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Who was the best SC2 player of 2019?

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TL.net Bot
Profile Joined June 2004
TL.net133 Posts
December 27 2019 23:50 GMT
#1
zumpy
Profile Joined August 2011
United States122 Posts
December 28 2019 01:06 GMT
#2
Serral by a smidge
well won
outscar
Profile Joined September 2014
2832 Posts
December 28 2019 02:03 GMT
#3
Do you even ask? Classic!!!
sunbeams are never made like me...
Boggyb
Profile Joined January 2017
2855 Posts
December 28 2019 03:09 GMT
#4
The answer is Rogue. He won a GSL and used his bully pulpit to say Zerg OP. That puts him in the running for GOAT even if he doesn't have the number of tournament wins as others.
DivinesiaTV
Profile Joined January 2011
Finland58 Posts
December 28 2019 09:39 GMT
#5
Definitely Serral. He was whole year long the guy to beat.
Always look at the bright side of life
Popparockz
Profile Joined April 2011
United States40 Posts
December 28 2019 13:29 GMT
#6
I think serral would have beaten dark at blizzcon if they had gotten to play. Reyner is just serral's kryptonite, and by kryptonite I mean the only person that can go about 50/50 with him.
Weavel
Profile Joined January 2010
Finland9221 Posts
December 28 2019 13:31 GMT
#7
Serral easily. Reynor is the second best though.
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Lutzsairofe
Profile Joined July 2019
Korea (South)2 Posts
Last Edited: 2019-12-28 15:04:23
December 28 2019 14:58 GMT
#8
In this year's final champ is definitely 'Dark'
So world best player is Dark!!!
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NinjaNight
Profile Joined January 2018
428 Posts
December 28 2019 15:23 GMT
#9
Dark edged him out this time, Serral fanboys
ejozl
Profile Joined October 2010
Denmark3463 Posts
December 28 2019 17:37 GMT
#10
hmm Serral was kinda weak this year.. Still the best player by far^^
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JJH777
Profile Joined January 2011
United States4415 Posts
December 29 2019 18:17 GMT
#11
Serral winning this poll shows how delusional his fanboys are.. Blizzcon/GSL/ST >>> 2 HSC, 2 WCS and GSL vs the World. In the tournaments they didn't win they were both regularly top 4/top 8 so you can't even use that to say Serral was better. Dark was top 4 in every GSL this year.
Riner1212
Profile Joined November 2012
United States337 Posts
December 29 2019 21:08 GMT
#12
i hate to say this, cuz im not a fan of serral but i will give credit where its due, serral is the best player in the game, even better then maru. or maybe cuz he plays zerg lol.
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sneakyfox
Profile Joined January 2017
8216 Posts
December 29 2019 23:17 GMT
#13
Dark is the new aLive.
"I saw what sneakyfox wrote on TL.net and it made me furious" - PartinG
Boggyb
Profile Joined January 2017
2855 Posts
December 30 2019 02:32 GMT
#14
On December 30 2019 08:17 sneakyfox wrote:
Dark is the new aLive.

Dark can split against banelings, so...
Zerg.Zilla
Profile Joined February 2012
Hungary5029 Posts
December 30 2019 06:44 GMT
#15
On December 29 2019 00:23 NinjaNight wrote:
Dark edged him out this time, Serral fanboys

lol thanks, needed a good laugh this morning!
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sneakyfox
Profile Joined January 2017
8216 Posts
December 30 2019 14:07 GMT
#16
On December 30 2019 11:32 Boggyb wrote:
Show nested quote +
On December 30 2019 08:17 sneakyfox wrote:
Dark is the new aLive.

Dark can split against banelings, so...


