Going for Rain, Maru and JD here. I wish I could Life, but he just falling behind bit by bit every tourney. Rain, because he is the most stable and intelligent protoss in the scene. Maru because he is young innovative and because screw MKP :D Oh and I forgot to add a team! I think I cheer for KT here. STX is nice and Woongjin, well sad story...
I never really bought the Dear hype. Rain and sOs were more consistent overall for the year and fairly close in results. Yet, I can't help but feel sOs contributed more to protoss innovation. For that I'd give him the edge. Also he won WCS, so there's that.
Tough call between the Zergs. I have to give it to Soulkey, mainly because he was so consistent in the hardest region.
Team:
SPL champs and did well in individual league too.
IMO
I'm assuming the team category puts heavy weight on SPL. Otherwise, I have no idea why KT is there and SKT and IM are not. They did way better overall for 2013. STX is the clear winner though.
sOs narrowly edges out Dear for me. The WCS championship is a huge deal and sOs contributed heavily to the development of protoss during the year. I'll never forget his use of hallucinations and warp prisms in PvT during the first season of WCS KR. Impressive as fuck.
It is really close between Maru and INnoVation for me. INnoVation was very dominant for a time and actually looked like a true bonjwa to me, but Maru's string of performances during the second half of the year was extraordinary (1st OSL, 3-4th GSL, 3-4th S3 Finals, 3-4th Blizzcon). One could think of 2013 HotS separated into two reigns, with Maru ascending the throne with his 4-0 victory over INnoVation in the semifinals of the OSL.
Rain ( The thing is sOs feels more like an ''MVP'' since he won wcs but in terms of all year skill display Rain is probably #1 all race included ) INnoVation ( because no other Terran can keep up ) Jaedong (He feels like an MVP zerg with his 2013 )
Rain, Bogus and SoulKey. That was fucking easy. As for the team... well shit, STX did beat Stars in the end, but my God Stars had a ridiculously good season. >_< Fan boy votes are already messing this thing up.
Jaedong makes more sense than Flash when it comes to Zerg, but even then if we look at the entire year of 2013. There is only one and his name is SoulKey.
EPT
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Protoss MVP Award:![[image loading]](http://i.imgur.com/SJ44eR2.png)
Jin Air Green Wings sOs![[image loading]](http://www.teamliquid.net/tlpd/images/teams/icons/16.png){kind=icon}
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Terran MVP Award:![[image loading]](http://www.teamliquid.net/tlpd/images/teams/icons/187.png){kind=icon}
Acer INnoVation![[image loading]](http://i.imgur.com/TT2WNbD.png)
Zerg MVP Award:
SK Telecom T1 Soulkey![[image loading]](http://www.teamliquid.net/tlpd/images/teams/icons/74.png){kind=icon}
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STX SouL![[image loading]](http://www.teamliquid.net/tlpd/images/teams/icons/6.png){kind=icon}
Woongjin Stars![[image loading]](http://www.teamliquid.net/tlpd/images/teams/icons/2.png){kind=icon}
KT Rolster![[image loading]](http://i.imgur.com/IWHfA5W.jpg)
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CJ Entus Frost Shy![[image loading]](http://i.imgur.com/VNF1t8X.png)
Najin Black Sword watch![[image loading]](http://i.imgur.com/UTMpOnq.png)
Samsung Galaxy Ozone DanDy
