EPT2013 in Review - TeamLiquid Awards - Page 10
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Talionis
Scotland4085 Posts
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wrier
Canada291 Posts
I just kind of want to give my 2 cents on this because I spent a lot of time playing/watching SC2 last year. Not as much playing as I would have liked, but that's besides the point. Best Zerg: So what if Soulkey did 2 baneling orientated attacks that INnoVatioN was known to be weak against, followed by a strong defense from a proxy 2 rax and then catching INnoVatioN playing risky with a doom drop in the crucial game 7, a win is a win and that's what people remember. Soulkey won WCS Korea Season 1 and WCG 2014 (which has an insane Korean Qualifier, pretty much worthy of winning any premier event or at least getting recognition near that respect). He has also never not made it to a Ro8 in Code S since starting, he might surpass the Nestea award by getting 10 consecutive Ro8's, and at this point in his career, I wouldn't call someone stupid for betting on it. I know people would argue that Jaedong was better, and it's hard to say I think the TL Writers were wrong with picking Soulkey over Jaedong. Too often I think Soulkey suffers from the same problems as Curious, they both seem to always (Soulkey way more consistently obviously) be able to crush players at any time, and look absolutely convincing doing it. The problem I feel these two have with their games is they don't display anything flashy, they just always have the correct everything when they win. Their defense was unbreakable, their attacks were stronger, their upgrades timed out. I can't really think of a time Soulkey displayed Lifeesque micro or Jaedongesque excitement with crazy strategies, he basically wins with standard SC2 play, even his cheeses are very by the book. The amount of skill that shows that you can basically play normal builds with normal cheeses mixed in here and there, and still crush absolutely anyone in the scene whenever you want just based on pure skill for a whole year? I can't even comprehend how that works. He's my 2nd favorite Zerg behind Jaedong (I know, I pick the most skilled players as my favorites, sue me  ), but I think his results deserve more respect in 2013.Best Terran: Taeja won 5 championships, he deserved best Terran. I feel that Taeja sort of came out of nowhere in 2013. INnoVatioN looked so dominant in Season 1 by basically brushing off exclusively Code S Finalists/Champions and Tournament Champions/Finalists with superior play, until he fell short in the finals. When INnoVatioN dominated the Season One finals (albeit The King of Wings giving him a run) most people hopped on the INnoVatioN hype train. I think when he (INnoVatioN) fell to Maru in the Ro4 at the OSL, Taeja then took up the torch as the dominating Terran, because that happened between his HSC VII win and Asus ROG Summer win. Just open their Liquipedia pages side by side and look at the 2013 results, on paper Taeja looks better. INnoVatioN had a dominating period where he looked unstoppable, but he still failed to grab more than 1 championship, even losing one to Taeja. INnoVatioN is my 2nd Favorite Terran, Taeja my 3rd and Maru my 1st, but my bias aside (and my bias against TL being an EG FAN) Taeja was, unquestionably in my eyes, the best Terran in 2013 just by sheer results alone. Best Protoss: My opinion on this is much shorter than Zerg and Terran because I have 2 accts I play on mainly, a Gold Zerg and a Terran Silver (I'm terrible I know  ), and my Protoss account hasn't been played on in months but is bronze iirc, but I do think Dear deserves it because Protoss was shaky and inconsistent with which players were hot and which were not, but Dear had the hottest streak of them all. To top it off, I feel his streak was ended earlier by Jaedong. Had he gotten past Jaedong I don't think sOs would have been our Blizzcon Champion, I'll put it that way. Follow that by him losing to Rain (who won the whole thing, versus Soulkey of all players in the finals) in the Last Big Match Hot6ix cup in the semi-finals, and getting 2nd at Asus Rog 2 weeks ago? I think we haven't seen the last of Dear yet, unlike other Protoss' this year who looked really hot at times like First, Patience, sOs, etc.And Best Player should go to Taeja, most Championships in Premier events, he really brought it home this year. All in all, very good choices in everything, I enjoyed reading it. | ||
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mechengineer123
Ukraine711 Posts
I kid, don't worry. Agree mostly, only maybe not with Taeja winning everything because a lot of his tournament wins were against some random foreigners. Nice read anyway. | ||
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SC2Toastie
Netherlands5725 Posts
On February 08 2014 22:37 bearhug wrote: Maru. Easilly. 4-0. | ||
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wrier
Canada291 Posts
Heart: Maru 4-3 Head: Taeja 4-1 or 4-2 | ||
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Serinox
Germany5224 Posts
