Hardly. IPL4 will give 100k in prizes, Stephano got like 70 or 80k from IPL3 - MLG was giving 5k per event last season except for the final. Polt got 100k off GSL Super tournament. Prize winnings is a terrible metric for how good someone is.

For reference, sjow is ELO Rank: 51st in TLPD international.

What?
Stephano got 30k from IPL3. Thats not even close to 80k.
Sjow participated in a lot of event and i think his prize winnings can tell you something about his skill. (his whole winnings don't come from one event).

ceaRshaf

Romania4926 Posts

March 02 2012 07:53 GMT

#343

Well I never liked Sjow that much, but I hope he gets a new team.

Doublemint

Austria8633 Posts

March 02 2012 07:54 GMT

#344

Sad to see to be honest, since he seems to be a nice guy. But his results have not been the best for quite some time now...
On the other hand, Dignitas should start hiring again, SeleCt is pretty good, Killer is a good Zerg, and Bling up and coming, but I am not sure that´s enough to compete with the likes of Mouz, Empire, EG, Liquid etc...

fenrysk

United States364 Posts

March 02 2012 08:01 GMT

#345

it's kinda wierd to think that probably a year ago, when i thought of Dignitas, it was the names Naniwa, SelecT and Sjow--
now SelecT is only one of those three guys still with the team =\

ChriseC

Germany440 Posts

March 02 2012 08:29 GMT

#346

ye dignitas is dying out

Nekovivie

United Kingdom2599 Posts

March 02 2012 08:32 GMT

#347

Didn't even know what race he played till I checked, guess he isn't one of the more well known ones.

y0su

Finland7871 Posts

March 02 2012 08:32 GMT

#348

On March 02 2012 17:29 ChriseC wrote:
ye dignitas is dying out

Hardly... they had 3 players at and advancing past groups at Assembly... Select, Bischu and Bling. Yeah they could use another big name, but they have a strong team still.

TheBanana

Norway2183 Posts

March 02 2012 08:48 GMT

#349

On March 02 2012 17:32 Nekovivie wrote:
Didn't even know what race he played till I checked, guess he isn't one of the more well known ones.

He is one of the few foreigners that managed to win in code A.
He has had some pretty dominant wins, first and foremost his IEM-win. But that's a long time ago and he seems to have faded since then, only showing glimpses once in a while.

He was along with Jinro my first favorite player.
I guess I jinxed them both.

Dear curse: Hands off Thorzain!

Seraphone

United Kingdom1219 Posts

March 02 2012 09:40 GMT

#350

Dignitas have most likely noticed that the goalposts have moved a lot in Sc2 since they picked up their core roster over a year ago and much like Fnatic are clearing out players who are in decline and replacing them with players on an upward trend.

Sjow is a solid Terran players but his results in the second half of 2011 weren't anything like as good as his results in early 2011 and 2010.

I think most people wouldn't rank Sjow as being in the top 20 foreign players right now so the chances of him posting major LAN results (like a top 4 IEM or top 8 MLG/DH/IPL) aren't so good with Koreans in attendance.

A lot of it also comes down to how much Sjow was asking for from Dignitas.

Kyuki

Sweden1867 Posts

March 02 2012 10:04 GMT

#351

=( GL finding a new home SjoW! Power to you!

Neelia

Germany599 Posts

March 02 2012 10:06 GMT

#352

On March 02 2012 18:40 Seraphone wrote:
Dignitas have most likely noticed that the goalposts have moved a lot in Sc2 since they picked up their core roster over a year ago and much like Fnatic are clearing out players who are in decline and replacing them with players on an upward trend.

Sjow is a solid Terran players but his results in the second half of 2011 weren't anything like as good as his results in early 2011 and 2010.

I think most people wouldn't rank Sjow as being in the top 20 foreign players right now so the chances of him posting major LAN results (like a top 4 IEM or top 8 MLG/DH/IPL) aren't so good with Koreans in attendance.

Guess you have missed MLG Raleigh.

TAAF

Switzerland226 Posts

March 02 2012 10:27 GMT

#353

I am sure a good team will pick Sjow up. He is really good.
What I am more worried about is the Starcraft roster of Dignitas... I hope some new players join soon.

Cinim

Denmark866 Posts

March 02 2012 10:34 GMT

#354

On March 02 2012 06:27 Arterial wrote:
Dignitas' SC lineup doesn't seem to be all that strong anymore, with only SelecT and Bling....It was good with Naniwa in it but yeah he's gone too.

Merz and Bischu, merz overall being pretty good aswell and Bischu is a beast in teamleagues it seems, having done all-kills in IPL TAC. Also killer is pretty good. Although, They have dream and tandongho, who I think could really be incredible in the future, those 2 seems somewhat inactive, but they have potential.

Bagi

Germany6799 Posts

March 02 2012 10:43 GMT

#355

When people talk about Sjow not having the best results lately, I think people need to remember that it applies to all foreigners. Once the Koreans entered the scene, only a few players have been able to keep up. Since Naniwa left Dignitas, Sjow has still had the best results out of everyone in the team, even if people may consider Select the better player overall. I have doubt in my mind that Dignitas would have wanted to keep Sjow in their roster.

It must have come down to them not being able to afford him, and other teams probably having better deals.

LeLfe

France3160 Posts

March 02 2012 10:46 GMT

#356

he's still the only swede besides Jinro who got through the 1st Round of Code A

TotalBiscuit

United Kingdom5437 Posts

March 02 2012 10:51 GMT

#357

On March 02 2012 16:52 hrvoje07 wrote:
What?
Stephano got 30k from IPL3. Thats not even close to 80k.
Sjow participated in a lot of event and i think his prize winnings can tell you something about his skill. (his whole winnings don't come from one event).

Pretty much this. If you choose to just look solely at his earnings ranking and not the information that is RIGHT FUCKING THERE ON THE PAGE then your argument is pretty much horseshit. You can't just say "oh well that's all I was talking about!", it's like deliberate sodding ignorance. The guy who originally posted was making the assumption that people wouldn't be dumbasses and actually take into account ALL the information that was right there available, rather than just say "herpderp, fruitdealer is 8th, argument invalid".

People are more interested in being pedantic than having a sensible discussion it seems.