StarCraft: Brood War: Korean Air OSL II Final Saturday

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By Duncan 'Thorin' Shields

Sep 11, 2010 00:04

Flash faces Jaedong in the Korean Air OSL II Final Saturday in Shanghai, China. The 2 best players of all time meet again as Flash seeks a golden mouse and Jaedong a record 4th OSL title.

On Saturday September the 11th, tomorrow, the Korean Air OSL II final will be played out between

Lee 'Flash' Young Ho and

Lee 'Jaedong' Jae Dong. This marks the first venture abroad for the OSL final which will be played this time in Shanghai, China.

The LeeSsang Rok (Flash vs. Jaedong)
Event: Korean Air OSL II 2010 Grand Final
Date: 11th September
Time: 19:00 KST / 12:00 CEST / 06:00 EDT / 03:00 PDT

Watch it live by visiting Teamliquid.net and looking at the list of streams on the right in the column with the calender at the top.

TeamLiquid's hype article succeeds in getting the adrenaline pumping:

"The reason JvF, or FvJ, often feels so frustrating is because the closest analogy would not be a match between men, but rather a bullfight, a duel between man and beast; the bull charging, the matador attempting to outsmart, darting, feinting, waving the red flag. And just as in that dance of death, here, the coup de grace is quick, anticlimactic, almost; what is entertaining is the buildup to the inevitable bloody end.

It is that end, then, that we await this fine September evening. Something worthy for us to remember, and like old gentleman in a sleepy Catalan village, speak of in hushed tones for years to come."

The stakes couldn't be higher as the legendary LeeSsang Rok plays out in another final. Flash and Jaedong met in the last three MSL finals consecutively, with Jaedong winning the first and Flash the last two. Flash now sits at two OSL titles and two MSL titles, meaning if he wins this final he will become the fourth player to ever receive the golden mouse awarded to winners of three OSL titles. He would also tie his rival Jaedong at five individual titles.

Flash's opponent Jaedong already possesses a golden mouse, being the third player to win it, but if he is victorious on Saturday then he will both tie the great bonjwa NaDa, the "Genius Terran", with six individual titles. Perhaps more importantly Jaedong would become the only player to ever win four OSL titles.

Source: TeamLiquid
(Photograph copyright of Fomos.kr)