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Dave4
Profile Joined August 2018
494 Posts
January 28 2020 20:31 GMT
#84
As already mentioned I'm comfortable with Dark as POTY.

However it's nonsense to suggest Dark's year was vastly superior to Serrals, who was in 7 Premier tournament finals and won a team league as well. He has unprecedented consistency and longevity over 24 months to a degree unseen in starcraft 2 before, and has already moved into GOAT discussions.

Anyone still pushing the "foreigners don't mean anything" line is completely naive. GSL vs World proved for good this year that the two scenes are extremely comparable, and Serral/Reynor make 2 of the 3 best players in the world right now. Other foreigners have also demonstrated ongoing success against both foreign and Korean opponents, including Neeb, Special, Time, Elazer and more.

The Korean elitism is seeped in tradition but it is now 3 years since kespa closed its doors. The fact that Korea can't even win nation wars anymore is clear evidence of this.

It astounds me how some people still don't give Serral the credit he deserves, no-one has ever been in the top eschalon for 2 straight years before.
RecklessTempest
Profile Joined July 2018
18 Posts
January 28 2020 22:52 GMT
#85
I legit thought HeroMarine was going to get Foreign Terran, I think all these big gabe memes have ruined my brain
deacon.frost
Profile Joined February 2013
Czech Republic12129 Posts
Last Edited: 2020-01-29 08:07:14
January 29 2020 08:05 GMT
#86
On January 29 2020 05:31 Dave4 wrote:
As already mentioned I'm comfortable with Dark as POTY.

However it's nonsense to suggest Dark's year was vastly superior to Serrals, who was in 7 Premier tournament finals and won a team league as well. He has unprecedented consistency and longevity over 24 months to a degree unseen in starcraft 2 before, and has already moved into GOAT discussions.

Anyone still pushing the "foreigners don't mean anything" line is completely naive. GSL vs World proved for good this year that the two scenes are extremely comparable, and Serral/Reynor make 2 of the 3 best players in the world right now. Other foreigners have also demonstrated ongoing success against both foreign and Korean opponents, including Neeb, Special, Time, Elazer and more.

The Korean elitism is seeped in tradition but it is now 3 years since kespa closed its doors. The fact that Korea can't even win nation wars anymore is clear evidence of this.

It astounds me how some people still don't give Serral the credit he deserves, no-one has ever been in the top eschalon for 2 straight years before.

IEM or Blizzcon (both 2019 for obv. reasons ) proved for good that these two scenes are not comparable at all. How many foreigners did we see in RO4/RO8 again?

On January 29 2020 04:20 Xain0n wrote:
Show nested quote +
On January 29 2020 00:56 deacon.frost wrote:
On January 29 2020 00:34 UnLarva wrote:
So, Serral was the second best of year 2019. Great! How incredibly hard it is to achieve. Like it would be shame to be the second.

Congratz Dark! Maybe Serral was little bit more consistent overall, and statistically little bit better, but when weighting in wins in tournaments, level of competition and trophies, Dark deserves POTY. Maybe its close, but it is nevertheless clear.

And yes, this comes from 100% pure breed Serral fanboi, but Its just petty not to applaud the player who deserve the praise, and what happened 2018 have nothing what-so-ever to do with POTY 2019.

To foreseeable future its easy to predict that Serral isn't yet completely washed up. Maybe 2020 is better year for him. Lol.

soO was so fucking consistent with his 4 Code S finals in a row and almost nobody cared and everybody was talking about winners. Also Serral is hurt by WCS which is a weaker competition while Dark was very good in the Code S and ST2.

Out of 8 big titles Serral was competing for 3, which means he has to win some of them to outperform heavily dominating Korean player.

Edit> actually this is quite a nice comparison - soO vs Maru. when soO was winning everything except the finals, he was being aknowledged but victors were still more than his achievement. When Maru started his dominating streak and was winning, people were talking much more differently


That mirrors your incredibly Korea-centric vision of Sc2, which is not shared by everyone and it is not objective truth, either(also, Serral won GSL vs the World that you include in your "big titles", so if Dark was crowned POTY the reason was not Serral not winning any of those).

Being consistent by itself is not enough, you need to actually win titles on top of that and that's why soO wasn't taken into consideration back then: because he was not capable of winning anything.
This doesn't mean that consistent players winning few titles(more than zero, ofc) could be preferred over other ones winning more but being incosistent.


I didn't say that Serral won none. Read it again. My posts are about the fact Dark won more and was more consistent in the most important title runs. In the end it's not our fault Serral missed 5 of those, is it?
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Noa Greenini
Profile Joined April 2015
265 Posts
January 29 2020 11:10 GMT
#87
On January 29 2020 17:05 deacon.frost wrote:
Show nested quote +
On January 29 2020 05:31 Dave4 wrote:
As already mentioned I'm comfortable with Dark as POTY.

However it's nonsense to suggest Dark's year was vastly superior to Serrals, who was in 7 Premier tournament finals and won a team league as well. He has unprecedented consistency and longevity over 24 months to a degree unseen in starcraft 2 before, and has already moved into GOAT discussions.

Anyone still pushing the "foreigners don't mean anything" line is completely naive. GSL vs World proved for good this year that the two scenes are extremely comparable, and Serral/Reynor make 2 of the 3 best players in the world right now. Other foreigners have also demonstrated ongoing success against both foreign and Korean opponents, including Neeb, Special, Time, Elazer and more.

The Korean elitism is seeped in tradition but it is now 3 years since kespa closed its doors. The fact that Korea can't even win nation wars anymore is clear evidence of this.

It astounds me how some people still don't give Serral the credit he deserves, no-one has ever been in the top eschalon for 2 straight years before.

IEM or Blizzcon (both 2019 for obv. reasons ) proved for good that these two scenes are not comparable at all. How many foreigners did we see in RO4/RO8 again?

