41 new progamers!

[s]korea[/s]"The rules of how gamers are ranked have been changing fairly frequently." says Peter "Legionnaire" Neate in a newspost over at » TeamLiquid.net. The newspost explains the recent changes in the Pro Gaming scene, regarding the different rankings. What is exactly the difference between a 'semi pro' and someone with 'full progamer status'? With these new rules, it's actually quite understandable.

The deal is that the semi progamers will have to participate in the OnGameNet Pro League in order to "bump up to pro gamer status". The difference from the last rules are that you won't have to participate in the OnGameNet Starleague. But, there's another way of becoming a real progamer. It's called the Courage Tournament.

The Courage Tournament was an amateur tournament where the Top 4 were given the semi pro (jun pro) status, and a chance to make it to the OnGameNet Challenge League. And this week, 41 players (Top 4 from Courage Tournaments and some semi pros who have lined up waiting) have now been made full-fledged progamers. Here's the list:

#

Nickname

Team

1. canata SKT1
2. Ccoma Soul
3. bejjezerg Hexatron
4. sasin[child] Soul
5. ]Min][Gu] KTF
6. B_blade Toona SG
7. usa:)sunny Hanbit
8. tobecontinued Soul
9. kim yun hwan?
10. luna[alive] Hanbit
11. ipxzerg[gm] SumaGO
12. junitoss POS
13. [mgw]bluesky SKT1
14. daezang[gnh] noteam
15. yellow[name] Kor
16. pro.nt)fantasy POS
17. julyzerg POS
18. oops)autumn
much[gm] Hanbit
SumaGO
19. stay[hyo] Hanbit
20. soo[s.sir] Soul
21. pusan[s.g] Plus
22. breeze[akuta] Soul
23. iris[gm] SumaGO
24. Assem Hexatron
25. pos_shark POS
26. tester[gm] Toona SG
27. siva Hexatron
28. ever)t(sayoo Soul
29. anytime[gm] Plus
30. fofy[gm] Hanbit
31. rumble[hyo] SKT1
32. dongrae Plus
33. ggon Samsung
34. [soul]gyuntae Soul
35. cuteboy[gm] Samsung
36. lottozerg KTF
37. artofniza Toona SG
38. gwanro[gm] Samsung
39. sm_clon Hanbit
40. hwasin[s.sir] Soul
41. Legionnaire Hexatron
So what's the difference between a semi pro and a progamer? Well, Legionnaire says in a comment to the article that you may play a lot more tournaments such as the second round of OnGameNet Pro League, where no amateurs are allowed.

Links
TeamLiquid.net - Original newspost
Pgr21.com - Unofficial Progamer ranking