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United States23455 Posts
And now our Startale fanboyism is cut in half.
Phew.
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Poland3750 Posts
No "Day9 Award for Best Non-Player Personality" 
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United States23455 Posts
On January 03 2013 09:32 nimdil wrote:No "Day9 Award for Best Non-Player Personality"
Got cut.
Would have probably gone to Apollo.
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On January 03 2013 09:02 Fionn wrote:Show nested quote +On January 03 2013 08:59 TommyP wrote:On January 03 2013 08:47 Fionn wrote:
I tried to push a Player Rivalry category so Polt/Stephano could have gotten an award, but I was shot down.
Fucking KeSPA vs. GOM. MKP DRG? Stephano/Polt was better than MKP/DRG.
whaaaaaa??
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On January 03 2013 09:37 TommyP wrote:Show nested quote +On January 03 2013 09:02 Fionn wrote:On January 03 2013 08:59 TommyP wrote:On January 03 2013 08:47 Fionn wrote:
I tried to push a Player Rivalry category so Polt/Stephano could have gotten an award, but I was shot down.
Fucking KeSPA vs. GOM. MKP DRG? Stephano/Polt was better than MKP/DRG. whaaaaaa??
Yes. High five, Fionn !
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What about Rain? 2012has been a big year for Rain. How come he is not even mentioned as a nominee?
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United States33457 Posts
On January 03 2013 09:39 Boucot wrote:Show nested quote +On January 03 2013 09:37 TommyP wrote:On January 03 2013 09:02 Fionn wrote:On January 03 2013 08:59 TommyP wrote:On January 03 2013 08:47 Fionn wrote:
I tried to push a Player Rivalry category so Polt/Stephano could have gotten an award, but I was shot down.
Fucking KeSPA vs. GOM. MKP DRG? Stephano/Polt was better than MKP/DRG. whaaaaaa?? Yes. High five, Fionn !
psh, mkp vs drg was better while it lasted
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On January 03 2013 09:41 yukuairoy wrote:
What about Rain? 2012has been a big year for Rain. How come he is not even mentioned as a nominee?
He is nominated for Protoss of the year.
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this Stephano guy seems to be pretty good
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So glad NaNiwa won international toss Was afraid he'd lose it after hitting his current slump. Love his mindset, where expertice of the game itself weighs more than winning tournaments, and glad to see it's being rewarded.
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Very nice read, and completely agree with most of the picks.
Maybe next year have a "People Choice" award to see how they compare to staff?
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Great review. I really enjoyed reliving the memories. 2012 was a really great year for SC2.
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United States222 Posts
tournament of the year for IPL 5? YES!!!!!!!!!!!
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On January 03 2013 09:26 Kennigit wrote:Show nested quote +On January 03 2013 09:23 Misacampo wrote:On January 03 2013 09:20 Dodgin wrote:On January 03 2013 08:50 Schelim wrote:On January 03 2013 08:01 Dodgin wrote:I knew some people were going to complain about TL getting international team of the year, but if you actually look at the data then It's irrefutable. http://wiki.teamliquid.net/starcraft2/Premier_Tournaments_Medalists/TeamYearlyStartale passed TL at the last moment by getting both first and second in Blizzard Cup. TL earned by far the most medals of any " international " team this year. ( someone mentioned EG, lol, EG is 15th on this list. ) by the way, the mini title says " GSTL finals: FXO vs MVP on the front page instead of 2012 TL awards. ![[image loading]](http://i.imgur.com/EdwTK.png) i don't think anybody's gonna deny that Taeja and HerO (but especially Taeja) did amazing in 2012, but that doesn't really qualify for best 'team' imo, especially best 'international' team when those guys are two koreans. 2 of TL's foreigners quit starcraft this year and all the others have been in huge slumps. TLO did somewhat decent i guess, but he's not exactly a world champion either. Zenio didn't do anything all year despite being korean. EG might not have a Taeja-level player (in fact they certainly don't), but they a lot more strong players than TL: Stephano, Thorzain, JYP, Demuslim, Puma, Jaedong, to some degree even Idra and Huk all did better than any of the TL foreigners in 2012. i guess Revival doesn't really count for EG yet. on top of all these solid players, you also have crowd favorites like Stephano, Idra, Incontrol, Jaedong, Huk, somewhat Demuslim and Thorzain... who does TL really have that is popular in terms of personality? Hero and TLO. what i'm saying is, some players on TL had VERY impressive results in 2012, but it doesn't really feel like a team's accomplishments when it's just Taeja winning everything with Hero adding a few titles. even the team leagues were basically won by Taeja. It's based on results, not by how popular the players are. EG can keep buying popular players but it didn't work at giving them gold medals. Nazgul saw the potential in TaeJa and grabbed him, it paid off. It's that simple, really. On January 03 2013 09:05 Misacampo wrote:
Tl won international team of the year?
