with fun facts about JangBi in the video description.
Bonus Interviews with Stork/Bisu about transitioning to SC2 if you're interested
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| mcmartini Australia. August 03 2012 17:03. Posts 1793 | Profile Blog # |
| This is great news thanks so much Moletrap! |
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| ne4aJIb Russian Federation. August 03 2012 17:11. Posts 1340 | Profile Blog # |
| Amazing! You, Cholera, Rise, Diggity, Klazart are the best!!!! |
| | Bisu,Best,Stork,Jangbi and Flash, Fantasy, Leta, Light and Jaedong, Hydra, Zero, Soulkey assemble in ACE now! |  |
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| Ideas United States. August 03 2012 17:11. Posts 7428 | Profile Blog # |
| Thanks for the interviews. I guess it's nice to see OGN FINALLY reaching out to foreign fans, just too bad they didn't try to do this a few year ago when it could have really helped support the foreign scene when there was still time to grow. At this point the only people watching BW probably don't want english casting lol |
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| Lucumo August 03 2012 17:25. Posts 4470 | Profile # |
On August 03 2012 17:11 Ideas wrote:
At this point the only people watching BW probably don't want english casting lol
I guess it's more for the SC2 people who want to watch the last BW OSL. |
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| Ideas United States. August 03 2012 17:39. Posts 7428 | Profile Blog # |
On August 03 2012 17:25 Lucumo wrote:
Show nested quote +On August 03 2012 17:11 Ideas wrote:
At this point the only people watching BW probably don't want english casting lol
I guess it's more for the SC2 people who want to watch the last BW OSL.
Yea that's make sense. |
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| IMLyte Canada. August 03 2012 18:14. Posts 671 | Profile # |
| That's great! although i do have a sentimental attachment to Sayle as he is the one that got me into watching the OSL in the first place. |
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| surfinbird1 Germany. August 03 2012 18:17. Posts 999 | Profile # |
On August 03 2012 17:11 Ideas wrote:
Thanks for the interviews. I guess it's nice to see OGN FINALLY reaching out to foreign fans, just too bad they didn't try to do this a few year ago when it could have really helped support the foreign scene when there was still time to grow. At this point the only people watching BW probably don't want english casting lol
Yeah, imagine for example Tasteless plugging him casting the OSL at Blizzcon. How many viewers could have been raked in?! It's insane that they never reached out to us! |
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| tanngard Norway. August 03 2012 18:36. Posts 131 | Profile # |
| First Cholera returned and now Moletrap. I am excite! |
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| SaWse Belgium. August 03 2012 19:02. Posts 84 | Profile # | |
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| Game August 03 2012 19:24. Posts 3018 | Profile Blog # |
| Thank you for this, quite an endearing one of a kind effort. |
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| Meiffeltower Sweden. August 03 2012 19:28. Posts 402 | Profile # |
| nice Last edit: 2012-08-03 19:29:13 |
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| Atlasy Hungary. August 03 2012 19:37. Posts 186 | Profile Blog # |
I'm not too happy about that  I hope at least you will let Sayle do his own casting, he is the only BW caster for me. |
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| Sinedd Poland. August 03 2012 19:43. Posts 6195 | Profile # |
this is pretty awesome
nice one 
although - korean casts are the best so I think I will stick to the original stream Last edit: 2012-08-03 19:43:57 |
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| NuKE[vZ] United States. August 03 2012 19:44. Posts 203 | Profile # |
<3 moletrap
loved the Bisu, JangBi, Stork and Fantasy interviews! Can't wait till they're all fully transitioned to sc2, they're going to destroy. |
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| Yoshi Kirishima United States. August 03 2012 19:48. Posts 9002 | Profile Blog # |
OMFG
MOLETRAP CASTING THE LAST [OSL] BW FINALS? and torch
HOLY SHIT
BOXER VS YELLOW
MOLETRAP.
Moletrap. Fucking moletrap. And fucking boxer vs yellow. BW all over again. Have mercy...
gl hfLast edit: 2012-08-03 19:48:58 |
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| starfries Canada. August 03 2012 20:16. Posts 2617 | Profile Blog # |
| Nice interviews! And great translation by supernova too. |
| | DJ – do you like ramen, Savior? Savior – not really. Bisu – I eat it often. Flash – I’m a maniac! | Foxer Fighting! | |
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| DidYuhim Ukraine. August 03 2012 20:17. Posts 861 | Profile # |
thanks for interview!
Although I think I'd stick to Sayle for finals. |
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| Kleinmuuhg Vanuatu. August 03 2012 20:22. Posts 1831 | Profile Blog # |
| You cannot imagine how jelly I am , that being sad , you are awesome! |
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| Motivate August 03 2012 20:37. Posts 2375 | Profile # |
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