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The 'Garimto' Award for Player of the Tournament
Stork. No contest.
The 'Mumyung' Award for Worst Player
Rock. Backho was terrible as well but at least he gave Storky a run for his money in the group stages.
The 'Boxer' Creativity/Inspiration Award
Much. Every game he played this tournament (save perhaps the tiebreaker) was a pure pleasure to watch.
The 'Chojja' Missing in Action Award
Luxury. I mean, come on, no Ps in the group, he should have advanced with ease.
The 'Sync' One Hit Wonder Award
Thezerg. Unfortunately. I really enjoyed his take on ZvT this tournament.
The 'Bifrost' Map of the Tournament Award
Medusa. All the best games of this tournament were played on this map.
Game of the Tournament
Fifth set of the grand finals. What a closer!
The 'WTF!' Moment of the Tournament Award
Third set between Flash and GGplay. WTF!
Player Most Likely to Win the Next Starleague
Stork. He will beat the curse.
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On November 02 2008 02:16 caelym wrote:+ Show Spoiler +The 'Garimto' Award for Player of the Tournament
Stork ez
The 'Mumyung' Award for Worst Player
Rock ez
The 'Boxer' Creativity/Inspiration Award
fantasy ez
The 'Chojja' Missing in Action Award
Midas... second and third would be thezerg and backho
The 'Sync' One Hit Wonder Award
GGPlay
The 'Bifrost' Map of the Tournament Award
Plasma
Game of the Tournament
Stork vs fantasy Game 5. not only was Stork able to overcome his nerves, he showed some crazy PvT skills, and at the same time, fantasy was almost able to come back with his cute vulture raids
The 'WTF!' Moment of the Tournament Award
Stork gets a gold :D
Player Most Likely to Win the Next Starleague
thezerg
LOL Worst opinions ever.
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The 'Garimto' Award for Player of the Tournament
Fantasy
I'm not hating on Stork here, Stork deserved to win the OSL but Fantasy deserves this award for overall play.
The 'Mumyung' Award for Worst Player
July
Sorry Tunshin lovers, July had his short comenback but now it's over.
The 'Boxer' Creativity/Inspiration Award
Fantasy
Obvious choice.
The 'Chojja' Missing in Action Award
Flash
What happen? Somebody set us up the bomb?
The 'Sync' One Hit Wonder Award
GGPlay
His fate is the same as July's, except that GGPlay couldn't even win.
The 'Bifrost' Map of the Tournament Award
Medusa
Close contender to Plasma but while Plasma had many interesting games this map had the best games.
Game of the Tournament
Fantasy vs GGPlay series
Both the semifinals and the finals were top notch entertainment but this is the only one where the player I wanted to win won.
The 'WTF!' Moment of the Tournament Award
Stork winning
Stork winning vs BeSt was a major WTF and don't even get me started on Stork winning gold.
Player Most Likely to Win the Next Starleague
BeSt
Voted this on the last OSL too, third time's the charm eh?
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On November 03 2008 01:44 rKos wrote:
The 'Garimto' Award for Player of the Tournament
Fantasy
I'm not hating on Stork here, Stork deserved to win the OSL but Fantasy deserves this award for overall play.
Stork made more or less an Skt1 all-kill. If this doesn't warrant the garimto award i dont know what does.
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The 'Garimto' Award for Player of the Tournament
Stork
Finally broke his jinx and proved he's able to win finals. Also had an impressive 3-0 in the groups, and took out SKTelecoms 3 best players in BO 3/5
The 'Mumyung' Award for Worst Player
Rock.
No explanation needed here, hes just not in the same calibre as the rest of these player except BackHo perhaps.
The 'Boxer' Creativity/Inspiration Award
iloveoov(fantasy).
Came up with a cookie cutter BO with many interesting unit choices and got fantasy to execute them excellent.
The 'Chojja' Missing in Action Award
Flash.
Once again lost an important series against GGPlay in an OSL, and lost his second consecutive OSL quarterfinal against a Zerg - The Sea-syndrome rubbing over on Flash ?
The 'Sync' One Hit Wonder Award
Fantasy.
I still consider fantasy Canata.v2 with better nerves. His wins against GGPlay were metal-wins, and his bionic play looked shaky. Also didnt play convincingly in the final, more Storks bo/micro-mistakes sealing his fate in the games he won. Excellent TvT play though.
The 'Bifrost' Map of the Tournament Award
Medusa. This map provided some excellent matches with the interesting backdoor opening. Flash vs GGPlay, fantasy vs GGPlay, Stork vs Bisu, all great games.
