Here's a little history of what I recall from the period of Niza:
-At that time, he was considered one of the highest apm zerg (not sure was it 300s-400s). Chojja had high apm too I think, but he was part of old school thus not on the list.
-Someone uploaded some awesome replays of him playing during or before this thread was made (raping boxer/nada or someone similar)
-He never dominated, but probably because of charismatic reasons or amazing play from one or two games it made him be favoured in this poll

These points are just my impressions of him in 2004, so it may be wrong.

xhuwin

United States476 Posts

October 16 2008 14:08 GMT

#108

Ah predictions are always interesting ... I was also thrown off by Niza before seeing the date o_o.

EvoChamber

France2505 Posts

October 16 2008 14:23 GMT

#109

I love how you can still vote in these ancient-ass polls.

raiame

United States421 Posts

October 16 2008 14:30 GMT

#110

On October 16 2008 23:23 EvoChamber wrote:
I love how you can still vote in these ancient-ass polls.

Just increased Ma Jae Yoon by 1%!
=]

United States6173 Posts

October 16 2008 14:30 GMT

#111

On October 16 2008 22:42 IntoTheWow wrote:
This made me remember:

http://www.teamliquid.net/forum/viewmessage.php?currentpage=1&topic_id=55915

Check op and first comment. LOL

LOLOL

Oh man. I'd love to show that thread to every guy who downtalked Flash now...

StarN

United States2587 Posts

October 16 2008 14:36 GMT

#112

Damn, someone needs to make another one of these polls so that we can look back in another 2-4 years and laugh.

"Next King of Terran?"

RaGe

Belgium9949 Posts

October 16 2008 14:37 GMT

#113

On October 16 2008 23:30 PH wrote:

Show nested quote +

LOLOL

Oh man. I'd love to show that thread to every guy who downtalked Flash now...

I just did.

pubbanana

United States3063 Posts

October 16 2008 14:47 GMT

#114

Everyone seems to forget that Niza was raping absolutely every top progamer from 2000-2002. He was pretty young, too. As I recall, he was only 15 when he played his first televised game and retired in 2002 because he had to concentrate on his senior year of high school. Also, it's not like the coach of Pantech went and pleaded with him to come back to his team or anything. He just asked if he could try and make a come back and the coach obliged. Who would have really thought that after taking a 2 year break that he could win his first televised game which was against Boxer of all people?

He also made Pantech's Proleague roster when most people expected him to be a practice partner.

So yeah, Niza was mildly amazing.

AnyOne

Chile547 Posts

October 16 2008 15:29 GMT

#115

everyone shud vote for ipxzerg >_<

Fen

Australia1848 Posts

October 16 2008 15:37 GMT

#116

On October 17 2008 00:29 AnyOne wrote:
everyone shud vote for ipxzerg >_<

People really shouldnt.
Its interesting to be able to look back at what votes were back in the day. People shouldnt be going back and screwing with the results now.

Eatme

Switzerland3919 Posts

October 16 2008 16:06 GMT

#117

Have some reps from him from 2002, remember him as superfast and allaround good. Too bad he never "made it". Really sad to see so many people that have never heard of him, on the other hand it proves that there are alot of new people coming to the game after all these years.
Now get off my lawn

Mindcrime

United States6899 Posts

October 16 2008 16:07 GMT

#118

Hyuk? lol

This was right around the time the hyuk vs. zergman ultrarush rep was circulating wasn't it?

Djabanete

United States2786 Posts

October 17 2008 03:23 GMT

#119

The next king of zerg is actually Nal_rA. While commentating, he will realize that the Swarm is his true calling and and he'll return to KTF and own everybody. And there will be an epic Savior vs rA showdown, but it will be ZvZ. All the games will be at least 20 minutes long and there will be defilers.

You heard it here first.