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lichter
Profile Blog Joined September 2010
1001 YEARS KESPAJAIL22272 Posts
February 08 2014 07:35 GMT
#81
On February 08 2014 16:32 igay wrote:
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On February 08 2014 14:58 Tchado wrote:
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 is in wcs eu =/
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igay
Profile Blog Joined November 2011
Australia1178 Posts
February 08 2014 07:36 GMT
#82
i'm referring to "but player of the century if that ever to exist."
MVP <3 MKP <3 DRG <3
Dragoonstorm7
Profile Joined December 2012
United States599 Posts
Last Edited: 2014-02-08 07:52:07
February 08 2014 07:50 GMT
#83
On February 08 2014 16:35 lichter wrote:
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On February 08 2014 16:32 igay wrote:
On February 08 2014 14:58 Tchado wrote:
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 is in wcs eu =/

I think he is saying Mvp will win EU every season then win Worlds
edit: whoops didnt see that you already clarified that XD, still I wouldnt mind if my scenario happened either
oblivion awaits- dark archon (aka best unit ever)
Evenshade
Profile Joined July 2013
131 Posts
February 08 2014 08:05 GMT
#84
Couldn't agree more with those Dear awards. Not much of a "protoss fan" myself, but the way he played and won back to back championsips was something you can't forget that easily. He won't bore you with constant turtling or overly gimmicky plays. He is amazing!
Aserrin
Profile Joined October 2011
Uruguay231 Posts
February 08 2014 08:17 GMT
#85
In after "omg liquid bias"

I don't agree with our korean weekly bonjwa overlord being the player of 2013 but oh well
GuiBz
Profile Joined October 2011
Canada108 Posts
February 08 2014 08:29 GMT
#86
Startegie of year: Hell Bat drop?

bitch pleaseeeeeee
Jono7272
Profile Joined November 2010
United Kingdom6330 Posts
February 08 2014 08:35 GMT
#87
What the hell was that Broken Promises write up..
Innovation | Flash | Mvp | Byun | TY
GoodSirTets
Profile Joined June 2012
Canada200 Posts
February 08 2014 08:35 GMT
#88
I really don't think taeja was the korean player of the year after not playing in a single korean tournament... Soulkey 4 lyfe
High Diamond/ Low Masters :^)
Kasaraki
Profile Blog Joined May 2012
Denmark7115 Posts
February 08 2014 09:01 GMT
#89
Yay TaeJa. Very deserved awards for him.
Krogan
Profile Joined January 2011
Sweden375 Posts
February 08 2014 09:04 GMT
#90
I agree with all the awards I believe, biggest contention is probably for player of the year but I think Taeja is fairly obvious.
lookfirewood
Profile Joined May 2011
1212 Posts
February 08 2014 09:06 GMT
#91
I agree with the Game of the Year award soooo much. But I want to add that that game have another winner apart from Taeja and Innovation, and that's the observer. In that near hour long game (ingame minutes), the observer did not miss man things of importance, and that's a god damn feat I tell you.

So, mad props to the man observing that game as well!
R.I.P STX 03.08.2013 never forget.
r691175002
Profile Joined October 2012
249 Posts
February 08 2014 09:07 GMT
#92
Has there ever been a best foreigner Terran?

Terran is simply not competitive at the foreigner skill level.
JustPassingBy
Profile Blog Joined January 2011
10776 Posts
February 08 2014 09:08 GMT
#93
I still believe Happy deserves the award for foreign terran. Yes, his performance wasn't that great, but he still was the best. And he playes terran ffs, cut him some slack!
Heartland
Profile Blog Joined May 2012
Sweden24602 Posts
February 08 2014 09:11 GMT
#94
Maybe it would make more sense for VR/Zealot in PvZ to be the strategy of the year. It did revolutionise the entire matchup and it was never patched out of existance but branched into different and complex builds.
Isualin
Profile Joined March 2011
Germany1903 Posts
February 08 2014 09:15 GMT
#95
I am glad there is no unnecessary naniwa hate in this thread.
| INnoVation | The literal god TY | ByuNjwa | LRSL when? |
JustPassingBy
Profile Blog Joined January 2011
10776 Posts
Last Edited: 2014-02-08 09:16:14
February 08 2014 09:15 GMT
#96
Also the drama stuff is very silly. It's common knowledge that three things are needed to blow things out of proportion:

a) well known personalities at fault
b) the unwillingness of those people to admit they screwed up
c) the amount of money involved

Regarding the quantic: I at least never heard of that Simon guy before - and considering how that guy hides from the public, he seems to know that he screwed up majorly, so (a) and (b) are not satisfied.
malady
Profile Joined November 2010
United States600 Posts
February 08 2014 09:22 GMT
#97
I dunno about player of the year..

but whatevs
dumchu
Abradix1
Profile Joined November 2012
Netherlands609 Posts
February 08 2014 09:26 GMT
#98
Soulkey/Maru/Innovation for player of the year for sho.
Hypemeup
Profile Joined February 2011
Sweden2783 Posts
Last Edited: 2014-02-08 09:29:25
February 08 2014 09:28 GMT
#99
I dont want to sound like Demuslim but there is pretty strong liquid bias here, TaeJa over Innovation/maru, trying to compare MVPs godmode gsl runs with TaeJa grabbing a bunch of foreign tournaments? Also someone made a pretty strongly worded post on the drama thing on Reddit:


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I just want to break down this piece of shit piece written by tree-hugger.
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I earned a lot of negative Reddit karma on this one when it blew up, so I appreciate Wax assigning me an additional opportunity to make people dislike me more. What a friend.

