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2013 in Review - TeamLiquid Awards - Page 8

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Nightwishone
Profile Joined July 2012
Italy391 Posts
February 08 2014 12:02 GMT
#141
Yeah TaeJa! :D
TaeJa IS a bonjwa. TLO - Scarlett - Snute - MaNa - HerO - TeamLiquid fighting!
Muffloe
Profile Joined December 2012
Sweden6061 Posts
February 08 2014 12:03 GMT
#142
Dat Naniwa hype, most awards! Next time it'll be all of them :D And it's nice that you don't disregard him for his controversy. Also, I agree with most of this, though maybe I thought Soulkey was more of a player of the year. And thank god for picking the skill map over the hype map for map(match) of the year!
opterown *
Profile Blog Joined August 2011
Australia54784 Posts
February 08 2014 12:05 GMT
#143
Poll: TaeJa as player of the year?

Definitely not! (68)
 
64%

I can understand (21)
 
20%

Definitely deserved! (17)
 
16%

106 total votes

Your vote: TaeJa as player of the year?

(Vote): Definitely not!
(Vote): I can understand
(Vote): Definitely deserved!

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Musicus
Profile Joined August 2011
Germany23579 Posts
Last Edited: 2014-02-08 14:07:48
February 08 2014 12:07 GMT
#144
no best foreign terrna lol, great great write up

Edit: Didn't read the drama award part at first, because well, it's drama. Now that I read it, I have to say I don't like that part at all.
Maru and Serral are probably top 5.
Tobblish
Profile Joined August 2011
Sweden6404 Posts
February 08 2014 12:15 GMT
#145
I'm sorry but the worst drama category is stupid on it's own but actually having Broken Promises as the worst makes this whole list just a big joke.

Comparing it to the Quantic incident is just another great way to completely flush it down the toilet.
The curse is real
xuanzue
Profile Joined October 2010
Colombia1747 Posts
February 08 2014 12:18 GMT
#146
I wanna give to millonarios, the taeja award for the "best" football team of the world in 2013.
Dominions 4: "Thrones of Ascension".
GumBa
Profile Blog Joined July 2012
United Kingdom31935 Posts
February 08 2014 12:23 GMT
#147
Thought about it and I reaaaaaly dont agree with Taeja winning terran and player of the year award.
Thought the yearly review writeups of the previous years better.
To all the haters: you deserve to witness many, many more Serral victories, worthy of the godlike player he is.
Deleted User 137586
Profile Joined January 2011
7859 Posts
February 08 2014 12:32 GMT
#148
Nice write up, but need to remember this is TeamLiquid No way Taeja gets top player over Innovation, Soulkey, Dear and Maru. On that note, where's Maru in the 'breakout' category? He went from son of MKP (not the highest honour) to the new Flash in 2013. That's a pretty damn big breakout.
Cry 'havoc' and let slip the dogs of war
Liquid`Nazgul
Profile Blog Joined September 2002
22427 Posts
February 08 2014 12:34 GMT
#149
On February 08 2014 21:05 opterown wrote:
Poll: TaeJa as player of the year?

Definitely not! (68)
 
64%

I can understand (21)
 
20%

Definitely deserved! (17)
 
16%

106 total votes

Your vote: TaeJa as player of the year?

(Vote): Definitely not!
(Vote): I can understand
(Vote): Definitely deserved!


For one thing if there are five equal candidates then the winning player can never win this poll as there will be 80% who disagree with it. It's an extremely poor way of measuring whether it was deserved. If you're making polls it should have all your options for player of the year and then see who comes out, which is what gosugamers did and TaeJa won that.

This stuff about TL and bias is just so fucking dumb though. The simplest way to show this is that TaeJa won player of the year at onGamers and gosugamers. In the end different people have different ways of coming to their own player of the year. Not agreeing with a choice shouldn't lead to claims of bias if there's nothing else to back that up. I'm not even sure if I agree with TaeJa being player of the year, and there's definitely not some power within TL that is telling writers how it has to be.
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Aeroplaneoverthesea
Profile Joined April 2012
United Kingdom1977 Posts
Last Edited: 2014-02-08 12:41:25
February 08 2014 12:38 GMT
#150
TL has always been crazy biased towards Taeja. They way overhype the "summer of Taeja" too (a phrase used purely by TL writers).