Game of the Tournament
Game 5 the grand final - the intensity here was outstanding, especially due to fantasys hidden oov-expand, and vultures dealing critical damage at Storks top left expand. Clutch storming in the end by Stork.
The 'WTF!' Moment of the Tournament Award
Bisu vs Stork game 3, both players start long distance mining because they are afraid of investing money in a nexus. You dont see this often. The 2nd best game in the tournament imo.
Player Most Likely to Win the Next Starleague
Bisu, after he wins his 3rd MSL.
If Bisu doesnt win his 3rd MSL, Flash will win it.
Other candidate considered for Sync award - BeSt , time to start slumping PuSan-style
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The 'Garimto' Award for Player of the Tournament
I believe Fantasy should take the award. He was so close yet so far from becoming a royal roader. That and I completely despise of Stork.
The 'Mumyung' Award for Worst Player
Bifrost, good way to go out in fashion by failing to someone like Rock.
The 'Boxer' Creativity/Inspiration Award
Fantasy's mech against GGPlay.
The 'Chojja' Missing in Action Award
Lee Jaedong, most dominative player eliminated by some Protoss in the offliners?
The 'Sync' One Hit Wonder Award
Thezerg, although hyped as the next 'Big Zerg' by some people, his ZvZ and ZvP haven't yet given him justice.
The 'Bifrost' Map of the Tournament Award
Medusa for all the cheeses.
Game of the Tournament
Stork vs Bisu Game 3 threw me off my seat.
The 'WTF!' Moment of the Tournament Award
Carrier rush.
Player Most Likely to Win the Next Starleague
Fantasy.
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United States17042 Posts
On November 02 2008 19:29 ZBiR wrote:Show nested quote +On November 02 2008 17:22 waterGHOSTCLAWdragon wrote:
Fantasy cannot get it either, as he has both oov and boxer coming to his team, and many other players have done worse than he did when they first made it into the osl. If you think fantasy is going to be a one hit wonder, what on earth can you think about TheZerg.
Well, uhm, I don't consider winning 1 game in group stage a "wonder", so TheZerg couldn't even be a candidate for The 'Sync' One Hit Wonder Award IMO. And Fantasy got where he did mostly because of his best matchup everywhere + GGPlay's inability to react correctly to his (or rather oov's  ) build, that's why I don't think he's gonna reach the finals again soon.
From the OP:
The 'Sync' One Hit Wonder Award
Which player has had his moment in the sun will be making a short appearance next OSL?
TheZerg did better than Jaedong by making it to the group stages, which was pretty good. Everyone noticed him, whereas almost no one knew who he was before.
The difference in opinion stands on fantasy. I can understand where people are coming from when they think that fantasy isn't going to do very well in the next OSL- However, plenty of good players did far worse than he did in their first OSL. Fantasy showed off some solid TvZ against GGplay, even if he didn't react correctly, and he showed off some good, planned out TvP in the finals against stork. His game 4 was the best of the best in terms of planning and execution, his game 3 showed off his micro during a pressured moment (facing elimination, tanks vs reaver in game 3 of the finals. The micro doesn't get any more important than that.).
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The 'Garimto' Award for Player of the Tournament
Stork-simply on one hell of a tear, taking down s class toss's left and right
The 'Mumyung' Award for Worst Player
Violet, that was a joke
The 'Boxer' Creativity/Inspiration Award
Much, he came to put on a show, and did some pretty inventive things to do it, cannon rush being my favorite.
i would give it to fantasy but he didn't come up with his build on the spot
The 'Chojja' Missing in Action Award
jaedong
The 'Sync' One Hit Wonder Award
thezeg
The 'Bifrost' Map of the Tournament Award
plasma
Game of the Tournament
stork vs bisu game 3
The 'WTF!' Moment of the Tournament Award
ggplay vs flash game 3
Player Most Likely to Win the Next Starleague
stork, golden mouse toss for the win
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On November 03 2008 10:55 GTR-2-Go wrote:
The 'Chojja' Missing in Action Award
Lee Jaedong, most dominative player eliminated by some Protoss in the offliners?
That Protoss was  han, who definitely played some beastly straight-up games against JD, winning 2-1 in a bo3.
I remember seeing the preliminaries live, but I can only partially recall the Jaedong vs. han games. Think Jaedong vs. free[gm] (in the MSL), but add storm blankets to it.
It's a shame han didn't make it any farther.
