SOOP Star University League with various streamers, a month-long battle starting with the Cho Ji-myung ceremony on the 22nd
Oct 22, 2025
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Large-scale 'Starcraft' content will be held on SOOP (formerly Africa TV).
SOOP announced that it will host the 'SOOP Star University League' with various streamers participating from the 22nd. The competition will continue for about a month, starting with the Cho Ji-myung ceremony held at Seoul's Freak-up Studio, and the offline final of the Sangam SOOP Coliseum on November 23. This season, which will be held with a total prize money of 60 million won, will involve 13 star university crew members and 300 streamers.
The "Star College Daejeon" is a league in which a professional gamer-turned-streamer and a general streamer compete in a team. Streamers from professional gamers directly coach novice streamers with 'Chancellor' or 'Professor' and compete by dividing tiers by skills. The main viewing point is the process of growing high-quality professionals and novice streamers together, and it is expected that users who are not familiar with 'StarCraft' can easily enjoy it.
'Star University Daejeon' has expanded its participation every season, starting with the official league 'Squez-Star University' with eight teams in 2021. The tier, which was divided into four in the early days, is now subdivided from tier 1 to tier 8, and the addition of the 'Baby' tier for beginners and the 'Joker, King, and Jack' tier for professional gamers has increased competitiveness and completeness.
'Starcraft' is still loved enough to be called 'Folkplay' 27 years after its release, but it has been considered a difficult game to attract new users due to the high level of proficiency. The university competition is inducing the influx of new users through a structure in which novice users participate, learn, and grow directly, and strengthen their role as a learning league.
In particular, 'Star University Daejeon' will go beyond simply competing for game skills and become a festive content enjoyed by users and streamers, breaking down barriers between generations and skills, according to SOOP. Last season, it recorded 10 million cumulative viewers and has maintained its high popularity every season. This season is expected to strengthen the league's size and operating system, continuing stable interest in both the participants and viewers.
A total of 13 teams will participate in this competition, including New Cat Sle (Ginuda), Swampland (Ssangdi), M-bi (Mayejun), K-dae (K), Black Cademi (Black Canal), YB (Yeo Boseong), Surgery Table (Jung Jung-man), Cine (Cheol-gu), Waffle Stand (Wiper), In-dae (Kim In-ho), Jeong Seon-dae (Park Funny), Tsukammonstars (Kim Yoon-hwan), and JSA (Sijo Sae). The group qualifying round to the semifinals will be held online, and the final round will be held offline at the Sangam SOOP Coliseum.
This article was translated by Naver AI translator.
