As usual, another edition of the well established StarCraft competition in Korea called OnGameNet StarLeague or more typicallly known as OSL is back. As myMYM has already mentioned earlier, this gaming event is being sponsored by Incruit, a famous employment website that is based at Korea. This season’s event qualifiers started on July 29th and they are still ongoing.

An interesting issue one should take note is the tournament format change. Instead of the traditional ODT style, there will be a Round of 36. It will consist of 12 unseeded players from the last OnGameNet Starleague and 24 new players who have qualified through offline tournaments.

A total of 12 groups will be constructed in the Round of 36. A pair of offline qualifiers and a player from last season’s OnGameNet StarLeague event will fill up each of those groups. Initially, those 2 players from the offline qualifiers will take on each other in a best of 3 games and the survivor from that match will proceed to face the previous StarLeague qualifier also in a best of 3 games to decide who tops the group. The winner will then move on to the Round of 16 to have a fighting chance together with the top 4 seeded players from EVER OSL 2008 of becoming this season’s OnGameNet StarLeague champion. The 4 seeded players are JulyZerg, BeSt, Luxury and BackHo.

Just to refresh one’s memory, Park Sung Jun a.k.a. JulyZerg, the old school player from STX Soul was the champion of EVER OSL 2008. He defeated the SK Telecom T1 up and coming Protoss player BeSt with a superb three to zero victory in the grand finals that also saw him receive the Golden Mouse and thus carved his name into the history books as one of the most successful players in the OnGameNet Starleague, along with Lee Yoon Yeol a.k.a NaDa.

This is the list of past OnGameNet StarLeague champions:

Previous OSL champions
2008 EVER OSL	JulyZerg
2008 Bacchus OSL	By.Flash
2007 EVER 2007 OSL	n.diE_JaeDonG
2007 Daum OSL	GGPlay
2006 ShinHan2006-3 OSL	sAviOr[gm]
2006 ShinHan2006-2 OSL	NaDa
2006 ShinHan2006-1 OSL	Casy
2005 ShinHan2005 OSL	iloveoov
2005 So1 OSL	Anytime[gm]
2005 EVER 2005 OSL	JulyZerg
2004 IOPS OSL	NaDa
2004 EVER 2004 OSL	iloveoov
2004 Gillette OSL	JulyZerg
2003 NHN OSL	Nal_rA
2003 MyCube OSL	Kingdom
2003 Olympus OSL	XellOs
2002 Panasonic OSL	NaDa
2002 SKY2002 OSL	[Oops]Reach
2002 NATE OSL	Sync
2001 SKY2001 OSL	GARIMTO
2001 Coca-Cola OSL	SlayerS_BoxeR
2001 Hanbitsoft OSL	SlayerS_BoxeR
2000 Freechal OSL	GARIMTO
2000 Hanaro OSL	Grrrr...
1999 Progamer Korea Open	FreeMuRa