And I really can't wait to see who wins these "awards" .
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I cant believe that people are atcully saying that Flash although he made it to the round of 8 deserves the "chojja" award, when Jaedong got rolled in the offlines by han, i mean come on, the best in the world got done in offlines?
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Holy crap, Scaramanga just said Jaedong is the best in the world, take a picture!
(kidding)
Yeah, I guess how you interpret the award, though I am still confused how people think BackHo did worse than Rock. I mean Backho lost against Fantasy, Stork and Sea while Rock lost to Light, GGplay and Best. Ok, Best is awesome, but BackHo played 3 awesome players, and he almost won against Stork. Come on, how do you argue this one?
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On November 03 2008 14:12 Scaramanga wrote:
I cant believe that people are atcully saying that Flash although he made it to the round of 8 deserves the "chojja" award, when Jaedong got rolled in the offlines by han, i mean come on, the best in the world got done in offlines?
This is about people who played in the OSL hence he isnt mentioned as he didnt qualify for it. And Id also like to add that only the top 16 players should be considered, since the earlier round is kind of an old dual tournament. In my opinion the OSL doesnt really start after the group selection.
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The 'Garimto' Award - Stork
The 'Mumyung' Award - Light
The 'Boxer' Creativity/Inspiration Award - Much
The 'Chojja' Missing in Action Award - Jaedong
The 'Sync' One Hit Wonder Award - Fantasy
The 'Bifrost' Map of the Tournament Award - Medusa
Game of the Tournament - Hard to call. Fantasy vs Nada, game 2.
The 'WTF!' Moment of the Tournament Award - Flash/GGplay game 3.
Player Most Likely to Win the Next Starleague - Stork
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United States2186 Posts
The 'Garimto' Award for Player of the Tournament
To the player TeamLiquid.net believes was the overall highest achiever in this Incruit 2008 OSL. The contenders should be obvious.
Stork is the obvious choice. Overall winner, SKT1 all kill, and by far the most importantly, he shred all the disbelief in his finals abilities by winning a game 5 that he came into with the Stork face. What more can you want?
The oov/Fantasy duo is obviously the runner up.
The 'Mumyung' Award for Worst Player
Who deserved to have been consigned to the rubbish heap during the first round of the OSL?
Tie between Rock and Backho. The question of who deserves it more should be decided by whose abnormally low intelligence level is lower. Which is worse, caveman i-must-go-carriers brain or Backho's negative common sense level? But careful, their parents might complain!
The 'Boxer' Creativity/Inspiration Award
Go with your gut feeling. Which player showed the greatest creativity or brightened the tournament with his flair and inspiration?
The only possible answer for this is iloveoov. It's not every starleague or even year that a revolutionary change in a stable matchup is brought about. The last real major TvZ shift, outside of small optimization changes like 2 rax cc into 1 rax cc, was all the way back when Boxer triple bunker rushed Yellow in Ever '04.
And it's blatantly obvious that it was oov's build, and not Fantasy. This is probably the first time a player not in the tournament deserves this award.
People are dismissing the mech build with horrible reasons like "GGplay forgot how to play vs mech" or some garbage after he decisively owned Flash with a great anti-mech counter on Medusa the round before. Face it, oov's build is far different than any mech that has been used before and is not a one-time strat by any means.
The 'Chojja' Missing in Action Award
Which 'name' failed to live up to his billing and left himself with something to prove?
Jaedong and Flash/Midas deserve it; JD more than the ohters but he didn't even make the league, so maybe not. Jaedong for not making the tournament in the first place for losing in a matchup he has a 74% winrate since owning Stork in Ever '07 to some nobody. No matter how well that guy played, this is JAEDONG.
Flash for doing a terrible build on Medusa and not advancing to the semis, regardless of luck he should not have lost that game.
Midas also was very disappointing, for someone who used to be so strong he just didn't look good at all vs Best, even if Best has a nice PvT.
The 'Sync' One Hit Wonder Award
Which player has had his moment in the sun will be making a short appearance next OSL?
There really are a lot imo.
STORK. After playing the best he's ever done and not facing an amazing player at their very peak in the finals, Stork has finally won. He's obviously going to get afflicted by the OSL curse, and considering how much he's went through to get this it's highly likely he will get knocked out in group stages as everything is finally released for him.
GGplay. Although he did beat Flash very nicely on Medusa and played well in the game he won vs Fantasy, he did lose to Best He's just too streaky of a player overall and it's quite unlikely he will be back in force again for awhile.
