OnGameNet

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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

Final of the Korean Air OSL 2010 in a hangar at Gimpo Airport
Batoo OSL 2009 finals in Busan

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

Trainee Frost after the Champions Summer 2012 final

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
Champions Spring 2012 200,000,000 ₩ Korea SouthSouth Korea MiG Blaze Korea SouthSouth Korea MiG Frost Korea SouthSouth Korea Xenics Storm Korea SouthSouth Korea Team OP (not awarded)
Champions Summer 2012 146,500,000 ₩ Korea SouthSouth Korea Apprentice frost EuropeEurope CLG EU Korea SouthSouth Korea NaJin Sword Korea SouthSouth Korea Apprentice Blaze (not awarded)
Champions winter 2012/13 270,000,000 ₩ Korea SouthSouth Korea NaJin Sword Korea SouthSouth Korea Apprentice frost Korea SouthSouth Korea KT Rolster B Korea SouthSouth Korea Apprentice Blaze Yoon "MakNooN" Ha-woon
Champions Spring 2013 270,000,000 ₩ Korea SouthSouth Korea MVP Ozone Korea SouthSouth Korea CJ Entus Blaze Korea SouthSouth Korea SK Telecom T1 2 Korea SouthSouth Korea CJ Entus Frost Bae "dade" Eo-jin
Champions Summer 2013 270,000,000 ₩ Korea SouthSouth Korea SK Telecom T1 Korea SouthSouth Korea KT Rolster Bullets Korea SouthSouth Korea MVP Ozone Korea SouthSouth Korea CJ Entus Frost Lee "Faker" Sang-hyeok
Champions winter 2013/14 270,000,000 ₩ Korea SouthSouth Korea SK Telecom T1 K Korea SouthSouth Korea Samsung Ozone Korea SouthSouth Korea KT Rolster Bullets Korea SouthSouth Korea NaJin White Shield Lee "Faker" Sang-hyeok
Champions Spring 2014 270,000,000 ₩ Korea SouthSouth Korea Samsung Blue Korea SouthSouth Korea NaJin White Shield Korea SouthSouth Korea Samsung Ozone Korea SouthSouth Korea CJ Entus Blaze Bae "dade" Eo-jin
Champions Summer 2014 270,000,000 ₩ Korea SouthSouth Korea KT Rolster Arrows Korea SouthSouth Korea Samsung Blue Korea SouthSouth Korea Samsung White Korea SouthSouth Korea SK Telecom T1 S. Lee "KaKAO" Byung-kwon
LCK Spring 2015 280,000,000 ₩ Korea SouthSouth Korea SK Telecom T1 Korea SouthSouth Korea GE Tigers Korea SouthSouth Korea CJ Entus Korea SouthSouth Korea Jin Air Greenwings Lee "Duke" Ho-seong (Regular Season)
Lee "Easyhoon" Ji-hoon (Playoffs)
LCK Summer 2015 295,000,000 ₩ Korea SouthSouth Korea SK Telecom T1 Korea SouthSouth Korea KT Rolster Korea SouthSouth Korea KOO Tigers Korea SouthSouth Korea CJ Entus Kim "ssumday" Chan-ho (Regular Season)
Lee "Faker" Sang-hyeok (Playoffs)
LCK Spring 2016 295,000,000 ₩ Korea SouthSouth Korea SK Telecom T1 Korea SouthSouth Korea ROX Tigers Korea SouthSouth Korea KT Rolster Korea SouthSouth Korea Jin Air Greenwings Song "Smeb" Kyung-ho (Regular Season)
Lee "Duke" Ho-seong (Playoffs)
LCK Summer 2016 295,000,000 ₩ Korea SouthSouth Korea ROX Tigers Korea SouthSouth Korea KT Rolster Korea SouthSouth Korea SK Telecom T1 Korea SouthSouth Korea Samsung Galaxy Song "Smeb" Kyung-ho (Regular Season)
Lee "KurO" Seo-haeng (Playoffs)
LCK Spring 2017 295,000,000 ₩ Korea SouthSouth Korea SK Telecom T1 Korea SouthSouth Korea KT Rolster Korea SouthSouth Korea Samsung Galaxy Korea SouthSouth Korea MVP Lee "Crown" Min-ho (Regular Season)
Han "Peanut" Wang-ho (Playoffs)
LCK Summer 2017 295,000,000 ₩ Korea SouthSouth Korea Longzhu Gaming Korea SouthSouth Korea SK Telecom T1 Korea SouthSouth Korea KT Rolster Korea SouthSouth Korea Samsung Galaxy Bdd / kurO a (Regular Season)
Kim "Khan" Dong-ha (Playoffs)
LCK Spring 2018 295,000,000 ₩ Korea SouthSouth Korea Kingzone DragonX Korea SouthSouth Korea Afreeca Freecs Korea SouthSouth Korea KT Rolster Korea SouthSouth Korea SK Telecom T1 Gwak "Bdd" Bo-seong (Regular Season)
Kim "PraY" Jong-in (Playoffs)
LCK Summer 2018 295,000,000 ₩ Korea SouthSouth Korea KT Rolster Korea SouthSouth Korea Griffin Korea SouthSouth Korea Afreeca Freecs Korea SouthSouth Korea Kingzone DragonX Kim "Khan" Dong-ha (Regular Season)
Go "Score" Dong-bin (Playoffs)
LCK Spring 2019 350,000,000 ₩ Korea SouthSouth Korea SK Telecom T1 Korea SouthSouth Korea Griffin Korea SouthSouth Korea KingZone DragonX Korea SouthSouth Korea DAMWON Gaming Jeong "Chovy" Ji-hoon (Regular Season)
Park "Teddy" Jin-seong (Playoffs)
a For the first time, two players, “Bdd” (Gwak Bo-seong) and “kurO” (Lee Seo-haeng), were awarded as MVPs.