Show nested quote +
On January 29 2020 04:20 Xain0n wrote:
On January 29 2020 00:56 deacon.frost wrote:
On January 29 2020 00:34 UnLarva wrote:
So, Serral was the second best of year 2019. Great! How incredibly hard it is to achieve. Like it would be shame to be the second.

Congratz Dark! Maybe Serral was little bit more consistent overall, and statistically little bit better, but when weighting in wins in tournaments, level of competition and trophies, Dark deserves POTY. Maybe its close, but it is nevertheless clear.

And yes, this comes from 100% pure breed Serral fanboi, but Its just petty not to applaud the player who deserve the praise, and what happened 2018 have nothing what-so-ever to do with POTY 2019.

To foreseeable future its easy to predict that Serral isn't yet completely washed up. Maybe 2020 is better year for him. Lol.

soO was so fucking consistent with his 4 Code S finals in a row and almost nobody cared and everybody was talking about winners. Also Serral is hurt by WCS which is a weaker competition while Dark was very good in the Code S and ST2.

Out of 8 big titles Serral was competing for 3, which means he has to win some of them to outperform heavily dominating Korean player.

Edit> actually this is quite a nice comparison - soO vs Maru. when soO was winning everything except the finals, he was being aknowledged but victors were still more than his achievement. When Maru started his dominating streak and was winning, people were talking much more differently


That mirrors your incredibly Korea-centric vision of Sc2, which is not shared by everyone and it is not objective truth, either(also, Serral won GSL vs the World that you include in your "big titles", so if Dark was crowned POTY the reason was not Serral not winning any of those).

Being consistent by itself is not enough, you need to actually win titles on top of that and that's why soO wasn't taken into consideration back then: because he was not capable of winning anything.
This doesn't mean that consistent players winning few titles(more than zero, ofc) could be preferred over other ones winning more but being incosistent.


I didn't say that Serral won none. Read it again. My posts are about the fact Dark won more and was more consistent in the most important title runs. In the end it's not our fault Serral missed 5 of those, is it?



You're right, Dark won the most important tournaments 2019 (finals) and Serral 2018 so they have one year of being the undisputed best player each. I'm not sure money earnings is the best metric of "best player" but if that's what you want then sure.
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Harris1st
Profile Blog Joined May 2010
Germany6880 Posts
January 29 2020 12:09 GMT
#88
On January 29 2020 20:10 Noa Greenini wrote:
Show nested quote +
On January 29 2020 17:05 deacon.frost wrote:
On January 29 2020 05:31 Dave4 wrote:
As already mentioned I'm comfortable with Dark as POTY.

However it's nonsense to suggest Dark's year was vastly superior to Serrals, who was in 7 Premier tournament finals and won a team league as well. He has unprecedented consistency and longevity over 24 months to a degree unseen in starcraft 2 before, and has already moved into GOAT discussions.

Anyone still pushing the "foreigners don't mean anything" line is completely naive. GSL vs World proved for good this year that the two scenes are extremely comparable, and Serral/Reynor make 2 of the 3 best players in the world right now. Other foreigners have also demonstrated ongoing success against both foreign and Korean opponents, including Neeb, Special, Time, Elazer and more.

The Korean elitism is seeped in tradition but it is now 3 years since kespa closed its doors. The fact that Korea can't even win nation wars anymore is clear evidence of this.

It astounds me how some people still don't give Serral the credit he deserves, no-one has ever been in the top eschalon for 2 straight years before.

IEM or Blizzcon (both 2019 for obv. reasons ) proved for good that these two scenes are not comparable at all. How many foreigners did we see in RO4/RO8 again?

On January 29 2020 04:20 Xain0n wrote:
On January 29 2020 00:56 deacon.frost wrote:
On January 29 2020 00:34 UnLarva wrote:
So, Serral was the second best of year 2019. Great! How incredibly hard it is to achieve. Like it would be shame to be the second.

Congratz Dark! Maybe Serral was little bit more consistent overall, and statistically little bit better, but when weighting in wins in tournaments, level of competition and trophies, Dark deserves POTY. Maybe its close, but it is nevertheless clear.

And yes, this comes from 100% pure breed Serral fanboi, but Its just petty not to applaud the player who deserve the praise, and what happened 2018 have nothing what-so-ever to do with POTY 2019.

To foreseeable future its easy to predict that Serral isn't yet completely washed up. Maybe 2020 is better year for him. Lol.

soO was so fucking consistent with his 4 Code S finals in a row and almost nobody cared and everybody was talking about winners. Also Serral is hurt by WCS which is a weaker competition while Dark was very good in the Code S and ST2.

Out of 8 big titles Serral was competing for 3, which means he has to win some of them to outperform heavily dominating Korean player.

Edit> actually this is quite a nice comparison - soO vs Maru. when soO was winning everything except the finals, he was being aknowledged but victors were still more than his achievement. When Maru started his dominating streak and was winning, people were talking much more differently


That mirrors your incredibly Korea-centric vision of Sc2, which is not shared by everyone and it is not objective truth, either(also, Serral won GSL vs the World that you include in your "big titles", so if Dark was crowned POTY the reason was not Serral not winning any of those).

Being consistent by itself is not enough, you need to actually win titles on top of that and that's why soO wasn't taken into consideration back then: because he was not capable of winning anything.
This doesn't mean that consistent players winning few titles(more than zero, ofc) could be preferred over other ones winning more but being incosistent.


I didn't say that Serral won none. Read it again. My posts are about the fact Dark won more and was more consistent in the most important title runs. In the end it's not our fault Serral missed 5 of those, is it?



You're right, Dark won the most important tournaments 2019 (finals) and Serral 2018 so they have one year of being the undisputed best player each. I'm not sure money earnings is the best metric of "best player" but if that's what you want then sure.


