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- Korean e-Sports Award Ceremony - Interview with Jaedong - Interview with Flash - Shortest OSL Finals ever
Korean e-Sports Award Ceremony
As expected, Jaedong stood in the spotlight of this year’s Awards, taking home awards for Best Winning Percentage, Best Zerg and most importantly the award for the Best Player of 2007. Stork, the guy we thought would never win something finally did win something: Best Protoss of the Year. Best Terran and Best Newcomer were awarded to Flash, also known as the ‘Young Monster’ (in reference to Ilooveoov the ‘Monster Terran’).
A picture gallery can be found at Fomos.
Here’s the full list of laureates:
# Best Match of theYear (3 can be picked) Bisu vs Hwasin - GomTV MSL Season 3 Round of 16 Game 3 Bisu vs sAviOr - EVER OSL Round of 8, 2nd Set sAviOr vs YellOw[ArnC] - Shinhan Bank Proleague Playoffs vs OGN
# Best Ceremony firebathero (Samsung KHAN) - Shinhan PL R1 Finals
# Best Fans/Supporters Lecaf Oz
# Fairplay Team Airforce ACE
# Special Prize for Efforts Shinhan Bank
# Friendship/Friendliness Prize [not really sure what kind of award this is] Goodfriend (eSTRO)
# Most Improved Player Mind (WeMade FOX)
# Best Progaming Related Show Starcraft Gossip (OGN)
# Best New Map Blue Storm
# Best Player - Warcraft III Moon (MYM)
# Most Wins Stork (Samsung KHAN)
# Best Win Percentage Jaedong (Lecaf Oz)
# Best Teamplay Flower/ Justin (OGN Sparkyz)
# Newcomer of the Year Flash (KTF MagicNs)
# Best Coach Jo JeongUng (Lecaf Oz)
# Best Player – Terran Flash (KTF MagicNs)
# Best Player – Zerg Jaedong (Lecaf Oz)
# Best Player – Protoss Stork (Samsung KHAN)
# Best Korean Game Special Force (Dragonfly)
# Player of the Year (Team of the Year) Jaedong (Lecaf Oz)
# Starcraft Proteam of the Year Lecaf Oz
Source: FiFo
Short Interviews – Quick Translations
Interview with Jaedong
-You were awarded with 3 prizes I am very happy that I got 3 prizes at this prestigious Event. In the 2008 Season I will put in even more effort so I can get 4 or even 5 prizes. Next time I would like to get the prize for Best/Most memorable Match and Most Wins, too.
-You were nominated for 4 awards, how many did you think you would get? And which one was the one you wanted to get the most? The one wanted to have the most was of course the Best Player of 2007 award. I knew that I’d get the award for Best Winning Percentage and I was happy to get the Best Zerg award. It’s a pity that I missed the award for Best Match.
-The Winner of Best Winning Percentage Award was a close, last minute outcome Actually I had hoped for this Award so I cheered for Flash in my heart at the OSL Finals. I was in a bad condition during the beginning of the 2007 season so I was behind Stork in terms of Winning Percentage, but it seems like I still got the award through fortunate circumstances and a little help from Flash. So in the end, I am happy about it. Next time I will try hard to get the award in a cleaner way.
-Your goals for next Season I haven’t decided on something specific yet, but I will not be satisfied with what I have got now and will try hard to continue giving good results.
Interview with Flash
-Did you expect to win something today? I heard from many people that I had a good chance for the Best Newcomer award, so I was hoping for it. For the Best Terran award, I heard that it will be a close call between me and Mind, so I didn’t have confidence to win that one. I am very happy that I won both awards I was nominated for.
-It is your first time to attend the Korean e-Sports Awards, what are your feelings? Today was the first time I ever stepped on a red carpet. It was a very special experience. I envied Jaedong a lot when I saw him getting the award for Player of the Year. Next year I want to get that Award.
-The next season is about to start. A short comment about your mindset please. I just want to show better results compared to now. Next year I will take the Best Player of the Year award.
-You will leave for Silmido (place in Korea) for a workshop tomorrow I like sports so I’m not afraid of working out. I think it will be a good experience.
Sources: FiFo FiFo
The shortest OSL Finals ever
Flash is not only the youngest player (1992-07-05) to ever win an OSL title, he now also holds the record for the shortest final best-of-five series ever. Flash finished off Stork after only 42 minutes. This record was previously held by ilooveoov, who needed 48 minutes and 33 seconds to defeat July in the 2006 Shinhan Bank OSL Finals. The record for the longest finals ever is held by Xellos, who managed to overcome Yellow 3:2 in the 2003 Olympus OSL after 2 hours 15 minutes and 36 seconds.