On May 24 2013 07:05 Hot_Bid wrote: Tiers 6 & 8 (Cross-Game Showmatches, iNcontroL/TLO Switching Teams, Liquid/EG Showmatch): Since many players in all games are busy at events this week, we'll be doing these next week after they're all back. We'll make sure you to update you guys when we know exactly when! The showmatch happenend on September 29th. The communication was bad, it took several reddit threads to always get the same avoiding answers from iNcontroL. You shouldn't be surprised to receive anger and disappointment for something like that. Also I don't get that sentence: The repercussions were clear. No longer would the esports elite be allowed to take the community's money without delivering on their promises in a timely fashion. Fucking got'em. You make it sound like that is a bad thing. Really? People can't expect to get a timely result when they put money or atleast a proper information policy telling them what went wrong and informing them when it will happen? Come on, you can't be serious on that one. I'm honestly a bit shocked that such a prominent/important member of the TL organisation would publish such an ignorant article. | ||
Zealously
East Gorteau22261 Posts
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wrier
Canada291 Posts
On February 08 2014 15:10 Vindicare605 wrote: Agreed. That's my only complaint with this list. I didn't even notice that. He's probably the best Terran and Player in 2014 so far. | ||
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Serinox
Germany5224 Posts
On February 08 2014 23:23 Zealously wrote: I honestly don't know what the drama award is about, does anyone actually care about drama? tree.hugger apparently does | ||
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Zaphid
Czech Republic1860 Posts
On February 08 2014 23:23 Zealously wrote: I honestly don't know what the drama award is about, does anyone actually care about drama? You don't check reddit often, do you?  | ||
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Bagration
United States18282 Posts
Now this will sound mean, but I do feel very strongly about this. In a year where that Simon guy effectively stole more than $20k from Hyun and Quantic, where Sons of Starcraft took more than $40k and sat around, etc. treehugger apparently thinks the worst thing to happen was the community getting upset and demanding accountability? Is he a fool? One of the reasons why the scene has so many issues is because there is not enough professionalism and accountability, and demanding that tournament organizers, teams and content producers have a level of basic professionalism is wrong? At best, this is blatant ignorance, and it hurts the scene when people can't call people like Simon out on stealing money without being mocked for "pitchforking". Treehugger needs to stick with what he is good at, and that's writing Liquid hype articles, and not talk about things like this. | ||
Shellshock
United States97276 Posts
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Bagration
United States18282 Posts
On February 08 2014 23:38 Shellshock wrote: lol totally thought you meant the player sOs at first because so many people write his ID as SoS and I was like what's wrong with his winning prize money!? but then I was like... oh. Ah, that's a good point, I'll change it to clear up some ambiguity. Haha, thanks for the catch! | ||
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wrier
Canada291 Posts
On February 08 2014 21:38 Aeroplaneoverthesea wrote: TL has always been crazy biased towards Taeja. They way overhype the "summer of Taeja" too (a phrase used purely by TL writers). No one who didn't even qualify for Blizzcon has any business being in any player of the year discussions. Taeja was at Blizzcon, lost to Dear on the 2nd Stream. | ||
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NeThZOR
South Africa7387 Posts
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Paljas
Germany6926 Posts
so biased, do you even korea? | ||
Darkhorse
United States23455 Posts
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Jer99
Canada8160 Posts
On February 08 2014 23:47 Darkhoarse wrote: Here we go again with people complaining about awards given for fun. Can't make everyone happy | ||
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Tanzklaue
Germany1422 Posts
On February 08 2014 23:40 wrier wrote: Taeja was at Blizzcon, lost to Dear on the 2nd Stream. who was at that point of time still the probably hottest player in the world. also taeja had one of his "how did he win tall those championships with that kind of play?" day. | ||
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Zealously
East Gorteau22261 Posts
On February 08 2014 23:51 Tanzklaue wrote: who was at that point of time still the probably hottest player in the world. also taeja had one of his "how did he win tall those championships with that kind of play?" day. He did? I seem to recall Taeja playing fairly well against Dear, he just happened to face the best PvT in the world. Then again, I was dual-streaming at the time so I may be wrong. | ||
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