OnGameNet
OnGameNet (OGN) ( Hangeul : 온게임넷) is a South Korean television station that specializes in reporting on video games . It belongs to the On-Media group and has existed since 2000. Since 2010 it has been part of the CJ Group (Entertainment & Media).
Among other things, organizes and transmits the sender e-sports - competitions in various game titles. Some of them will also be broadcast on Twitch for an international audience with commentary in English . Sometimes non-Korean players or teams take part in the tournaments.
E-sports tournaments
StarCraft: Brood War and StarCraft 2
From 2000 to 2012, OGN hosted the OnGameNet StarLeague (OSL) in StarCraft: Brood War or its successor StarCraft 2 . It was considered the most important StarCraft single league and was usually played three times a year. In addition, there was the Proleague as a team competition, which from 2005 was jointly organized by the competing channels OGN and MBCGame. In 2012 SpoTV took over the broadcasting rights for the (now discontinued) Proleague.
League of Legends
OGN Champions / League Championship Korea
OGN has been organizing a series of tournaments for the League of Legends (LoL) title since 2012 . In contrast to StarCraft, LoL is a team game where a team consists of five players. In addition to the prize money of currently ₩ 295,000,000 (around 260,000 US dollars or 230,000 euros), it is also about qualifying for the Riot League of Legends World Championship . Since 2016, the format has been geared to pressure from game developer Riot Games together with SpoTV.
Period | Prize money | winner | Second | Third | Fourth | MVP |
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Champions Spring 2012 | 200,000,000 ₩ | MiG Blaze | MiG Frost | Xenics Storm | Team OP | (not awarded) |
Champions Summer 2012 | 146,500,000 ₩ | Apprentice frost | CLG EU | NaJin Sword | Apprentice Blaze | (not awarded) |
Champions winter 2012/13 | 270,000,000 ₩ | NaJin Sword | Apprentice frost | KT Rolster B | Apprentice Blaze | Yoon "MakNooN" Ha-woon |
Champions Spring 2013 | 270,000,000 ₩ | MVP Ozone | CJ Entus Blaze | SK Telecom T1 2 | CJ Entus Frost | Bae "dade" Eo-jin |
Champions Summer 2013 | 270,000,000 ₩ | SK Telecom T1 | KT Rolster Bullets | MVP Ozone | CJ Entus Frost | Lee "Faker" Sang-hyeok |
Champions winter 2013/14 | 270,000,000 ₩ | SK Telecom T1 K | Samsung Ozone | KT Rolster Bullets | NaJin White Shield | Lee "Faker" Sang-hyeok |
Champions Spring 2014 | 270,000,000 ₩ | Samsung Blue | NaJin White Shield | Samsung Ozone | CJ Entus Blaze | Bae "dade" Eo-jin |
Champions Summer 2014 | 270,000,000 ₩ | KT Rolster Arrows | Samsung Blue | Samsung White | SK Telecom T1 S. | Lee "KaKAO" Byung-kwon |
LCK Spring 2015 | 280,000,000 ₩ | SK Telecom T1 | GE Tigers | CJ Entus | Jin Air Greenwings |
Lee "Duke" Ho-seong (Regular Season) Lee "Easyhoon" Ji-hoon (Playoffs) |
LCK Summer 2015 | 295,000,000 ₩ | SK Telecom T1 | KT Rolster | KOO Tigers | CJ Entus |
Kim "ssumday" Chan-ho (Regular Season) Lee "Faker" Sang-hyeok (Playoffs) |
LCK Spring 2016 | 295,000,000 ₩ | SK Telecom T1 | ROX Tigers | KT Rolster | Jin Air Greenwings |
Song "Smeb" Kyung-ho (Regular Season) Lee "Duke" Ho-seong (Playoffs) |
