EPTI've been on TL.net for a while now and i always read the Community and the Featured News but i never got further than that. Just a few days ago I discovered the Blogs and told myself "Hell why not give it a go." Anyways, here's my 1st attempt at my top 10s.
Zerg
IMNesTea: 3 time GSL championship and still in the running for a 4th this october, didnt do so well in the WCG qualifiers and in AOL but the Zerg King has to keep his secret builds for the big tournament
MVPDongRaeGu: Team League Monster, 1st Place Dreamhack Valencia, 3rd Place MLG Raleigh.
m+Stephano: Just won IPL in convincing fashion on top of that he's maintaining cery high ranking on the European Ladder.
SlayersCoCa: Round of 16 Code S, 2nd Place MLG Raleigh. the only reason I'm not placing him in 3rd place is because of his loses in July at ICCUP weekly 6 and GSL TeamLeague to FXOTheBest
FXOLeenock: 2nd place in his Code S group. Despite a lack of result you just have to watch Leenock play to know he's a top tier zerg. Not to mention he has leenock luck that places him against the best players in the world and even then he manages to pull some wins.
IMLosira: Same as with Leenock Losira got out of his Code S group in second place. Despite his 2nd place in both Columbus and GSL Season 4 (New MKP much). I feel like Losira had it easy to get to his code S finals playing against players who are now in code B (Tester, Byun
LiquidRet Ret has to be in the top 10, as a foreigner he never goes out early in any tournament and always shows brilliant play. When Ret loses it's never in 1 sided games
EGIdra Quarter finals IPL, Guangzhou champion, and leader of his NASL group has to be worth something. Idra doesn't quite slip past ret because his games against Sjow and Trimaster from Raleigh are still fresh in my mind.
STCurious: Emerging zerg in the korean scene, he won Code A and got there by man handling Gumiho and Oz which is no small task.
NSHoSeoSeal Seal Creep! Seal has to be put in the top 10 just because of the hype he gets from tasteosis, there's more to him than just creep spread though Seal is a legit Zerg who's in it for blood.
Terran
IMMVP It's MVP man, 3-time champion.
MarineKingPrime I'm giving MKP this spot mostly because of his AOL win vs DRG. IT also seems like the only player he cant beat is MVP.
STBomber MLG Raleigh Champion. You can't not have bomber in the top 3 terrans in the world because he is a top terran. Bomber can stand toe to toe with both mvp and mkp the only reason he's third is his lack of korean results. Still he's really col and innovative.
TSLPolt Super tournament winner. Micro terran, which is weird to say but he gets solid results. Polt is kinda iffy to me right now because of his recent loses to TOP and Killer. He's going to Orlando so if he wants to prove himself and surpass bomber he's going to have top win that tournament.
SlayersMMA For a terran to have a rivalry with Nestea where wins go both ways (lol keen nada) you have to be top tier. The only reason his results arent more fabulous is because of a few TvT slip ups that cost him the games.
EGPuma IEM cologne champion and NASL champion. But he's coming off loses to MaNa, NaDa, MVP and CoCa. Puma is a foreign champion but it's going to be a while before he becomes a Korean champion
SlayersRyung Ryung is a TvT master, in a Code S dominated by Terran this makes him top ten material in my book. Despite losing to to Clide who isnt even in this top 10 he beat both MKP and Bomber in his group stage.
oGsNada What's to say about nada, he isn't in gsl october anymore because he lost to Nestea and MMA. There's absolutly no shame to be had in that regards.
mouzThorzain One does not simply walk into Korea and earn a nickname without having some skill behind his name. The spoon terran is TSL3 champion and Valencia finalist.
FXOGumiho Gumiho might still be code A but he defenatly has a shot in the up and downs I cant see him losing to Genious and Zenio after he beat Nestea in WCG Korean Qualifiers. The simple fact that he took a game off of Nestea shows you how much potential this kid has.
Almost made it: MVPsC, SlayersTaeja, SlayersGanzi, ZenexByun.
Protoss
EGHuk true Huk got cheesed out by Virus. Despite that I cant think of another toss that would of survived that1/1/1 cheese.\, and i cant think of another protoss that can rock that #1 spot
TSLKiller I dont expect killer to stay top toss for long but with his GSL results right now you can't not give him a top spot
FXOz Hands down best protoss in the up and downs, if he doesn't make code S ill be very very surprised. I wont eat a sword though.
NSHoSeoSage Sage allkilled FXOKorea, no small task to itself. you look at players he's lost to recently though in ICCUP and you have life, curious and yonghwa. That makes Sage a weird choice to me. He has a lot of hype to his name but where are the awesome results that come with that. He's got to step his game up.
ZeNexPuzzle How does a protoss as good as puzzle get to the up and downs? Well you lose to MarineKing and Bomber, those are terran number 2 and 3.
LiquidHero Solid Protoss top protoss numbers 6-9 are going to be based on skill and consistancy since none of the 3 have results to back my judgment up Hero has very high win percentages and is top of his Nasl group.
QxGSaSe This one day on SaSe's stream he played MKP. As SaSe was winning, because that's what he does when he's not in LAN, mkp went to tell him that he was the best foreigner in the world. Im just waiting for him to lose his LAN jitters and get code S.
TSLJYP Spectacular in the team league and showed amazing code A games. Although new to the scene i see him staying in the scene for a while to come.
TtWhiteRa A top 10 protoss cannot be complete without white-ra himself. He might be last in his NASL group but after all the time he spent practicing at the red bull LAN i see him getting his old form back and shooting to the top of his division.
FXOInori Purly placed here off of his IPL3 results. He beat Huk and MC in the championship brackets. If he gets through the brutal code B he will be a protoss to watch out for next seasons Code A.
