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DifuntO
Greece2376 Posts
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D-light
Finland7364 Posts
Quite the funny little review. lol | ||
opterown
Australia54784 Posts
On February 08 2014 19:52 ANLProbe wrote: With broken blink all ins, only 1 game was legit and he pretty much meta'd Innovation as Innovation wouldn't have expected him to play ultra greedy after all inning every other game. a win's a win ;D maru was able to better handle duckdeok than bogus | ||
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Wintex
Norway16846 Posts
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Blargh
United States2103 Posts
Naniwa and Scarlett were basically the only foreigners, so any wins that they got were pretty important, especially towards the end when people were hoping for at least ONE foreign victory. Innovation's matches, on the other hand, were mostly meaningful because of his incredible consistency towards the end of 2012 and early 2013. Then, the Soulkey vs Innovation finals, which was probably one of the hardest things for me to watch ever. And then him ez'ing sOs in one of the season finals soon after. Also, I agree with basically ever award up there, but I'd probably put Innovation vs Soulkey rivalry above JD vs championships, as humorous as that one is. | ||
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Necosarius
Sweden4042 Posts
Naniwa qualifying for Blizzcon should have made him the winner in the Nani vs Scarlett chart. Blizzcon was what everyone was fighting for in 2013. But Nani won the Player of the years award anyway so whatever. The Drama award was just stupid. | ||
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bartus88
Netherlands491 Posts
There is absolutely now way that Taeja is player of the year. Yes he won some decent tournaments, but he didn't even get to the finals of one of the big events, let alone win them. In season 1 he played GSL and didn't even get past Ro16. In season 2 of WCS he switched to NA and had good results, but obviously played lesser players than the previous season. In season 3, he got knocked out in the Ro16. In Blizzcon, he didn't even get past the first round. These are the tournaments that mattered the most, were competition was the hardest. Taeja is an amazing player that had a great year, but it is quite obvious that he failed to impress in the big leagues. The comparison with Mvp is a really bad one, since Mvp did manage to win the biggest and hardest tournaments, you can't compare a DH with a GSL. How you can give him the player of the year award is a mystery to me. There is no denying that there is some strong bias going on. Second, I really hate to say it, but I'm on reddit's side with the drama thing. | ||
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ANLProbe
667 Posts
On February 08 2014 20:11 bartus88 wrote: I agree with most of this, but there is absolutely now way that Taeja is player of the year. Yes he won some decent tournaments, but he didn't even get to the finals of one of the big events, let alone win them. In season 1 he played GSL and didn't even get past Ro16. In season 2 of WCS he switched to NA and had good results, but obviously played lesser players than the previous season. In season 3, he got knocked out in the Ro16. In Blizzcon, he didn't even get past the first round. These are the tournaments that mattered the most, were competition was the hardest. Taeja is an amazing player that had a great year, but it is quite obvious that he failed to impress in the big leagues. The comparison with Mvp is a really bad one, since Mvp did manage to win the biggest and hardest tournaments, you can't compare a DH with a GSL. How you can give him the player of the year award is a mystery to me. There is no denying that there is some strong bias going on. One thing you missed is that in the last WOL GSL he was the last non-zerg and came 3rd (he lost to the overall winner) with wrist injuries and beat Soulkey in the Ro8 the season before Soulkey won the GSL. And he did stomp in the WCS season finals beating Innovation, crushing Rain and came the closest to beating Bomber in Bombers best MU by far. | ||
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nkr
Sweden5451 Posts
 but maybe that's just bias speaking | ||
lichter
1001 YEARS KESPAJAIL22272 Posts
On February 08 2014 20:10 Necosarius wrote: I agree with most of the stuff. Naniwa qualifying for Blizzcon should have made him the winner in the Nani vs Scarlett chart. Blizzcon was what everyone was fighting for in 2013. But Nani won the Player of the years award anyway so whatever. The Drama award was just stupid. Naniwa made it to Blizzcon due to his participation and success in non WCS events. Scarlett did better in WCS events and participated in other tournaments after Blizzcon. | ||
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bartus88
Netherlands491 Posts
On February 08 2014 20:16 ANLProbe wrote: One thing you missed is that in the last WOL GSL he was the last non-zerg and came 3rd (he lost to the overall winner) with wrist injuries and beat Soulkey in the Ro8 the season before Soulkey won the GSL. And he did stomp in the WCS season finals beating Innovation, crushing Rain and came the closest to beating Bomber in Bombers best MU by far. I said he is an amazing player that had a great year. The things you state still don't change the fact that if you want to call someone player of the year, he needs better results in the big leagues. But by the way you tried to find excuses, I think it's safe to assume you are a Taeja fan and will disagree with me anyway. | ||
uThermal
Netherlands165 Posts
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PDizzle
Denmark1754 Posts
what a surprise ! | ||
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BerryCruncH
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QuixoticO
Netherlands810 Posts
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boxerfred
Germany8360 Posts
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Naphal
Germany2099 Posts
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Alex007
Ukraine211 Posts
It's such a shame to call some guy the best player or the year, when he reached just a semifinal in just one season of the poorest and weakest region of WCS, performed worse then Bomber on the only season finals he reacned and lost his first match on Blizzcon... Fanboys, fanboys everywhere. It was really nice to read the whole staff, but some things are making this write-up to look so stupid =/ | ||
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xsnac
Barbados1365 Posts
if s2 replays would have not been released bomber would be TOP now. | ||
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opterown
Australia54784 Posts
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