The long run for $5,000 is finally coming to an end with the TeamLiquid StarLeague semifinals on the fly - Saturday and Sunday promise to be action-packed with games from the best players outside Korea.

In the first semifinal, we saw an oldschool professional against a rising talent. Krzysztof "Draco" Nalepka is not a part of any team at the moment, they even call him "retired", but he still is a threat. He proved this, winning flawlessly in a Protoss mirror match against his opponent from USA - Tyler "NonY" Wasilieski.

Draco won 3-0 on three relatively new maps - Othello, Wuthering Heights and Blue Storm, showing either some training time or an essential talent.

The other semifinal which features the Russian unstoppable Pawel "Brat_OK" Kuznetsov of team RoX and Jian Fei "IefNaij" Wang of team Excello.sc is scheduled to Sunday, 22:30 CET.