Other call is Midas. Since losing to Best he suddenly doesn't play in proleague much and has become very forgettable. What happened to his comeback?
The 'Bifrost' Map of the Tournament Award
Which map inspired the most brilliant and entertaining games of the tournament?
Plasma, easily. I wish people would stop complaining about map imbalance so much, considering it's almost always the imbalanced maps that produce the best games. Plasma is no exception to this, with the WTF Flash GGplay game 3, Stork's proxies, the Fantasy vulture hop, and 1 base carriers from Much among others. I sincerely hope it gets another shot, because 1 season is too little to discern balance since 815 or Arcadia turnarounds are always possible.
Game of the Tournament
Which individual game was the most exciting or entertaining of the tournament? Or which game showed the highest skill?
blank till I watch the rest of the finals games.
The 'WTF!' Moment of the Tournament Award
Which single moment rocked the tournament more than any other?
No question, Flash losing to GGplay in game 3 because of a minedrag on a desperate 'i lost' attack.
Player Most Likely to Win the Next Starleague
To the player TeamLiquid.net believes will triumph next time out.
Flash or Jaedong. Stork will not break the
I don't know why people would vote for Best on this one. If he faces 1 non-luxury (choker) zerg in the elim rounds he's automatically out. It's like with Casy. You can't call him until you see the brackets.
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On November 03 2008 14:37 Guybrush wrote:Show nested quote +On November 03 2008 14:12 Scaramanga wrote:
I cant believe that people are atcully saying that Flash although he made it to the round of 8 deserves the "chojja" award, when Jaedong got rolled in the offlines by han, i mean come on, the best in the world got done in offlines? This is about people who played in the OSL hence he isnt mentioned as he didnt qualify for it. And Id also like to add that only the top 16 players should be considered, since the earlier round is kind of an old dual tournament. In my opinion the OSL doesnt really start after the group selection.
There is nothing that says the player has to have played in the osl, it just says the player who failed to live up to his name, thats clearly JD
EDIT: The 'Chojja' Missing in Action Award
Which 'name' failed to live up to his billing and left himself with something to prove?
May i ask where it says they have to have played in osl?
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It doesnt, but it pretty much goes without saying as this is the "OSL awards", and not "progamers trying to qualify for OSL awards".
But go ahead and vote Jaedong, just dont be surprised why more people arent doing the same.
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The 'Garimto' Award for Player of the Tournament
Stork. He raped the tournament. EZ!
The 'Mumyung' Award for Worst Player
BackHo. Not only did he lose all of his games in convincing fashion, but we also kind of expected him to perform at least better than what he pulled off.
The 'Boxer' Creativity/Inspiration Award
Much. Fantasy did a mech build and Day wrote an article about it. Get over it
The 'Chojja' Missing in Action Award
Jaedong.
The 'Sync' One Hit Wonder Award
Fantasy. I have a gut feeling that he won't get any further than barely out of his group
The 'Bifrost' Map of the Tournament Award
Medusa. Good macro map which also rewards aggressive and creative play + cute rushes.
Game of the Tournament
Stork vs Bisu game 3
Which individual game was the most exciting or entertaining of the tournament? Or which game showed the highest skill?
The 'WTF!' Moment of the Tournament Award
Stork using his probes to kill Fantasy in game 1 of the finals. That move ruled!
Player Most Likely to Win the Next Starleague
BeSt. Gotta win sooner or later!
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The "Chojja" Missing in Action Award:
Flash
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The 'Garimto' Award for Player of the Tournament
Stork ftw. Look at his achievement list. There are full of silvers and that's why I call him "the most modest gamer in history". He always let his opponent take the final result although he's really good. But in this OSL, finally, he could make it, he could break through his limit.
The 'Mumyung' Award for Worst Player
Rock *sigh*
The 'Boxer' Creativity/Inspiration Award
The 'Chojja' Missing in Action Award
Bisu  . I still remember the time when he was dominating in every tournaments like MSL, OSL but now, look at him Hope to see him get back soon
The 'Sync' One Hit Wonder Award
No idea ;P
The 'Bifrost' Map of the Tournament Award
Medusa
Game of the Tournament
Free vs Jaedong @ last game @ MSL
The 'WTF!' Moment of the Tournament Award
As I mentioned above, that was free vs Jaaedong. It reminded me of an epic match between Nal_rA and sAviOr @ MSL pringle. So many Archon that I could not count.
Player Most Likely to Win the Next Starleague
Bisu. I really miss him
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