EPT2014 in Review - TeamLiquid Awards - Page 11
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Ej_
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KingofdaHipHop
United States25602 Posts
On February 01 2015 07:06 Ej_ wrote: ok am I missing some joke with Taeja being #1 protoss? I know he has sick off-races but haven't seen him use them outside of his stream... i think tb is poking fun at the "liquid bias" of making Taeja the best terran this year again. | ||
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hansonslee
United States2027 Posts
I'm really confused... | ||
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PinheadXXXXXX
United States897 Posts
On February 01 2015 07:42 hansonslee wrote: TaeJa as the best Terran and not Maru, who crushed Protosses with his aggressive bio play? I'm really confused... Maru never was able to beat the very top Code S players outside of Proleague, especially in the early parts of the year, while Taeja did, albeit in weekend tournaments. | ||
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Ammanas
Slovakia2166 Posts
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Incognoto
France10239 Posts
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Chiyosuke
United States51 Posts
Thanks for the write up. | ||
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FrostedMiniWheats
United States30730 Posts
On February 01 2015 07:46 PinheadXXXXXX wrote: Maru never was able to beat the very top Code S players outside of Proleague, especially in the early parts of the year, while Taeja did, albeit in weekend tournaments. Maru beat top code S players it's just that he never went all the way and he strangely did worse in the period where Terran started to do well again in the latter half of 2014. Taeja's results, while less prestigious individually, were numerous. He actually DID go all the way several times. Perhaps Maru could've done the same if he had the same opportunities, perhaps not. Fact is though, Taeja won stuff in 2014 Maru didn't.  | ||
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Yonnua
United Kingdom2331 Posts
On February 01 2015 05:47 argonautdice wrote: You mean Scarlett's 100% win rate as Protoss. I'm sure even I could be Scarlett's protoss 20% of the time. ;p | ||
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KingofdaHipHop
United States25602 Posts
On February 01 2015 08:19 Yonnua wrote: I'm sure even I could be Scarlett's protoss 20% of the time. ;p only if she goes mothership rush vs four gate | ||
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Hydro033
United States136 Posts
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The_Templar
your Country52798 Posts
On February 01 2015 08:27 KingofdaHipHop wrote: only if she goes mothership rush vs four gate Hey, mothership rush is a legit build. (in WoL TT) | ||
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radagastthe3rd
United States12 Posts
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boab
United Kingdom23 Posts
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Purdnstein
United States12 Posts
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Zealously
East Gorteau22261 Posts
On February 01 2015 08:41 boab wrote: Not even a mention of maru? do the writer's actually watch sc2 in korea? I don't know who Maru is but if he's not Life I probably didnt watch him play  | ||
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Thrillz
4313 Posts
Also soO >Life is completely correct. | ||
Soularion
Canada2764 Posts
On February 01 2015 07:46 PinheadXXXXXX wrote: Maru never was able to beat the very top Code S players outside of Proleague, especially in the early parts of the year, while Taeja did, albeit in weekend tournaments. This confuses me. In the first half of the year, the only players Maru lost to in Code S were Life (in a wonky series) and Classic (twice). While TaeJa did beat Life at IEM, he's never even Classic, much less beat him. Outside of Code S/PL, Maru also lost to Dark, herO, Curious, Cure, ParalyzE, San and soO over the first half of the year. Alright. Let's see how TaeJa did against them. Over the same time period (first 6 months of 2014), TaeJa played one person from that list - San, who he lost to 0-2 in ATC. Okay. Well, maybe you were talking about other Code S players. Let's look at TaeJa's record vs players who made at least Ro16 Code S (in either of the seasons) in the first 6 months. 2-3 vs Dear (ASUS ROG) 4-1 vs Squirtle (King of the Iron) 3-1 vs Life (IEM WC) 1-3 vs sOs (IEM WC) 0-1 vs Dear (ATC) 2-1 vs INno (No Dice Gaming Invitational #4) 0-1 vs INno (ATC) Total 3-4/12-11 Well, okay, that's respectable. Now, let's check Maru's results vs players who made at least Ro16 Code S over the same time - and since you discounted proleague, I will too. 0-2 Curious (IEM Cologne) 0-2 ParalyzE (IEM WC) 0-2 Classic (Code S) 2-1 Zest (Code S) 2-1 Dear (Code S) 2-1 Dark (Code S) 2-0 Stork (Code S) Total 4-3/8-9 At the very worst, those are roughly equal. You might argue that Dark and maybe even Stork didn't represent the very top of Code S, but neither did ParalyzE, Curious or Squirtle. TaeJa's most impressive quality over the first 6 months was not his ability to beat the top tier of Code S players (as he only beat Life and went even with INno - who wasn't even that top tier at the time) but rather his ability to remain consistent against everyone else. It was Maru who was the terran beating top tiers during the first 6 months (and Polt as well), not TaeJa. TaeJa's on this list primarily because of his consistency against other players and because he proved against Zest at IEM Toronto & Shenzhen plus against soO/INno at Blizzcon that he's capable of going toe to toe with big champions and coming out successful. Maru's late year slump (relative slump - he wasn't awful or anything) combined with INno's early year slump, the fact that Polt didn't do much of note for the latter parts of the year and Bomber didn't do much of note for the early parts of the year make TaeJa the best korean terran of the year. He was the only terran who had great results in the first half and cemented those results with an even better second half. | ||
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fenner
United Kingdom163 Posts
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iNcontroL
USA29055 Posts
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