Year end thanks for keeping this community alive

On December 29 2020 19:29 LUCKY_NOOB wrote:
Also known as:

Dawid Pazdzior - Mr ZZZero
Karolina - Mr ZZZero's better half

Pavel Vasilenko - Saerjaar
Ivan Pavlov - SouL)Z(Silver
Ildar Khayretdinov - Dreamer
Ilia Ruchka - Krasty_Krabs
Leonid Jaller - pg2k4

Alexander Yera - seriOsity
Loren Hernandez - RuDe.GirL
James Arthur - I know who he is but I think he wants to keep it private

Bernie Catalan - Fujikura

Eivind Leknes - Eriador
Michael Jahn - could not find

Evgeniy Smirnov - babymagik
Alexander Davydov - g0rynich

Hector Rivera - zakrom

Seongchan Jo - CasterMuse

Mauricio Ticona - Ozuna

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On December 29 2020 18:37 Rus_Brain wrote:
My first thanks goes to Dawid Pazdzior for hosting the best online events in Brood War.
I wish you and your beloved Karolina the best and, of course, "a natural follow up" of your "formal marriage" albeit you will probably be out of the scene for the first year or so.

My second thanks go to Pavel Vasilenko, Ivan Pavlov, Ildar Khayretdinov, Ilia Ruchka, and Leonid Jaller for hosting another fifty Jeez Weeklys, RCG, RPL, 2x2 KotH tournaments.
I wish Pavel to resolve yet unresolvable things,
Ivan to recover from gamble addiction or at least control risks properly,
Ildar to take RCG '21 Finals slot, and
to meet Ilia and Leonid during RCG Finals.

Alexander Yera, Loren Hernandez and James Arthur for hosting great team leagues, either "team" is a clan or a country team.
I did not have a chance to get acquainted with you personally. For this reason, I'm afraid I cannot wish you the most proper thing. So please keep your family safe.

Bernie Catalan for being a necessary bridge working with Latin America.
Your kind words may perhaps cost a little effort but are of great value. Thank you for that.

Eivind Leknes and Michael Jahn for being most mature Western-ideology fund's advisors, keeping those "corrupted Russians" at bay.
I wish I could have "cured" Eivind's "morning decease" with a bottle of beer once again, and
I would likely try the same method on Michael

Evgeniy Smirnov and Alexander Davydov spending their time altruistically to dig through all these fund's applications.
I hope Evgeniy won't switch stream commentary for a workshop as he suggested, and
I wish Alexander to manage his time properly to achieve everything he can achieve in 2021.

Hector Rivera for proving that one's efforts along with a hundred bucks may keep a whole country scene alive, even if the country's best ranker is never higher than "A" rank.
Keep up your good work, man!

Seongchan Jo for being exactly that kind of Korean-World bridge missing during my gaming time.
I will surely see you in 2021.

Mauricio Ticona for being responsible enough to save others' time at cost of his own restriction and probation.
Please endure and show your skill after May'21.

Reid Melton for creating a top tier 2020th drama making a pretty decent commentary I must say.
I wish you recover.

On December 30 2020 10:17 whyisitlikethis wrote:
Hey all, I made this account specifically to post on this topic. I've been around the starcraft scene for quite awhile but don't usually post.

I have to say I'm quite disappointed in this list however. I'm shocked to see some big names in the scene that were not included. Where is Snipe (Lazersnipe) PiSan? (though I think he's inactive) Awerti? Stromkarlen? LeaSt? THESE are the REAL unsung heros of the StarCraft community. I will say I appreciate everyone that contributes and offers something to the scene.. but I haven't heard of a good number of these people (nothing against them of course!).

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Lazersnipe on the other hand is currently the head admin of CPL which is a very large community in the StarCraft scene. They have more members involved than even BSL does (no offense to ZZZero or BSL, I love BSL!) but not even a mention? He barely got a shout out on the pylon show.. In fact they didn't even know his name. How is this even possible..? He has put so much work into CPL.. running it for 4 years, helping and growing the community and expects nothing back. On top of this, He has casted a lot for BSL gosuleague with Masterrey and they're one of my favorite casting duos, they have a lot of good knowledge to share.

SHOUTOUT to all of the people that help with CPL you guys are great and deserve A LOT of THANKS from the community. I love all you guys for the hard work you do, if it wasn't for CPL I probably wouldn't be playing starcraft!!!

Awerti helps everywhere as well. I think it's mostly behind the scenes but he's an admin in both BSL and CPL.. doing a lot of work for them both. Why is he not on this list too?

Stromkarlen - She is another pillar of the community. She's a staff member in CPL helping out Snipe and she also runs rogues gallery which is doing a lot of good work for the foreign broodwar scene. They run multiple showmatches with high level players.. They ran a team league with some of NA's top players.. and yet she gets little to no recognition either?

LeaSt is the admin for RSL. The rookie starleague that caters to the lowest level skill cap of the broodwar community. Offering them a place to get help and play in a bracket style tournament with people their skill level.

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I am pretty shocked and disappointed that none of these people got so much as a mention on this. Why are they always forgotten when they play a HUGE role in the starcraft scene? Is it because they don't have prizes or don't cater to the high level community? If it wasn't for these people the low and mid level starcraft community wouldn't be as great as it is, and i'm thankful for it.

Once again a shout out to all you guys and everyone on Rus-Brains list. How did your show match go with Snipe the Admin of CPL go? I can't wait to watch the games :D no spoilers please! oxtQ is pretty new to me but should should get a shoutout as well! As well as one to Rus-Brain himself! I appreciate what you all do for the community

On December 30 2020 19:02 Avi-Love wrote:

Presumably because this is Rus_Brain's thread, where he thanks all the people that he worked with over the year? Feel free to make your own thread where you thank all of the CPL folk. Your idea of "big names in the scene" is completely ridiculous though, there's a reason BSL gets way more viewers than CPL. I know this is going to be hard to hear, but very few people care about casual/bad players, so my personal opinion is that you can take your "shock" and "disappointment" and keep your outcry and negativity to yourself.

On December 31 2020 03:19 whyisitlikethis wrote:


This coming from one of the more well known rude/bm players with his own brand of "negativity" and "outcries" who never misses a chance to be discriminatory, it's good to have such positive role models in the scene :rollseyes:

Anyway I'm not looking to get into any sort of back and forth here. If you'd notice my post was positive, giving shout outs to everyone on the list, as well as the people I was "shocked or disappointed" to not see on the list, because the people that run CPL, RSL, rogues gallery, and TQ do A LOT of good things for the scene and deserve a mention as well. As for "bad/casual players" rogues gallery works with good players and promotes higher level games and TQ hosts show matches with all skill levels, including some semi-pro koreans. The community needs players of all skill levels even if the low level players often get overlooked they're apart of the broodwar community. We were all noobs at one point and had to start somewhere after all

On December 31 2020 06:16 oxKnu wrote:


He was right though.

Sure you have a point, but your post is out of place. This is a personal thread created by the biggest supporter of the BW foreign scene, he can mention whoever he wants to mention, it's just an open letter to the community, no need to barge in and create drama for no reason.

On December 31 2020 06:41 EvilTeletubby wrote:


Well put. Imagine getting banned because of your first two posts, lol. Anyways, back on topic!

On December 30 2020 21:23 Akio wrote:

I've been inactive, has he been completely quiet after those allegations?