Not money. Prestige!
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Fango
Profile Joined July 2016
United Kingdom8987 Posts
January 29 2020 12:34 GMT
#89
Take it a step further. Rogue would have won POTY 2017 by the standards of the 2018 list.
Zest, sOs, PartinG, Dark, and Maru are the real champs. ROOT_herO is overrated. Snute, Serral, and Scarlett are the foreigner GOATs
Fango
Profile Joined July 2016
United Kingdom8987 Posts
January 29 2020 12:57 GMT
#90
On January 29 2020 05:31 Dave4 wrote:
The Korean elitism is seeped in tradition but it is now 3 years since kespa closed its doors. The fact that Korea can't even win nation wars anymore is clear evidence of this.

Did this guy really use NW to prove a point. You know korea lost that during kespa as well right?
Zest, sOs, PartinG, Dark, and Maru are the real champs. ROOT_herO is overrated. Snute, Serral, and Scarlett are the foreigner GOATs
Xain0n
Profile Joined November 2018
Italy3963 Posts
January 29 2020 13:56 GMT
#91
On January 29 2020 21:34 Fango wrote:
Take it a step further. Rogue would have won POTY 2017 by the standards of the 2018 list.


I insist, if someone wins BlizzCon he is not automatically Player of the Year.
That's how you justify Serral winning in 2018 but there's more to it(and it has been said countless times), you just can't see it because the GSLcentrism blinds you.
WombaT
Profile Blog Joined May 2010
Northern Ireland25013 Posts
January 29 2020 15:59 GMT
#92
It’s contentious enough every year, 2020 may be more difficult yet again for our writers.

Maybe not across scenes, which is always tricky anyway but with past achievements and prestige.

How does a Code S in the coming year compare to ones in previous eras? Will players step up to fill that Classic (and hero/Gumiho) shaped void? Maybe Reynor will try his hand, more likely than Serral anyhow.

We’re starting to look a bit thin in terms of depth, at least of championship tier players who are in form.

On the other hand best case scenario it could be a great year if some of the aforementioned happen, the game is well racially balanced and players like Inno and soO bring their A game.
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Waxangel
Profile Blog Joined September 2002
United States33339 Posts
Last Edited: 2020-01-30 11:43:52
January 30 2020 11:43 GMT
#93
On January 29 2020 22:56 Xain0n wrote:
Show nested quote +
On January 29 2020 21:34 Fango wrote:
Take it a step further. Rogue would have won POTY 2017 by the standards of the 2018 list.


I insist, if someone wins BlizzCon he is not automatically Player of the Year.
That's how you justify Serral winning in 2018 but there's more to it(and it has been said countless times), you just can't see it because the GSLcentrism blinds you.


Winning BlizzCon definitely has a 'golden snitch' from Harry Potter quality, although not quite to that extent. Players who are BlizzCon champion quality rarely fail miserably for the rest of the year (qualification system basically ensures that), but I could envision a scenario where a relatively fluky champion can't garner the selection over some other player.
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deacon.frost
Profile Joined February 2013
Czech Republic12129 Posts
January 30 2020 15:03 GMT
#94
On January 29 2020 20:10 Noa Greenini wrote:
Show nested quote +
On January 29 2020 17:05 deacon.frost wrote:
On January 29 2020 05:31 Dave4 wrote:
As already mentioned I'm comfortable with Dark as POTY.

However it's nonsense to suggest Dark's year was vastly superior to Serrals, who was in 7 Premier tournament finals and won a team league as well. He has unprecedented consistency and longevity over 24 months to a degree unseen in starcraft 2 before, and has already moved into GOAT discussions.

Anyone still pushing the "foreigners don't mean anything" line is completely naive. GSL vs World proved for good this year that the two scenes are extremely comparable, and Serral/Reynor make 2 of the 3 best players in the world right now. Other foreigners have also demonstrated ongoing success against both foreign and Korean opponents, including Neeb, Special, Time, Elazer and more.

The Korean elitism is seeped in tradition but it is now 3 years since kespa closed its doors. The fact that Korea can't even win nation wars anymore is clear evidence of this.

It astounds me how some people still don't give Serral the credit he deserves, no-one has ever been in the top eschalon for 2 straight years before.

IEM or Blizzcon (both 2019 for obv. reasons ) proved for good that these two scenes are not comparable at all. How many foreigners did we see in RO4/RO8 again?

On January 29 2020 04:20 Xain0n wrote:
On January 29 2020 00:56 deacon.frost wrote:
On January 29 2020 00:34 UnLarva wrote:
So, Serral was the second best of year 2019. Great! How incredibly hard it is to achieve. Like it would be shame to be the second.

Congratz Dark! Maybe Serral was little bit more consistent overall, and statistically little bit better, but when weighting in wins in tournaments, level of competition and trophies, Dark deserves POTY. Maybe its close, but it is nevertheless clear.

And yes, this comes from 100% pure breed Serral fanboi, but Its just petty not to applaud the player who deserve the praise, and what happened 2018 have nothing what-so-ever to do with POTY 2019.

To foreseeable future its easy to predict that Serral isn't yet completely washed up. Maybe 2020 is better year for him. Lol.

soO was so fucking consistent with his 4 Code S finals in a row and almost nobody cared and everybody was talking about winners. Also Serral is hurt by WCS which is a weaker competition while Dark was very good in the Code S and ST2.

Out of 8 big titles Serral was competing for 3, which means he has to win some of them to outperform heavily dominating Korean player.

Edit> actually this is quite a nice comparison - soO vs Maru. when soO was winning everything except the finals, he was being aknowledged but victors were still more than his achievement. When Maru started his dominating streak and was winning, people were talking much more differently


That mirrors your incredibly Korea-centric vision of Sc2, which is not shared by everyone and it is not objective truth, either(also, Serral won GSL vs the World that you include in your "big titles", so if Dark was crowned POTY the reason was not Serral not winning any of those).

Being consistent by itself is not enough, you need to actually win titles on top of that and that's why soO wasn't taken into consideration back then: because he was not capable of winning anything.
This doesn't mean that consistent players winning few titles(more than zero, ofc) could be preferred over other ones winning more but being incosistent.


