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United States7639 Posts
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This year's Korean e-Sports Awards ceremony was held on Wednesday, December 28th, 2011, 7PM KST, at the Seoul World Cup Stadium.
Winners:
Map of the year: Circuit Breaker Rookie of the year: By.Sun Protoss of the year: Bisu Terran of the year: Flash Zerg of the year: Hydra Best Coach: Lee JiHoon (KT) Best Team: KT Rolster Player of the year: Flash Popularity Awards: Jaedong & Bisu Friendship Award thing: Light
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Nominees:
Best map: La Mancha Benzene Circuit Breaker Icarus
Rookie of the year:
Grape (Samsung KHAN)
By.Sun (SK Telecom T1)
Reality (Samsung KHAN)
Protoss of the year:
Bisu (SK Telecom T1)
JangBi (Samsung KHAN)
Stats (KT Rolster)
Terran of the year:
Sea (Team 8)
Flash (KT Rolster)
Fantasy (SK Telecom T1)
Zerg of the year:
ZerO (Woongjin Stars)
Hydra (CJ Entus)
Jaedong (Team 8)
Best Coach Award: KT's Lee Ji Hoon Samsung's Kim Ga-eul ( January) SK Telecom's Park Yongwoon CJ's Kim Dongwoo STX's Kim Eundong Woongjin's Lee Jaekyoon Airforce ACE's Song Dongkyoon
Other categories: Best Progame Team (all but Team 8) Best Player Friendship Award
You can also vote for the Most Popular Player at the KeSPA website (click on 이벤트 at the top right): http://www.e-sports.or.kr/
Sign up is required to vote, but you can do it easily from the English site.
Nominees are (in order, for those that can't read Korean):
Stats
Bisu
JangBi
Sea
Flash
Fantasy
ZerO
Hydra
Jaedong
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As you can imagine, the biggest debate is on whether or not Bisu or Jangbi gets the Protoss Award: most wins in PL vs. first Protoss OSL win in 3 years.
Polls
+ Show Spoiler +Poll: Protoss of the Year?Legend of the Fall OSL winner Jangbang (228) 57% 63 win PL monster Bisu (159) 40% Cornerstone in KT's SPL victory Stats (10) 3% 397 total votes Your vote: Protoss of the Year? (Vote): 63 win PL monster Bisu (Vote): Legend of the Fall OSL winner Jangbang (Vote): Cornerstone in KT's SPL victory Stats
Poll: Terran of the YearFlash who needs no description (270) 79% Consecutive OSL Finalist Fantasy (64) 19% Consistent PL performer Sea (9) 3% 343 total votes Your vote: Terran of the Year (Vote): Flash who needs no description (Vote): Consecutive OSL Finalist Fantasy (Vote): Consistent PL performer Sea
Poll: Best Zerg?MSL winning cyclops Hydra (177) 51% ZvT God Jaedong (151) 44% Cutiepie MSL-finalist ZerO (17) 5% 345 total votes Your vote: Best Zerg? (Vote): Cutiepie MSL-finalist ZerO (Vote): MSL winning cyclops Hydra (Vote): ZvT God Jaedong
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T: Fantasy- Flash was godlike in 2010 but hasn't made it into 2 OSL finals this year, which Fantasy did. P: Jangbi-WInning an OSL is way more impressive than Bisu's achievements imo. But Bisu is still going to win since he's more handsome. Z: Jaedong-His ZvZ has slumped this year which knocked him out in many important tournaments. But his ZvT and ZvP still blow Hydra and Zero out of the water.
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This is a popularity contest so I do believe Bisu will win best P but Jangbi should win, the first P OSL in 3 years is way more impressive, especially since he had to take out the two best TvP players to do it and a solid ZvP sniper as well.
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United Kingdom16710 Posts
It has got to be Jangbi. 63 wins is insane sure, but it's the OSL man. Plus The Legend of the Fall was fulfilled! You cannot deny him the title of the best protoss. I would say Flash as the best terran and Hydra/Jaedong for the best zerg. Hard to choose since JD did poorly (by his standards) in individual leagues but did well in the team leagues, and Hydra got that MSL.
Rookie of the year is Sun for me. The guy has looked better and better everytime he got in that booth and he looks a real talent. Circuit Breaker for the map and KT's Lee Ji Hoon for the best coach. Best team goes to KT/SKT1 and best player goes to Flash. Friendship award? No idea what that is. Most popular player is JD!!!!!!! 
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Friendship Award Isn't this like Sportsmanship Award?
Also I'd suggest to add polls so TL can have our internal voting! (Yeah, I know. Bisu will win by a landslide...)
And on Most Popular Player, Stork is less popular than Stats in Korea? Srsly?
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Netherlands45349 Posts
Bisu imo, 63 wins is just beyond anything, yes an OSL is nice but Jangbi slumped his way through it and wildcarded his way aswell.
