It can be seen that the status of Interstellar in Korea is quite high.
The professionalization of StarCraft in Korea has lasted for 5, 6 and 7 years, and its development has matured.
At present, there are about 300 registered professional interstellar players in Korea.
Korean star leagues are divided into team leagues (similar to leagues between football clubs) and individual leagues (similar to the four grand slams of tennis).
1. Korean Star Professional League (SPL)
There are 12 teams in the Korean Star League I * *, namely SK Tele T 1, Samsung Khan, CJ Entus, eSTRO, KTF MagicNs, Huacheng OZ, MBCGame HERO, OnGameNet SPARKYZ, STX SouL, WeMade FOX, WoongJin and Air Force.
To become a professional e-sports player in Korea, you must go through an amateur-semi-professional-professional process.
Most professional players in StarCraft belong to a certain team.
Each team has its own unique logo (such as competition uniforms), which has strong cohesion.
At the same time, the unified work and rest management of the team also ensures the players' good competitive state and high-level competitive state.
Professional players usually have different schedules from ordinary people, but they are very regular.
For example, CJ Station should get up before 10 am,1.30am go to the nearby gym for exercise,1.30am go to 12 am to clean the environment, 12 pm for lunch, and then 650.
Take a day off every week, but sometimes you may not be able to take a vacation during the intensive season; Every year, there is no trip for 1 month, so depending on the individual decision of the players, they can go home freely, but many players still choose to stay and actively train.
Professional characteristics determine that the career is short, the competition is cruel, and the players will practice very hard.
Amateurs want to enter the industry and often practice until the early hours of the morning.
So it is not easy to be a professional player in Korea.
The most famous and honored team in Korean professionalization is SK Tele T 1 (SKT for short). Two of the four greatest interstellar players in history came from this team, namely "The Slayer" _BoxeR (Lin) and (). The former is called Bao Ge by China fans, and the latter is called Monster (players will be introduced in detail later).
Followed by Samsung Khan (Samsung for short).
SKT won many league titles in Bogart's time. With Bao Ge joining the army, OOV declined to be a coach, and the recent league titles were basically won by Samsung.
Of course, there are also transfers in the Korean Star League. The latest big transfer deal was that Sotheby's (Jin Taiyong) moved from MBC to SKT last year at a price of 200 million won.
The transfer of professional leagues in South Korea is generally the will of the peaceful three parties, and there is almost no malicious poaching in football leagues. Moreover, big transfers like Soapy are rare, and most teams are reluctant to sell their star players.
Thanks to the support of SK and Samsung, these two teams have been very strong. At present, the two teams rank second in the league.
In addition, I would like to mention the Air Force, which was established just over a year ago. At first, Bao Ge joined the Air Force at the age of joining the army. Considering Bao Ge's influence, the Air Force organized this team.
The record of the last two seasons is quite poor, both of which are at the bottom. At present, the league is 3 wins and 2 1 negative.
However, as more and more big names choose to join this team after joining the army, I believe he will be able to get rid of the fate of being at the bottom of ten thousand years in a year or two.
Current league ranking:
1 huacheng 16 wins and 7 losses
2 Samsung 15 wins 10 losses
3 SKT 1 15 wins 10 loses.
4 OGN 14 wins 10 loses.
5 STX 13 wins 10 loses.
6 CJ 12 wins 12 loses.
7 MBC 12 wins 12 loses.
8 Xiong Jin 12 wins 12 losses.
9 WeMade 12 wins 12 loses.
10 KTF 1 1 victory 13 negative.
1 1 Esterro 9 wins 15 losses.
12 air force 3 wins 2 1 negative
As far as salary is concerned, the annual salary of top players can exceed $200,000. Attention, it's dollars! But only one or two people.
The average level of top players (players who have the ability to win individual league titles) is about 654.38 million US dollars+10,000, while the average player may be thousands or just over 1 10,000.
The average income of interstellar players is much higher than that of Warcraft players.
2. South Korean star personal professional league MBC StarLeague
There are two major individual professional leagues in Korea, namely OGN StarLeague(OSL) and MBC StarLeague(MSL), which are composed of two major professional leagues in Korea, Ongame and MBC Game. In comparison, OSL has a longer and better history. However, because the bonuses are almost the same, the appeal to professional players is basically the same now.
