EPTSame for taeja in early 2012, but taejas reign only lasted a few months.
The Triple Crown of Starcraft 2 - Page 4
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RiSkysc2
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Same for taeja in early 2012, but taejas reign only lasted a few months. | ||
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Endall
United States66 Posts
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Aeromi
France14463 Posts
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vthree
Hong Kong8039 Posts
On February 15 2013 01:38 Vul wrote: Shouldn't winning a triple crown mean doing this all in one year? Edit: By that standard Life would be the only triple crown winner because all of his wins happened in 2012. I ask because in other sports (tennis, baseball, horse racing) I think it's a yearly and not career accomplishment and therefore triple crowns are more rare. It highlights a player who's absolutely dominant over a short time-span. SC2 is only a few years old, and in a few years time you would never see 4 triple crown winners in the other sports I mentioned. Maybe it can just be broken up into "Triple Crown" and "Career Triple Crown" What you said is true about other sports. Tennis is actually the Grand Slam. However, a season/year is much more 'structured'. Every calendar year in tennis has 4 Slams (US, Aussie, French, British). For baseball, it is actually leading in statistics (HR, RBI, batting avg) for a season and for horse racing, it was the 3 big races. So I think it is very hard to apply the same standards to SC2. In early 2011, korean players didn't travel as much to NA/EU events. It wasn't until late 2011 when the tournaments started paying for travel. Also, GSL seasons were much 'closer' together so players didn't have as much time to travel. So it is difficult to have a 'fair' standard imo. | ||
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Alpino
Brazil4390 Posts
On February 15 2013 01:38 Vul wrote: Shouldn't winning a triple crown mean doing this all in one year? Edit: By that standard Life would be the only triple crown winner because all of his wins happened in 2012. I ask because in other sports (tennis, baseball, horse racing) I think it's a yearly and not career accomplishment and therefore triple crowns are more rare. It highlights a player who's absolutely dominant over a short time-span. SC2 is only a few years old, and in a few years time you would never see 4 triple crown winners in the other sports I mentioned. Maybe it can just be broken up into "Triple Crown" and "Career Triple Crown" That's a valid point and I'm convinced. Life is the only triple crown player. | ||
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LightSpectra
United States3245 Posts
On February 15 2013 01:45 DavoS wrote: If we're going by standards that extreme, not even Life would qualify. Iron Squid ended in late January of 2013 All of his wins happened within a four-month time span, it'd be arbitrary to discount his Iron Squid win just because it happened after New Year's. | ||
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Aunvilgod
2653 Posts
On February 14 2013 19:08 Fionn wrote: I brought this up forever ago in articles. Good job actually making a thread for it. Probably deserves it's own Liquipedia page. It's quite amazing to win a major in all three major SC2 hotbeds. I disagree. Look at some of those tournaments. The 2011 MLGs, Global Challenge Kiev, Dreamhack Valencia. Not exactly stacked. Not worth a Liquipedia page in my opinion. | ||
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Dodgin
Canada39254 Posts
On February 15 2013 01:59 Alpino wrote: That's a valid point and I'm convinced. Life is the only triple crown player. Except Life won Iron Squid in 2013. Limiting to one year only is stupid, it doesn't have to copy other sports because It's not other sports, It's Starcraft. On February 15 2013 02:04 LightSpectra wrote: All of his wins happened within a four-month time span, it'd be arbitrary to discount his Iron Squid win just because it happened after New Year's. If you're going to count it like that then Mvp is also a one year span triple crown winner, Blizzcon ( NA ) in Oct 2011, 2012 GSL Season 2 (KR) in May 2012 and IEM Cologne (EU) in August 2012. | ||
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LightSpectra
United States3245 Posts
On February 15 2013 01:45 DavoS wrote: If you're going to count it like that then Mvp is also a one year span triple crown winner, Blizzcon ( NA ) in Oct 2011, 2012 GSL Season 2 (KR) in May 2012 and IEM Cologne (EU) in August 2012. Sounds good to me. | ||
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krutopatkin
Germany2612 Posts
On February 15 2013 01:50 RiSkyToss wrote: I think nestea should definitely be in there, in early 2011 he looked absolutely godlike, only mvp was even close to nesteas skill level at the time. Same for taeja in early 2012, but taejas reign only lasted a few months. Neither fits the requirements of the OP though. | ||
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coverpunch
United States2093 Posts
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Salient
United States876 Posts
GSL, MLG, OSL? | ||
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mrRoflpwn
United States2618 Posts
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Badfatpanda
United States9719 Posts
 But yeah, Life is a scary kid. Thanks for the thread | ||
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iamho
United States3347 Posts
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PhoenixVoid
Canada32755 Posts
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VanSCPurge
United States169 Posts
IEM Season VI - Global Challenge Guangzhou 1st Place 2011 MLG North American Invitational 1st Place 2011 ASUS ROG Stars Invite 1st Place IPL Season 1 1st Place All of the above took place in 2011. They're all NA/EU titles with the exception of the IEM victory being in China. People forget IdrA was one of the best players in the world in 2011. | ||
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Vul
United States685 Posts
On February 15 2013 02:09 Dodgin wrote: Except Life won Iron Squid in 2013. Limiting to one year only is stupid, it doesn't have to copy other sports because It's not other sports, It's Starcraft. If you're going to count it like that then Mvp is also a one year span triple crown winner, Blizzcon ( NA ) in Oct 2011, 2012 GSL Season 2 (KR) in May 2012 and IEM Cologne (EU) in August 2012. Well if we didn't want it to be somewhat like other sports then we wouldn't call it a triple crown, we would just come up with something completely different. It won't be like other sports because they have recognized competitions which are designated as triple crown events. One of the problems with talking about a triple crown in SC2 at all is that we don't have a system like that. We all know that GSL is harder than MLG but the Aussie Open and the US Open draw from the same talent pool. Like I said earlier, my opinion is that limiting it to one year better reflects the spirit of what a triple crown generally means. But you could also recognize players for a career triple crown. They are just two different kinds of accomplishments, one recognizes longevity, the other recognizes dominance in a short time span. | ||
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Dodgin
Canada39254 Posts
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alvadr
135 Posts
his first title to his third: 98. I'd argue that this was less impressive than the 13 months between Mvp's victory, as Mvp's time shows a longer dominance, but maybe not as powerful as one. | ||
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