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INnoVation wins TL community GOAT contest

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Nakajin
Profile Blog Joined September 2014
Canada8989 Posts
Last Edited: 2019-08-04 15:29:09
August 04 2019 02:05 GMT
#1
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INnovation is crowned StarCraft 2 Greatest Player of All Time


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Lee "(T)INnoVation" Shin-hyung has emerged victorious of the Team Liquid Greatest of all time contest and has been chosen as Starcraft 2 greatest player.

The South Korea native has been an unavoidable and dominating force in Starcraft ever since he stepped into the scene during the transition of Kespa from Brood War to Starcraft 2. Since then he has amassed a staggering 8 individual trophy in Korea, 4 foreign trophies, won 9 teamleague and earn over 700 000$ in prize money. The machine terran also score the highest win rate in both map and series against koreans of any top player as well as the third highest overall in the history of Starcraft with a 67% in map and 72,3%. in series. He also possesses the highest offline win rate of any top terran in all 3 match-ups across his career and only lost 3 of the 15 offline final he has been a part of, shining his brightest when it matters the most.

This result is a confirmation of Innovation status in the Starcraft world, but it was still unclear if his lack of dominating results in the last year would have tarnish his image.

Coming out second was none other than the young terran prince (T)Maru, snapping at the heel of the Machine. The 22 years old 6 times Korean Starleague winner was clearly Innovation most worthy rival, but the prophecy of the 13 years old genius that would once dominate the game has not yet come to pass, his lack of weekender results holding him back at the end. Nevertheless, with no sign of him slowing down he is poised to give Innovation a run for his money in the coming years.

The King of Wings and once undisputed greatest in the history if the game, (T)Mvp, closes an all terran podium. The old king legacy was considered worthy enough to beat Kespa pretender (P)sOs-(P)Zest and (Z)soO and earned him a very respectable 3rd place. KT and STK rivals (Z)soO and (P)Zest took the final two spots of the top 5, giving us the best performing zerg and protoss.

With an 18th place current world champion (Z)Serral was comfortably deemed the best foreigner, but defeats against (P)Classic and (P)Rain left him outside of top echelon of our history, as the TeamLiquid community favored long time constancy and greatness over burst of domination, a tendency that stayed true in all along the tournament.

Overall Koreans unsurprisingly dominate the ranking, scoring 28 of the top 32 spots as only 2 players Stephano and Serral won in head to head comparison versus Korean player, giving sc2 a domination worthy of his older brother.

Complete, 128 players, results can be found here

I would like to thanks all the people who have participate in the voting, discussion and banter and have stuck with me for this journey, I hope you all had as much fun as me!
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Cricketer12
Profile Blog Joined May 2012
United States13990 Posts
August 04 2019 02:13 GMT
#2
That final vote was crazy close
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RealityTheGreat
Profile Joined January 2018
China564 Posts
August 04 2019 02:34 GMT
#3
Not Mvp...
Betrayed, forgotten, abandoned.
Pangpootata
Profile Blog Joined January 2011
1838 Posts
Last Edited: 2019-08-04 02:48:00
August 04 2019 02:46 GMT
#4
Inno can win the SC2 greatest player vote, but can't win the GSL vs the World vote


Edit:

Notice the top 4 are 3 terrans and 1 zerg?

Just like how the bonjwas in BW were boxer, oov, Nada, savior
Nakajin
Profile Blog Joined September 2014
Canada8989 Posts
August 04 2019 02:52 GMT
#5
Oh god that moment you realize you made a spelling mistake in the title of your thread ouch
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ZigguratOfUr
Profile Blog Joined April 2012
Iraq16955 Posts
August 04 2019 02:56 GMT
#6
What's up with votes between terrans and one vote differences? Pretty nice results all in all.
starkiller123
Profile Joined January 2016
United States4030 Posts
August 04 2019 03:06 GMT
#7
On August 04 2019 11:13 Cricketer12 wrote:
That final vote was crazy close

Oh man by one vote lol
necrosexy
Profile Joined March 2011
451 Posts
August 04 2019 04:38 GMT
#8
lol

User was warned for this post.
sneakyfox
Profile Joined January 2017
8216 Posts
August 04 2019 07:28 GMT
#9
You think this is close? Then think about how Fantasy and TY got about 4000 votes each for GSL vs the world and still came within one vote of each other.

Well okay this is also close
"I saw what sneakyfox wrote on TL.net and it made me furious" - PartinG
Russano
Profile Joined November 2010
United States434 Posts
August 04 2019 08:16 GMT
#10
Really cool to see all of these play out over time. Thanks a bunch for doing this Nakajin. It was a really cool idea and I enjoyed following the brackets and threads.
Z3nith
Profile Joined October 2017
485 Posts
August 04 2019 09:38 GMT
#11
On August 04 2019 11:46 Pangpootata wrote:
Inno can win the SC2 greatest player vote, but can't win the GSL vs the World vote


Edit:

Notice the top 4 are 3 terrans and 1 zerg?

Just like how the bonjwas in BW were boxer, oov, Nada, savior


So what you're saying is Tesagi
Poopi
Profile Blog Joined November 2010
France12906 Posts
August 04 2019 09:42 GMT
#12
Meh, delusional people
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SamirDuran
Profile Joined May 2012
Philippines895 Posts
August 04 2019 09:46 GMT
#13
On August 04 2019 18:42 Poopi wrote:
Meh, delusional people

And why's that?
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WombaT
Profile Blog Joined May 2010
Northern Ireland26224 Posts
August 04 2019 10:08 GMT
#14
Possibly the greatest prize of all
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HolydaKing
Profile Joined February 2010
21254 Posts
August 04 2019 10:44 GMT
#15
Deserved imo, after all he's the #1 in the Hall of Fame over at aligulac.com and rightfully so, he's been great since a long time.
Durnuu
Profile Joined September 2013
13322 Posts
August 04 2019 10:59 GMT
#16
Stuchiu in shambles
BUNNYYYYYYYYY https://i.imgur.com/BiCF577.png
D-light
Profile Joined April 2012
Finland7364 Posts
Last Edited: 2019-08-05 10:12:00
August 04 2019 11:03 GMT
#17
Damn it forgot to vote in the final when it could've actually mattered.

Edit. Oh yeah thanks Nakajin and everyone else involved in this.
why even
Nakajin
Profile Blog Joined September 2014
Canada8989 Posts
Last Edited: 2019-08-04 12:59:23
August 04 2019 12:46 GMT
#18
On August 04 2019 19:59 Durnuu wrote:
Stuchiu in shambles


Gumba in disarray
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Devangel
Profile Joined March 2019
Russian Federation66 Posts
Last Edited: 2019-08-04 15:08:37
August 04 2019 15:07 GMT
#19
Thank you, Nakajin, for organizing this tournament, this was fun to participate! This tournament is the very reason I registered here after 6 years of visiting TL
I suppose that INnoVation deserves the win
DieuCure
Profile Joined January 2017
France3713 Posts
August 04 2019 15:22 GMT
#20
On August 04 2019 20:03 D-light wrote:
Damn it forgot to vote in the final when it could've actually mattered.


Ye, too, INno's fans were so desesperate, it was their last chance to be happy with sc2 this year, so they took it more seriously than sc2 fans.
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