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simme123
Profile Blog Joined February 2010
Sweden810 Posts
December 17 2010 13:43 GMT
#81
Nony was probably the most solid overall since he just seems to get the game. IdrA is also good but his nerves get in the way or whatever he's just a bit unstable at times if you ask me. If we look back though Grrrr is was probably the best for his time.
Jibba
Profile Blog Joined October 2007
United States22883 Posts
December 17 2010 14:28 GMT
#82
On December 17 2010 13:31 Guybrush wrote:
20.Testie(R) - Best(hacked before 03) 03,04,05,06, PlayIT, Ace

Your post is absolutely amazing, but you're extremely underselling Testie's accomplishments. Need I remind you he was voted Clanbase #1 player?
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IceCube
Profile Blog Joined June 2009
Croatia1403 Posts
December 17 2010 14:43 GMT
#83
Well if everybody are saying PJ is awesome player just for taking games of Savior and Bisu (I'm not saying he's bad) then Android is even better for taking a game from Jaedong. Brat OK is another Russian monster terran. Also check ToT) clan they have had most of top foreigner players in their lineup at that time.
Forever Vulture.. :(
BroOd
Profile Blog Joined April 2003
Austin10831 Posts
December 17 2010 14:45 GMT
#84
On December 17 2010 12:45 Khol wrote:
Show nested quote +
On December 17 2010 09:16 Boblion wrote:
Best Achievements: Grrr
Most bm: NoHope
First protoss fan: Idra
Favourite clown: MisterZZZ
Strongest foreigner: Incontrol
Cookie time: Cloud
Best nickname: Testie
False modesty champion and waffle award: Mondragon
Top mentally challenged player: GosI[Terran]
Abuser forever: Yosh
BBQ sauce: Dreiven
Kimbo award: HovZ
Best haircut: Elky
#1 BGH player: Surfer4life
Oblivion medal: Dino
Australian starcraft player: Legionnaire
Best storm drops and arbiter play: Nony


Abuser Forever: Yosh?

Yosh was better than all of those Terran players that everyone assumed to be good. He was the best Terran in USA. Years of the highest skilled play in NA and now he's known as a "Abuser". I find it rather disgusting, really. It was two games and both games were played straight up.
That just disturbs me.

Drone made an interesting post about Yosh:
On December 23 2009 07:28 Liquid`Drone wrote:
actually yosh has a bigger history as a cheater than hmm
literally every single other top player ever to grace starcraft. he abused in gamei ladder, he abused in kbk, he abused in wgt ladder, he played 1v1 tournaments back in the day (before replays) where hattan would observe and in the event that yosh lost the game, hattan and yosh would both claim that yosh won. he maphacked in the compusa gamefixx tournament.. yosh has abused every time he has had the opportunity to abuse, and him being perceived as a legitimate player by everyone who started playing bw after 2003 is a complete disaster. don't get me wrong - he is extremely skilled (and always has been), but he has been cheating or abusing for more than 9 years now. that's more abuse for a longer period of time than _anyone else who plays brood war_.

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2Pacalypse-
Profile Joined October 2006
Croatia9497 Posts
December 17 2010 15:51 GMT
#85
On December 17 2010 09:16 Boblion wrote:
Best Achievements: Grrr
Most bm: NoHope
First protoss fan: Idra
Favourite clown: MisterZZZ
Strongest foreigner: Incontrol
Cookie time: Cloud
Best nickname: Testie
False modesty champion and waffle award: Mondragon
Top mentally challenged player: GosI[Terran]
Abuser forever: Yosh
BBQ sauce: Dreiven
Kimbo award: HovZ
Best haircut: Elky
#1 BGH player: Surfer4life
Oblivion medal: Dino
Australian starcraft player: Legionnaire
Best storm drops and arbiter play: Nony

Haha, I just noticed this.

Funnily enough, there's at least a few more of those awards that could go to Surfer ^^

Also, you're missing "#1 Terran m&m control on Hunters in USA" award.
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Kyhol
Profile Blog Joined October 2008
Canada2574 Posts
Last Edited: 2010-12-17 16:10:31
December 17 2010 16:01 GMT
#86
I just read about Yosh's history of abuse. I had no idea. I had no idea he was up to that.

