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Seeker
Where dat snitch at?37064 Posts
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Season 8
After seven grueling months, another season of liquibet concludes. However, it wouldn't be liquibets without fierce battles for the top spot. This season particularly left all of us gripping on the edge of our seats as the competition never stopped heating up. The reason this specific season was one of the most difficult seasons is because the surprising turnouts for racial distributions and all kinds of upsets occurred simultaneously. 2014 GSL Season 1 only had three Terran players in Code S and 2014 GSL Season 2 only had four. So all those liquibetters out there who loved to vote for Terran had no choice but to change up their usual game plan and try to find the beauty behind voting for the winners of PvZ/PvP/ZvZs. WCS AM and EU both had many moments where the  favorites did not manage to overtake their foreign opponents, and sometimes even against Korean opponents (Jaedong getting knocked out 0-2 in both seasons is a really good example) Throw in the chaos that was the SK Telecom Proleague on top of that. We had to suffer through four whole rounds of favorites losing to underdogs, momentum shifts, obvious outcomes vs. non obvious outcomes, and so much more. (Seriously, MVP grabbing 2nd place overall for Round 2 really took all the voters on a thrilling ride)
This season's top 10 truly deserve to be up here. Their diligence and dedication in making sure they didn't miss a single liquibet definitely needs to be brought into the spotlight. This season was full of action and as we observed multiple upsets and comebacks occur. I kept a close eye on the rankings and whenever I thought that a certain user was too ahead to be overtaken, I was always proven wrong. One particular upset that needs to be mentioned is the smema vs. Mevious showdown. smema was killing it in this season of liquibets. He held 1st place for so long and was so far ahead in points that I was so sure that he was going to win it all. But Mevious came out of nowhere and threw him out of his throne. In fact, you don't even see smema in the top 10 anymore Oo;; So without further ado, CONGRATULATIONS TO MEVIOUS FOR WINNING THIS SEASON OF LIQUIBETS!!!
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Or at least, that's what I WOULD have said if this was last week...
1 306 Mevious
1 306 aiononline
3 303 cattle decapitation
4 301 iamcaustic
5 300 VyingsP
6 300 WinterWoes
7 299 LefaLefa
8 298 Necro)Phagist(
9 298 Eclipsing Binary
10 297 Buckeye Bob
Link to SC2 Liquibets Season 8 Rankings
Your eyes do not deceive you. Yes, we actually have two winners this season. It was a completely unexpected outcome but aiononline came out of nowhere and tied for 1st place with Mevious. A shoutout to him and his tremendous effort to stay on top of his game at all times. He and Mevious both finished off the season with 306 points during a season that was full of unpredictability. Well done both of you!
So without further ado, CONGRATULATIONS to Mevious and aiononline!!!
Thank you very much to everyone who participated for Season 8. Season 9 should be starting up soon so stay tuned and get those bets ready!
Previous Recaps:
Season 5 and 6 Recaps
Season 7 Recap
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Canada8159 Posts
Congrats both of you, it was a tough season
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when does the next season start?
also congrats to the winners!
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France7248 Posts
could we have shorter season?
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Bisutopia19316 Posts
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United States97276 Posts
Damn I was making a move up to the top but not enough. Grats winners
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Bisutopia19316 Posts
On July 12 2014 11:26 Shellshock wrote:
Damn I was making a move up to the top but not enough. Grats winners
I make the top 100 every time. I can be happy with that.
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On July 12 2014 11:26 Shellshock wrote:
Damn I was making a move up to the top but not enough. Grats winners
Man - you finished ahead of me. I was at number 1 for so long, but unfortunately not when it mattered.
Gratz to the winners!
And smema - what happened? He was top 3 for months and just never seemed to miss a beat, but at the last moment fell apart
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On July 12 2014 10:19 Yhamm wrote:
could we have shorter season?
yea i agree. i stopped because it was a tad long.
Is there a place where we can find out when the season ends?
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United States97276 Posts
On July 12 2014 13:48 iMrising wrote:yea i agree. i stopped because it was a tad long. Is there a place where we can find out when the season ends?
afaik Seeker is currently running each liquibet season as the length of a WCS season or at least relatively close as he included proleague round 4 playoffs after the wcs finals
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Is that Mevious the same guy from the portal 2 mapmaking community? Im curious.
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Canada16217 Posts
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Oh nice, I'm 27th, that's my best so far. It's kinda funny tbh, since these days I don't really follow SC2 scene that much. I watch an occasional stream here and there, but that's it.
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I had only 202 of 276 votes made even though I'm here morning, day and night. I call notification shenanigans.
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France7248 Posts
On July 12 2014 14:02 Shellshock wrote:Show nested quote +On July 12 2014 13:48 iMrising wrote:On July 12 2014 10:19 Yhamm wrote:
could we have shorter season? yea i agree. i stopped because it was a tad long. Is there a place where we can find out when the season ends? afaik Seeker is currently running each liquibet season as the length of a WCS season or at least relatively close as he included proleague round 4 playoffs after the wcs finals
it started just before season 1...
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Seeker
Where dat snitch at?37064 Posts
On July 12 2014 19:18 Yhamm wrote:Show nested quote +On July 12 2014 14:02 Shellshock wrote:On July 12 2014 13:48 iMrising wrote:On July 12 2014 10:19 Yhamm wrote:
could we have shorter season? yea i agree. i stopped because it was a tad long. Is there a place where we can find out when the season ends? afaik Seeker is currently running each liquibet season as the length of a WCS season or at least relatively close as he included proleague round 4 playoffs after the wcs finals it started just before season 1...
Admittedly Season 8 ran longer than it should have, but there were several complications involved as to why this happened. Rest assured that Season 9 will begin with 2014 WCS Season 3 and conclude with 2014 WCS Season 3. (maybe Global Finals)
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185th with my best at 26 correct votes in a row, is it possible to know who has the longest streak?
nice job and congrats to the winners!!
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Dammit, I have 72% right, but only 59% in point. I can guess correct only for the minor match. My GSL playoff was a huge fail.
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Canada8159 Posts
On July 12 2014 21:34 Faust852 wrote:
Dammit, I have 72% right, but only 59% in point. I can guess correct only for the minor match. My GSL playoff was a huge fail.
I think that for groups, as long as you pick 1 correct player out of 2 it counts the vote as 100%, inflating that number higher than your points%
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Can't wait for the new season to start. This time I'm going all in.
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Bah, 1 point outside the top 10. Better luck next season, I guess.
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I have 77% voting, next season is mine muhahahahah
Never vote for soO in a final again!
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My highest position yet, so I had a good time :D
Funnily enough though I'm actually doing far better in the BW liquibet, despite never having watched BW before. My tactic of always picking the guy with the photo over the guy without really seems to have worked well.
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26th-32nd place is fine with me, as I missed a lot of votes and generally felt like I got nothing right. I placed in BWLB's top10, does anyone still care about that?
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Congrats to the winners!
I really fucked up in the end, going 6/27 points with the series of 9 * 3 points bets. Still ended in top ~70.
Looking forward to the next (shorter) season!
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I finished in 78th place, my highest ranking ever! Thanks TL for adding an extra bit of fun to every SC2 game I watch.
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I was getting worried that the season wouldn't end soon enough and I'd get passed after messing up most of the ro8 bets for EU/NA.
On July 12 2014 15:23 Gowma wrote:
Is that Mevious the same guy from the portal 2 mapmaking community? Im curious.
No, we just happen to have the same username.
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GG had a strong ending, wcs EU/NA was a coinfliping contest
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Grats!Fucked up this season :/
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So when do we get the winner icons next to our names?
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