No one who didn't even qualify for Blizzcon has any business being in any player of the year discussions.
opterown *
Profile Blog Joined August 2011
Australia54784 Posts
Last Edited: 2014-02-08 12:45:00
February 08 2014 12:41 GMT
#151
if there are 5 equal candidates who are actually equal then most people should be voting "i can understand" rather than "definitely not" which suggests there were clearly better choices

i'm pretty sure i posted some poll a while ago for #1 player and soulkey won that pretty handily, though it obviously has less exposure

knowing staff, i believe TL writers are not biased to the TL pro team, and i've never said otherwise, so don't interpret this as anything more than my personal disagreement with taeja as player of the year, i don't know why you've taken my post as so, fyi i voted 'i can understand'
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Storm-Giant
Profile Joined March 2012
Spain416 Posts
February 08 2014 12:42 GMT
#152
TaeJa winning TL awards, how surprising ~_~

It could be argued Best T award, but BEST PLAYER OF THE YEAR? What a joke, Soulkey was much, much better than him all the year...
<3 Rain
TommyP
Profile Joined December 2011
United States6231 Posts
February 08 2014 12:42 GMT
#153
Taeja doesnt even play in Korea, how do you pick team of the year for a team that disbanded that year and Innovation should've been Terran of the year.
#TheOneTrueDong
Zealously
Profile Blog Joined October 2011
East Gorteau22261 Posts
February 08 2014 12:42 GMT
#154
On February 08 2014 21:38 Aeroplaneoverthesea wrote:
TL has always been crazy biased towards Taeja. They way overhype the "summer of Taeja" too (a phrase used purely by TL writers).


I dno Kev
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MysterySC
Profile Joined October 2012
Andorra109 Posts
February 08 2014 12:43 GMT
#155
Likethe write up but Taeja really doesn't deserve best player... Imagine if soulkey or innovation could have afforded to go to every international tourney...
<3 Hyvaa
opterown *
Profile Blog Joined August 2011
Australia54784 Posts
February 08 2014 12:44 GMT
#156
On February 08 2014 21:42 Zealously wrote:
Show nested quote +
On February 08 2014 21:38 Aeroplaneoverthesea wrote:
TL has always been crazy biased towards Taeja. They way overhype the "summer of Taeja" too (a phrase used purely by TL writers).


I dno Kev

well a lot of those are OPs that wax have in the writer's forum ;p
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Liquid`Nazgul
Profile Blog Joined September 2002
22427 Posts
Last Edited: 2014-02-08 12:46:23
February 08 2014 12:45 GMT
#157
On February 08 2014 21:41 opterown wrote:
if there are 5 equal candidates who are actually equal then most people should be voting "i can understand" rather than "definitely not" which suggests there were clearly better choices

i'm pretty sure i posted some poll a while ago for #1 player and soulkey won that pretty handily, though it obviously has less exposure

knowing staff, i believe TL writers are not biased to the TL pro team, and i've never said otherwise, so don't interpret this as anything more than my personal disagreement with taeja as player of the year, i don't know why you've taken my post as so

My post isn't aimed at you specifically. I don't think peoples voting behavior is the way you say it is though. Most people believe their choice is the clear #1 and five equal candidates is a measurement across a larger group of people.
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WhizPower
Profile Joined June 2013
Netherlands33 Posts
February 08 2014 12:50 GMT
#158
Pretty good list overall but I don't see how you can justify Taeja winning player of the year over Soulkey. They don't even really try to in the article, saying "he wasn't as consistent as Soulkey" but never giving a good reason why Taeja would be #1 instead of him.
aoe2fan
Profile Joined October 2010
Sweden700 Posts
February 08 2014 12:55 GMT
#159
Teaja winning everything is bullshit, not a single WCS win
opterown *
Profile Blog Joined August 2011
Australia54784 Posts
February 08 2014 12:57 GMT
#160
On February 08 2014 21:32 Ghanburighan wrote:
Nice write up, but need to remember this is TeamLiquid No way Taeja gets top player over Innovation, Soulkey, Dear and Maru. On that note, where's Maru in the 'breakout' category? He went from son of MKP (not the highest honour) to the new Flash in 2013. That's a pretty damn big breakout.

eh maru was pretty decent always, kind of like untapped potential, he was pretty close to making RO8 in his first code S and all-killed startale + had some really memorable games before the OSL. plus anyone that followed the maru fanclub knew that he was #1GM many months prior to his OSL ;p
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