I didn't say that Serral won none. Read it again. My posts are about the fact Dark won more and was more consistent in the most important title runs. In the end it's not our fault Serral missed 5 of those, is it?



You're right, Dark won the most important tournaments 2019 (finals) and Serral 2018 so they have one year of being the undisputed best player each. I'm not sure money earnings is the best metric of "best player" but if that's what you want then sure.

Not talking about money. WESG is rewarding what, 200k USD? It's not mentioned because it's 3 Koreans and foreigners.

IEM and Blizzcon are the only 2 world champion titles we have. IEM is open to everybody, multiple open qualifications, big prize pool, the best players there. Blizzcon is quite low on the quality(because champions from the first half of the year may get worse - e.g. soO) but it's still a respected WC title and the finish of the season.

The next 3 hardest titles are Code S titles. It's a tournament with the biggest pool of skill. Comparable we can talk about ST1 & 2 but considering there's lower money value we can talk about players more focusing on Code S than ST so I value them a little lower.

The lowest title of the top for me is GSL vs TW. There's voting, there are more foreigners than the ratio of Blizzcon/IEM play offs would suggest is optimal. But still it has pretty stacked skill pool.

That;s why I mentioned these tournaments. If you look with my optics winning a WC title and being good at Code S for the whole year makes you a clear champion. It would get harder to decide with 1 WC title and ST titles vs 1 WC title and Code S domination and just 1 title.
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Nakajin
Profile Blog Joined September 2014
Canada8989 Posts
January 30 2020 15:08 GMT
#95
On January 30 2020 20:43 Waxangel wrote:
Show nested quote +
On January 29 2020 22:56 Xain0n wrote:
On January 29 2020 21:34 Fango wrote:
Take it a step further. Rogue would have won POTY 2017 by the standards of the 2018 list.


I insist, if someone wins BlizzCon he is not automatically Player of the Year.
That's how you justify Serral winning in 2018 but there's more to it(and it has been said countless times), you just can't see it because the GSLcentrism blinds you.


Winning BlizzCon definitely has a 'golden snitch' from Harry Potter quality, although not quite to that extent. Players who are BlizzCon champion quality rarely fail miserably for the rest of the year (qualification system basically ensures that), but I could envision a scenario where a relatively fluky champion can't garner the selection over some other player.


That's a long way to say "Unless he's from JinAir"
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Harris1st
Profile Blog Joined May 2010
Germany6880 Posts
January 31 2020 08:09 GMT
#96
On January 31 2020 00:03 deacon.frost wrote:
Show nested quote +
On January 29 2020 20:10 Noa Greenini wrote:
On January 29 2020 17:05 deacon.frost wrote:
On January 29 2020 05:31 Dave4 wrote:
As already mentioned I'm comfortable with Dark as POTY.

However it's nonsense to suggest Dark's year was vastly superior to Serrals, who was in 7 Premier tournament finals and won a team league as well. He has unprecedented consistency and longevity over 24 months to a degree unseen in starcraft 2 before, and has already moved into GOAT discussions.

Anyone still pushing the "foreigners don't mean anything" line is completely naive. GSL vs World proved for good this year that the two scenes are extremely comparable, and Serral/Reynor make 2 of the 3 best players in the world right now. Other foreigners have also demonstrated ongoing success against both foreign and Korean opponents, including Neeb, Special, Time, Elazer and more.

The Korean elitism is seeped in tradition but it is now 3 years since kespa closed its doors. The fact that Korea can't even win nation wars anymore is clear evidence of this.

It astounds me how some people still don't give Serral the credit he deserves, no-one has ever been in the top eschalon for 2 straight years before.

IEM or Blizzcon (both 2019 for obv. reasons ) proved for good that these two scenes are not comparable at all. How many foreigners did we see in RO4/RO8 again?

On January 29 2020 04:20 Xain0n wrote:
On January 29 2020 00:56 deacon.frost wrote:
On January 29 2020 00:34 UnLarva wrote:
So, Serral was the second best of year 2019. Great! How incredibly hard it is to achieve. Like it would be shame to be the second.

Congratz Dark! Maybe Serral was little bit more consistent overall, and statistically little bit better, but when weighting in wins in tournaments, level of competition and trophies, Dark deserves POTY. Maybe its close, but it is nevertheless clear.

And yes, this comes from 100% pure breed Serral fanboi, but Its just petty not to applaud the player who deserve the praise, and what happened 2018 have nothing what-so-ever to do with POTY 2019.

To foreseeable future its easy to predict that Serral isn't yet completely washed up. Maybe 2020 is better year for him. Lol.

soO was so fucking consistent with his 4 Code S finals in a row and almost nobody cared and everybody was talking about winners. Also Serral is hurt by WCS which is a weaker competition while Dark was very good in the Code S and ST2.

Out of 8 big titles Serral was competing for 3, which means he has to win some of them to outperform heavily dominating Korean player.

Edit> actually this is quite a nice comparison - soO vs Maru. when soO was winning everything except the finals, he was being aknowledged but victors were still more than his achievement. When Maru started his dominating streak and was winning, people were talking much more differently


That mirrors your incredibly Korea-centric vision of Sc2, which is not shared by everyone and it is not objective truth, either(also, Serral won GSL vs the World that you include in your "big titles", so if Dark was crowned POTY the reason was not Serral not winning any of those).

Being consistent by itself is not enough, you need to actually win titles on top of that and that's why soO wasn't taken into consideration back then: because he was not capable of winning anything.
This doesn't mean that consistent players winning few titles(more than zero, ofc) could be preferred over other ones winning more but being incosistent.


I didn't say that Serral won none. Read it again. My posts are about the fact Dark won more and was more consistent in the most important title runs. In the end it's not our fault Serral missed 5 of those, is it?