As for the competition system, let's talk about how to enter the final stage of OSL and MSL. There are 16 players in the final stage of OSL and 32 players in MSL.
Take OSL for example. The top four occupied four positions for the first time in the last OSL. In addition, the last 5-65 12 players, the 16 and 12 players in internet cafes played BO3 (best of three games), and the winner entered the final stage of this OSL.
In the final stage, the competition system will be very different. OSL is divided into four groups, with the top two in the quarter-finals and Bo3 in the quarter-finals. One weekend, the first match of the quarter-finals of the four groups was concentrated, and the next two (maybe one) were held in the second week. Both the rematch and the final are Bo5, a one-time competition.
MSL***32 people were divided into 8 groups, and the top two entered the top 16, all of which were one-eighth of Bo5 matches, and all of them were finished at one time.
The final of OSL and MSL was held in the university gymnasium, with a stage and a big screen in the center. Each final can attract tens of thousands of people to watch the game, and dozens of media reports.
The two major leagues used to be held once a year. In recent years, with the development of interstellar specialty and successful market operation, they have grown to two or three times a year (depending on sponsors).
It is not easy to win these two major leagues, and the bonuses are quite rich. The prize money of the champion is generally 40 million won (50 million won for two MSLs, depending on the sponsor), which is equivalent to about 250,000 yuan, which is quite good income (because the champions are all children around 20 years old), and the runner-up is 20 million.
Player introduction:
The four greatest players in Korean interstellar history are boxer, OOV, Nada and IPX.
At present, only these four players can be called "our seats"
Conditions of this seat: once won the OSL and MSL champion, and the winning rate exceeded 70% within one year.
Boxer:
Lin, Terran, nicknamed Brother Bao, is called Terran Emperor.
OSL 2 crown 4 subfamily, MSL 1 crown.
Brother Bao is the greatest interstellar player in interstellar history. Baidu encyclopedia has a very detailed introduction to him. There are too many, so don't copy baike.baidu/view/529721. . TP = 1 _ 1 1
I would also like to add that in addition to many honors, Brother Bao has also created many tactics and micromanipulation skills, which greatly promoted the development of interstellar, such as his TVZ airdrop, carpet airdrop micromanipulation and stealth flying tail flick operation skills (now everyone's flying tail flick is inspired from here). ...
In addition, Bao Ge joined the army two years ago and has been leading the air force team to continue fighting in the Star Arena.
On June 5438+February 2008, Bao Ge retired and returned to SKT team. Because of the decline of age, he has obvious opportunities to play now, and basically stays in the team as a spiritual leader.
Occupation statistics: (only the events recognized by KeSPA are counted, the same below)
All records: 245:205 Winning rate: 54%(* * 450 games)
All TvP records: 64:80 Winning rate: 44%(* * 144 games)
Total TvT record: 69:6 1 winning rate: 53%(* * 130 games)
All TvZ records: 1 12:64 Winning rate: 64%(* * 176 games).
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Finally 10 All games: 2:8 Winning rate: 20%.
Recent TvP record 10 games: 2:8 winning rate: 20%.
Last/KOOC-0/0TVT competition: 4:6, winning percentage: 40%.
Recent TvZ record 10 games: 3:7 winning percentage: 30%.
Iloveoov:
Yeon-Sung Choi, Terran, nicknamed Monster, is generally called OOV by China star Rice.
OSL 2 crown, MSL 3 crown
OOV is Bao Ge's apprentice, famous for his violent soldiers, and the title of monster also comes from his violent soldiers.
At his peak, his winning percentage reached more than 80%, but at present, no star player has won more than 70% a year.
Baidu Encyclopedia: baike.baidu/view/956813.
Last year, OOV announced his retirement and began to coach SKT, thus saving SKT from the long-term downturn.
And returned as a player at the end of last year.
Because of the age problem, in order not to affect the team's performance, the team only played two league games. Every season, I will prepare and participate in the OSL MSL Internet cafe competition in my spare time.
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