EPTRivalry of the Year: EG.Jaedong vs Championships
rofl! Good article otherwise.
2013 in Review - TeamLiquid Awards - Page 2
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BigFan
TLADT24920 Posts
rofl! Good article otherwise. | ||
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Holdenintherye
Canada1441 Posts
Oh man, I remember watching the GSL finals... That was truly an intense experience | ||
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FrostedMiniWheats
United States30730 Posts
Bonus points to sOs as well for being so innovative. | ||
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winthrop
Hong Kong956 Posts
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Lukeeze[zR]
Switzerland6838 Posts
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bearhug
United States999 Posts
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blade55555
United States17423 Posts
On February 08 2014 13:56 FrostedMiniWheats wrote: Agree on most of these. I still don't understand the Dear hype though. Even when he won back to back titles I still would've put sOs and even Rain above him. I think Dear loses substantially because of consistency after having been fairly irrelevant for most of the year. In addition, while his consecutive titles are impressive, it's still not like he won 2 gsl titles back to back. Bonus points to sOs as well for being so innovative. Dear won 2 really hard tournaments back to back where as sOs is incredibly inconsistent and Rain I can't remember how his results were last year. Dear was an incredibly strong player (I haven't seen him lately) and I can agree with giving him the best protoss. When he won those tournaments (1 was GSL the other was world finals where he crushed in the world finals and I can't remember if he crushed the GSL one) he looked very good. sOs doesn't have that "wow this guy is insanely good" like Dear did for me anyway. Dear looked good in macro and cheese, sOs is just inconsistent and looks ok/good at times, then terrible the next. I don't agree with a decent amount of what the op put, but I expected that still a nice read ^^. | ||
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BronzeKnee
United States5212 Posts
Anyway, I'd like to take a moment to respond the "Broken Promises" section. I'm certain that I get lumped into the "people who have no clue what they are doing" category, TotalBiscuit so finely placed me there, and will get flamed for calling out those heroic "volunteers" who "accidentally" make mistakes. That is all fine, and while I disagree, it doesn't change anything about what I'm about to say because my argument stands independent on what I know about E-sports. I've spent the last few years calling out on this forum, and basically everywhere else in my life, is people who don't do what they say they are going to do. If you've taken the time to read and understand Plato's Republic, that is possibly the only logically defensible definition of justice - to do what you say you will- and people who don't do that, should be called out. And you don't need to actually have a clue about anything to do that. You just need to listen to what someone says, then see if they did what they said they would. Whether it be MLG promising Gold Members a year of Access to HQ Pro Circuit Event streams for $29.99, then turning around and telling us we can't watch the Pro Circuit Winter Arena, Blizzard telling us how they are giving Zerg aggressive options in the mid-game with the Swarmhost and then making an about face, or Hyun not getting paid. People screw up. We all know they do. But when you make a mistake, you admit it, and you fix it. In the issues I brought above, that didn't happen. And people have a right to be angry. I just find it really sad when people can't understand that. They can't understand when people get upset that they don't keep their word, and try to muddy the waters with lies and excuses instead of manning up and doing the right thing. | ||
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xAdra
Singapore1858 Posts
Anyways haven't been following sc2 for a few months now, but these are still things as I'd remember them. | ||
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DBS
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IncubusSC
Canada57 Posts
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Noocta
France12578 Posts
Sad you can't even give an award for International Terran. Such a pity. | ||
opterown
Australia54784 Posts
On February 08 2014 13:51 xsnac wrote: meh , is cool when @ zerg you put soulkey wich is the BEST yet @ terrans you put taeja instead of innovation or bomber. bomber wat | ||
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NB
Netherlands12045 Posts
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Bagration
United States18282 Posts
Considering that Mvp is the undisputed best of all time, being second place to him is pretty damn good. Throw in the elevated level of competition in 2013, and you could even begin to argue that TaeJa's five was more difficult to earn than Mvp's six. The very fact that the writer suggests that winning some Homestory Cups is more impressive than Mvp's 2011 allows one to conclude that this award is a sham. Absolutely ridiculous. Also, the broken promises bit was just stupid. If you do a kickstarter for a documentary and collect tens of thousands of dollars, you are expected to come out with a product that is worth that value, and you need to give a reason if the project is delayed. Also, people didn't get mad when Quantic got scammed? I don't think the writer is being objective there... | ||
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Jmanthedragonguy
Canada1202 Posts
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YumYumGranola
Canada344 Posts
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digmouse
China6326 Posts
On February 08 2014 13:51 xsnac wrote: meh , is cool when @ zerg you put soulkey wich is the BEST yet @ terrans you put taeja instead of innovation or bomber. From a year overall perspective Innovation and Bomber aren't even close with Taeja regarding consistency, let alone championship titles, yes being WCS Season Finals champions is a great feat but winning a whopping five premier tournaments across over half a year against same caliber of players is hands down a bigger achievement. | ||
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StarStruck
25339 Posts
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Cheren
United States2911 Posts
On February 08 2014 14:15 Bagration wrote: Lol at Taeja being the player of the year. The guy didn't make the finals of a single WCS event. Also, the broken promises bit was just stupid. If you do a kickstarter for a documentary and collect tens of thousands of dollars, you are expected to come out with a product that is worth that value, and you need to give a reason if the project is delayed. Also, people didn't get mad when Quantic got scammed? I don't think the writer is being objective there... Broken promises should have mentioned what the broken promises were instead of only being about community reaction. Taeja pick is fine though, no one was really consistent enough to be more deserving. WCS Korea and WCS Finals, the two hardest tournaments, had 5 different winners, and the only multiple winner, Dear, was only good the last few months of the year. So Taeja gets it for consistency outside WCS despite poor results in WCS itself. | ||
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