EPT2011 in Review - TL Awards - Page 28
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DreamOen
Spain1400 Posts
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Icky
Denmark95 Posts
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Malaz
Germany1257 Posts
They played much better in the team leagues than both EG and TL and they don't even have Koreans in their line-up to do so. | ||
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marmuc
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Pres1990
Poland14 Posts
Most entertaining player - MC in lans , white-ra online Mose revolutionary - homestorycup Rivaly of the year MVP vs Nestea | ||
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DueSs
United States765 Posts
On January 02 2012 16:29 IdrA wrote: not really. winning, even a team league, is still largely individual. you practice with your team and receive some support from them, but honestly that comes into play more in individual leagues more than team leagues. team leagues are all online, you're not there together talking and giving each other advice (unless you're eg cuz we're the best) you're all sitting at home playing your own individual matches and winning or losing on your own. and even the practice, most people are more likely to practice with friends and regular practice partners, whether theyre on their team or not. its the extraneous stuff that really defines a team, particularly outside of korea. okok, I get your point. But I guess the devil's advocate argument here is that if you were to make nominations for "team of the year" to say.. pro American football.. You nominate the Packers (#1) and Saints (#2) and that's it. You don't nominate any other team because (let's just say) the Packers and Saints do significantly more for charity, NFL, and the general NFL sports scene than any other team (especially say the 49ers [#3]). You still think the 49ers shouldn't be even mentioned in a single sentence, much less nominated at all? I dunno. Maybe you're right. | ||
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kellymilkies
Singapore1393 Posts
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scarymeerkat
Canada107 Posts
And I think people are forgetting that these awards aren't the end all and be all. It's not like anyone is winning anything real here, no money, no trophies. On TL vs EG.... obviously bias comes into play. But I think TL compensated for bias properly. A tie is fair. Individual accomplishments for the year are pretty even, and outside the game they do do a lot too. Remember once again that I'm saying that according to the criteria for the award, EG and TL tying was a fair result. | ||
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GhandiEAGLE
United States20754 Posts
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RezChi
Canada2368 Posts
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Jakkerr
Netherlands2549 Posts
That map should be voted worst map of the year ^^ | ||
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Rabbet
Canada404 Posts
On January 02 2012 19:42 Harris1st wrote: SHOWMATCH Teamliquid vs Evil Geniuses Best of Eleven - All Kill Format Casting: Tastosis or Day9 + Husky or Total Apollo / D Biscuit Prizepool: Team of the Year Award + Honor + People who wanna donate maybe PLEASE MAKE IT HAPPEN There can only be one Even better, make it a best of 15, so that the whole teams can play to get a good reding of who is better Edit: Nice writeup, gratz to all Awardwinners, you deserve it, and keep doing what you're doing Why even have a BO11 when clearly the winner should be "who does the most for esports"? | ||
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Hardigan
Switzerland1297 Posts
On January 03 2012 04:16 Rabbet wrote: Why even have a BO11 when clearly the winner should be "who does the most for esports"? I actually don't understand why EG vs TL, because Mouz actually called TL out. And then the winner gets to be the Team of the Year together with EG. | ||
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FuDDx
United States5018 Posts
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fuzzy_panda
New Zealand1681 Posts
On January 01 2012 23:17 Warsfear wrote: Completely wrong. Breakout Performance: by far Leenock. Best Game: drg vs mma is highly over-hyped and actually a poorly played game for those who understand the match-up; much more interesting would be jjakji leenock or mvp leenock regarding tvz. Best Event: how columbus could be chosen over providence is truly remarkable. I don't understand how you could've read the article and come to this conclusion. Did you just skim over the results? Breakout Performance: key word is BREAKOUT. Leenock was noticed since GSL2 (or 3?) for his excellent play and people have commented and expected him to be awesome since then. Yes his MLG run was ridiculously epic and unexpected, but he's been very well known for the past year. Thorzain, as stated in the article, came out of nowhere, was the underdog in every match of the TSL and defeated past GSL champions to nab the title and establishing his name. That's what breakout means. Best Game: The best game doesn't just come from technical expertise or understanding of the matchup. It has to include the tension, the storylines and the drama that led to the best game. As mentioned the final game was ridiculously epic, especially since MMA went 3-0 on Z favoured maps then DRG somehow came back with 3 games on T favoured maps. These 2 have been rivals for a long time as well so the drama, tension etc was all there. Best Event: If you read the article you'd know why they chose Columbus. it was the first time that people truly felt esports has arrived in the West Edit: also reading through this thread there seems to be a lot of whine about mouz not winning best team even though they have more team league wins...until starcraft 2 has a premier teamleague like proleague, individual results from major tournaments where the best players are putting in their best efforts will have higher prestige when ranking teams. As someone who only follows the pro scene casually, i didn't even know there was a teamleague apart from GSTL, and i think this will be true for most of the SC2 crowd except the very hardcore. until teamleagues become universally known and followed by most people who watch starcraft 2 and with all the best teams competing with their best players, don't expect them to be worth very much | ||
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wUndertUnge
United States1126 Posts
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Mattchew
United States5684 Posts
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MasterKang
United States1373 Posts
He should get the "MVP's Kryptonite" award because if it wasn't for him MVP would have won even more championships | ||
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Gyger
Norway18 Posts
Nice article, it was a very nice read. | ||
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Brett
Australia3823 Posts
Love everyone getting all riled up over what is essentially an OPINION piece lol... | ||
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