I'd be very interested to see a current list, as I believe there's still a moderate-sized Asian scene. As far as I can tell from war3.replays.net Some big names like TH000, moon, lyn, ted, etc are still active.

konadora

Singapore66357 Posts

June 22 2013 02:30 GMT

#142

wow reading at all these names... so much memories.

isn't wc3 still played in wcg though?

amazingxkcd

GRAND OLD AMERICA16375 Posts

June 22 2013 03:16 GMT

#143

On June 22 2013 11:30 konadora wrote:
wow reading at all these names... so much memories.

isn't wc3 still played in wcg though?

it's been confirmed for 2013 slate

DustbinBieber

France276 Posts

June 22 2013 06:21 GMT

#144

On June 22 2013 02:53 monk wrote:

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Yea, with the way Sky developed the HvH metagame, HvH became a lot more coin-flippy. Basically it went from tier 2 and 3 fights into mass tier 1 footmen with mercenaries and often base trades.

Man I loved those T1 fights... HvH was great imo.
Your topic made me reinstall War3 just so you know :p

Lucumo

6850 Posts

June 22 2013 06:44 GMT

#145

Fifth race number 1

Miou did always well against German players but failed internationally.

LuckyGnomTV

Russian Federation367 Posts

June 22 2013 08:59 GMT

#146

viOlet is known for one more thing: at peak of his skill, when he became real power that can play against the best of the best there was a fire at his fathers house, so he leaved gaming and SK to help him. He returned to gaming only with SC2 release. Also he started as a great 2x2 player at A1 team with nelf player Uranus.WeRRa

Erasme

Bahamas15899 Posts

June 22 2013 11:03 GMT

#147

Uh were other humans really offracing against sky or only th000 ?
thanks for bringing me back in time

LittLeD

Sweden7973 Posts

June 22 2013 11:30 GMT

#148

A very informative list. Takes me back to a lovely time in my life. Thanks!

monk

United States8476 Posts

June 22 2013 15:22 GMT

#149

On June 22 2013 20:03 Erasme wrote:
Uh were other humans really offracing against sky or only th000 ?
thanks for bringing me back in time

Infi did this too. Then what happened was that when Infi played TH000, they played a NE mirror. Eventually Sky fell into this temptation too and all three would just NE mirror against each other in tournaments. Sky was the worst at it though out of the three.

Shinrai

Philippines17 Posts

June 22 2013 15:57 GMT

#150

Swain!

schmitty9800

United States390 Posts

June 22 2013 18:05 GMT

#151

On June 23 2013 00:22 monk wrote:

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Sky should've learned UD in that case

3point14

Germany890 Posts

June 22 2013 18:10 GMT

#152

th000 is probably the best random player.
for some time he was the only one who I would find replays of on wcreplays, that would beat other topplayers with Ud

Kitai

United States878 Posts

June 22 2013 18:34 GMT

#153

Oh man, so many awesome memories. I remember always hating Sky and Infi and their tower rushes and rooting for whoever they were against haha. And Moon didn't play Night Elf; he was the 5th race.

4k was my favorite team. ToD/Grubby/Creo was just so much dominance in a single foreign team. Creo's WCG 2007 journey is probably my favorite storyline in all of WC3 history.

robih

Austria1086 Posts

June 22 2013 21:49 GMT

#154

destroyed the three consecutive wins of sky

im still a bit sad about that

Corsica

Ukraine1854 Posts

June 22 2013 22:50 GMT

#155

Man i so wish Zacard would switch to sc2

((

Xialos

Canada508 Posts

June 22 2013 23:35 GMT

#156

elfi was decent too...

Dreamer.T

United States3584 Posts

June 23 2013 00:41 GMT

#157

Th000 was kinda like the TLO of war3. Very creative player.

rift

1819 Posts

June 23 2013 05:24 GMT

#158

Anyone care to rank active players?

Zechs

United Kingdom321 Posts

June 23 2013 10:36 GMT

#159

No Fly, no TH000... Madfrog in 8th. Um, yeah... I don't really see how these can be considered "power rankings." I get the whole "only SC2 players" angle, but that paints a very, very narrow picture of the scene. You're missing out some of the best players the game had to offer. People often don't seem to realise that most of the ex-WC3 players who do well in SC2 were mostly fairly average in WC3 and by missing out the non-SC2 player from this list i think the OP is continuing that misconception. You did rightly mention that Naniwa was more famous for his behaviour than for this skill but a lot of the top European SC2 players were average-to-good in WC3 (by pro standards, obviously).

Baum

Germany1010 Posts

June 23 2013 12:09 GMT

#160

This list seems pretty random. You seem to be mixing historic accomplishments and the skill level at the end of Wc3 as your deciding factors. Also I'm missing some pretty big names in your top ten while there are players like Lucifron who was just a very promising talent. Also tak3r mostly played for mtw while I remember take mostly for being on SK maybe they were on the same team for a brief period but I honestly doubt it.