You're right, Dark won the most important tournaments 2019 (finals) and Serral 2018 so they have one year of being the undisputed best player each. I'm not sure money earnings is the best metric of "best player" but if that's what you want then sure.

Not talking about money. WESG is rewarding what, 200k USD? It's not mentioned because it's 3 Koreans and foreigners.

IEM and Blizzcon are the only 2 world champion titles we have. IEM is open to everybody, multiple open qualifications, big prize pool, the best players there. Blizzcon is quite low on the quality(because champions from the first half of the year may get worse - e.g. soO) but it's still a respected WC title and the finish of the season.

The next 3 hardest titles are Code S titles. It's a tournament with the biggest pool of skill. Comparable we can talk about ST1 & 2 but considering there's lower money value we can talk about players more focusing on Code S than ST so I value them a little lower.

The lowest title of the top for me is GSL vs TW. There's voting, there are more foreigners than the ratio of Blizzcon/IEM play offs would suggest is optimal. But still it has pretty stacked skill pool.

That;s why I mentioned these tournaments. If you look with my optics winning a WC title and being good at Code S for the whole year makes you a clear champion. It would get harder to decide with 1 WC title and ST titles vs 1 WC title and Code S domination and just 1 title.


I'd argue that GSL vs World counts as a Code S title (at least in the last 2 years) and definitely more than a ST title but whatever
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Argonauta
Profile Joined July 2016
Spain4906 Posts
Last Edited: 2020-01-31 08:31:12
January 31 2020 08:30 GMT
#97
On January 31 2020 17:09 Harris1st wrote:
Show nested quote +
On January 31 2020 00:03 deacon.frost wrote:
On January 29 2020 20:10 Noa Greenini wrote:
On January 29 2020 17:05 deacon.frost wrote:
On January 29 2020 05:31 Dave4 wrote:
As already mentioned I'm comfortable with Dark as POTY.

However it's nonsense to suggest Dark's year was vastly superior to Serrals, who was in 7 Premier tournament finals and won a team league as well. He has unprecedented consistency and longevity over 24 months to a degree unseen in starcraft 2 before, and has already moved into GOAT discussions.

Anyone still pushing the "foreigners don't mean anything" line is completely naive. GSL vs World proved for good this year that the two scenes are extremely comparable, and Serral/Reynor make 2 of the 3 best players in the world right now. Other foreigners have also demonstrated ongoing success against both foreign and Korean opponents, including Neeb, Special, Time, Elazer and more.

The Korean elitism is seeped in tradition but it is now 3 years since kespa closed its doors. The fact that Korea can't even win nation wars anymore is clear evidence of this.

It astounds me how some people still don't give Serral the credit he deserves, no-one has ever been in the top eschalon for 2 straight years before.

IEM or Blizzcon (both 2019 for obv. reasons ) proved for good that these two scenes are not comparable at all. How many foreigners did we see in RO4/RO8 again?

On January 29 2020 04:20 Xain0n wrote:
On January 29 2020 00:56 deacon.frost wrote:
On January 29 2020 00:34 UnLarva wrote:
So, Serral was the second best of year 2019. Great! How incredibly hard it is to achieve. Like it would be shame to be the second.

Congratz Dark! Maybe Serral was little bit more consistent overall, and statistically little bit better, but when weighting in wins in tournaments, level of competition and trophies, Dark deserves POTY. Maybe its close, but it is nevertheless clear.

And yes, this comes from 100% pure breed Serral fanboi, but Its just petty not to applaud the player who deserve the praise, and what happened 2018 have nothing what-so-ever to do with POTY 2019.

To foreseeable future its easy to predict that Serral isn't yet completely washed up. Maybe 2020 is better year for him. Lol.

soO was so fucking consistent with his 4 Code S finals in a row and almost nobody cared and everybody was talking about winners. Also Serral is hurt by WCS which is a weaker competition while Dark was very good in the Code S and ST2.

Out of 8 big titles Serral was competing for 3, which means he has to win some of them to outperform heavily dominating Korean player.

Edit> actually this is quite a nice comparison - soO vs Maru. when soO was winning everything except the finals, he was being aknowledged but victors were still more than his achievement. When Maru started his dominating streak and was winning, people were talking much more differently


That mirrors your incredibly Korea-centric vision of Sc2, which is not shared by everyone and it is not objective truth, either(also, Serral won GSL vs the World that you include in your "big titles", so if Dark was crowned POTY the reason was not Serral not winning any of those).

Being consistent by itself is not enough, you need to actually win titles on top of that and that's why soO wasn't taken into consideration back then: because he was not capable of winning anything.
This doesn't mean that consistent players winning few titles(more than zero, ofc) could be preferred over other ones winning more but being incosistent.


I didn't say that Serral won none. Read it again. My posts are about the fact Dark won more and was more consistent in the most important title runs. In the end it's not our fault Serral missed 5 of those, is it?



You're right, Dark won the most important tournaments 2019 (finals) and Serral 2018 so they have one year of being the undisputed best player each. I'm not sure money earnings is the best metric of "best player" but if that's what you want then sure.

Not talking about money. WESG is rewarding what, 200k USD? It's not mentioned because it's 3 Koreans and foreigners.

IEM and Blizzcon are the only 2 world champion titles we have. IEM is open to everybody, multiple open qualifications, big prize pool, the best players there. Blizzcon is quite low on the quality(because champions from the first half of the year may get worse - e.g. soO) but it's still a respected WC title and the finish of the season.

The next 3 hardest titles are Code S titles. It's a tournament with the biggest pool of skill. Comparable we can talk about ST1 & 2 but considering there's lower money value we can talk about players more focusing on Code S than ST so I value them a little lower.

The lowest title of the top for me is GSL vs TW. There's voting, there are more foreigners than the ratio of Blizzcon/IEM play offs would suggest is optimal. But still it has pretty stacked skill pool.

