Just to let everyone know, these were all decided by a voting process in our Dota 2 staff. Scintillia gave us the categories, and each staff gave their top 3-5 in each category. Then we used the most voted as winners.

duoform

Spain5180 Posts

January 15 2013 17:10 GMT

#46

On January 16 2013 02:05 EnumaAvalon wrote:
PGG had good black holes at TI2 but most of them were "preemptive" ones which got creeps or absolutely NOTHING!

PGG's Black Hole vs TongFu during TI2 was really sick man..

mycro

Sweden1579 Posts

January 15 2013 17:11 GMT

#47

I still remember that LGD vs NaVi match, so good.

TheEmulator

28092 Posts

January 15 2013 17:11 GMT

#48

On January 16 2013 01:39 theqat wrote:
Small typo in the table of contents--it says Anti-Plan rather than Anti-Play.

Nice article and I'm glad to see nothing went below my radar this year

Thank you for pointing that out. I corrected it but maybe I didn't save it or something. Good catch

zul

Germany5427 Posts

January 15 2013 17:13 GMT

#49

LD is a great caster and deserves all the praises he gets, but not mentioning Tobi is almost bm. His enthusiastic casting style helped the dota-scene sooo much during the early days. remember his dreamhack cast, or TI2, or TI1, or starladder or the countless online events? Shortterm memory can be a bitch.

fluidin

Singapore1084 Posts

January 15 2013 17:13 GMT

#50

This is more of a TI2 and post-TI2 awards, isn't it.

Because much of pre-TI2 wasn't taken into account.

resoLVer1.0

Russian Federation125 Posts

January 15 2013 17:20 GMT

#51

I'd pick Wisp as the "hero of the year". I just love those mass action picks.

520

United States2822 Posts

January 15 2013 17:21 GMT

#52

I know that a lot of people will be a bit disappointed with the organization and the choices for some of the nominations, and we sincerely apologize for that, but really - this is the Internet. Disagreements are inevitable.

All of the winners were chosen by staff vote. I posted the list of categories myself, and I could have really done better with regards to that.

Regarding "best carry/support/ganker" - I tried to trim the number of awards down a bit, and best player for each "1-5" position seemed a bit redundant, especially with a lot of teams not sticking true to the traditional system.

I hope you guys will stick with TeamLiquid's Dota 2 coverage regardless, and we promise that next year's awards will really blow you out of the water. Our coverage team is relatively new and small, and there are a lot of kinks to work out in terms of organization and quality, but we will continue improving for everyone's enjoyment.

If you have any feedback you want to leave for the piece, please leave it here. I'm reading it all, you can be sure of that.

teapoted

United Kingdom24425 Posts

January 15 2013 17:21 GMT

#53

Don't agree with the game of the year. Although watching it live with all the context might have been the most exciting and tense game. It wasn't actually 'the best game'. Most memorable game maybe.

Good write-up overall though.

fluidin

Singapore1084 Posts

January 15 2013 17:24 GMT

#54

Yeah I understand you guys are new to this, and some probably only followed the pro scene post TI-2 and after TL started covering Dota 2, but still ):

Might not have wanted to use "2012" in the title? I'unno.

GodBlessMali

France251 Posts

January 15 2013 17:25 GMT

#55

I really disagree on the best carry of the year. Sylar deserved it more

HOMEMdoGAS

Portugal1418 Posts

January 15 2013 17:33 GMT

#56

should really have 2 awards for support, and even if u dont i dont understand how a player who plays mostly on 5th position, mostly, gets it, when a player playing on the 4th gets easily much more "attention"

Frazzlehoon

United States3455 Posts

January 15 2013 17:34 GMT

#57

On January 16 2013 02:13 fluidin wrote:
This is more of a TI2 and post-TI2 awards, isn't it.

Because much of pre-TI2 wasn't taken into account.

It isn't really a post-TI2 awards, its more of taking 2012 as a whole, in which TI2 obviously was the biggest event, and showed which teams had the most consistency and skill when placed against the best teams in the world.

I'm really glad that TL covered Dota2's Awards! Awesome read and looking forward to 2013! :D

Nvar

Denmark150 Posts

January 15 2013 17:34 GMT

#58

Also Mushi is an outstanding carry, if he was on a better team, he would destroy the world!

Tephus

Cascadia1753 Posts

January 15 2013 17:45 GMT

#59

On January 16 2013 01:59 Benj0 wrote:
Think 'The Play' should have beaten the Roshan Bait though

On January 16 2013 01:53 LiamTheZerg wrote:
Yay not Tobi won caster of the year! Was surprised Na'Vi's turnaround teamfight in the game of the year didnt win best play..

While it was a very exciting play, there were too many aspect of miss-play by IG. Puck orbed into the black hole, they were all clumped up for it, and they (should) know that LoH had a bkb(and xboct kinda), and was going to use it the moment sleep ended.

They basically gave LoH and easy 4 man black hole.