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Who's reign was best?

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Phyre
Profile Blog Joined December 2006
United States1288 Posts
July 27 2007 15:04 GMT
#1
Many progamers have had a period of complete dominance, most recently Bisu and Savior before him. I'm curious though if you had to pick one of these eras of domiace who's was the best? Define "best" however you want to interpret.

As a side question, who would you want to come back to dominance? (or maintain in the case of Bisu)

I'm not really qualified to answer my first question as I started watching the pro scene on the tail end of Savior's reign while Nada was still doing well. So I've seen the end of one and the beginning of another. For my second question, I'd like to see Boxer. He's always been my favorite in any match.
"Oh no, I got you with your pants... on your face... That's not how you wear pants." - Nintu, catching 1 hatch lurks.
oshibori_probe
Profile Blog Joined July 2006
United States2934 Posts
July 27 2007 15:07 GMT
#2
too my knowledge only BIsu, Nada, and Savior have consecutive league wins.

Before the OSL curse was broken by nada there was never an OSL reign, the same goes for after too!

Only the MSL can be dominated.
Fuck KeSPA.
Myxomatosis
Profile Blog Joined July 2006
United States2392 Posts
July 27 2007 15:08 GMT
#3
On July 28 2007 00:07 oshibori_probe wrote:
too my knowledge only BIsu, Nada, and Savior have consecutive league wins.

Before the OSL curse was broken by nada there was never an OSL reign, the same goes for after too!

Only the MSL can be dominated.

oov?
chobopeon
Profile Blog Joined May 2003
United States7342 Posts
July 27 2007 15:09 GMT
#4
On July 28 2007 00:04 Phyre wrote:
Many progamers have had a period of complete dominance, most recently Bisu and Savior before him. I'm curious though if you had to pick one of these eras of domiace who's was the best? Define "best" however you want to interpret.

As a side question, who would you want to come back to dominance? (or maintain in the case of Bisu)

I'm not really qualified to answer my first question as I started watching the pro scene on the tail end of Savior's reign while Nada was still doing well. So I've seen the end of one and the beginning of another. For my second question, I'd like to see Boxer. He's always been my favorite in any match.


i'd like to see someone answer something other than boxer.

if you do, what makes you think i wont cut you?
:O
dementus
Profile Blog Joined March 2007
Singapore1151 Posts
Last Edited: 2007-07-27 15:10:10
July 27 2007 15:09 GMT
#5
[image loading]
"I couldn't stop myself from having unreal macro and sick timing senses."
ii.blitzkrieg
Profile Joined November 2006
Canada1122 Posts
Last Edited: 2007-07-27 15:11:47
July 27 2007 15:10 GMT
#6
Boxer won 2 consecutive osl, oov won 3 consecutive msl on top of bisu's 2 msl (so far), nada 3 msl, and savior 2 msl (but 5 straight finals appearances.)

edit: sorry forgot to post my candidate, I would have to agree and I was going to put that picture of oov up lol. I'm pretty sure he had the highest winning rates in his period of dominance than any other player, but not 100% on that.
iloveoov / Flash / Fantasy / Midas / Boxer -BW forever
Phyre
Profile Blog Joined December 2006
United States1288 Posts
Last Edited: 2007-07-27 15:11:09
July 27 2007 15:10 GMT
#7
On July 28 2007 00:07 oshibori_probe wrote:
too my knowledge only BIsu, Nada, and Savior have consecutive league wins.

Before the OSL curse was broken by nada there was never an OSL reign, the same goes for after too!

Only the MSL can be dominated.

Really? Wow, I was under the impression that players like Oov, Reach, July, etc. all had these time periods where they were Savior-like.
"Oh no, I got you with your pants... on your face... That's not how you wear pants." - Nintu, catching 1 hatch lurks.
GTR
Profile Blog Joined September 2004
51492 Posts
July 27 2007 15:15 GMT
#8
no, not at all, check out the articles section.
Commentator
SoMuchBetter
Profile Blog Joined April 2003
Australia10606 Posts
July 27 2007 15:16 GMT
#9
oov by far
he went 27-0 tvz at the start of his career. a streak this long will never ever happen again
AUSSIESCUM
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miNi
Profile Blog Joined October 2005
Korea (South)2010 Posts
July 27 2007 15:17 GMT
#10
reach was never savior like