That;s why I mentioned these tournaments. If you look with my optics winning a WC title and being good at Code S for the whole year makes you a clear champion. It would get harder to decide with 1 WC title and ST titles vs 1 WC title and Code S domination and just 1 title.


I'd argue that GSL vs World counts as a Code S title (at least in the last 2 years) and definitely more than a ST title but whatever


How?? GSL vs The world is fan voting and invitation system which doesn't reflect who is the best at the moment of the tournament, whereas an open qualifier ensures the hottest players of the moment wins.
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Harris1st
Profile Blog Joined May 2010
Germany6880 Posts
January 31 2020 09:17 GMT
#98
On January 31 2020 17:30 Argonauta wrote:
Show nested quote +
On January 31 2020 17:09 Harris1st wrote:
On January 31 2020 00:03 deacon.frost wrote:
On January 29 2020 20:10 Noa Greenini wrote:
On January 29 2020 17:05 deacon.frost wrote:
On January 29 2020 05:31 Dave4 wrote:
As already mentioned I'm comfortable with Dark as POTY.

However it's nonsense to suggest Dark's year was vastly superior to Serrals, who was in 7 Premier tournament finals and won a team league as well. He has unprecedented consistency and longevity over 24 months to a degree unseen in starcraft 2 before, and has already moved into GOAT discussions.

Anyone still pushing the "foreigners don't mean anything" line is completely naive. GSL vs World proved for good this year that the two scenes are extremely comparable, and Serral/Reynor make 2 of the 3 best players in the world right now. Other foreigners have also demonstrated ongoing success against both foreign and Korean opponents, including Neeb, Special, Time, Elazer and more.

The Korean elitism is seeped in tradition but it is now 3 years since kespa closed its doors. The fact that Korea can't even win nation wars anymore is clear evidence of this.

It astounds me how some people still don't give Serral the credit he deserves, no-one has ever been in the top eschalon for 2 straight years before.

IEM or Blizzcon (both 2019 for obv. reasons ) proved for good that these two scenes are not comparable at all. How many foreigners did we see in RO4/RO8 again?

On January 29 2020 04:20 Xain0n wrote:
On January 29 2020 00:56 deacon.frost wrote:
On January 29 2020 00:34 UnLarva wrote:
So, Serral was the second best of year 2019. Great! How incredibly hard it is to achieve. Like it would be shame to be the second.

Congratz Dark! Maybe Serral was little bit more consistent overall, and statistically little bit better, but when weighting in wins in tournaments, level of competition and trophies, Dark deserves POTY. Maybe its close, but it is nevertheless clear.

And yes, this comes from 100% pure breed Serral fanboi, but Its just petty not to applaud the player who deserve the praise, and what happened 2018 have nothing what-so-ever to do with POTY 2019.

To foreseeable future its easy to predict that Serral isn't yet completely washed up. Maybe 2020 is better year for him. Lol.

soO was so fucking consistent with his 4 Code S finals in a row and almost nobody cared and everybody was talking about winners. Also Serral is hurt by WCS which is a weaker competition while Dark was very good in the Code S and ST2.

Out of 8 big titles Serral was competing for 3, which means he has to win some of them to outperform heavily dominating Korean player.

Edit> actually this is quite a nice comparison - soO vs Maru. when soO was winning everything except the finals, he was being aknowledged but victors were still more than his achievement. When Maru started his dominating streak and was winning, people were talking much more differently


That mirrors your incredibly Korea-centric vision of Sc2, which is not shared by everyone and it is not objective truth, either(also, Serral won GSL vs the World that you include in your "big titles", so if Dark was crowned POTY the reason was not Serral not winning any of those).

Being consistent by itself is not enough, you need to actually win titles on top of that and that's why soO wasn't taken into consideration back then: because he was not capable of winning anything.
This doesn't mean that consistent players winning few titles(more than zero, ofc) could be preferred over other ones winning more but being incosistent.


I didn't say that Serral won none. Read it again. My posts are about the fact Dark won more and was more consistent in the most important title runs. In the end it's not our fault Serral missed 5 of those, is it?



You're right, Dark won the most important tournaments 2019 (finals) and Serral 2018 so they have one year of being the undisputed best player each. I'm not sure money earnings is the best metric of "best player" but if that's what you want then sure.

Not talking about money. WESG is rewarding what, 200k USD? It's not mentioned because it's 3 Koreans and foreigners.

IEM and Blizzcon are the only 2 world champion titles we have. IEM is open to everybody, multiple open qualifications, big prize pool, the best players there. Blizzcon is quite low on the quality(because champions from the first half of the year may get worse - e.g. soO) but it's still a respected WC title and the finish of the season.

The next 3 hardest titles are Code S titles. It's a tournament with the biggest pool of skill. Comparable we can talk about ST1 & 2 but considering there's lower money value we can talk about players more focusing on Code S than ST so I value them a little lower.

The lowest title of the top for me is GSL vs TW. There's voting, there are more foreigners than the ratio of Blizzcon/IEM play offs would suggest is optimal. But still it has pretty stacked skill pool.

That;s why I mentioned these tournaments. If you look with my optics winning a WC title and being good at Code S for the whole year makes you a clear champion. It would get harder to decide with 1 WC title and ST titles vs 1 WC title and Code S domination and just 1 title.


I'd argue that GSL vs World counts as a Code S title (at least in the last 2 years) and definitely more than a ST title but whatever


How?? GSL vs The world is fan voting and invitation system which doesn't reflect who is the best at the moment of the tournament, whereas an open qualifier ensures the hottest players of the moment wins.


It's not as if the "hottest player of the moment" gets an invite or a an invote...

