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2017 in Review - Team Liquid Awards - Page 4

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ZigguratOfUr
Profile Blog Joined April 2012
Iraq16955 Posts
December 03 2017 08:12 GMT
#61
On December 03 2017 17:08 ChriS-X wrote:
where's the eternal kong award?


They scrapped it because they couldn't stand the thought of soO winning something.
Mun_Su
Profile Joined December 2012
France2063 Posts
December 03 2017 08:56 GMT
#62
What a great read !

I just disagree with the runner up of the player of the year, 2 Starleagues > 3 weekender (and Blizzcon is not a great indicator since Elazer and Major went in semis, can't see that happen or SSL)

But very awesome read, you TL people rocks
INno <3 - TY - Maru - Taeja - Rain <3 - Classic <3 - Stephano <3 - soO <3 - Soulkey - Dark - SERRAL =O / END REGION LOCK
AbouSV
Profile Joined October 2014
Germany1278 Posts
December 03 2017 09:34 GMT
#63
You misspelled 'soO' in many category titles.
digmouse
Profile Blog Joined November 2010
China6331 Posts
December 03 2017 09:38 GMT
#64
Ascension to Aiur over Abyssal Reef as best map?
TranslatorIf you want to ask anything about Chinese esports, send me a PM or follow me @nerddigmouse.
Olli
Profile Blog Joined February 2012
Austria24422 Posts
December 03 2017 10:05 GMT
#65
I voted Abyssal just so you know because I am reasonable
Administrator"Declaring anything a disaster because aLive popped up out of nowhere is just downright silly."
Soularion
Profile Blog Joined January 2014
Canada2764 Posts
December 03 2017 10:16 GMT
#66
On December 03 2017 12:00 breaker1328 wrote:
Show nested quote +
On December 03 2017 09:38 Rolltide wrote:
Dark should have been voted the most exciting player since he played in what was regarded as the best match and the best map.

In my opinion the best map was game 3 Rogue vs Neeb where Neeb had 199 army supply to win.


That would have been my vote too but you have to know TL writers will ever admit that a foreigner could do anything that would make a korean look bad.

This is a really silly statement after SpeCial humiliated Stats/TY
Writermaru pls
Edpayasugo
Profile Joined April 2013
United Kingdom2217 Posts
December 03 2017 10:32 GMT
#67
Great stuff, thanks
FlaSh MMA INnoVation FanTaSy MKP TY Ryung | soO Dark Rogue | HuK PartinG Stork State
Zaros
Profile Blog Joined September 2010
United Kingdom3692 Posts
December 03 2017 10:43 GMT
#68
Abyssal Reef and Rogue were robbed
Argonauta
Profile Joined July 2016
Spain4967 Posts
December 03 2017 10:45 GMT
#69
"Mutalisks were more afraid of Thors than Rogue was of picking up a dinner check for his fellow pros" Oh my god the burn!
Rogue | Maru | Scarlett | Trap
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Mun_Su
Profile Joined December 2012
France2063 Posts
December 03 2017 10:46 GMT
#70
On December 03 2017 19:16 Soularion wrote:
Show nested quote +
On December 03 2017 12:00 breaker1328 wrote:
On December 03 2017 09:38 Rolltide wrote:
Dark should have been voted the most exciting player since he played in what was regarded as the best match and the best map.

In my opinion the best map was game 3 Rogue vs Neeb where Neeb had 199 army supply to win.


That would have been my vote too but you have to know TL writers will ever admit that a foreigner could do anything that would make a korean look bad.