oov and july's reign were very savior-like
i didn't follow progaming before that

i think oov's was even worse than savior's
FakeSteve[TPR]
Profile Blog Joined July 2003
Valhalla18444 Posts
July 27 2007 15:27 GMT
#11
Giyom by a mile

let's not forget he was the best player on earth and virtually unbeatable for two solid years
Moderatormy tatsu loops r fuckin nice
koryano321
Profile Joined June 2007
United States309 Posts
July 27 2007 15:27 GMT
#12
oov is one of the scarriest 15 month long streaks you have ever seen. comon a winning percentage of like 78%? even savior never reached that but meh, gaming scene is diff than it was back than. julyzerg also had like a 12 month reigning era but yeah.... how could you forget those people?
Scorpio2012 wrote: i guess god is about as useful as a protoss scout
rushz0rz
Profile Blog Joined February 2006
Canada5300 Posts
July 27 2007 15:57 GMT
#13
On July 28 2007 00:27 FakeSteve[TPR] wrote:
Giyom by a mile

let's not forget he was the best player on earth and virtually unbeatable for two solid years


Agreed.
IntoTheRainBOw fan~
oshibori_probe
Profile Blog Joined July 2006
United States2934 Posts
Last Edited: 2007-07-27 16:01:07
July 27 2007 16:00 GMT
#14
meh, im not too well versed in the way back when progaming history. Oov is awesome, but he is not an exception to the OSL curse.

way back when is when anything was possible, and ppl only really dominate MSL after MSL. It seems that the OSL usually is just a tad bit better.

Also werent the maps when oov had that big streak vs z, T >>> Z?
I mean damn, if ure playing 815 and cultivation period, zerg is fucked.

edit:
I know oov is great and all, but I never knew he actually dominated the MSL.
Fuck KeSPA.
thedeadhaji *
Profile Blog Joined January 2006
39489 Posts
July 27 2007 16:00 GMT
#15
On July 28 2007 00:27 FakeSteve[TPR] wrote:
Giyom by a mile

let's not forget he was the best player on earth and virtually unbeatable for two solid years


good one ^^

I guess op could rephrase the question to "modern era" like they do for baseball after the color barrier was broken, or when the mound was lowered.

I for one, am not qualified to give a well informed answer
oshibori_probe
Profile Blog Joined July 2006
United States2934 Posts
July 27 2007 16:02 GMT
#16
How many starleagues did Giyom win?
Fuck KeSPA.
DrainX
Profile Blog Joined December 2006
Sweden3187 Posts
Last Edited: 2007-07-27 16:18:10
July 27 2007 16:10 GMT
#17
On July 28 2007 01:02 oshibori_probe wrote:
How many starleagues did Giyom win?

OSL/MSL wasnt realy around in that time. He did win the first OSL ever if you dont count the Korean open as OSL. But that was around the end of his reign.

To answer the original question I dont realy want any of the old people making comebacks. However I would like to see Much, Iris or Free dominating
fusionsdf
Profile Blog Joined June 2006
Canada15390 Posts
July 27 2007 16:13 GMT
#18
On July 28 2007 01:02 oshibori_probe wrote:
How many starleagues did Giyom win?


one
SKT_Best: "I actually chose Protoss because it was so hard for me to defeat Protoss as a Terran. When I first started Brood War, my main race was Terran."
knyttym
Profile Blog Joined December 2006
United States5797 Posts
Last Edited: 2007-07-27 16:21:26
July 27 2007 16:19 GMT
#19
On July 28 2007 00:09 dementus wrote:
[image loading]


thats an awesome record.

I have only been watchin progaming for a little over half a year so I can't really say. sAviOr's play was very entertaining though during his osl run.

edit
On July 28 2007 00:07 oshibori_probe wrote:
too my knowledge only BIsu, Nada, and Savior have consecutive league wins.

Before the OSL curse was broken by nada there was never an OSL reign, the same goes for after too!

Only the MSL can be dominated.


both oOv and Boxer had consecutive league wins. oOv had 3msls in a row and Boxer had back to back OSL wins
fusionsdf
Profile Blog Joined June 2006
Canada15390 Posts
July 27 2007 16:25 GMT
#20
oovs was best.

savior's was my favorite
SKT_Best: "I actually chose Protoss because it was so hard for me to defeat Protoss as a Terran. When I first started Brood War, my main race was Terran."
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