But honestly, I'm really tired of this discussion. You have yours, I have mine
Go Serral! GG EZ for Ence. Flashbang dance FTW
Argonauta
Profile Joined July 2016
Spain4906 Posts
Last Edited: 2020-01-31 10:04:07
January 31 2020 10:03 GMT
#99
On January 31 2020 18:17 Harris1st wrote:
Show nested quote +
On January 31 2020 17:30 Argonauta wrote:
On January 31 2020 17:09 Harris1st wrote:
On January 31 2020 00:03 deacon.frost wrote:
On January 29 2020 20:10 Noa Greenini wrote:
On January 29 2020 17:05 deacon.frost wrote:
On January 29 2020 05:31 Dave4 wrote:
As already mentioned I'm comfortable with Dark as POTY.

However it's nonsense to suggest Dark's year was vastly superior to Serrals, who was in 7 Premier tournament finals and won a team league as well. He has unprecedented consistency and longevity over 24 months to a degree unseen in starcraft 2 before, and has already moved into GOAT discussions.

Anyone still pushing the "foreigners don't mean anything" line is completely naive. GSL vs World proved for good this year that the two scenes are extremely comparable, and Serral/Reynor make 2 of the 3 best players in the world right now. Other foreigners have also demonstrated ongoing success against both foreign and Korean opponents, including Neeb, Special, Time, Elazer and more.

The Korean elitism is seeped in tradition but it is now 3 years since kespa closed its doors. The fact that Korea can't even win nation wars anymore is clear evidence of this.

It astounds me how some people still don't give Serral the credit he deserves, no-one has ever been in the top eschalon for 2 straight years before.

IEM or Blizzcon (both 2019 for obv. reasons ) proved for good that these two scenes are not comparable at all. How many foreigners did we see in RO4/RO8 again?

On January 29 2020 04:20 Xain0n wrote:
On January 29 2020 00:56 deacon.frost wrote:
On January 29 2020 00:34 UnLarva wrote:
So, Serral was the second best of year 2019. Great! How incredibly hard it is to achieve. Like it would be shame to be the second.

Congratz Dark! Maybe Serral was little bit more consistent overall, and statistically little bit better, but when weighting in wins in tournaments, level of competition and trophies, Dark deserves POTY. Maybe its close, but it is nevertheless clear.

And yes, this comes from 100% pure breed Serral fanboi, but Its just petty not to applaud the player who deserve the praise, and what happened 2018 have nothing what-so-ever to do with POTY 2019.

To foreseeable future its easy to predict that Serral isn't yet completely washed up. Maybe 2020 is better year for him. Lol.

soO was so fucking consistent with his 4 Code S finals in a row and almost nobody cared and everybody was talking about winners. Also Serral is hurt by WCS which is a weaker competition while Dark was very good in the Code S and ST2.

Out of 8 big titles Serral was competing for 3, which means he has to win some of them to outperform heavily dominating Korean player.

Edit> actually this is quite a nice comparison - soO vs Maru. when soO was winning everything except the finals, he was being aknowledged but victors were still more than his achievement. When Maru started his dominating streak and was winning, people were talking much more differently


That mirrors your incredibly Korea-centric vision of Sc2, which is not shared by everyone and it is not objective truth, either(also, Serral won GSL vs the World that you include in your "big titles", so if Dark was crowned POTY the reason was not Serral not winning any of those).

Being consistent by itself is not enough, you need to actually win titles on top of that and that's why soO wasn't taken into consideration back then: because he was not capable of winning anything.
This doesn't mean that consistent players winning few titles(more than zero, ofc) could be preferred over other ones winning more but being incosistent.


I didn't say that Serral won none. Read it again. My posts are about the fact Dark won more and was more consistent in the most important title runs. In the end it's not our fault Serral missed 5 of those, is it?



You're right, Dark won the most important tournaments 2019 (finals) and Serral 2018 so they have one year of being the undisputed best player each. I'm not sure money earnings is the best metric of "best player" but if that's what you want then sure.

Not talking about money. WESG is rewarding what, 200k USD? It's not mentioned because it's 3 Koreans and foreigners.

IEM and Blizzcon are the only 2 world champion titles we have. IEM is open to everybody, multiple open qualifications, big prize pool, the best players there. Blizzcon is quite low on the quality(because champions from the first half of the year may get worse - e.g. soO) but it's still a respected WC title and the finish of the season.

The next 3 hardest titles are Code S titles. It's a tournament with the biggest pool of skill. Comparable we can talk about ST1 & 2 but considering there's lower money value we can talk about players more focusing on Code S than ST so I value them a little lower.

The lowest title of the top for me is GSL vs TW. There's voting, there are more foreigners than the ratio of Blizzcon/IEM play offs would suggest is optimal. But still it has pretty stacked skill pool.

That;s why I mentioned these tournaments. If you look with my optics winning a WC title and being good at Code S for the whole year makes you a clear champion. It would get harder to decide with 1 WC title and ST titles vs 1 WC title and Code S domination and just 1 title.


I'd argue that GSL vs World counts as a Code S title (at least in the last 2 years) and definitely more than a ST title but whatever


How?? GSL vs The world is fan voting and invitation system which doesn't reflect who is the best at the moment of the tournament, whereas an open qualifier ensures the hottest players of the moment wins.


It's not as if the "hottest player of the moment" gets an invite or a an invote...

But honestly, I'm really tired of this discussion. You have yours, I have mine


Suggestion: if you dont want to discuss, better not start your post with "Id argue" and even better to not comment abotu a discussion if you are tired of the topic.

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Harris1st
Profile Blog Joined May 2010
Germany6880 Posts
January 31 2020 12:30 GMT
#100
It was more meant like: normally I'd argue, but not in this instance. My bad

I just wanted to throw out there, that different views exist on the "value" of tournaments

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deacon.frost
Profile Joined February 2013
Czech Republic12129 Posts
Last Edited: 2020-01-31 16:11:21
January 31 2020 16:10 GMT
#101
On January 31 2020 17:09 Harris1st wrote:
Show nested quote +
On January 31 2020 00:03 deacon.frost wrote:
On January 29 2020 20:10 Noa Greenini wrote:
On January 29 2020 17:05 deacon.frost wrote:
On January 29 2020 05:31 Dave4 wrote:
As already mentioned I'm comfortable with Dark as POTY.

