On January 03 2013 07:45 TommyP wrote: "DongRaeGu had the highest number of top finishes."
but life gets first because of his "aura" and " quality of his play"
which I kind of call BS on becasue I dont feel an "aura' when I think of LIfe and as for Quality of Play, DRG won everything when Zerg might have been the weakest race, LIfe won when Zerg was hands down the strongest race.
Life's year in Code S: N/A, N/A, N/A, 1st, Ro1y DRG's year in Code S: 1st, Ro32, Ro4, Ro16, Ro16
and Leenock doesnt come close to Life or DRG in terms of achievements
DRG is player of the year.
i agree with the sentiment that the shift of balance towards zerg might be enough to tip the scale into DRG's favor. at least it should count way more than aura.
Life's title wins just impressed me more than DRG. He beat the best three players at every single race at the time he played them. Mvp was going for his fifth GSL title and Life stopped him. Leenock was going for his third MLG title and Life stopped him. Parting was going for his third major championship in the same month and Life stopped him. He was put up against the very best and beat them at every single match-up.
DRG also had a very worthy year, but I sided with Life. Neither had a Mvp 2011-like season, so it was a very toss-up award that Life stole by dominating the final months of the year that are more new to the memory than DRG beating up Genius at the beginning of the year.
On January 03 2013 07:58 InsidiA wrote: Not enough talk about Squirtle vs MVP. What a series :|
If we had series of the year, that would have won in a landslide.
My favorite game of the year was actually G7 of that series. It was the perfect ending to a perfect series. Gumiho/MMA was just overall the best game of the year, though.
It's been a long road, but today, I'm the greatest of all time. Thank you.
In all seriousness, thanks to TeamLiquid for honoring IPL5. It was great fun for all of our IPL5 staff, and it couldn't have been possible without every single one of them, GOTMV production staff, the game developers, our in house IPL staff, our awesome sponsors, and of course the fans and StarCraft II community.
On January 03 2013 07:56 Fionn wrote: Life's title wins just impressed me more than DRG. He beat the best three players at every single race at the time he played them. Mvp was going for his fifth GSL title and Life stopped him. Leenock was going for his third MLG title and Life stopped him. Parting was going for his third major championship in the same month and Life stopped him. He was put up against the very best and beat them at every single match-up.
DRG also had a very worthy year, but I sided with Life. Neither had a Mvp 2011-like season, so it was a very toss-up award that Life stole by dominating the final months of the year that are more new to the memory than DRG beating up Genius at the beginning of the year.
also, all of DRG's runs were pretty soft, minus his Code S win
Startale 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.
Incredibly biased to pick TL as team of the year. Looking at the team as a whole, most their players have fallen in the worst slumps ever, three players have quit. Then you have two imported Koreans that have been doing well in foreign tournaments and for that you award yourself the top price.
On January 03 2013 07:58 InsidiA wrote: Not enough talk about Squirtle vs MVP. What a series :|
If we had series of the year, that would have won in a landslide.
My favorite game of the year was actually G7 of that series. It was the perfect ending to a perfect series. Gumiho/MMA was just overall the best game of the year, though.
All the heartbreak of watching him hold the first all-in only to lose to the second is rushing back to me T_T
Startale 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. )
Oh wow, looking at the individual results (and team results in EGMCSL Season 7 and NASTL) , mousesports might have deserved a mention, too. But after seeing what they did to their SC2 division this year I don't really want to lobby for it. D:
"Choo Choo, Motherfuckers." Awesome write up, shame that the lines are blurring so much between KeSPA/eSF/ the rest of the world. Gonna have to come up with more abstract awards. Part of me wants to say MaNa deserves best foreign Toss player this year, but I can't make that much better of a case over NaNiwa
Good write up, it's always nice to read those kinds of OP
Though, I'm disappointed that the 12 minutes max roach was not nominated in the strategy of the year award. Its influence was as big as the banshee mech, the helion banshee triple orbital and the wonwonwon and did not use a patch like the infestor-broodlord to become strong. It didn't have the beauty of having a good name but was used more than Parting's soul build. True it may have started at the very end of 2011 but its climax was clearly in 2012 and many protoss didn't know how to respond to it until the end of 2012
EPT
![[image loading]](http://i.imgur.com/EdwTK.png)