Here are the full statistics for all OSLs (Ongamenet has no data before 2001):
+ Show Spoiler + 01:16:51 Sp 01 Hanbitsoft - BoxeR > JinNam 01:43:21 Su 01 Coca-Cola - BoxeR > YellOw 00:52:29 Fa 01 SKY 2001 - Garimto > BoxeR 01:40:00 Su 02 NATE - Sync > H.O.T. 01:40:59 Fa 02 SKY 2002 - Reach > BoxeR 01:02:49 Wi 02 Panasonic - NaDa > ChoJJa 02:15:36 Sp 03 Olympus - XellOs > YellOw 01:27:46 Fa 03 MyCube - Kingdom > Nal_rA 01:29:12 Sp 04 NHN Hangame - Nal_rA > Zeus 01:21:56 Su 04 Gillette - July > Reach 02:06:35 Fa 04 EVER 2004 - iloveoov > BoxeR 00:50:43 Sp 05 IOPS - NaDa > July 01:32:47 Su 05 EVER 2005 - July > Goodfriend 02:02:55 Fa 05 So1 - Anytime > BoxeR 00:48:33 Sp 06 Shinhan Bank - iloveoov > July 01:22:49 Su 06 Shinhan Bank Season 1 - Casy > ChoJJa 01:43:58 Fa 06 Shinhan Bank Season 2 - NaDa > Anytime 01:19:54 Wi 07 Shinhan Bank Season 3 - sAviOr > NaDa 01:51:14 Su 07 Daum - GGPlay > Iris 01:17:11 Fa 07 EVER 2007 - Jaedong > Stork 00:42:00 Sp 08 Bacchus - Flash > Stork
Source: FiFo
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Moon (War3) missed the award for player of the year for the third time in a row now. War3 fans getting angry (but who cares?)
^_^
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what the hell with kespa? bisu must be the best player of the year due to his dominance in 2007. jaedong? i don't think so...lol best toss? stork??? it must be bisu again...remember it's the award for the whole 2007... -_-v.....i cannot understand what they did base on to chose the winner -_-v
btw # Best Korean Game Special Force (Dragonplay) => that's dragonfly
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On March 20 2008 01:19 proA.June91 wrote:what the hell with kespa? bisu must be the best player of the year due to his dominance in 2007. jaedong? i don't think so...lol best toss? stork??? it must be bisu again...remember it's the award for the whole 2007... -_-v.....i cannot understand what they did base on to chose the winner -_-v btw # Best Korean Game Special Force (Dragonplay) => that's dragonfly
haha thanks, corrected it. the 'best race' awards were fan votes, so they are to blame for bisu not getting the award. best player of the year was chosen by a jury. i think jaedong was the right choice there.
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OH MY GOSH... JAEDONG LOOKS SO HANDSOME IN SMOOKING O.O;;
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On March 20 2008 01:26 snowbird wrote:Show nested quote +On March 20 2008 01:19 proA.June91 wrote:what the hell with kespa? bisu must be the best player of the year due to his dominance in 2007. jaedong? i don't think so...lol best toss? stork??? it must be bisu again...remember it's the award for the whole 2007... -_-v.....i cannot understand what they did base on to chose the winner -_-v btw # Best Korean Game Special Force (Dragonplay) => that's dragonfly haha thanks, corrected it. the 'best race' awards were fan votes, so they are to blame for bisu not getting the award. best player of the year was chosen by a jury. i think jaedong was the right choice there.
:-? but i think bisu's so much more suitable for this title...i don't mean jaedong doesn't deserve it but bisu is the better choice i think
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00:52:29 Fa 01 SKY 2001 - Garimto > BoxeR
5 games under 52 minutes?
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I think they looked at the timespan from 03/2007 to 03/2008 here, hence Jaedong. Superb proleague results (it's KeSPA's favorite child) together with an OSL and an MSL win counts more than one MSL win by Bisu (even more than 2, if you count the first one in the beginning of March 07 in).
Just my 0.02$.
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Jaedong has a pimp jacket.
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LOL , goodfriend wins friendship prize
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Which tourney was Boxer's 3-0 bunker rush against yellow? That was a finals, right? If it was OSL it seems like it should be shorter than Bacchus.
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Woot go Shinhan Bank!!! I knew you could win the special prize for efforts!
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On March 20 2008 02:00 ray1234 wrote: LOL , goodfriend wins friendship prize
We never saw that coming now didnt we?
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On March 20 2008 02:02 kramus wrote: Which tourney was Boxer's 3-0 bunker rush against yellow? That was a finals, right? If it was OSL it seems like it should be shorter than Bacchus.
I think it's Ever 2004 semifinal (Oov > Boxer finals).
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On March 20 2008 02:02 kramus wrote: Which tourney was Boxer's 3-0 bunker rush against yellow? That was a finals, right? If it was OSL it seems like it should be shorter than Bacchus.
That was at the EVER OSL 2004 Semi Finals. It was probably faster than Bacchus, but not a final~
edit: owned T_T
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Anyone else think that jaedong probably could find secondary uses for those awards? + Show Spoiler +although it's probably one too many for him to use them all at once
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I don't know how Jaedong can be the best player of 2007, when Bisu clearly dominated for atleast 3/4 of the year. Yeah Jaedong / Flash are currently dominating but that is only the past couple months (3-4) which is not all of 2007.
