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Terran competition has always been larger than protoss or zerg until recently. Also, there was a period of about a month or two where MVP wasn't getting good results and got knocked out in the ro32 again in July.
Fact is, I don't think SC2 will ever be a game like SC1 where one person can utterly dominate the way savior, etc. did. I hope I'm wrong, but I highly doubt I will be. If you know about those eras in BW you'd realize why everyone wants to avoid all this bonjwa stuff.
I mean hell, MVP is 20x the better player than the players he faced in the ro16 and 8 but he still almost lost those series.
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The Vod of grand final between Mvp and Xigua is up at www.gomtv.net
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On December 11 2011 16:15 Luepert wrote:Show nested quote +On December 11 2011 15:26 setzer wrote: There wasn't a single point in 2010 where Flash wasn't considered the best player and that goes for Savior as well when he was dominating. Even though both loss on occasion (happens to everyone), they were still able to go to final after final. Savior went to 5 consecutive MSLs + OSL and Flash made every final possible in 2010. That is a level of domination we have not seen yet in SC2.
MVP is very, very consistent, but there have been periods in the year where not only was he not considered the best player but not even the best of his race. Although MVP hasn't been CONSIDERED the best player for all of 2011, he obviously was. Every slump had an almost coincident victory, fall to code a: WC, loss to mma: Blizzcon. I hate how people rarely called him the best at his race like they did for MC and Nestea even though he put up far superior results than either of them the entire year. Widespread terran hatred among casters, fans and fan favorites have led to an EXTREMELY hard rode to recognition for MVP. At one point there was a poll on TL for gsl August, huk was ahead of MVP by roughly 20% despite being eliminated BY MVP. MVP didnt take the lead untill it was only him and top left. I remember a hilarious comment by wolf in the gsl the shows the utter ignorance that leads to MVP underrating, When MVP was being Nestea in the GSL, he said " This is potentially one of the greatest upsets in the gsl history" Despite the fact that at the time MVP had 2 gsls and an mlg to Nestea's 3 gsls and THEY HAD PLAYED 3 SERIES'S PREVIOUSLY IN THE GSL ALL RESULTING IN MVP VICTORIES.
LMFAO, yeah I nearly fell out of my chair when I heard that from Wolf/DoA, so much so that I let them know what I thought of such comments via twitter .
And yeh the anti terran bias from most casters and fans make it much more difficult for him to gain popularity/recognition. He said himself that most people in Korea dislike him because he's terran 
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Russian Federation88 Posts
i think it was easy win for MVP
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Super human MVP does it again, someone lock this guy up for other players' sake. He's honestly out of control.
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MVP in the WCG finals was as calm as a cucumber according to Artosis, lol
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United Kingdom38149 Posts
Best player in the world wins WCG? Who'd have thought it ^^
Yet another title =)
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congratulations MVP, we cheer for you!
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Continue being awesome, hwaitiiing~~
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United Arab Emirates1141 Posts
ZOMGGGG
MVP FIGHTING!!! I'm like on a total high now. Was away all day, had to wait with trembling for the results. So happy for our man Mvp!!!!!
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Easy money for MVP, big congratulations once again!!!!!
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IM.MVP; the destroyer and conqueror.
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United Arab Emirates1141 Posts
On December 11 2011 16:24 Rykros wrote:The Vod of grand final between Mvp and Xigua is up at www.gomtv.net Just watched them. I am sooooooooooooooo happy for Mvp - he looks so overjoyed. Also so manner in calling up his fellow Kr progamers supernova and MarineKing to share in Korean pride. So happy for him, really hope he can continue to be so meek, so dominating and so baller.
:D made my day!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Hopefully soon, most people will realise that Terran is the hardest race and MVP can get some recognition he deserves! Outside GSL, Terran is awful. All the more reason to be wowed by how good MVP is.
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On December 11 2011 20:10 Micket wrote: Hopefully soon, most people will realise that Terran is the hardest race and MVP can get some recognition he deserves! Outside GSL, Terran is awful. All the more reason to be wowed by how good MVP is.
i love MVP. but i wouldnt go so far as to say terran is the hardest race. i'm pretty sure zugg is tougher to play well. that being said, MVP is better than da rest :D GO MVP FOR BLIZZCUP
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MVP is so sick. Nobody realises how difficult it is to play terran since MVP makes it look so easy and wins everything.
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Who needs to stream for monies when you can just win some.
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On December 11 2011 16:22 Itsmedudeman wrote: Terran competition has always been larger than protoss or zerg until recently. Also, there was a period of about a month or two where MVP wasn't getting good results and got knocked out in the ro32 again in July.
Fact is, I don't think SC2 will ever be a game like SC1 where one person can utterly dominate the way savior, etc. did. I hope I'm wrong, but I highly doubt I will be. If you know about those eras in BW you'd realize why everyone wants to avoid all this bonjwa stuff.
I mean hell, MVP is 20x the better player than the players he faced in the ro16 and 8 but he still almost lost those series.
If you actually look at the win-rates you'll see that MVP is basically close to/passing most of the bonjwa's win-rates during their dominant periods. I'm not much of an MVP fan but I hate when people use this argument to say SC2 is "coin-flippy."
MVP has ~70% win-rate overall, Flash has about a 72% win-rate overall. Obviously it's not a perfect comparison as they are facing completely different opponent's (Flash's being of much higher skill for the most part) but still.
On December 11 2011 20:10 Micket wrote: Hopefully soon, most people will realise that Terran is the hardest race and MVP can get some recognition he deserves! Outside GSL, Terran is awful. All the more reason to be wowed by how good MVP is.
At that level there really is no hardest race. But yes, at lower levels that is true, but it was the same in BW.
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For a game as volatile as SC2, MVP is always showing consistent results, what a boss.
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It's somewhat of a poor argument to compare his win rate's to FlaSh's and using it as an argument for bonjwa status. FlaSh has played 591 matches where as Mvp has only played 156.
I also don't understand why people are so obsessed with the "bonjwa" term. From what I remember, it was really only used for sAviOr when the fans called him "MaBonjwa" and it was later retroactively applied to BoxeR, NaDa, iloveoov. As far as I am concerned it's a BW term and it should stay that way. Mvp is a sickly good player and I think we should just leave it at that.
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