I still believe that he's a great player.

I'd like to apologize to the Boblion.
Wishing you well.
RebirthOfLeGenD
Profile Blog Joined November 2008
USA5860 Posts
December 17 2010 16:36 GMT
#87
awesome write up a couple of pages back by guybrush. Enjoyable to read <3 about testie, in his prime his PvT was probably one of the best in the world. If you watch WCG2006(?) where he plays midas in the semi finals the games were amazing and really close. He lost to midas 2-1 but at the time midas was considered the best TvP player in the world and it was right around when Midas played that crazy Bo3 with sAviOr in the OSL on Hitchhiker http://www.teamliquid.net/tlpd/korean/games/1678_Midas_vs_sAviOr/vod

Crazy game. Oh and Pj didn't beat sAviOr at his prime in WCG 2007, that was when he slumped after his final vs Bisu and shortly after getting that embarrassing loss to FBH.
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GreEny K
Profile Joined February 2008
Germany7312 Posts
December 17 2010 16:51 GMT
#88
On December 17 2010 08:14 lungo wrote:
Grrr for winning OSL
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


Nony was the best foreigner when everyone made the switch to SC2, watch the TSL2.

On December 17 2010 08:52 ssregi- wrote:
Idra
The best



Not quite, nice try.
Why would you ever choose failure, when success is an option.
Biff The Understudy
Profile Blog Joined February 2008
France7883 Posts
December 17 2010 17:54 GMT
#89
On December 17 2010 21:02 Holgerius wrote:
Show nested quote +
On December 17 2010 20:26 Biff The Understudy wrote:
I would say Mondragon.

He was a bit the western Boxer. He dominated for a very very long time, was very charismatic and at the end could still take a game from someone like Sea from time to time.

Idra tried very hard, and got the best mechanics a foreigner ever had, but never understood that mind game and strategy are somehow important. He was very good at repeating standart games but had no imagination whatsoever. Combined with a really shitty scouting, he kept failing all the important things he tried in quite a sad fashion.

Do you realize how much Idra won in the last year or so of BW?

Yeah, great career, great achievements... Let's see...

Failed to qualify in any major league in Korea,
Failed to go to A team after 3 years,
Failed to play a single Kespa TV match,
Lost to a foreigner in WCG 0-2,
Failed in TSL1 early on
Failed in TSL2 although he has 600 more practice time and experience than anybody else.

He won a lot of small tournaments. Great. If he had been Korean, we would refer to him as a scrub who never achieved anything at all. Probably none of us would have ever heard of him.

No, sorry, Idra has been a very very unsuccesfull progamer. He played amazingly, had fantastic mechanics, but something has always been missing, and this something seems to have been essential.
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omgbbq2
Profile Joined August 2010
Canada169 Posts
December 17 2010 18:39 GMT
#90
mondragon without a doubt
jtbem
Profile Blog Joined January 2010
Canada1404 Posts
December 17 2010 18:41 GMT
#91
jf #1
was just watching tsl1 games couple days ago. so sick

im a fanboy
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Mortality
Profile Blog Joined December 2005
United States4790 Posts
December 17 2010 19:51 GMT
#92
On December 18 2010 01:36 RebirthOfLeGenD wrote:
Crazy game. Oh and Pj didn't beat sAviOr at his prime in WCG 2007, that was when he slumped after his final vs Bisu and shortly after getting that embarrassing loss to FBH.


Being a Savior fan I'd like to just lie and say "Savior was slumping so it's okay." But that's not the truth. If you look at after Savior's loss to Bisu, Savior reinvented his ZvP. His peak ZvP ELO was reached on Nov 23, 2007, while WCG took place in October.

The truth is that PJ defeated Savior while Savior was on the longest ZvP winstreak of his career.
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StarStruck
Profile Blog Joined April 2010
25339 Posts
Last Edited: 2010-12-18 14:29:54
December 17 2010 20:10 GMT
#93
Lots of names have been tossed around.

There are too many prominent names, lots of which are in the database. Anyway, I decided to compose a comprehensive list based on their regions.

