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lichter
Profile Blog Joined September 2010
1001 YEARS KESPAJAIL22272 Posts
February 08 2014 05:45 GMT
#61
On February 08 2014 14:41 Waxangel wrote:
wow KeSPA even had fucking kpop at their awards



should have asked me to perform

i know you are jelly of my mad rhymez
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Tchado
Profile Blog Joined January 2011
Jordan1831 Posts
Last Edited: 2014-02-08 05:59:03
February 08 2014 05:58 GMT
#62
On February 08 2014 14:28 Shellshock wrote:
I feel like Maru at least deserved a mention for player of the year though. he's not even listed in the nominees even though he won OSL and got top 4 at WCS KR S3, S3 finals, and Blizzcon. he was the only terran player to win a series against a toss at Blizzcon and in 2 of the tournaments he got knocked out by the champion.


Dont worry , once 15 Toss + Maru advance to the ro16 , and Maru beats them to the ground and wins the whole thing.....he is already set for not just player of year (2014) , but player of the century if that ever to exist.

EDIT : Great List ! I enjoyed the read , thank you TL writers !
AnonymousSC2
Profile Joined January 2014
United States189 Posts
February 08 2014 06:05 GMT
#63
Definately some liquid bias but thats ok.. I guess lol xD Taeja had a good year
Scarlett`
Profile Joined April 2011
Korea (South)2399 Posts
February 08 2014 06:07 GMT
#64
On February 08 2014 13:38 lichter wrote:
I just realized this article makes me sound like a Scarlett fanboy D:

You say that like it's a bad thing
Progamer
WolfintheSheep
Profile Joined June 2011
Canada14127 Posts
February 08 2014 06:09 GMT
#65
On February 08 2014 14:36 Cheren wrote:
Show nested quote +
On February 08 2014 14:32 Bagration wrote:
On February 08 2014 14:29 Cheren wrote:
On February 08 2014 14:26 The_Red_Viper wrote:
On February 08 2014 14:18 digmouse wrote:
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.

Yes he won a lot of stuff, but you have to look at the competition there too...
Homestory cup 7 wasn't really that impressive and at Asus he really didn't have strong opponents either..
He didn't really make any impact in the WCS events, i feel this time he really got a TL bonus (even though he is an amazing player)


I just don't see who is better. If you combined Innovation's March-August with Dear's September-December you'd get a better player, but no one really had a consistent 2013 at all.


Same with Taeja. He only qualified for the WCS Season finals one time (out of 3). That's not exactly consistency either


If you only look at WCS, Soulkey is probably player of the year, but no one really had consistent results in WCS. If you look at all premier tournaments, Taeja has the best results.


Jaedong was ridiculously consistent in WCS. The maximum tournaments you could be in was 7 (3 Regional tournaments, 3 Season Finals, 1 Grand Final) and he made Top 3 in four of them.

But I mostly agree with Taeja. Even if you treat HomeStory Cup as a "lesser" tournament, 5 wins is still 5 wins.
Average means I'm better than half of you.
Vindicare605
Profile Blog Joined August 2011
United States16125 Posts
February 08 2014 06:10 GMT
#66
On February 08 2014 14:28 Shellshock wrote:
I feel like Maru at least deserved a mention for player of the year though. he's not even listed in the nominees even though he won OSL and got top 4 at WCS KR S3, S3 finals, and Blizzcon. he was the only terran player to win a series against a toss at Blizzcon and in 2 of the tournaments he got knocked out by the champion.


Agreed. That's my only complaint with this list.
aka: KTVindicare the Geeky Bartender
Antoine
Profile Blog Joined May 2010
United States7481 Posts
February 08 2014 06:17 GMT
#67
On February 08 2014 14:20 Cheren wrote:
Show nested quote +
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.

unfortunately Broken Promises promised to do a series on "the pizza.gg fiasco, the ROOT Gaming house, eSportsU, the Sons of Starcraft documentary", yet after more than 3 months only two of those subjects have been written on, so it's difficult to do a critique of the full series
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figq
Profile Blog Joined May 2010
12519 Posts
February 08 2014 06:20 GMT
#68
Scarlett!
If you stand next to my head, you can hear the ocean. - Day[9]
HeadlessWonder
Profile Joined January 2013
United States1096 Posts
Last Edited: 2014-02-08 06:37:06
February 08 2014 06:36 GMT
#69
Nice read. I pretty much agree with everything.
Map of the year pretty much had to be Whirlwind imo, so I was glad to see that.
Taeja is who I would pick for player of the year.
CIS Doto
lichter
Profile Blog Joined September 2010
1001 YEARS KESPAJAIL22272 Posts
February 08 2014 06:37 GMT
#70
On February 08 2014 15:07 Acer.Scarlett` wrote:
Show nested quote +
On February 08 2014 13:38 lichter wrote:
I just realized this article makes me sound like a Scarlett fanboy D:

