Ongamenet SKY ProLeague - one of the biggest clanleagues in Korean progaming, was reaching its final stage. The team SK T1 (Old 4U) were up to face Hanbitstars in a 4x1on1 and 3x2on2 battle. This was the first round of three in this endeavour.
| SK T1 | vs. | Hanbitstars | 3-4 |
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Boxer > HOT-Forever Silent_Control @ Vertigo+ Iloveoov > Autumn @ Requiem Zerglee IntoTheRainbow > HOT-Forever Autumn @ The Huntress Boxer < Sunny @ Neo Guillotine Zerglee IntoTheRainbow < clon HOT-Forever @ Vertigo+ Kos < Silent_control @ XenoskyAnd if I understand correctly, a baseball all-star game featuring some of the most famous and best Korean baseball players was played at the same time. In » the forum post, they discuss a lot on how big baseball is and is not down there, but nonetheless - an all-star baseball game had around 15,000 people watching it live, and the first round of SKY ProLeague Finals had approximately 100,000 people.
This proves how popular StarCraft is. There's a clip from a news report in korean that you can see. There's an interview with Boxer, pictures and clips from the ProLeague-event and of the baseball-event. You can view it » here.
You can obtain the VODs of the event and find two photos in our previous post earlier this week here » here
How big will the view ratings be the next round? I'll keep you posted. See below a list of all the sources.
Links
[url=http://news.sbs.co.kr/common/movcenter/Remplay.jhtml?fname=nw0112c059165&news_id=N0311636758&category=N1§ion=09&gubun=6&type=vid]news.sbs.co.kr[/url] - Video clip (Korean) with short Interview - Boxer
GosuGamers.net - Vods of the matches
TeamLiquid.net - Live update thread covering SKT1 vs. Hanbit