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Aotearoa39261 Posts
On December 31 2007 21:17 The Storyteller wrote:
It's either CJ or MBC. Lecaf may be at the top of the table, but they are not a team. They are 2 good players and 1 rather good one. Both CJ and MBC have damned solid line ups. They can easily push out 5 to 7 players, each of which have about a 60% chance to win, and these players are a mix of old and new. 100% agreed, lecaf will never win the proleague with 2 players (they were lucky forgg was in form last season)
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The 'Garimto' Award for Player of the Year;
I would give this to Bisu. He made more finals appearances than any other player this year at three and won two of those three. He also has a third place finish and a round of right finish. He got to the quarterfinals in five of the six leagues of the year. He didn't qualify for the sixth and the qualification season was during the previous year. That means any time when league qualification was on the line, he pulled through (though that was only twice). he is not as dominant as players in the past who have won this award, but his strength has really only been put into doubt/question recently here at team liquid. For an overall look at this year, it's difficult not to see Bisu as a hot item.
The 'Boxer' Creativity/Inspiration Award
Upmagic, for his unique approach and non-standard play. For a player who does not rely on standard builds, he is able to blend non standard game options and turn them into more standard builds at just the right time in games. He gets further into starleagues this year than other creative players and is one of eStro's Aces to boot. The only other player I would honestly consider this for would be Boxer, but UpMagic has shown better results.
The 'Chojja' Missing in Action Award
jju. he was never dominating and not very well liked, but he was pretty successful in 06, a consistent good performer in both starleagues. then in 07 he dropped off the face of the earth, lost in survivor and odt and never came back. doesn’t even play proleague for a team that would be incredibly hard to beat if they had another consistent 1v1er.
The Team of the Year Award
Lecaf Oz. They made it to the finals of the first proleague season, and will finish in first going into this season's playoffs. That locks them for a finals appearance in both seasons of the year. Additionally a member of the Lecaf team has taken an OSL title this year: Jaedong. No other team can boast a more impressive overall performance.
The 'rA' Award for Proleague Performances
Anytime. with three matches left in the season he is only one game behind free's record of 17 wins last season, a season which he was not far behind in total wins. In the two combined seasons Anytime has time and time again been sent out as the team's Ace. Out of all the times he is sent out for the Closer match, he has only fallen once, against UpMagic in the first season. Anytime pulls the Lecaf team in proleague. No other player matches Anytime's win total this year, at an impressive 30.
The 'Sea' Best Newcomer Award;
mind certainly turned the most heads, don’t know if his the best.
flash would probably be the best. His worked off the (unfair) title of cheese newb with a string of straight up wins on good opponents to go with his 4th place osl at the age of what.. 15?
The 'WTF!' Moment of the Year Award
Two nominations:
1. FBH running around Savior after beating him in the RO8 in MSL.
2. Chrh beating Bisu in proleague on Monty Hall
OBS everything is stolen from other people
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United States20661 Posts
By "rA" award we're referring to godly rA who was like 9-0.or today's 1-8 rA?
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51448 Posts
On December 31 2007 21:40 Last Romantic wrote:
By "rA" award we're referring to godly rA who was like 9-0.or today's 1-8 rA?
The rA who was winning a million ace games in a row.
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The 'Garimto' Award for Player of the Year
Bisu
The 'Mumyung' Award for Worst Player
I don't watch noobs
The 'Boxer' Creativity/Inspiration Award
Beesuit
The 'Chojja' Missing in Action Award
Kingdom
The Team of the Year Award
CJ
The 'WTF!' Moment of the Year Award
Bisu 3-0 Savior
Game of the Year
Iris vs Savior game 5
The 'Sea' Best Newcomer Award;
Jaedong in OSL 
The 'rA' Award for Proleague Performances
Nal_ra?
The Most Improved
Jaedong
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The 'Garimto' Award for Player of the Year
Beesuit pls .
The 'Mumyung' Award for Worst Player
erm...Pokju[s.g.]
The 'Boxer' Creativity/Inspiration Award
Oversky for proxy hatch.
The 'Chojja' Missing in Action Award
NaDa
The Team of the Year Award
ACE.
The 'WTF!' Moment of the Year Award
Bisu's proxy 2gate vs Pokju on Peaks.
Game of the Year
Bisu vs Savior on Katrina.
The 'Sea' Best Newcomer Award;
Mind
The 'rA' Award for Proleague Performances
Stork
The Most Improved
Jeadong
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The 'Garimto' Award for Player of the Year;
Bisu. I still don't like his play, but I have great respect for the man and he did completely annihlate the MSL, (1st, 2nd) and 3rd in OSL. Shit.
