EPTWho were/are the best foreign sc1 players?
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Rasky
United States406 Posts
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MisteR
Netherlands595 Posts
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Rasky
United States406 Posts
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Simplistik
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SubtleArt
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PJ was perhaps the most skilled non-korean. He's retired now, but he was the best chinese player and even took games off players like Bisu and Savior at WCG. Idra has been regarded as the best foreigner in the west, if you will. He spent 3 years on the CJ Entus team but didn't get any televised games. Won a lot of foreigner tourneys and even knocked out Tossgirl in qualifiers once. Nony was on Estro for a bit, and he's also seen as a really talented foreigner and rival to Idra. Ret, same thing as nony. Ret joined Estro but it didn't really work out too well. Won quite a few foreigner tourneys also and almost always placed fairly high. That's all I can think of, the rest are pretty unremarkable. Theres Grrr and Elky of course, but I didn't watch sc back then so I cant comment | ||
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qwaykee
Norway266 Posts
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zobz
Canada2175 Posts
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TRAP[yoo]
Hungary6026 Posts
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mustaju
Estonia4504 Posts
 Androide was pretty good. | ||
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lungo
Denmark276 Posts
Elky for being the latest foreigner to be on the kespa top30list Mondi for his many year domination PJ for his godly pvt LX was good SEn also dominated for a while Legionaire from AUS, probaly being the latest foreigner top play a kespa television match? Idra was probably the best player in the end of the SC era (since sc2 came out) Ret and nony were / are good i liked JF as well | ||
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SkelA
Macedonia13021 Posts
White-ra, Nony, Ret, Idra as the dominant players in the last active year of BW. And my favorite player when i started with SC was Brat_Tsunami. Man that guy was damn impressive for like 80-100 apm zerg. His SC guide and his reppack was the first thing I read and watched for some basic BW knowledge. | ||
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Shiragaku
Hong Kong4308 Posts
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PH
United States6173 Posts
Personally, though, I think Nony had the most potential out of all the foreign players by far. When in form he was utterly amazing. I think if he'd stuck to it he could have easily been very successful in BW. I think he made the smarter decision in leaving Korea for his life overall, though. Further, I think Ret had more potential than Idra, and Idra was, to me, a huge disappointment after having been in Korea for so long. His play really started becoming solid towards the end of his BW career but it still saddens me we never even saw him take Courage. I find it very sad how Ret's first stay in Korea ended up and am embarrassed for Korea because of it if what I've gathered is correct. Koll (everyone seems to have completely forgotten him lol) really surprised the scene when he took games off of progamers at a WCG with some pretty solid play. If he really was the more solid mechanically-based player he was hyped to be, then he would've had quite a bit of potential as well. Aside from that, there were a ton of good players. White-Ra was always one of my favorites, as well as the foreign hero Mondragon, a lot of the Chinese players, I always really liked Brat_ok's play as well, for whatever reason. The biggest thing missing from most foreigners in their play was that base mechanical foundation. This is something that can only come from lots and lots of dedicated practice and the beating out of some bad habits. Beyond that, though, some simply flat out do have more potential than others. That said, I'll go out on a limb and once again say Nony had the most potential by far and very nearly was the best. | ||
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Assuton
United States28 Posts
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ssregi-
Korea (South)146 Posts
The best | ||
Xxio
Canada5565 Posts
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chenchen
United States1136 Posts
PJ, possibly the strongest Chinese player, beat savior during savior's reign as bonjwa. I think that's something only a handful of top Koreans could do at that time. As for westerners, I think IdrA-Ret-Nony were considered to be the best. | ||
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IAttackYou
United States330 Posts
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blahman3344
United States2015 Posts
though If I had to limit it to skill level prior to release of SC2 per race, I'd say: Terran: Grack Toss: NonY Zerg: Mondragon | ||
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blahman3344
United States2015 Posts
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