This is a really silly statement after SpeCial humiliated Stats/TY


I found that super long extra game quite silly and boring

Best games, imo, were one of TY vs Stats at IEM final with crazy late game, one of the INno vs Dark in GSL semi final with crazy trade base, the game on Abyssal Reef (definitly best map this season) between TY and INno in GSLvs The World (INno vs aLive also in IEM but since INno lost i'm salty about it), the Stats vs Dark (which won) etc all of them were way better than Neeb vs Rogue.
INno <3 - TY - Maru - Taeja - Rain <3 - Classic <3 - Stephano <3 - soO <3 - Soulkey - Dark - SERRAL =O / END REGION LOCK
NyuBPrime
Profile Joined January 2017
22 Posts
December 03 2017 10:46 GMT
#71
Do Tl posts those "TL awards every" year? Great article ! :D
Makro
Profile Joined March 2011
France16890 Posts
December 03 2017 10:54 GMT
#72
the final fight of the year : writers against the community
Matthew 5:10 "Blessed are those who are persecuted because of shitposting, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven".
TL+ Member
Vindicare605
Profile Blog Joined August 2011
United States16121 Posts
December 03 2017 12:10 GMT
#73
On December 03 2017 06:16 Elentos wrote:
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PLAYER OF THE YEAR:
WCS KOREA

INnoVation

Runner-up: Rogue

An atrocity. You should all be ashamed of yourselves.


Recency bias.

Rogue was the best player of the last 3 months perhaps, but the rest of the year in Korea was very clearly Innovation's.

At no point this year was he not the odds on favorite to win basically any tournament he was in, and when he was winning he was doing in dominating fashion.

Rogue had a stellar year no doubt, but Innovation's was still better.
aka: KTVindicare the Geeky Bartender
GoloSC2
Profile Joined August 2014
713 Posts
December 03 2017 12:15 GMT
#74
great read!
"Code S > IEM > Super Tournament > Homestory Cup > Blizzcon/WESG > GSL vs The World > Invitational tournaments in China with Koreans > WCS events" - Rodya
Hushfieldx
Profile Joined December 2016
Belgium64 Posts
December 03 2017 13:30 GMT
#75
Fantastic read! SC2 felt a lot better in 2017 than 2016, that's for sure
Ciaus_Dronu
Profile Joined June 2017
South Africa1848 Posts
Last Edited: 2017-12-03 13:39:24
December 03 2017 13:34 GMT
#76
EDIT: Eh, guess I've missed a lot during the middle of the year. Still disagree with many choices here (I feel like I knew going in Rogue and soO would get minimal actual awards) but not so viscerally
blunderfulguy
Profile Blog Joined April 2016
United States1415 Posts
December 03 2017 16:04 GMT
#77
Can we get a "Biggest 'OOPS!' of the Year" for 2018? That's about the only thing missing for me. + Show Spoiler +
..besides Arch of Janus not being the best map of the year.


Well done, and thanks everyone for a pret-ty good year of StarCraft. <3
Blunder Man doing everything thing a blunder can.
Alarak'smanservant
Profile Joined May 2017
35 Posts
December 03 2017 16:07 GMT
#78
My picks for favorite games would be sOs vs Inno game 5 and, I know this is a weird one, Cure vs Dark game 1 from season 1 .
BitbyBit is mathematically the greatest player of all time
leublix
Profile Joined May 2017
493 Posts
December 03 2017 16:57 GMT
#79
Abyssal > Ascension. I mean I like both and Abyssal is getting a bit old but itl was THE map of 2017.

Maybe Stats over Rogue as Runner-up for the best player but both choices seem reasonable (and I'm biased).

Might go with Dark over alive as the most entertaining player, he had many great series (losing a lot of those, a bit like classic last year).

Fango
Profile Joined July 2016
United Kingdom8987 Posts
December 03 2017 19:18 GMT
#80
On December 03 2017 09:44 Rolltide wrote:
To say that Blizzcon is an inferior tournament to GSL is retarded. There is only one world champion, there are 3 GSL champions.

If GSL is so superior the gold standard so to speak then a GSL champ should have won Blizzon. None of them did.



Wtf kind of comment is this? The fact that Rogue won blizzcon and has never got past GSL ro8 is evidence that GSL is the higher level event....

By any objective measure, other than prize money, GSL is better. More competition, more prep time between matches, bo7 for semis, no issues with jetlag, players qualify based on current form instead of results from tournaments 6 months ago etc

Like I said in the other comment, half the players at blizzcon couldn't even make GSL ro16. That alone makes it a weaker competition.
Zest, sOs, PartinG, Dark, and Maru are the real champs. ROOT_herO is overrated. Snute, Serral, and Scarlett are the foreigner GOATs
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