The 'Mumyung' Award for Worst Player
pepe or piano. They make me want to give up Terran and take up zerg.
The 'Boxer' Creativity/Inspiration Award
Oversky. Proxy Hatch = Genius
Ling skip through pylon wall = Genius
3 hatch lings > Beesuit = Genius
The 'Chojja' Missing in Action Award
Goodfriend. Where were you buddy?
The Team of the Year Award
KTF. Despite their complete ineptitude as a team, they still have an awesome theme song.
The 'WTF!' Moment of the Year Award
FBH's pelvic thrusting and savior's rage.
Game of the Year
Chrh vs. Bisu. Kmon. That was a crazy game.
The 'Sea' Best Newcomer Award;
Mind comes in just under the limit with only 4 games in 2006, and he won an MSL, so go figure. O.O
The 'rA' Award for Proleague Performances
Sea. Sea is HOT in proleague right now.
The Most Improved
Xellos. Used to be complete crap after 2004, but he's picking it up with his quarterfinal position in MSl. Perfect Terran Hwaiting!
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WTF moment of the year is easily Bisu 3-0:ing Savior, hands down.
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On December 31 2007 22:04 lololol wrote:The 'Garimto' Award for Player of the Year BisuThe 'Mumyung' Award for Worst Player I don't watch noobsThe 'Boxer' Creativity/Inspiration Award BeesuitThe 'Chojja' Missing in Action Award KingdomThe Team of the Year Award CJThe 'WTF!' Moment of the Year Award Bisu 3-0 SaviorGame of the Year Iris vs Savior game 5The 'Sea' Best Newcomer Award; Jaedong in OSL The 'rA' Award for Proleague Performances Nal_ra?The Most Improved Jaedong '
Guess you missed this part:
"Post your choices with a reason why they deserve the award"?
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Romanian? wait, no he's Bulgarian
The "I don't watch noobs" - part is badass though and made me think he was romanian.
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GrandInquisitor
New York City13113 Posts
"The 'Boxer' Creativity/Inspiration Award"
Cannot be anything other than Casy's fake FE against July. Happened in January of '07.
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On January 01 2008 02:07 GrandInquisitor wrote:
"The 'Boxer' Creativity/Inspiration Award"
Cannot be anything other than Casy's fake FE against July. Happened in January of '07.
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On January 01 2008 02:07 GrandInquisitor wrote:
"The 'Boxer' Creativity/Inspiration Award"
Cannot be anything other than Casy's fake FE against July. Happened in January of '07.
Actually I think Bisu's build definately can go under this category too, because it's simply that revolutionary
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Boxer's Award - Upmagic.
Do you remember his MNM builds on Nemesis? Or how many times has Upmagic simply been Upmagic? Who's Silver? Does he play Starcraft? Damn, he really misplaced his hatchery. But I seen Up play a lot ... and wow? he did what? That's creative!!! Plus, he repeatedly used the build, and even adopted it for HitchHiker usage. Plus, thats NOT HIS ONLY BUILD. Unlike some others.
It'd be cool if Chojja won his own award.
Most Improved?? Hwasin. I don't think this requires too much explanation. The boy made himself from LOL STX terran to.. O damn. it's STX's only player -_-;; and foundation... Hwasin.
- Also maybe Mind - -;; 0-5 2006 to MSL champ... good job?
WTF moments are probably...I wanna say FBH but I really dislike how he plays, I find it boring until maybe 3 hours in when he can mass restore every unit in a second - that's sorta cool. But thinking of ceremonies, I can't get Rock's jump kick, and neck slice out of my head... No.. when Rock lost his chin... YES. WHEN ROCK LOST HIS CHIN... It took me a moment...
Proleague is Bosung, duh? Anytime is almost but it's hard being a protoss. I assume this is in tribute to Ra of like 05 and 04 and such?
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Boxer's Award- Bisu
He invented the Beesuit build! isn't that creative enough? I mean he IS the revolutionist.
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The 'Garimto' Award for Player of the Year
The two candidates are Stork and Bisu imo. Stork was an absolute monster in Proleague and led Samsung to the championship, while picking up a WCG 2007 title, a 2nd in OSL and a 2nd in MSL. Meanwhile Bisu destroyed everyone in MSL, picking up two firsts and a 2nd. But Bisu was also terrible in Proleague, nevertheless.. have to give it to Bisu here. If Stork had won an OSL, it might have been a tossup.. but since he didn't I think Bisu has a decent edge there.