Notable players in chronological order from country (I will try to update this as best as I can if I think of anything else):

Canada

1. Grrrr...
2. Smuft
3. XiaOzI
4. Testie
5. JF

*After these guys you have players like Paul, Fire, AeriALs, Mora, VeG, TT1, Yan, Fayth, Pride, Taurent, Kiwi, Korn, CraZy, etc.

U.S.A:

1. Whear
2. Maynard
3. Tsunami
4. Froz
5. Assem
6. *NonY/IdrA (it wouldn't be fair if I didn't include these two, although their prominence to the top only came a year before SC2 came along)

*The States had many players who faired well. This list includes: {PH}Pillars, [9]Kain/Kain-The-Feared, [9]eVERLAST, Zileas, SloG4, Day[9], Rekrul, Cypressman, Incontrol, Nyoken, iNkA, Lz, Blackjack, G5, Agent_911, etc. They were well known for their good 2v2 teams like Poland and Germany.

U.K.

1. MidiaN
2. Tillerman

Jamie was just as good as Mondragon.

Netherlands

1. Ret
2. Twisted
3. Nazgul
4. Strafe
5. NTT

Norway:

1. Slayer
2. sVEN
3. StinGeR
4. Eriador
5. WhistleR

* Notable players: ErlinG and Oystein.

France

1. ElkY
2. Chobo
3. Sarens
4. TuZeR
5. MoMaN

Chile

1. KNiF
2. KeiR
3. DinOt
4. GoTuNk
5. KiLLeR

Malaysia

1. JohnRambo
2. MarinE

Peru

1. Fenix
2. CaStrO
3. sMacker
4. HanDy
5. Darki

Romania

1. Shaman
2. FlaF
3. UltraLinG
4. Praetor
5. Radu

*Another really strong nation during clanwars. Other players include: Ryko, AnDrEi, Jack and DeathAngel.

Mexico

1. GosI[Terran]
2. BlasT
3. StYm
4. DeSka
5. NeO)asS


Croatia

1. Ptak

Australia

1. Leggionaire

oG)Gabriel and StarHunter deserves a shoutout too.

Hungary

1. Ace
2. KaShu
3. Sziky
4. Cameleon
5. Gorky

*Another very strong nation. Other players include: Naib, Dromedar and iNFERNO.

Russia

1. Androide
2. A2
3. Brat_OK
4. Ex
5. Escape

*Other notable mentions: Asmodey, uT)Phellan[S2], Ranger[pG], Bruce, Pomi, Rondo, Casper, etc.

Greece

1. sataNik
2. Zato
3. Coulthard
4. TaSSa
5. DeA]eX[

Germany

1. Fisheye
2. BrEaKdOwN
3. GeNtLeMaN
4. Mondragon
5. Kolll

*Germany was a superpower for a very long time and there was a good reason for this. Their list of talent is as long as Poland's: Infernal, Ace, Socke[pG], heXer[pG], GhosTa, GoOdy, HoRRoR, Selector, [pG]Cope, [pG]Dalailamer, [pG]DeliCato, etc. Also worth noting, Mondragon and Testie formed one of the best 2v2 teams of all time. Germany also has monster 2v2's just like the USA.

Lithuania

1. Arew
2. Anon
3. Kr

China

1. Lx
2. PJ
3. Super
4. Vulture
5. F91

*It was very unfortunate that we would have so many latency problems when playing with the Chinese and as a result their players mostly played on the Chinese servers. Other notable players include: hbq, Beckham, RushGooN, Phoenix66, CCQ, Jaystar, ChinaTTTT, etc.

Taiwan

1. sEn

Portugal

1. Syz
2. MiLLs

Czech Republic

1. PredY
2. Crow
3. Dark_Caleb
4. Destroyer
5. Jump

Poland

1. Draco
2. Blackman
3. Dreiven
4. MaNa
5. Spawn

*Poland was another super power like Germany. Other players include: Paranoid, SunCow, Dunaj, MistrZZZ, Raven, Slider, Tarson, Sawyer, tomsOn, sYs, Moonshine etc. Also worth nothing, they were one of the hardest teams to play against in a Nation War because you would never know who the heck they were going to bring. -_-

Ukraine

1. White-Ra
2. Strelok
3. DIMAGA
4. yAn
5. ALF


*Ukraine was another really strong nation. Other players include: hanniGan, Enemy, etc.