Zerg of the year, I don't want to answer this question
Terran of the year, Fantasy, back to back OSL FINALIST, winning one of them ,didndt fail in playoffs, however Flash played as solid as ever and brought home MSLs, so I am not sure
actually I am just a huge fantasy fanboi so w/e
Best Coach, SKT coach, despite them losing the finals, I do believe that SKT has the superior coaching, you dont run 2(or 1, not sure) perfect rounds without it.
Best rookie, Sun, gotta hand him, he is really impressive
So yeah, triple MBC win
Best map, Circuit Breaker, it just feels right, Icarus is stupid close air, La mancha is stupid for TvP AND PvZ Benzene is alright but it doesn't beat Circuit breaker, Circuit breaker is simple yet effective, only the third gas can be hard to secure but thats about it.
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United States7639 Posts
On December 19 2011 20:06 HighTemper wrote:Isn't this like Sportsmanship Award? Also I'd suggest to add polls so TL can have our internal voting! (Yeah, I know. Bisu will win by a landslide...) And on Most Popular Player, Stork is less popular than Stats in Korea? Srsly?
Ah, good suggestion, I'll add that.
And I think the nominees for most popular player are just the same ones that were nominated for each of the race awards. Don't worry, Stork is far more popular than Stats, lol.
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rookie: sun toss: bisu terran: flash zerg: this really is a tossup... all three have reasons to win and not to win coach: coach lee is probably going to get this for the PL win MPP will be bisu
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Best protoss should go to Bisu IMO. Jangbi won the OSL which is amazing...for a protoss. Bisu set the record for proleague wins which is amazing, period.
Best Z is a tossup between JD and Hydra. Hydra was slightly better in individual leagues and JD was slightly better in teamleague. The edge is razor thin and you wouldn't be wrong picking either.
Best T goes to Flash obviously. Fantasy was slightly better in individual leagues but Flash was miles better in proleague.
Frienship award goes to Zero and Soulkey.
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I will get so mad if Bisu wins the Protoss award. Jangbi won the OSL, amazing 3-2 win, beat Flash in Bo3 and Fantasy in Bo5.
All Bisu did was beat a bunch of scrubs in PL.
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On December 19 2011 20:19 red4ce wrote: Best protoss should go to Bisu IMO. Jangbi won the OSL which is amazing...for a protoss. Bisu set the record for proleague wins which is amazing, period.
Best Z is a tossup between JD and Hydra. Hydra was slightly better in individual leagues and JD was slightly better in teamleague. The edge is razor thin and you wouldn't be wrong picking either.
Best T goes to Flash obviously. Fantasy was slightly better in individual leagues but Flash was miles better in proleague.
Frienship award goes to Zero and Soulkey.
Totally agree with your protoss statement. If he doesn't get best protoss, then give him best player but we all know that's, by default, going to flash -_-;;
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Outdoor awards ceremony? O.o
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Canada5565 Posts
If Bisu doesn't win, the whole thing is a travesty.
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Circuit Breaker, Sun, and the ACE coach, Song Dongkyoon, for sure. ACE best team, too... okay, maybe not.
Flash over Fantasy for terran. Poor Sea, was a tough year with his TvZ and that group of death ... The achievements are close but Fantasy was incredibly inconsistent. 20-19 in regular proleague is so underwhelming for an ace player, not to mention that the manner of some of his losses were fantastic (sorry).
Hydra seems obvious for zerg. JD and ZerO had tougher ZvP competition but even then, Hydra was boss in ZvP and even more so in ZvZ, and the results came. Mediocre ZvT and his lack of killer instinct in playoffs (though his teammates were worse) are the main things stopping him from being player of the year. (Also, his overall competition was weaker than, say, Flash's.)
Honestly I hope that JangBi/Bisu split best protoss and most popular player. Bisu for best P and JangBi for popularity seems to make the most sense, though.
Everyone has major strikes against them for player of the year, but Flash has the least. Oh for it to go to JangBi, though... for eSports!
And finally, Violet for the friendship award.
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Dammit.. It's the weirdest feeling that the hardest race to pick a best player in is Zerg.. truly a very weird feeling.
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Best Map: Pathfinder!!! Rookie: Sun Toss: Bisu Terran: Flash Zerg: Jaedong Coach: Kim Dongwoo (CJ) Team: KT Rolster Most popular: Zero?
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predicting reality,flash, hydra, jangbi
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Best map: Circuit Breaker Rookie of the year: By.Sun (SK Telecom T1) Protoss of the year: Bisu (SK Telecom T1) Terran of the year: (T)Flash (KT Rolster) Zerg of the year: (Z)Hydra (CJ Entus) Best Coach Award: CJ's Kim Dongwoo Best Progame Team: KT Rolster Best Player: Flash Friendship Award Stork Most Popular Player: (P)Bisu
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I like Stats being nominated for best protoss. Obviously he is not going to win, but it's a nice acknowledgement for him.
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On December 19 2011 19:45 Kiett wrote: Cutiepie MSL-finalist ZerO (0) 0% Yep.
I also like how lackluster the description for Sea is next to the other two amazing Terrans of the year. "Consistent." Poor Sea D:
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