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Cele
Profile Blog Joined December 2008
Germany4016 Posts
May 07 2015 00:43 GMT
#381
On May 07 2015 09:37 The_Templar wrote:
Show nested quote +
On May 07 2015 09:36 Cele wrote:
I think MVP's highest accomplishment is taking a map of Flash in 2010 Hana Daetoo MSL.

Looks like Mvp beat Flash 1-0, then Flash wouldn't take any of that and went undefeated for the rest of the tournament. Basically, Flash only won because of Mvp.


for the curious:
this was MVP's best phase in Broodwar, he retired not so long afterwards and then came back for Wol.
Broodwar for life!
KingofdaHipHop
Profile Blog Joined October 2013
United States25602 Posts
May 07 2015 01:19 GMT
#382
On May 07 2015 09:43 Cele wrote:
Show nested quote +
On May 07 2015 09:37 The_Templar wrote:
On May 07 2015 09:36 Cele wrote:
I think MVP's highest accomplishment is taking a map of Flash in 2010 Hana Daetoo MSL.

Looks like Mvp beat Flash 1-0, then Flash wouldn't take any of that and went undefeated for the rest of the tournament. Basically, Flash only won because of Mvp.


for the curious:
this was MVP's best phase in Broodwar, he retired not so long afterwards and then came back for Wol.

yeah looking at it, seems that he beat Stork, Best, and TY to reach Flash. Not bad.
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ClaudeSc2
Profile Joined May 2014
United States73 Posts
May 07 2015 02:09 GMT
#383
Showing up to the comment party very late, but what Life did, was over 2 expansions, Mvp won during WoL, forget about him wading through a weak foreign filled WCS 2013 S1 field. Life won stacked tournaments in WoL and HotS.
ClaudeSc2
Profile Joined May 2014
United States73 Posts
May 07 2015 02:12 GMT
#384
On May 02 2015 20:26 lichter wrote:
Show nested quote +
On May 02 2015 19:06 Rocket-Bear wrote:
If the competition wasn't as strong back then is irrelevant.

The only kind of unfairness is that there was 9 GSL seasons in 2011. NINE. Now there are 3. If you had a dominanting period you had way more chances of getting some valueable championships.

But nothing we can do about it so it's whatever. Life will surpass Mvp in like a few months anyway


More tournaments also means more chances to break your streak of dominance. There are pros and cons to both. What ifs are bad arguments. I could similarly say that Life's on and off form through his career suggests he would not have won more titles in a more frequent tournament circuit. Or he could have in equal measur. Again, a bad argument to make.


If you are the BEST player in the world for 3 months, and unbeatable during them, in toll you win 3 GSL's, in 2014-2015 you win 1. That's why more GSL's benefit you bud, not a bad argument.
lichter
Profile Blog Joined September 2010
1001 YEARS KESPAJAIL22272 Posts
Last Edited: 2015-05-07 02:32:41
May 07 2015 02:23 GMT
#385
On May 07 2015 11:12 ClaudeSc2 wrote:
Show nested quote +
On May 02 2015 20:26 lichter wrote:
On May 02 2015 19:06 Rocket-Bear wrote:
If the competition wasn't as strong back then is irrelevant.

The only kind of unfairness is that there was 9 GSL seasons in 2011. NINE. Now there are 3. If you had a dominanting period you had way more chances of getting some valueable championships.

But nothing we can do about it so it's whatever. Life will surpass Mvp in like a few months anyway


More tournaments also means more chances to break your streak of dominance. There are pros and cons to both. What ifs are bad arguments. I could similarly say that Life's on and off form through his career suggests he would not have won more titles in a more frequent tournament circuit. Or he could have in equal measur. Again, a bad argument to make.


If you are the BEST player in the world for 3 months, and unbeatable during them, in toll you win 3 GSL's, in 2014-2015 you win 1. That's why more GSL's benefit you bud, not a bad argument.