LCK Summer 2016 | 295,000,000 ₩ | ROX Tigers | KT Rolster | SK Telecom T1 | Samsung Galaxy |
Song "Smeb" Kyung-ho (Regular Season) Lee "KurO" Seo-haeng (Playoffs) |
LCK Spring 2017 | 295,000,000 ₩ | SK Telecom T1 | KT Rolster | Samsung Galaxy | MVP |
Lee "Crown" Min-ho (Regular Season) Han "Peanut" Wang-ho (Playoffs) |
LCK Summer 2017 | 295,000,000 ₩ | Longzhu Gaming | SK Telecom T1 | KT Rolster | Samsung Galaxy |
Bdd / kurO a (Regular Season) Kim "Khan" Dong-ha (Playoffs) |
LCK Spring 2018 | 295,000,000 ₩ | Kingzone DragonX | Afreeca Freecs | KT Rolster | SK Telecom T1 |
Gwak "Bdd" Bo-seong (Regular Season) Kim "PraY" Jong-in (Playoffs) |
LCK Summer 2018 | 295,000,000 ₩ | KT Rolster | Griffin | Afreeca Freecs | Kingzone DragonX |
Kim "Khan" Dong-ha (Regular Season) Go "Score" Dong-bin (Playoffs) |
LCK Spring 2019 | 350,000,000 ₩ | SK Telecom T1 | Griffin | KingZone DragonX | DAMWON Gaming |
Jeong "Chovy" Ji-hoon (Regular Season) Park "Teddy" Jin-seong (Playoffs) |
OGN Masters
With the OGN Masters, a second tournament series for League of Legends was started in 2013. In contrast to OGN Champions, two teams from one organization (e.g. CJ Entus Frost and CJ Entus Blaze ) compete together.
Surname | Prize money | winner | Second | Third | Fourth |
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OGN Club Masters 2013 | 32,000,000 ₩ | MVP | Xenics OP | KT Rolster | CJ Entus |
SK Telecom LTE-A Masters 2014 | 100,000,000 ₩ | Samsung Galaxy | SK Telecom T1 | CJ Entus | NaJin e-mFire |
Overwatch
In 2016, OGN and APEX initiated a series of tournaments for Overwatch . After just four seasons, the series was discontinued after the global Overwatch League was started by game developer Blizzard Entertainment . Since then, OGN has broadcast the Overwatch Contenders tournament series .
Period | Prize money | winner | Second | Third | Fourth |
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Overwatch APEX | |||||
Season 1 (Oct. – Dec. 2016) | 224,000,000 ₩ | Team EnVyUs | Afreeca Freecs Blue | BK Stars / KongDoo Uncia | |
Season 2 (Jan. – Apr. 2017) | 234,000,000 ₩ | Lunatic shark | RunAway | LW Blue | Meta Athena |
Season 3 (Apr. – Jul. 2017) | 234,000,000 ₩ | Lunatic shark | KongDoo Panthera | Afreeca Freecs Blue | Team EnVyUs |
Season 4 (Aug. – Oct. 2017) | 227,400,000 ₩ | GC Busan | RunAway | Cloud 9 KongDoo | RX Foxes |
Overwatch Contenders | |||||
Season 1 (Mar-May 2018) | $ 185,040 | X6 gaming | O2 Ardeont | RunAway / Meta Bellum | |
Season 2 (Jul.-Aug. 2018) | $ 185,040 | RunAway | KongDoo Panthera | Element Mystic / Meta Bellum | |
Season 3 (Nov. – Jan. 2019) | $ 185,040 | RunAway | Element Mystic | StormQuake / WGS armament |
Other disciplines
Other esports disciplines in which OGN competes or has held competitions in the past include Blade and Soul , FIFA Online 3 , Hearthstone: Heroes of Warcraft , Heroes of the Storm , Kart Rider , PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds , Sudden Attack , Vainglory and Clash Royale .
See also
Individual evidence
- ↑ Champions Civil War: SPOTV vs. OGN espn.com
- ^ Clash Royale League West (CRL West) - OGN Esports. Retrieved September 22, 2019 (American English).