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
OGN Club Masters 2013 032,000,000 ₩ Korea SouthSouth Korea MVP Korea SouthSouth Korea Xenics OP Korea SouthSouth Korea KT Rolster Korea SouthSouth Korea CJ Entus
SK Telecom LTE-A Masters 2014 100,000,000 ₩ Korea SouthSouth Korea Samsung Galaxy Korea SouthSouth Korea SK Telecom T1 Korea SouthSouth Korea CJ Entus Korea SouthSouth Korea 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
Overwatch APEX
Season 1 (Oct. – Dec. 2016) 224,000,000 ₩ EuropeEurope Team EnVyUs Korea SouthSouth Korea Afreeca Freecs Blue Korea SouthSouth KoreaBK Stars / KongDoo Uncia Korea SouthSouth Korea
Season 2 (Jan. – Apr. 2017) 234,000,000 ₩ Korea SouthSouth Korea Lunatic shark Korea SouthSouth Korea RunAway Korea SouthSouth Korea LW Blue Korea SouthSouth Korea Meta Athena
Season 3 (Apr. – Jul. 2017) 234,000,000 ₩ Korea SouthSouth Korea Lunatic shark Korea SouthSouth Korea KongDoo Panthera Korea SouthSouth Korea Afreeca Freecs Blue EuropeEurope Team EnVyUs
Season 4 (Aug. – Oct. 2017) 227,400,000 ₩ Korea SouthSouth Korea GC Busan Korea SouthSouth Korea RunAway Korea SouthSouth Korea Cloud 9 KongDoo Korea SouthSouth Korea RX Foxes
Overwatch Contenders
Season 1 (Mar-May 2018) $ 185,040 Korea SouthSouth Korea X6 gaming Korea SouthSouth Korea O2 Ardeont Korea SouthSouth KoreaRunAway / Meta Bellum Korea SouthSouth Korea
Season 2 (Jul.-Aug. 2018) $ 185,040 Korea SouthSouth Korea RunAway Korea SouthSouth Korea KongDoo Panthera Korea SouthSouth KoreaElement Mystic / Meta Bellum Korea SouthSouth Korea
Season 3 (Nov. – Jan. 2019) $ 185,040 Korea SouthSouth Korea RunAway Korea SouthSouth Korea Element Mystic Korea SouthSouth KoreaStormQuake / WGS armament Korea SouthSouth Korea

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

Portal: E-Sports  - Overview of Wikipedia content on the subject of E-Sports

Individual evidence

  1. Champions Civil War: SPOTV vs. OGN espn.com
  2. ^ Clash Royale League West (CRL West) - OGN Esports. Retrieved September 22, 2019 (American English).

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