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thanks for the news and translations <3
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On March 20 2008 03:11 ChoboOv wrote: I don't know how Jaedong can be the best player of 2007, when Bisu clearly dominated for atleast 3/4 of the year. Yeah Jaedong / Flash are currently dominating but that is only the past couple months (3-4) which is not all of 2007.
If I'm not mistaken, these Kespa awards were for the year following the last Kespa awards ceremony, which I think was after Bisu's first MSL. Therefore, since the last Kespa awards ceremony:
Bisu - GOM TV 2 MSL Winner, GOM TV3 MSL Runner up, poor proleague performance.
Jaedong - EVER OSL Winner, GOM TV4 MSL Winner, monster proleague performance
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Great job, guys! Thanks for translating. For the "Best Player" award, I think Bisu deserved it too, but his 0-2 elimination in the group stage of last MSL, where HE had picked only Zergs, must have hurt a lot. So I guess Jaedong was the best choice. Anyway, I think Jaedong looks like a pimp in that suit. Too bad, because I really like the guy.
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On March 20 2008 01:18 snowbird wrote: Moon (War3) missed the award for player of the year for the third time in a row now. War3 fans getting angry (but who cares?)
^_^ lol hes won tthat too many times though.
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# Friendship/Friendliness Prize Badfriend (eSTRO)
PARADOX
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how the hell is garimto vs boxer 50 minutes when it was a 3-2? :O
damn they must have made huge mistakes (i havent seen the games in full yet)
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i rememeber garimto vs boxer games were really fast no fast cc... it was 2 fac vs 2 gate...micro mistake = gg something like that.
xellos vs yellow...that was a true finals t_T
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On March 20 2008 01:35 imDerek wrote:5 games under 52 minutes?
Uh so?
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"It seems like I still got the award through fortunate circumstances and a little help from Flash."
Yes, my friend you sure did.
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just wondering did Flash beat Boxer record? for the fastest game of bo5? cuz boxer did bunker rush 3 times against Yellow and i know that was in the semis, and i rmember someone saying that boxer finished off Yellow less than 30 mins
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Bisu deserved some kind of award, but he gets 0. That sucks.
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On March 20 2008 05:22 Nick_54 wrote: Bisu deserved some kind of award, but he gets 0. That sucks.
He got some best game awards.
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I think the Friendship Prize is the sportsmanship prize...
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On March 20 2008 01:34 JoxxOr wrote: pimp suit
This is the definition of pimp
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South Africa4316 Posts
On March 20 2008 05:14 Darkmole wrote: just wondering did Flash beat Boxer record? for the fastest game of bo5? cuz boxer did bunker rush 3 times against Yellow and i know that was in the semis, and i rmember someone saying that boxer finished off Yellow less than 30 mins
It's Bo5 in a tournament finals, Boxer vs Yellow was a semi-final.
Thanks pachi, I agree with pretty much all the awards except for the best game awards, there were definitely better games than those.
Love these updates.
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On March 20 2008 05:00 LegendaryDreams wrote:Show nested quote +On March 20 2008 01:35 imDerek wrote:00:52:29 Fa 01 SKY 2001 - Garimto > BoxeR 5 games under 52 minutes? Uh so?
uh so it doesn't sound right?
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I wish I could say "woooow" like flava flave
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# Fairplay Team Airforce ACE
# Best Ceremony firebathero (Samsung KHAN) - Shinhan PL R1 Finals
# Friendship/Friendliness Prize [not really sure what kind of award this is] Goodfriend (eSTRO)
pitty prizes?
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Show nested quote +On March 20 2008 07:19 Guybrush wrote:On March 20 2008 01:34 JoxxOr wrote: pimp suit This is the definition of pimp gotta love savior photo nice cubian drug lord look screw the small time pimp
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Flash's comments got me excited. I can't wait for him to take on Jaedong.
In that final vs. Stork, I know Stork played badly, but Flash's play was impeccable.
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On March 20 2008 10:49 IzzyCraft wrote:Show nested quote +On March 20 2008 07:19 Guybrush wrote:On March 20 2008 01:34 JoxxOr wrote: pimp suit This is the definition of pimp gotta love savior photo nice cubian drug lord look screw the small time pimp
omg savior and xellos....! this DEFINES PIMP
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# Friendship/Friendliness Prize [not really sure what kind of award this is] Goodfriend (eSTRO) what irony.. do TL awards have this?
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wtff ?! Bisu isnt there ?! At least some best games awards
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On March 20 2008 16:41 anch wrote:Show nested quote +# Friendship/Friendliness Prize [not really sure what kind of award this is] Goodfriend (eSTRO) what irony.. do TL awards have this? i think not. and if they had, Goodfriend would be the last person to get it.
also, threes just one man with a pimp stick out there: + Show Spoiler +
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I think Bisu deserves some award here, it's bad he didn't have any. They should make up something like Most Influential Player or sth like that for him (come on even GF and FBH got some pity prizes)
And there are definitely some better games that the Best 3 Games..
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awesome ceremony, however didnt you guys noticed mind and other players whom where dressed like really casual while others were dressed in awesome suits like jaedong and goodfriend? Imo that variation of clothes sucks... all should use suits for this kind of ceremony.
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