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 jkillashark United States. March 03 2007 18:12. Posts 5245 | Profile Blog # |
<font size = 4><center>History of the Top Finishers of the KPGA and MBC Starleague</center></font>
The Beginning
The KPGA, standing for Korean ProGaming Association, held monthly tournaments in the latter half of 2001. These were small tournaments with multiple games played on 1 day. They played 4 KPGA monthly tournaments and then held a small winners' invite championship taking the best performers of the KPGA monthly tournaments. Though the KPGA monthly tournaments were ultimately the precursor to the individual league we know as MBC Starleague, the tournaments were on too small of a scale. They were held only on one day, and thus, winners of the KPGA tournaments are not recognized as an individual league winner.
2001 KPGA August (01 Aug 1)
1.  [z-zone]SoO
2.  KisS)TaewoO
3. GoRush
4. 100prowin
2001 KPGA September (01 Sep 1)
1. H.O.T-Forever
2.  ChRh
3. Oddysay
4. [NC]...Marine
2001 KPGA October (01 Oct 1)
1. KisS)TaewoO
2. JunioR
3. H.O.T-Forever
4. ChRh
2001 KPGA November (01 Nov 1)
1. MuMyung
2. H.O.T-Forever
3. KisS)TaewoO
4. TheMarine
2001 KPGA December Winner's Championship (01 Dec 27 - 02 Jan 24)
1. MuMyung
2. YellOw
The KPGA Tours
With OGN making larger tournaments coined as "starleagues," the KPGA changes their monthly format to a larger tournament and called them tours. Rather than play only on one day of the month they expanded to a 3-month league 16-player league. Though they do not carry the MBC title in the league name, MBC recognized the KPGA Tour winners as individual league winners. However, the winners' tournaments are invite tourneys and not an individual league. Starting with KPGA 2nd Tour, the individual leagues for KPGA were beginning to get noticed and got sponsorship for the actual leagues.
KPGA 1st Tour (02 Feb 14 - 02 Apr 14)
1. BoxeR
2. YellOw
3. IntoTheRain
4. ChRh
Reebok KPGA 2nd Tour (02 Apr 18 - 02 Jun 22)
1. NaDa
2. YellOw
3. SoNiC)BlacK
4. ChoJJa
Pepsi Twist KPGA 3rd Tour (02 Jul 4 - 02 Oct 5)
1. NaDa
2. Reach
3. BoxeR
4. ChRh
Baskin Robbins KPGA 4th Tour (02 Oct 25 - 03 Jan 18)
1. NaDa
2. ChoJJa
3. kOs
4. JinNam
KTEC KPGA Winners' Championship (03 Jan 23 - 03 Mar 22)
1. YellOw
2. BoxeR
3. NaDa
4. SoNiC)BlacK
MBC Moves In
After the second winners' championship, the KPGA soon became defunct and a large Korean television broadcasting company, MBC, swoops in and picks up where the KPGA left off. With a new parent company, a new tournament format and a new name for the individual league was in store. Following the OGN who named their big StarCraft tournaments "starleagues," dubbing it OnGameNet Starleague (OSL), the MBC Starleague (MSL) was born. The format began as a humongous 16-player double elimination league spanning over 5 months that would be trimmed down eventually.
The Stout MSL would be the first official MSL. There are times when Korean announcers will call an MSL the 12th or 13th MSL. That is because they are counting from the first MSL, Stout. The KPGA Tours, though are not labeled as an MSL, however, winners of the KPGA Tours are recognized as an MBC League winner (and given a badge as well.) That is why when you go to where the MSL games are held, you will see on the list of winners of the MSLs, BoxeR and NaDa. The Survivor qualifying tournament was started to determine who would be playing in this giant new league. 12th Survivor means the qualifying tournament for the 12th MSL. Easy, no? (If you ever wondered why they kept calling it n-th Survivor, now you know. =D)
Stout MSL (03 Apr 17 - 03 Jul 19) 1st MSL
1. Nal_rA
2. NaDa
3. Zeus
4. ChoJJa
TriGem Sambo MSL (03 Sep 4 - 03 Nov 6) 2nd MSL
1. iloveoov
2. YellOw
3. NaDa
4. Goodfriend
HanaFOS CENGame MSL (04 Jan 8 - 04 Apr 18) 3rd MSL
1. iloveoov
2. NaDa
3. TheMarine
4. Nal_rA
SPRIS MSL (04 May 20 - 04 Aug 29) 4th MSL
1. iloveoov
2. Kingdom
3. Nal_rA
4. Goodfriend
You Are The Golf King MSL (04 Sep 30 - 05 Feb 6) 5th MSL
1. GoRush
2. NaDa
3. XellOs
4. ChoJJa
UZOO MSL (05 Apr 21 - 05 Aug 6) 6th MSL
1. IPXZerg (Don't forget your roots!)
2. Reach
3. ChoJJa
4. iloveoov
LG CYON MSL (05 Oct 6 - 06 Jan 14) 7th MSL
1. ChoJJa
2. IPXZerg
3. iloveoov
4. MuMyung
New Format
After the LG CYON MSL, MBC decided that their tournament format was archaic. The double-elimination tournament was far too long and very exhaustive for players. They opted for a smaller quicker league format. They dropped the double-elimination brackets but in a sense stayed true to their MSL roots and kept the double-elimination in their group of 16 and group of 8 rounds. A steal draft was also introduced to help players determine who they would be playing in the tournament. Thumbing down maps was introduced borrowed from WC3 ladder systems where a player can pick a map he or she does not want played. It is edited a little bit because map pools are not as large as WC3 ladder games and thumbing down guarantees a map will not be played more than once in a set.