Fuck you. Get on with your point.

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Realtalk. The SC2 scene primarily consists of three groups: volunteers, people working second jobs, and people who have no clue what they are doing. These people are smeared across three plus continents and a good number of time zones. Naturally, things get screwed up on a regular basis.


Awesome, such is every industry that is growing or new. Esports is no exception, entirely agree with this.

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Sometimes things don't happen on time, sometimes they're done poorly, and sometimes they're done straight up wrong. Running around in this fog of ineptitude are a few dedicated folks who are constantly putting out fires. It's due to these people that the vast majority of fuck ups in the esports scene don't make it out to the community.


...Cool I guess? I mean... this isn't unique to esports?
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Unfortunately, sometimes these failures do make it out to the wider public. Usually there's some public meltdown on TL or Reddit and things get solved eventually.


Yeah, after you guys screw up and leak the 'problem', it's us that has a meltdown. It's not the person that is so emotionally distraught and has a breakdown which causes that person to end up venting to someone NOT involved with the problem that ends up leaking it, it's the public meltdown that the community has.

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It's terribly imperfect, but such is life when up to 40% of consumers refuse to make esports a more stable industry. You get what you pay for.


I agree, it sucks that adblock exists, and it sucks even worse that twitch, and various other streaming services fail to provide basic support for advertisements. How about the tiny problem about ads ignoring volume levels, containing inappropriate scenes, replaying constantly, streams failing to load afterwards, and many other 'issues' that have not been fixed for years. Watching advertisements is ideally meant to entertain, educate and to be an enjoyable experience. The current streaming platforms are the epitome of the opposite. Adblock for some people is not a choice, it's a necessity due to lack of support and poor business sense.
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But late in 2013, it was the general incompetence of the esports community as a whole that took center stage.

YOU NAILED IT TREE HUGGER. OUR FUCKING INCOMPETENCE WAS CENTER STAGE IN 2013.

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Big names were called out for having perpetrated a fraud on the esports community. Pitchforks were lit on fire. Conspiracy theories were hatched. /r/starcraft merged with /r/politics. "Broken promises" became the words on everybody's lips.


I don't really need to address this shitpost of a paragraph. It's just a windup for the next bit of vitriol.
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The esports "old boys club" quickly responded from their gilded thrones. The documentary made by people who had no documentary making experience came out late.


Yeah reddit, you guys are so fucking impatient. You don't understand that your reaction should have been to shut the fuck up and let Artosis, Tasteless and his best friend (and colleagues that appeared in the documentary) steal $40,000 (MINIMUM) from the community. You should have fucking known that the documentary (which failed to communicate at all, and has still NOT fulfilled it's kickstarter promises) would be released just a couple of years late, after being bought out and all footage re-editted by Tumba and his joke agency.
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The long promised showmatch was held on the exact day that it had been scheduled for long ago.

I assume you are referring to Pizza.gg, which once again, was delayed several times. If you want to be a fucking lying cunt, at least try to make a lie that can't be disputed. Incontrol was forced to defend both organizations (as a player, not even someone that had control over the schedule) publicly and risk his reputation and brand so that TL can save face.

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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.


Are you... disappointed about this? Like...are you actually fucking seriously mad that you can't simply take money, and hold yourself to a schedule? Are you that incompetent, incapable and negligent that you can't adhere to basic life practices. Are you stating that your/esports elite's word is that meaningless and futile that it should not be held accountable and questioned when it is not consistent?

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Of course, when it turned out that another esports organization was actually defrauding their players and staff to the tune of tens of thousands of dollars, those who had cried the loudest about the epidemic of "broken promises" were nowhere to be found. And neither was the guy who actually committed the fraud as well. Probably because he didn't care enough about his work and the community to stick around, apologize, and make it right.


Right. There was no 'uproar' that lasted for days. There was no $8,000 that went to Hyun for support. There were no issues at all. We were entirely silent. Did you need Richard Lewis to write an article about the issue to satisfy your needs?

I honestly hope that these are not your true views, tree-hugger, and that you are just scapegoating to try to rewrite history on the ethical lows of the figureheads of SC2 in 2013.


Pretty strong feelings about this years awards for sure, did tree key reddits car or some shit?
Bagi
Profile Joined August 2010
Germany6799 Posts
February 08 2014 09:30 GMT
#100
Taeja? Ehh...
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