The 'Mumyung' Award for Worst Player
I always give this award to backho, but he recently took down Iris and Hogil? and qualified for OSL lol. Allright I'll do a safe pick and pick Calm, he's pretty bad. It's not fair to pick anyone from Ace, since they dont get to practice as much.. But H.O.T is probably the worst player in progaming right now.
The 'Boxer' Creativity/Inspiration Award
There is like a million candidates here, if you talk about revolutionizing a matchup like Boxer did with the invention of his 8 barrack TvZ - then you gotta give it to Bisu for revolutionizing PvZ. But if you want to talk about a single amazing play, there was none better than Casy's fake FE against July back in early 2007 in OSL - I have not seen anything so creative/awesome in a long time.
The 'Chojja' Missing in Action Award
Can't think of anyone that qualifies here. I'd like to give it to JJu, or Goodfriend.. both guys that were super consistent and solid and in 2007 they have disappeared off the map. Also wanted to give it to Silver/Daezang but I believe that none of them qualified. Kingdom gets the award here, he completely disappeared in 2007 and he was consistently decent in 2006.
The Team of the Year Award
Gotta give it to Samsung, they won the title and deservedly so. They're struggling atm and I think it's mostly because their 2v2 has been terrible since ssigamari started playing poker.....
The best/deepest overall 1v1 team though, is undoubtedly CJ - even their minor league players are godly.
The 'WTF!' Moment of the Year Award
Chrh beating Bisu in proleague. Seriously WHAT THE FUCK??
Also candidates are : Bisu beating Savior 3-0 and PJ beating Savior 2-1?
Game of the Year
I will give it to Iris vs sAviOr in game 5 of OSL on neo arkanoid. Sickest game ever
The 'Sea' Best Newcomer Award
Id love to give it to Bisu since he didn't emerge as a force in progaming until early 2007.. but since I dont think he qualifies, I will give it to Flash since he debuted in 2007 and quickly became KTF's best player at the age of 16.
The 'rA' Award for Proleague Performances
I'll give it to Stork, although Jaedong and Sea are also good candidates.
The Most Improved
Could give it to any number of players, including Bisu.. but here I will give it to Stork since he was pretty mediocre in 2006(was only good on 815).. now he's a beast and nobody wants to play him.
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On December 31 2007 16:23 Plexa wrote:The 'WTF!' Moment of the Year Award + Show Spoiler +ChRh defeating bisu in proleague (and then bisu losing to boxer) - while not as extravagant as bisu defeating savior, but this was ChRh's first victory in 1402 days against the new bonjwa else the new protoss god. No one in their right mind predicted this to happen - atleast rekrul, FA (amongst others) voted for bisu against savior - no one gave ChRh a chance.
hahaha omg i can't believe I forgot this. I was at Artosis' house when this happened and I remember sitting in his room watching it with him. ChRh / Boxer owning Bisu... jesus that was such a good moment.
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GrandInquisitor
New York City13113 Posts
Best newcomer also needs to be Stork. He wasn't a shitty player in 2006, but he turned into one of the best this year.
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I think I agree with most of the choices put out, but I want to emphasize that there is no way that Lecaf can win the Best Team Award.
Yes, they have two solid proleague performers, but as we've glimpsed in the minor league results, they really have nothing outside of Jaedong/Anytime (And sometimes ForGG).
I would give the award to CJ, for continuing to churn out exciting 1v1 players, while supporting a strong veteran cast (Cuban Gangster, DDR terran, and Old-mantoss).
Edit: Oh yeah, and Beserker Terran. Damn, CJ is loaded.
A close runner-up would be Samsung Khan, because they were simply invincible in season one (Stork/FBH/Sigimari2v2).
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On January 01 2008 03:54 Jyvblamo wrote:
I think I agree with most of the choices put out, but I want to emphasize that there is no way that Lecaf can win the Best Team Award.
Yes, they have two solid proleague performers, but as we've glimpsed in the minor league results, they really have nothing outside of Jaedong/Anytime (And sometimes ForGG).
I would give the award to CJ, for continuing to churn out exciting 1v1 players, while supporting a strong veteran cast (Cuban Gangster, DDR terran, and Old-mantoss).
A close runner-up would be Samsung Khan, because they were simply invincible in season one (Stork/FBH/Sigimari2v2).
eh whose the cuban gangster and old-mantoss.
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