Finland

1. MadClaw
2. nApoLeon
3. Ovvi

Turkey

1. ExGoSu
2. iLLe

Italy

1. ClouD
2. Cafone

I know I'm forgetting somebody, but I cannot remember.

Bulgaria

1. Beast
2. Lamer
3. DIDI8
4. ENJoY
5. Zelias

Other notables include: Technics and ready.

Belarus

1. LoWeLy

Kazakhstan

1. TemujiN

Argentia

1. Pato
2. Sabbath

Sweden

1. SaFT
2. WiLLEt[pG]
3. Daaman
4. TreK
5. Naugrim


*Another incredibly hard one. Other notable players include: [pG]MaDFroG, HayprO, KaaZ, Mireille, DaZe, ZpuX, Gurram, Morrow, etc.

Brazil

1. Hellghost
2. Odin
3. ReasoN
4. MasteR
5. StarDeath

*Kelsen is the only other player I can think of. I know I must be missing somebody.

Spain

1. ZelotITO
2. SquaLL
3. Suker
4. ALFA
HalfAmazing
Profile Joined May 2008
Netherlands402 Posts
Last Edited: 2010-12-17 21:25:19
December 17 2010 21:24 GMT
#94
You guys are mostly getting the chronology and relative skill levels for their respective playing periods mixed up. 1999-2001: Slayer, sVEN, Maynard, NTT, ElkY, Grrrr... were the best non-Korean players in the world. Slayer, NTT and Grrrr... were better than almost all Korean progamers and were better than the other players mentioned. ElkY always played in Slayer and NTT's shadow and it took their retirement for him to shine. There were no US players at the time who were even close to being on par with the best European and Korean players. Slayer is the best non-Korean of all time, and to put NTT at #5 on the best Dutch players list is just offensive. :-) Shit, we're talking about guys who quit playing because they got bored of being so dominant. Korean progamers would practice with these guys, lose horribly and then go on to win tournaments the next day. It was a different era.

EDIT: also, please don't include known map hackers like Testie in the "best of all time" list, that's just wrong.
You can figure out the other half.
SmoKim
Profile Joined March 2010
Denmark10304 Posts
December 17 2010 21:40 GMT
#95
Mondragon easily

loved when he beat Savior in WCG 2007 and took 3 place at the grand finals, good times <3
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powerfulcheeses
Profile Joined September 2010
Canada101 Posts
December 17 2010 21:47 GMT
#96
I think Day9 needs some loving too. He was a really skilled zerg back in the day.
Zlasher
Profile Blog Joined February 2010
United States9129 Posts
December 17 2010 21:55 GMT
#97
Day9 was good and deifnitely a top american but I wouldn't say he was ever the #1 foreigner, with the likes of Sen and Mondi around when Day9 was at his peak.

G5 needs more love for his absolutely insane PvT. Nyoken was also one of the top foreigners but underachieved in tournaments, but he was in the By. clan and tore shit up.
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wooozy
Profile Blog Joined February 2009
3813 Posts
December 17 2010 22:02 GMT
#98
not enough love for sen =(
arb
Profile Blog Joined April 2008
Noobville17921 Posts
December 17 2010 22:04 GMT
#99
On December 17 2010 15:02 tryummm wrote:
Show nested quote +
On December 17 2010 07:03 SubtleArt wrote:


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.


Yeah, through cheese and completely unnatural play compared to how Koreans play.

I'd like to see PJ play Bisu if Bisu had the opportunity to watch some of his PVP VODS before the match, because you know PJ has watched Bisu play plenty.

PJ is really good mechanically and plays really really smart,(ive watched hundreds of his reps..) he makes mistakes oncei n a while but they are very few.

he plays really unorthodox which makes him hard to predict
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Patriot.dlk
Profile Blog Joined October 2004
Sweden5462 Posts
December 17 2010 22:09 GMT
#100
At one point in time many players were best but never had a chance to prove it once and for all this applies to for example swedish player SaFT, Mondragon and many others.

Elky and Grrr really showed it though as did a few other players
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