You say that like it's a bad thing


i tried my best
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-JoKeR-
Profile Joined November 2011
Canada387 Posts
February 08 2014 06:40 GMT
#71
Player of the year should have gone to Soulkey or Dear but w.e
SetGuitarsToKill
Profile Blog Joined December 2013
Canada28396 Posts
February 08 2014 06:45 GMT
#72
Great job guys, great read. 2013 may have been a slightly rocky year for starcraft but we got some of the best moments ever out of it as well. 2014 is already off to a good start, lets keep it that way.
Community News"As long as you have a warp prism you can't be bad at harassment" - Maru | @SetGuitars2Kill
Cheren
Profile Blog Joined September 2013
United States2911 Posts
Last Edited: 2014-02-08 07:00:37
February 08 2014 06:58 GMT
#73
On February 08 2014 15:17 Antoine wrote:
Show nested quote +
On February 08 2014 14:20 Cheren wrote:
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.

unfortunately Broken Promises promised to do a series on "the pizza.gg fiasco, the ROOT Gaming house, eSportsU, the Sons of Starcraft documentary", yet after more than 3 months only two of those subjects have been written on, so it's difficult to do a critique of the full series


Your joke kind of misses the mark since Richard Lewis didn't ask the community for money to make that series so the irony you implied doesn't exist.

Also the article said the community wasn't upset about Hyun not getting paid, but the community paid Hyun around $7000 of the $23000 he was owed.
ReignSupreme.
Profile Blog Joined September 2012
Australia4123 Posts
February 08 2014 07:01 GMT
#74
Hooray for Naniwa :D

Love the diagram.

Drama:

Naniwa vs Everyone
Naniwa vs Sweden
Naniwa vs Twitter

Winner: Naniwa?
Zenniv
Profile Joined September 2011
United States545 Posts
February 08 2014 07:08 GMT
#75
Great write up but srsly Liquid` bias is stronk in this one.
Scarecrow
Profile Blog Joined July 2009
Korea (South)9175 Posts
February 08 2014 07:08 GMT
#76
Nice writeup though not a fan of the bias. Player of the year should've gone to a WCS Korea/World winner or at least runner up (Dear/JD/sOs/Soulkey). For getting a free ride through WCS AM Taeja really didn't do well enough at season finals to warrant being called #1.
Yhamm is the god of predictions
Noonius
Profile Joined April 2012
Estonia17413 Posts
February 08 2014 07:26 GMT
#77
damn, I like reading these
Terran forever | Maru hater forever
igay
Profile Blog Joined November 2011
Australia1178 Posts
February 08 2014 07:29 GMT
#78
my favourite read every year, well done
MVP <3 MKP <3 DRG <3
Larkin
Profile Blog Joined January 2012
United Kingdom7161 Posts
February 08 2014 07:31 GMT
#79
Really cool, well written. I think the winners were all accurate and deserving.
https://www.twitch.tv/ttalarkin - streams random stuff, high level teamleague, maybe even heroleague
igay
Profile Blog Joined November 2011
Australia1178 Posts
February 08 2014 07:32 GMT
#80
On February 08 2014 14:58 Tchado wrote:
Show nested quote +
On February 08 2014 14:28 Shellshock wrote:
I feel like Maru at least deserved a mention for player of the year though. he's not even listed in the nominees even though he won OSL and got top 4 at WCS KR S3, S3 finals, and Blizzcon. he was the only terran player to win a series against a toss at Blizzcon and in 2 of the tournaments he got knocked out by the champion.


Dont worry , once 15 Toss + Maru advance to the ro16 , and Maru beats them to the ground and wins the whole thing.....he is already set for not just player of year (2014) , but player of the century if that ever to exist.

EDIT : Great List ! I enjoyed the read , thank you TL writers !



Please do not forget about mvp so easily ;P
MVP <3 MKP <3 DRG <3
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