Kinda ironic, as I don't think they had a single non-korean player do well in 2012, along with not winning any teamleagues.
Oh wait this is TEAMLIQUID.NET. How could I forget. If you're going to get mad at least have the facts right, TL won two team leagues and placed second in another. Team Taeja* I didn't see any INTERNATIONAL team win two team leagues and place second in another. You must have missed Sheth and Zenios all kills this year and the fact that only IPTL is in all kill format. EGMC....Research is a good skill toi have.
My bad you had ONE international player do well in ONE match in ONE lower tier team league.
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On January 03 2013 10:26 Misacampo wrote:Show nested quote +On January 03 2013 09:26 Kennigit wrote:On January 03 2013 09:23 Misacampo wrote:On January 03 2013 09:20 Dodgin wrote:On January 03 2013 08:50 Schelim wrote:On January 03 2013 08:01 Dodgin wrote:I knew some people were going to complain about TL getting international team of the year, but if you actually look at the data then It's irrefutable. http://wiki.teamliquid.net/starcraft2/Premier_Tournaments_Medalists/TeamYearlyStartale passed TL at the last moment by getting both first and second in Blizzard Cup. TL earned by far the most medals of any " international " team this year. ( someone mentioned EG, lol, EG is 15th on this list. ) by the way, the mini title says " GSTL finals: FXO vs MVP on the front page instead of 2012 TL awards. i don't think anybody's gonna deny that Taeja and HerO (but especially Taeja) did amazing in 2012, but that doesn't really qualify for best 'team' imo, especially best 'international' team when those guys are two koreans. 2 of TL's foreigners quit starcraft this year and all the others have been in huge slumps. TLO did somewhat decent i guess, but he's not exactly a world champion either. Zenio didn't do anything all year despite being korean. EG might not have a Taeja-level player (in fact they certainly don't), but they a lot more strong players than TL: Stephano, Thorzain, JYP, Demuslim, Puma, Jaedong, to some degree even Idra and Huk all did better than any of the TL foreigners in 2012. i guess Revival doesn't really count for EG yet. on top of all these solid players, you also have crowd favorites like Stephano, Idra, Incontrol, Jaedong, Huk, somewhat Demuslim and Thorzain... who does TL really have that is popular in terms of personality? Hero and TLO. what i'm saying is, some players on TL had VERY impressive results in 2012, but it doesn't really feel like a team's accomplishments when it's just Taeja winning everything with Hero adding a few titles. even the team leagues were basically won by Taeja. It's based on results, not by how popular the players are. EG can keep buying popular players but it didn't work at giving them gold medals. Nazgul saw the potential in TaeJa and grabbed him, it paid off. It's that simple, really. On January 03 2013 09:05 Misacampo wrote:
Tl won international team of the year?
Kinda ironic, as I don't think they had a single non-korean player do well in 2012, along with not winning any teamleagues.
Oh wait this is TEAMLIQUID.NET. How could I forget. If you're going to get mad at least have the facts right, TL won two team leagues and placed second in another. Team Taeja* I didn't see any INTERNATIONAL team win two team leagues and place second in another. You must have missed Sheth and Zenios all kills this year and the fact that only IPTL is in all kill format. EGMC....Research is a good skill toi have. My bad you had ONE international player do well in ONE match in ONE lower tier team league.
Hm? What is a "higher tier" team league then? Additionally, EGMC is played in a Bo3 Proleague style, it would take more than just Taeja to win that tournament. Similarly, the closest next International team would be Acer/Mousesports, who combined do not have as many total tournament wins.
It may be that the majority of what we hear from TeamLiquid are the successes of their Korean players, but pretty much every team now has that.
As for the team leagues, they won EGMC and NASL, and came second in the IPL Team Arena. While only the IPL TA may have had an international attendance, that doesn't take away from the fact that TeamLiquid consistently won against other International teams.
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I'm loving the side bar navigation in this thread. Keep it up TL!
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United Kingdom14464 Posts
Was funny to see how Rain kinda disappeared off of the list, I cant think of a place where he else he should have snuck in, but looking at his play at certain points you would have been sure that he would end up on top of something.
Also missing hipster predictions for 2013 and worst game of the year. I expect better next time.
+ Show Spoiler +:p was a very cool write up despite that 
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