great read overall. TL awarding TL with the international team of the year award was a little questionable to me though tbh. but i guess giving it to EG would be really hard for TL stuff to do.

i wish there was a "tournament with the greatest entertainment value outside of the actual games" award or something like that (would probably need more concise wording

), because HomeStory Cup definitely needs to be mentioned in this review in some way.

maneatingshoe

Canada484 Posts

January 02 2013 21:46 GMT

#103

Great write up for all the awards! Also, go Life!

ArchangelJada

Canada910 Posts

January 02 2013 21:46 GMT

#104

Nice read love these

Goibon

New Zealand8185 Posts

January 02 2013 21:47 GMT

#105

Yeah Parting cleaning up!

I learned a lot today. Come on 2013, be good >_>

Ecstatic

United States160 Posts

January 02 2013 21:49 GMT

#106

Player of the year not Mvp? I mean I understand that he faded away in the latter half of 2012, but Life wasn't even in teh game until the latter half of 2012.

Sikly

United States413 Posts

January 02 2013 21:50 GMT

#107

I'm glad MMA and Gumiho finally won the game of the year. No individual game even came close to touching it, it actually amazed me that it wasn't winning all of them. I mean, if you wanted a most hyped or best series award or something, name it that, not best game!

oneill12

Romania1222 Posts

January 02 2013 21:52 GMT

#108

nice read!

StarVe

Germany13591 Posts

January 02 2013 21:52 GMT

#109

Also, I'm happy with Startale's success here because the entire reason I chose this name when I signed up was to have a bad Startale pun as the name of my Fantasy GSTL team.

KadaverBB

Germany25657 Posts

January 02 2013 21:52 GMT

#110

Most hated word of the year:
Patchzerg

Flowsick

Estonia234 Posts

January 02 2013 21:52 GMT

#111

Well written stuff guys, loved it!

So happy for Mvp getting Korean Terran of the Year, totally earned it.

NihilisticGod

Northern Ireland174 Posts

January 02 2013 21:52 GMT

#112

It's nice to look at a year of SC2 in this way. Thanks for the write up.

RagequitBM

Canada2270 Posts

January 02 2013 21:55 GMT

#113

Heavily disagree with Player of the Year. Considering a 10 man tournament on the same level as a 32 man code S is very questionable, and blizzard cup didn't even feel like a real tournament to me. I would have to give it to MVP for his championship + runner-up, and being relevant throughout a larger portion of the year than Life.

But that's the fun of lists I suppose. Everyone has their own.

rezoacken

Canada2719 Posts

January 02 2013 21:56 GMT

#114

As someone that didn't follow sc2 much in 2012 I'm surprised this whole patchzerg/lings of liberty/brood-infestor thing is making people cry for so long. Is blizzard no longer working on the game or am I missing a joke ?

tili

United States1332 Posts

January 02 2013 21:57 GMT

#115

Liiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiife!
and Stephano

makes my heart bubble.

nunez

Norway4003 Posts

January 02 2013 21:58 GMT

#116

partings immortal-sentry all in over brood-lord infestor. the all in of one player over the strategy that produced enough qq to fill a forum on its own. that's a really weak call even though seems more in tune with the general sentiment on TL in these later months.

snute not mentioned. i'd say his trophies are more impressive than scarletts, homestory trumps any NA only tournament (4-0 vs symbol, 2-0 vs ostojiy and vibe), but overall performance i think is pretty damned close. if snute was on a team that competed in teamleagues like acer i feel pretty confident he'd get a mention, it would be well deserved (scarletts is as well).

sad there is so little competition for map of the year.

i wish you would stop using the term 'patchzerg', it's posion.

but good read, i for one don't hope that next year will be a corporate sell out with awkward ceremony, but rather more of the same, slightly improved.

maybe add in a teamleague warrior adward for next time, so gumiho can tear it up. actually gumiho will smash 2013 anyways.

CosmicSpiral

United States15275 Posts

January 02 2013 21:59 GMT

#117

On January 03 2013 06:55 RagequitBM wrote:
Heavily disagree with Player of the Year. Considering a 10 man tournament on the same level as a 32 man code S is very questionable, and blizzard cup didn't even feel like a real tournament to me. I would have to give it to MVP for his championship + runner-up, and being relevant throughout a larger portion of the year than Life.

But that's the fun of lists I suppose. Everyone has their own.

If it wasn't a real tournament, then every single foreign event outside of IPL5 wasn't a real tournament.