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On December 10 2012 10:41 Thrillz wrote:
Speaking of which...who does everyone else think is the "player of the year"?

On December 10 2012 10:44 MisterTea wrote:

Maybe Life,

but I dont know really its hard to say, theres so much Inconsistancy with players in sc2, at one point taeja is compeltely unstoppable, a month later hes losing 7-0 to a protoss

On December 10 2012 10:44 JJH777 wrote:


Yeah I remembered MC as well. So 6 players have. Still obviously very very hard.

On December 10 2012 10:46 DJHelium wrote:
DongRaeGu is my pick for player of the year. He has won GSL and MLG, as well as a MLG arena. Add another top 4 in GSL, second place in OSL and a second place at another MLG championship and arena and one notices he has quite a lot achieved.

He might have slumped during this last few months, but it was only less than 2 months ago he came second in OSL so overall I'd say this was his year.

On December 10 2012 10:45 jmbthirteen wrote:

such an annoying argument. Stephano beats koreans at every damn tournament. and not just koreans, the best koreans. every tournament he is in, he is a threat to win. you have to win foreign tournaments to be up for the player of the year because there are only what, 5 GSLs?

No Koreans other than MVP kept such a high level of play for such a long time. And Stephano won LSC2 just a month ago, got 3rd at ESWC the week before that and nearly reverse all killed Team Korea at the GSL WC last weekend. Dude is still playing fantastic.

when looking at the whole year, MVP and Stephano are the two best choices. I would have went with MVP, but Stephano is deserving.

On December 10 2012 10:46 Woizit wrote:
Player of the "year"?

May I remind everyone that Snipe nerf was in this year, and so was the turn-around decision of not buffing ravens. Both were caused by one single player.

Not to mentioned that his last achievement was 2nd in GSL Season 4, which still wasn't too long ago.

On December 10 2012 10:35 Fionn wrote:
Stephano? Ehhhhhhh.

Life, Parting, Mvp and Rain so nope.

On December 10 2012 10:41 Thrillz wrote:
Speaking of which...who does everyone else think is the "player of the year"?

On December 10 2012 10:47 Canucklehead wrote:


No I can't agree because I place very little value on winning euro tourneys because no koreans are there besides hero/taeja usually. MLG/IPLs are 10x harder to win than any major euro tourney due to the level of koreans at those events. Lonestar I don't count as a major tourney either. Stephano wouldn't make my top 5 or even top 10 player of the year and no foreigner would. My top 10 would be all KRs.

On December 10 2012 10:48 CrugerDK wrote:


well. looking over all of 2012, I think a decent argument can be made for Stephano.
He did change the ZvP metagame in the start of the year, and have consistently been at the very top of the game through out the year.

the story of Life in 2012, is basically a break out performance towards the end of the year and a very quick rise to the very top. but for most of 2012, he wasn't really someone we saw a lot from.

MVP's story in 2012, is basically proving that while injured, he's still one of the very best players of the world - but ultimately the injury is important, and it's hard to name him the player of 2012, when the majority of the year the injury has held him back from showing the level of play we saw from him in 2011.

Rain is the break out elephant, and while an very impressive switch to sc2, it's still just a short portion of the year.

Parting I think would probably the best pick for player of the year. Showing stunning PvT in the start of the year, making him the one the favourites towards to play-off of GSL season 2, being a good contender for best protoss in the world at the time, followed by his success later in the year, with his won-won-won and BWC win, once again putting himself at the very top of protoss players once again.