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On February 09 2014 15:45 hillman wrote: Wow, speak for yourself about Scarlett being a "patchzerg" - author(s) showing some bias there. And wow what a bunch of Naniwa Nutriders...steaming pile of opinionated shit there guys - nice work. bias aye
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On February 09 2014 06:02 opterown wrote:Show nested quote +On February 08 2014 23:55 Tanzklaue wrote:On February 08 2014 22:08 The_Red_Viper wrote:On February 08 2014 22:03 ACrow wrote: Taeja has won the most tournaments and has had consistently the highest performance if you consider the whole year (as opposed to Dear who rose only later in 2013, Innovation who had a big dip after hellbat nerf etc). So there is definitely a strong reason to pick Taeja as best player of the year, even though I personally would have gone with one of the GSL winners too, just because I value that title so highly. I don't see any TL bias here, don't be unfair guys just because your favorite maybe was deserving as well! 3 of them were not really stacked though, i mean i love HSC, but cmon let's be real now^^ And looking at the Asus path of taeja, this wasn't really hard either... Winning isn't everything, else some zotac cup (or whatever weekly tournament) winners would be player of the year now  because zotac cups and premier tournamnets are totally comparable  at the higher stages, both asus and HSC get just as hard as tournaments that are mroe stacked, so winning them still accounts a lot. and both dreamhack titles were 2 of the most stacked events of the year, easily comparable to WCS Korea in terms of skill. and only soulkey and dear won 2 tournaments of that caliber besides taeja, minus his extras. eh i'd say a fair amount of taeja's premiers were among the weaker premiers of 2013 Show nested quote +On February 09 2014 03:59 Storm-Giant wrote:On February 09 2014 03:33 Wingblade wrote: Great, but Maru was better than both of them. Maru did the same thing Innovation did, finishing top 4 in everything from late August through the end of the year. Plus he face rolled innovation when they played eah other. Innovations tewign ended the moment Maru 4-0ed him. But don't forget that Maru spent half of the year in Code A. only one season, because he had to requalify from code B, and that was WoL, how is that half a year?
Don't look at them and think they must be weaker tournaments because they are named HSC or Northcon or something like that, look at the players he had to play to win, you'll see that apart from HSC7 Taeja had as hard a road to the finals as say Polt did in his WCS NA runs and MLG run. And Taeja had 4 runs like that.
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The Iron Squid 2 isn't nominate in the "Tournament of the Year (Europe)" category, what a shame.
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Taeja: nr 1 in power rank, terran of the year, player of the year + Show Spoiler +
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It's great to know that STX will forever be remembered as the best team in 2013. Even though it's all over now. 
That said, it's a really good writeup by TL.
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Taeja is a top player and very likeable but .. player of the year ? I think winning WCS NA twice (with a lot of good Koreans) like Polt is a lot more impressive.
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In honour of this great review (that I 99% agree with btw) I have disabled adblock on TL & Twitch again.
I would have liked some more love for MC, but I suppose it is fair enough as he was not as prominent in 2013.
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While cries of "dead game!" are often hyperbolic, there's no doubt that this is a scene in decline. At the same time, there are organizations that are increasing investment, and even some brave newcomers to the scene. Where will we go from here? We can only hope for the best, and keep supporting the game we love.
I cri evrytim.
But no seriously, great article. Agree with everything except Taeja for player/Terran of the year (I would say Inno for both)
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This is so awesome! Thanks! Agreeing with most. I'm wondering why you didn't mention the Naniwa/Scarlett bo7 duel (which went in favor of Naniwa) in the reasoning why Naniwa was the better player.
The recap of all the retired players and teams make a bit sad feelings. Still we had an awesome year of SC2. And maybe many more to come.
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I really think Polt should have gotten an honorary considering you gave him pretty short shift.
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How in hell does Soulkey's phenomenal consistency at the hardest tournaments in the world (including Proleague) rates worse than Taeja´s "amazing run" in homestory cups in dreamhacks. Lol. Apparently, if someone wants to be player of the year, he needs to run away from the toughest competition.
What a travesty. I demand a recount!
1st wcg 2nd hot6ix cup 2nd wcs s3 top4 wcs s3 korea gsl top4 wcs s1 1st wcs s1 korea gsl top8 wcs s2 korea gsl top8 GSL season 1 Proleague finalist with a 63% win rate #1 ranked WCS player before blizzcon
I am sure Wongjin's website would have a different POY result.
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love scarlett <3 <3 <3 but why no HSC ?
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Disapointed to not see JD in here since the amount of finals he attended. Well i only read titles for now. I'll read it entirely later. I love the format though.
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Incredible article! A bit disappointed that Scarlett is not International Player of the Year! And let's hope for another Canadian event in 2014. WCS Season 3 Finals were amazing !
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Goto, Soulkey!! Keep that consistancy
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