Pringles 1 MSL (06 Apr 6 - 06 Jul 16) 8th MSL
1. sAviOr
2. Nal_rA
3. Midas
4. Kingdom
Pringles 2 MSL (06 Aug 17 - 06 Nov 11) 9th MSL
1. sAviOr
2. Silver
T3. Nal_rA
T3. JJu
Gom TV MSL Season 1 (06 Nov 30 - 07 Mar 3) 10th MSL
1. Bisu
2. sAviOr
T3. Hwasin
T3. Nal_rA
Larger Format
With nary 3 leagues played with the "new" format, MBC decided bigger is better and adopts what is the current league format for its starleague. They double the amount of players to 32 therefore doubling the amount of seeds to 8. They stay true to their double elimination roots but limit it only to the initial group stage. After the group stage they have the league go into a single elimination tournament. Elements from the format change in 2006 were kept such as the steal draft and thumbing down maps. The draft for 32 players though became a grand scheme in itself because of the sheer enormity of players.
Gom TV MSL Season 2 (07 May 3 - 07 Jul 14) 11th MSL
1. Bisu
2. Stork
T3. firebathero
T3. GoRush
T5. 910
T5. sAviOr
T5. Hwasin
T5. July
Gom TV MSL Season 3 (07 Sep 13 - 07 Nov 17) 12th MSL
1. Mind
2. Bisu
T3. sAviOr
T3. XellOs
T5. TheManiaMST
T5. free
T5. Kwanro
T5. Nal_rA
Gom TV MSL Season 4 (07 Dec 27 - 08 Mar 8) 13th MSL
1. Jaedong
2. Kal
T3. JangBi
T3. Mind
T5. NaDa
T5. Flash
T5. UpMagiC
T5. Light
Arena MSL (08 Apr 24 ~ 08 Jul 26) 14th MSL
1. fOrGG
2. Jaedong
T3. Flash
T3. Much
T5. Lomo
T5. free[gm]
T5. Hwasin
T5. Kal
ClubDay Online MSL (08 Sep 11 ~ 08 Nov 22) 15th MSL
1. Bisu
2. JangBi
T3. free[gm]
T3. Kal
T5. firebathero
T5. Stork
T5. NaDa
T5. YellOw[ArnC]
Lost Saga MSL (09 Jan 8 ~ 09 Mar 20) 16th MSL
1. Luxury
2. JangBi
T3. Stork
T3. ZerO
T5. NaDa
T5. Leta
T5. sAviOr
T5. fOrGG
Avalon MSL (09 Jun ~ 09 Aug)
TBD
Thanks to X)Benny and Waxangel for grandfathering these threads and inspiring me to write threads like these for public use. Also a humongous thanks to TLPD. Freaking sexy.Last edit: 2009-07-31 21:55:10 |
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| ~chut~ France. March 14 2007 03:44. Posts 1101 | Profile # |
Thanks a lot for keeping this up to date !
I have 2 things to say though:
Ktec KPGA winner's championship shoud be like king of king tournament for osl, not in bold.
Pringles 1 & 2 and Gom TV MSLs didn't have a 3rd/4th match, so you can't say Hwasin was 3rd and Ra 4th or Midas 3rd and Kingdom 4th 
Maybe put something like tied to 3rd place, or whatever you prefer  |
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| jkillashark United States. April 22 2007 21:49. Posts 5245 | Profile Blog # |
| Thanks chut! Corrections made. |
| | Do your best, God will do the rest. 고린도전서 10:31. |
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 GTR June 02 2007 09:15. Posts 39111 | Profile Blog # |
KTEC KPGA Winner's Championship (03 Jan 23 - 03 Mar 22)
1. YellOw (Zerg)
2. BoxeR (Terran)
3. NaDa (Terran)
4. kOs (Terran)
4th should be SoNiC)Black (Zerg) |
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| jkillashark United States. November 11 2007 01:07. Posts 5245 | Profile Blog # |
Thanks GTR-2-Go.
Wow with the advent of TLPD, it makes threads like this one nothing but links. To fill in the empty voids I wrote a little more about the history. Correct me old timers if you see anything wrong. |
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 semioldguy United States. December 01 2007 07:46. Posts 7273 | Profile Blog # |
Nice update jkilla!
Thanks |
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| jkillashark United States. June 23 2009 17:25. Posts 5245 | Profile Blog # |
| Meesa is wondering if they made any format changes |
| | Do your best, God will do the rest. 고린도전서 10:31. |
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