Ouch
"I saw what sneakyfox wrote on TL.net and it made me furious" - PartinG
Solio
Profile Joined June 2016
France145 Posts
December 30 2019 18:07 GMT
#17
Dark obviously, won gsl, supertournament and blizzcon, people vote for Serral because he is foreigner
StarcraftSquall
Profile Joined December 2018
United States196 Posts
December 31 2019 05:30 GMT
#18
As much as I like Serral thinking about it objectively I have to give it to Dark by the tiniest of margins. Winning both a GSL and BlizzCon while Serral didn’t even make the final match. (Which was a huge disappointment I would’ve much rather seen Dark vs Serral than Reynor).
ZerglingSoup
Profile Joined June 2009
United States346 Posts
Last Edited: 2019-12-31 06:56:41
December 31 2019 06:55 GMT
#19
I dont understand why everyone is so certain Serral would have beat Dark.

Dark is an extremely talented player and had obviously prepared hard for Serral. The first thing he said after beating Raynor is that he was disappointed that it wasn't Serral in the finals. It seemed like some shade, but apparently he knew everyone was going to go around saying he was second best, even after a killer year when he took the most prestigious prizes in SC2.
Stream plz
Creo1
Profile Joined March 2019
3 Posts
December 31 2019 13:50 GMT
#20
On December 31 2019 03:07 Solio wrote:
Dark obviously, won gsl, supertournament and blizzcon, people vote for Serral because he is foreigner


And lost to Elazer in ro16 of GSL vs the world :|
JJH777
Profile Joined January 2011
United States4415 Posts
Last Edited: 2019-12-31 18:13:20
December 31 2019 18:11 GMT
#21
On December 31 2019 22:50 Creo1 wrote:
Show nested quote +
On December 31 2019 03:07 Solio wrote:
Dark obviously, won gsl, supertournament and blizzcon, people vote for Serral because he is foreigner


And lost to Elazer in ro16 of GSL vs the world :|


And Serral lost to Heromarine and Neeb early this year. What's your point?

Everyone has some questionable losses this year. Dark was the most consistent player all year. That one loss to Elazer was pretty much his only wtf are you doing series all year.
paddyz
Profile Joined May 2011
Ireland628 Posts
January 01 2020 08:50 GMT
#22
Trap
Dedraterllaerau
Profile Joined May 2019
113 Posts
January 02 2020 03:21 GMT
#23
sry cant take zergs seriously in games current state
DrunkenSCV
Profile Joined November 2016
76 Posts
January 02 2020 09:17 GMT
#24
Woa, I didn't expect the poll to be so biased. Literally everything says Dark was better in 2019.
Nakajin
Profile Blog Joined September 2014
Canada8989 Posts
January 02 2020 19:17 GMT
#25
On December 30 2019 08:17 sneakyfox wrote:
Dark is the new aLive.


He really is
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Elentos
Profile Blog Joined February 2015
55561 Posts
January 03 2020 15:26 GMT
#26
Serral winning this poll by that margin is absolute nonsense.
Every 60 seconds in Africa, a minute passes.
Ej_
Profile Blog Joined January 2013
47656 Posts
Last Edited: 2020-01-03 15:46:14
January 03 2020 15:45 GMT
#27
On January 04 2020 00:26 Elentos wrote:
Serral winning this poll by that margin is absolute nonsense.

shut up you korean loving hater

ALL HAIL THE BLIZZCON SEMIFINALIST
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Akio
Profile Blog Joined January 2019
Finland1838 Posts
January 03 2020 15:48 GMT
#28
Lol how is this poll so one-sidedly in favor of Serral?
Mine gas, build tanks.
Rob-Zero
Profile Joined January 2011
Germany460 Posts
January 03 2020 18:31 GMT
#29
I did not vote in this poll, but for me personally it´s very clear that Serral is the best player in the world by quite a margin and for nearly two years already.
Dark was sad that he did not beat Serral in the Blizzcon finals not because he knew that he would not be recognized as the best player of the year if he did not beat him, but because he could not acknowledge himself as the best player without a single win over Serral in 2019. Why i think that? Because Dark does not seem like someone who cares a lot about what people think but rather as someone who is very ambitious and wants to prove himself over the other players.
Of course there are arguments for Dark and I can understand everyone who says Dark was the better player in 2019, but when I watch games of those two vs various opponents it just seems to me that Serral is the better player overall.
Dark Age of Camelot - I miss you
Elentos
Profile Blog Joined February 2015
55561 Posts
Last Edited: 2020-01-03 19:36:45
January 03 2020 19:17 GMT
#30
The people who don't acknowledge Dark as the best player of 2019 now wouldn't have acknowledged him as such if he beat Serral in the Blizzcon finals instead either. If you go 10-1 against the best TvZ and PvZ players as well as the only Zerg that Serral struggles with at all you can by all rights consider yourself the best. People should consider you the best or at least think about it. But people still rather put Serral ahead even though he was far less successful than the year before and not more successful than Dark.