And you play 3x as many tournaments and opponents, giving people more opportunity to knock you down. Winning one tournament has a higher probability than winning three. Lose one tournament and your time at the top gets cut short. With fewer tournaments, the length of time at the top stretches longer between seasons. With more tournaments, your number of potential wins increases. Like I said, pros and cons.
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Highcounsel
Profile Joined March 2011
United States132 Posts
May 07 2015 08:55 GMT
#386
Looked to see if Mvp was #1, all is right. I love Life and he is just out of control, but for me Mvp set the foundation for Sc2 and as others mentioned, whenever we were like "Well Mvp is done for, no way he will get past his first round" then he wins the whole thing. For me Mvp will always be number 1 and I wish he could have stayed healthy and was at a younger age for the Kespa age and future, we'll never know
TelecoM
Profile Blog Joined January 2010
United States10682 Posts
May 07 2015 10:22 GMT
#387
Nice writeup! I loved about Life and Soulkey's comments, The mouse pad is epic.
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NasusAndDraven
Profile Joined April 2015
359 Posts
May 07 2015 14:40 GMT
#388
On May 07 2015 09:36 Cele wrote:
I think MVP's highest accomplishment is taking a map of Flash in 2010 Hana Daetoo MSL.


Yeah I think its safe to say that MVP was easily the best BW player in the SC2 scene for almost 2years (before kespa switched to SC2). Sure there were players who were much more successful in their time that already switched (nada, boxer, july) but they played when BW was not as developed so if MVP had a time machine he would have rekt all of them in their prime.
Eliezar
Profile Joined May 2004
United States481 Posts
May 07 2015 21:01 GMT
#389
On May 07 2015 23:40 NasusAndDraven wrote:
Show nested quote +
On May 07 2015 09:36 Cele wrote:
I think MVP's highest accomplishment is taking a map of Flash in 2010 Hana Daetoo MSL.


Yeah I think its safe to say that MVP was easily the best BW player in the SC2 scene for almost 2years (before kespa switched to SC2). Sure there were players who were much more successful in their time that already switched (nada, boxer, july) but they played when BW was not as developed so if MVP had a time machine he would have rekt all of them in their prime.


Boxer in his prime would have beaten MVP 99-0 in a best of 7 in Broodwar. Boxer took the current Broodwar meta and innovated with amazing control and harass that was unbelievable. Of course Boxer in his prime vs Boxer that played SC2 would have beaten the SC2 version just as bad at BW. Boxer still had some of the game sense, but wasn't near the player that he was in BW much like Nada...neither had near the ability left at their age once SC2 came around and neither focused like they did during BW.

JulDraGoN
Profile Blog Joined September 2004
Sweden370 Posts
May 08 2015 15:22 GMT
#390
On May 07 2015 11:12 ClaudeSc2 wrote:
Show nested quote +
On May 02 2015 20:26 lichter wrote:
On May 02 2015 19:06 Rocket-Bear wrote:
If the competition wasn't as strong back then is irrelevant.

The only kind of unfairness is that there was 9 GSL seasons in 2011. NINE. Now there are 3. If you had a dominanting period you had way more chances of getting some valueable championships.

But nothing we can do about it so it's whatever. Life will surpass Mvp in like a few months anyway


More tournaments also means more chances to break your streak of dominance. There are pros and cons to both. What ifs are bad arguments. I could similarly say that Life's on and off form through his career suggests he would not have won more titles in a more frequent tournament circuit. Or he could have in equal measur. Again, a bad argument to make.


If you are the BEST player in the world for 3 months, and unbeatable during them, in toll you win 3 GSL's, in 2014-2015 you win 1. That's why more GSL's benefit you bud, not a bad argument.

To be fair, this isn't about the best player of all time. It is about the greatest player of all time which has to do with more than just results.
So regardless if they played 9 GSLs back then and 3 now, the criteria is based on a lot more than just wins.
I mean nobody wants to admit they eat 9 cans of ravioli, but I did and I'm ashamed of myself. The first can doesn't count and then you get to the second, and the third. The fourth and fifth I think I burnt with the blow torch and I just kept eating.
Charoisaur
Profile Joined August 2014
Germany16000 Posts
May 09 2015 00:24 GMT
#391
You can talk about consistency and innovation as much as you want but i think in terms of pure achievements life has already surpassed mvp.

