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jalstar
Profile Blog Joined September 2009
United States8198 Posts
Last Edited: 2010-04-21 03:33:56
April 21 2010 02:16 GMT
#1
The average progamer seems to win most of their leagues around 2-3 years after debuting. July debuted in 2002 and won leagues in 2004 and 2005. Savior debuted in 2003 and won leagues in 2005 and 2006. Bisu debuted in 2005 and won leagues in 2007 and 2008. Jaedong debuted in 2006 and won leagues in 2008 and 2009 (and 2010). Sure there are early bloomers like oov and late bloomers like Stork, but looking at TLPD confirms that 2-3 years is a good estimate.

Therefore, the players who will be at the top this year made their debuts in 2007 and 2008. A look at TLPD shows the top 4 players from those debut years to be:

(T)Flash
(Z)ZerO
(T)BaBy
(P)Movie

Three of those players are dual leaguers and all are in the Ro8 of the OSL. The rest of the list is decidedly more mediocre:

(T)Really, (Z)great, (P)Stats, (Z)EffOrt, (Z)RorO, (T)Bogus, (P)Tempest, (T)sKyHigh, (P)Violet, (Z)Action

However, 2010 is not over, and if past years are anything to go by, players who debuted in 2007 and 2008 should win at least 4 of the MSLs/OSLs this year.

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that's because flash is going to win all of them
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kidding, but that's a possibility


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sharkeyanti
Profile Blog Joined October 2009
United States1273 Posts
April 21 2010 02:42 GMT
#2
Baby was 12 when he first played in the MSL/OSL prelims... goddamn
Hi Mom
NeCroPoTeNce
Profile Joined July 2009
United States513 Posts
April 21 2010 03:32 GMT
#3
I wish I was that good at SC when I was 12. TT_TT But hasn't Flash already been ripping shit up since 08?
zerg all the way! Lee Jaedong hwaiting
jalstar
Profile Blog Joined September 2009
United States8198 Posts
April 21 2010 03:34 GMT
#4
On April 21 2010 12:32 NeCroPoTeNce wrote:
I wish I was that good at SC when I was 12. TT_TT But hasn't Flash already been ripping shit up since 08?


Doesn't mean he'll stop being good now. Most players take 2-3 years, but players like Flash and iloveoov (the only other notable player to dominate a year after debuting) remain good despite blooming early.
synapse
Profile Blog Joined January 2009
China13814 Posts
April 21 2010 04:34 GMT
#5
On April 21 2010 12:34 jalstar wrote:
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On April 21 2010 12:32 NeCroPoTeNce wrote:
I wish I was that good at SC when I was 12. TT_TT But hasn't Flash already been ripping shit up since 08?


Doesn't mean he'll stop being good now. Most players take 2-3 years, but players like Flash and iloveoov (the only other notable player to dominate a year after debuting) remain good despite blooming early.


Haha (T)Flash owned shit up right as he hit the scene, then faded into the abyss after losing to [(Z)GGPlay?], and is now back and in ez mode.
:)
domane
Profile Blog Joined September 2009
Canada1606 Posts
April 21 2010 05:01 GMT
#6
I feel terrible for for the other three, in that case. Especially ZerO.
Kyuukyuu
Profile Blog Joined January 2009
Canada6263 Posts
April 21 2010 05:22 GMT
#7
Dang, that's actually really accurate, all of those guys have really hit their stride in '10.
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