I've seen more than one person call Serral the world champion recently, too.
Every 60 seconds in Africa, a minute passes.
DanceSC
Profile Blog Joined March 2008
United States751 Posts
January 04 2020 01:31 GMT
#31
On December 31 2019 22:50 Creo1 wrote:
Show nested quote +
On December 31 2019 03:07 Solio wrote:
Dark obviously, won gsl, supertournament and blizzcon, people vote for Serral because he is foreigner


And lost to Elazer in ro16 of GSL vs the world :|

so true, even the casters over hyped serral. foreigner bias for sure.
Dance.943 || "I think he's just going to lose. There's only so many ways you can lose. And he's going to make some kind of units. And I'm going to attack him, and then all his stuff is going to die. That's about the best prediction that I can make" - NonY
sneakyfox
Profile Joined January 2017
8216 Posts
January 04 2020 11:15 GMT
#32
On January 04 2020 04:17 Elentos wrote:
The people who don't acknowledge Dark as the best player of 2019 now wouldn't have acknowledged him as such if he beat Serral in the Blizzcon finals instead either. If you go 10-1 against the best TvZ and PvZ players as well as the only Zerg that Serral struggles with at all you can by all rights consider yourself the best. People should consider you the best or at least think about it. But people still rather put Serral ahead even though he was far less successful than the year before and not more successful than Dark.

I've seen more than one person call Serral the world champion recently, too.


It's like Maru fanboys on steroids. I mean we all know that with Maru it's only the good games that count, the rest are just ignored. But with Serral that's taken to a whole new level. Here it's entire tournaments that don't count if Serral doesn't win. All hail the reining world champion Serral


On January 04 2020 10:31 DanceSC wrote:
Show nested quote +
On December 31 2019 22:50 Creo1 wrote:
On December 31 2019 03:07 Solio wrote:
Dark obviously, won gsl, supertournament and blizzcon, people vote for Serral because he is foreigner


And lost to Elazer in ro16 of GSL vs the world :|

so true, even the casters over hyped serral. foreigner bias for sure.


Well that is pretty much the point. I imagine that some casters overhyping Serral has everything to do with how some people believe him to be clearly the best regardless of what he wins. Many of the Circuit casters declared Serral the GOAT of SC2 already in 2018 and haven't looked back since. It's probably also a business thing since it really helps hype up the Circuit events, which is after all where their income comes from, and I imagine it makes it more exciting to cast them as well if we say the GOAT is present.

But for those of us who follow all of SC2 it is disappointing and bothersome. Not least because of the double standards applied: we all know that Serral was declared player of the year in 2018 mainly because of his smashing performance at the global finals. Without it, he wouldn't have gotten that praise. But now that another player has an even more dominant performance at Blizzcon, with a Code S win, ST win, many other top finishes, etc, it apparently doesn't matter. Because that player is not Serral.
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FFW_Rude
Profile Blog Joined November 2010
France10201 Posts
January 05 2020 09:38 GMT
#33
Other because the player is "Zerg"
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KiLim51337113
Profile Joined June 2021
5 Posts
June 19 2021 15:03 GMT
#34
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