Also the major thing I disagree with in the criteria is that it only considers the opponents the player has beaten during their runs and not the overall difficulty of the tournament.
For example in the WCS 2012 world finals there played many strong players like herO, HerO, Rain, Curious, Roro, stephano but they all got eliminated before they could face parting. Is it partings fault that the "good" players got eliminated by other players?
It's like saying germany can't be considered to be the best football team in the world because they didn't face spain at the world cup and so they had an easy path.
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Adastrom
Profile Blog Joined April 2011
Canada219 Posts
May 09 2015 20:01 GMT
#392
Why the hell wasn't parting in top 15, the guy just manhandled rain today.
Lol pvz
MCMarine
Profile Joined December 2013
Hungary11 Posts
May 20 2015 17:40 GMT
#393
[image loading]

I made this I hope it's not that bad. All hail the king!
tokinho
Profile Blog Joined December 2010
United States792 Posts
May 20 2015 19:21 GMT
#394
On May 21 2015 02:40 MCMarine wrote:
[image loading]

I made this I hope it's not that bad. All hail the king!


Wow that marineKing flipping off MVP not cool
Smile
GL999et1000
Profile Joined December 2012
France229 Posts
May 20 2015 19:34 GMT
#395
Most of MVP's wins are in 2011. Back then only Terran race was viable. Maybe this makes him the best T ever, but in my opinion no way he is the best player ever.
P: PartinG,Rain,sOs | T: Dream, Maru,Fantasy | Z: Life, SoO, Leenock | Micro for the win! | Warcraft 3 always in my heart !
FrostedMiniWheats
Profile Joined August 2010
United States30730 Posts
May 20 2015 19:47 GMT
#396
On May 21 2015 04:21 tokinho wrote:
Show nested quote +
On May 21 2015 02:40 MCMarine wrote:
[image loading]

I made this I hope it's not that bad. All hail the king!


Wow that marineKing flipping off MVP not cool


Mvp forgives his insolence

[image loading]
NesTea | Mvp | MC | Leenock | Losira | Gumiho | DRG | Taeja | Jinro | Stephano | Thorzain | Sen | Idra |Polt | Bomber | Symbol | Squirtle | Fantasy | Jaedong | Maru | sOs | Seed | ByuN | ByuL | Neeb| Scarlett | Rogue | IM forever
Deathstar
Profile Blog Joined May 2010
9150 Posts
May 20 2015 20:05 GMT
#397
On May 21 2015 04:47 FrostedMiniWheats wrote:
Show nested quote +
On May 21 2015 04:21 tokinho wrote:
On May 21 2015 02:40 MCMarine wrote:
[image loading]

I made this I hope it's not that bad. All hail the king!


Wow that marineKing flipping off MVP not cool


Mvp forgives his insolence

[image loading]


M-M-Mvp senpai~...
rip passion
tyrless
Profile Joined July 2010
United States485 Posts
May 24 2015 23:13 GMT
#398
These are some great writeups, and I was happy to see MVP rightly declared the best. The part about the 'MVP Paradox' pretty much captures it spot on. After all the down and dirty analysis and comparisons, the most important thing you can say about MVP is that he would just win because he was MVP.
Dodgin
Profile Blog Joined July 2011
Canada39254 Posts
May 27 2015 18:51 GMT
#399
+ Show Spoiler +
With Life losing early this season I guess Mvp holds for now
StarStruck
Profile Blog Joined April 2010
25339 Posts
May 27 2015 20:39 GMT
#400
On May 08 2015 06:01 Eliezar wrote:
Show nested quote +
On May 07 2015 23:40 NasusAndDraven wrote:
On May 07 2015 09:36 Cele wrote:
I think MVP's highest accomplishment is taking a map of Flash in 2010 Hana Daetoo MSL.


Yeah I think its safe to say that MVP was easily the best BW player in the SC2 scene for almost 2years (before kespa switched to SC2). Sure there were players who were much more successful in their time that already switched (nada, boxer, july) but they played when BW was not as developed so if MVP had a time machine he would have rekt all of them in their prime.


Boxer in his prime would have beaten MVP 99-0 in a best of 7 in Broodwar. Boxer took the current Broodwar meta and innovated with amazing control and harass that was unbelievable. Of course Boxer in his prime vs Boxer that played SC2 would have beaten the SC2 version just as bad at BW. Boxer still had some of the game sense, but wasn't near the player that he was in BW much like Nada...neither had near the ability left at their age once SC2 came around and neither focused like they did during BW.



Without the power of replays perhaps those innovative players would have lasted a little bit longer.
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