On February 01 2015 04:46 FrostedMiniWheats wrote: Maru didn't even get a mention for being the Terran hero of Korea for like half of 2014? :/
Frost was a great map but c'mon that's a bs pick. Sejong clearly was the best map.
Life > soO
How can you say Maru > TaeJa (which is right) and say Life > soO (which is so wrong) at the same time? Is beating Zest, San, TaeJa and MMA really better than 3 GSL 2nd places?
On February 01 2015 04:11 TheDwf wrote: That's not how it works. You're supposed to raise your fist and bay for blood
I agree!
Wtf, no mention of my lovely lovely Habitation Station?! The map that had it's own meta, the map you'd actually see tanks, see tempest rushes, see gangnam style, spore crawling rushing ZvZ, drone pulling the gangnam terran, walling off behind your minerals to counter the drone pull, the million gate San style zealot push, the double gold takes, the split maps, the base trades.
"Runner Up: None :[" PSHHHHHHHHHH!! </3 Come on Team Liquid!
To be fair though, Frost was quite the badass map though lol.
On February 01 2015 04:11 TheDwf wrote: That's not how it works. You're supposed to raise your fist and bay for blood
I agree!
Wtf, no mention of my lovely lovely Habitation Station?! The map that had it's own meta, the map you'd actually see tanks, see tempest rushes, see gangnam style, spore crawling rushing ZvZ, drone pulling the gangnam terran, walling off behind your minerals to counter the drone pull, the million gate San style zealot push, the double gold takes, the split maps, the base trades.
"Runner Up: None :[" PSHHHHHHHHHH!! </3 Come on Team Liquid!
To be fair though, Frost was quite the badass map though lol.
Since Foxtrot is apparently Daedalus-level for the TL writers, I guess Habitation is a slightly-below-average map for them
On February 01 2015 01:11 Zealously wrote: In order to preserve my reputation I would like to make it clear that I strongly disagree with the picking of soO above Life for Best Korean Zerg. However, there seem to be people that hold the wrong opinions, so I was forced to concede!
Good on you good sir. It is definitely a disgrace to say that there is "no one even close." Life winning Blizzcon when zergs were struggling is just a testament to his ability.
Under the "Best Korean Protoss" section, it says this about Zest:
"Not only did Zest prove that he was the best protoss of the year, but he alone was the single best Telecom (one man) Team of the year. He alone has more achievements than both KT and SKT combined, and his record against the SKT team is the nightmare of SKT fans everywhere: 3-4 soO, 4-3 soO, 3-1 Classic, 2-1 Soulkey, 2-0 Soulkey, 2-1 Parting, 1-2 Rain, 3-0 Rain, 0-1 Rain, 1-0 Soulkey, 2-1 Soulkey, 2-0 Dark, 4-3 Parting, 3-2 soO, 2-0 Parting, 4-2 Rain, 1-0 Soulkey, 1-0 Parting, 1-0 soO, 1-0 Soulkey, 1-0 Rain."
While I agree with the choice, I'm confused about that last '1-0 Rain,' didn't Rain beat Zest in their PvP during the Proleague finals?
I remember Rain seemed to be the only SKT player who was consistently winning games vs Zest in 2014 Proleague.
On February 01 2015 04:46 FrostedMiniWheats wrote: Maru didn't even get a mention for being the Terran hero of Korea for like half of 2014? :/
Frost was a great map but c'mon that's a bs pick. Sejong clearly was the best map.
Life > soO
How can you say Maru > TaeJa (which is right) and say Life > soO (which is so wrong) at the same time? Is beating Zest, San, TaeJa and MMA really better than 3 GSL 2nd places?
I didn't say Maru > Taeja, I said Maru is a hero and deserves a mention. I agree with Taeja being the actual top Terran and even Bogus should be ahead of Maru.
But Maru kept Terran hope alive in Korea in perhaps the roughest period ever for the race. That has to at least earn a shoutout in the category.
It probably should have been a tie between Taeja and Bomber! All the people who are saying Maru and Innovation should think logically for a second. Maru didn't do anything significant past carrying Jin Air in Proleague with $o$ and wasn't really relevant past Proleague and I know he was one of the only Terrans left standing in Code S when Protoss was strong but thats not enough to justify best Terran of the year. Innovation was irrelevant for a majority of the year trying to do what Taeja and Bomber do which is go to foreign events and win and failed. He did win a Code S but just winning a Code S is not enough to justify best Terran player. Bomber and Taeja were dominant for a majority of the year and were pretty equal in results and having epic memorable games. The only thing that really separates them is that Taeja became the player with the most premier wins and I think it would have been more appropriate to give them the tandem award cause it was a really big year for the both of them where the both accomplished so much and were pretty much equal!
apart from the best eu tournament/final of the year mainly, i agree with pretty much everything
props to the TL crew to have put soO as the zerg of the year because usually always the 3-4 last months count in people's mind and life would have been picked
zest as the player of the year was the easiest pick indeed, no contestation possible
and obivously, nice article and nice presentation, the reading was great
Can we not have a map pool that blatantly favors one race over the others? God damn.
so respectfull towards those who put away countless hours to provide something amazing for absolutely no cost only to get insulted.
hope you guys will have fun on blizz maps.
Also some maps in that list are/were far from being awful. Still laughing at the "Yeonsu was the reason for Blink dominance" thesis (the map was only broken in ZvX).
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