However it's nonsense to suggest Dark's year was vastly superior to Serrals, who was in 7 Premier tournament finals and won a team league as well. He has unprecedented consistency and longevity over 24 months to a degree unseen in starcraft 2 before, and has already moved into GOAT discussions.

Anyone still pushing the "foreigners don't mean anything" line is completely naive. GSL vs World proved for good this year that the two scenes are extremely comparable, and Serral/Reynor make 2 of the 3 best players in the world right now. Other foreigners have also demonstrated ongoing success against both foreign and Korean opponents, including Neeb, Special, Time, Elazer and more.

The Korean elitism is seeped in tradition but it is now 3 years since kespa closed its doors. The fact that Korea can't even win nation wars anymore is clear evidence of this.

It astounds me how some people still don't give Serral the credit he deserves, no-one has ever been in the top eschalon for 2 straight years before.

IEM or Blizzcon (both 2019 for obv. reasons ) proved for good that these two scenes are not comparable at all. How many foreigners did we see in RO4/RO8 again?

On January 29 2020 04:20 Xain0n wrote:
On January 29 2020 00:56 deacon.frost wrote:
On January 29 2020 00:34 UnLarva wrote:
So, Serral was the second best of year 2019. Great! How incredibly hard it is to achieve. Like it would be shame to be the second.

Congratz Dark! Maybe Serral was little bit more consistent overall, and statistically little bit better, but when weighting in wins in tournaments, level of competition and trophies, Dark deserves POTY. Maybe its close, but it is nevertheless clear.

And yes, this comes from 100% pure breed Serral fanboi, but Its just petty not to applaud the player who deserve the praise, and what happened 2018 have nothing what-so-ever to do with POTY 2019.

To foreseeable future its easy to predict that Serral isn't yet completely washed up. Maybe 2020 is better year for him. Lol.

soO was so fucking consistent with his 4 Code S finals in a row and almost nobody cared and everybody was talking about winners. Also Serral is hurt by WCS which is a weaker competition while Dark was very good in the Code S and ST2.

Out of 8 big titles Serral was competing for 3, which means he has to win some of them to outperform heavily dominating Korean player.

Edit> actually this is quite a nice comparison - soO vs Maru. when soO was winning everything except the finals, he was being aknowledged but victors were still more than his achievement. When Maru started his dominating streak and was winning, people were talking much more differently


That mirrors your incredibly Korea-centric vision of Sc2, which is not shared by everyone and it is not objective truth, either(also, Serral won GSL vs the World that you include in your "big titles", so if Dark was crowned POTY the reason was not Serral not winning any of those).

Being consistent by itself is not enough, you need to actually win titles on top of that and that's why soO wasn't taken into consideration back then: because he was not capable of winning anything.
This doesn't mean that consistent players winning few titles(more than zero, ofc) could be preferred over other ones winning more but being incosistent.


I didn't say that Serral won none. Read it again. My posts are about the fact Dark won more and was more consistent in the most important title runs. In the end it's not our fault Serral missed 5 of those, is it?



You're right, Dark won the most important tournaments 2019 (finals) and Serral 2018 so they have one year of being the undisputed best player each. I'm not sure money earnings is the best metric of "best player" but if that's what you want then sure.

Not talking about money. WESG is rewarding what, 200k USD? It's not mentioned because it's 3 Koreans and foreigners.

IEM and Blizzcon are the only 2 world champion titles we have. IEM is open to everybody, multiple open qualifications, big prize pool, the best players there. Blizzcon is quite low on the quality(because champions from the first half of the year may get worse - e.g. soO) but it's still a respected WC title and the finish of the season.

The next 3 hardest titles are Code S titles. It's a tournament with the biggest pool of skill. Comparable we can talk about ST1 & 2 but considering there's lower money value we can talk about players more focusing on Code S than ST so I value them a little lower.

The lowest title of the top for me is GSL vs TW. There's voting, there are more foreigners than the ratio of Blizzcon/IEM play offs would suggest is optimal. But still it has pretty stacked skill pool.

That;s why I mentioned these tournaments. If you look with my optics winning a WC title and being good at Code S for the whole year makes you a clear champion. It would get harder to decide with 1 WC title and ST titles vs 1 WC title and Code S domination and just 1 title.


I'd argue that GSL vs World counts as a Code S title (at least in the last 2 years) and definitely more than a ST title but whatever

GSL v TW isn't a Code S title, I personally rank it even lower than a ST, but for the sake of easier argument I placed in on the same rank, in the end in most of the tournaments there were the best players, the tourney was missing some, but it's not like it was missing all of them. But it doesn't have as big skill pool as IEM or Code S has. (I place IEM higher than Code S because WC title, because openness, but it's not like it's a huge difference)

Edit:
Basically what I meant
Top tier = WC title, Blizzcon/IEM
2nd tier = Code S title
3rd tier = GSL v TW, GSL ST
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DBooN
Profile Joined May 2011
Germany2727 Posts
February 02 2020 12:52 GMT
#102
On January 29 2020 00:56 deacon.frost wrote:
Show nested quote +
On January 29 2020 00:34 UnLarva wrote:
So, Serral was the second best of year 2019. Great! How incredibly hard it is to achieve. Like it would be shame to be the second.

Congratz Dark! Maybe Serral was little bit more consistent overall, and statistically little bit better, but when weighting in wins in tournaments, level of competition and trophies, Dark deserves POTY. Maybe its close, but it is nevertheless clear.

And yes, this comes from 100% pure breed Serral fanboi, but Its just petty not to applaud the player who deserve the praise, and what happened 2018 have nothing what-so-ever to do with POTY 2019.

To foreseeable future its easy to predict that Serral isn't yet completely washed up. Maybe 2020 is better year for him. Lol.

soO was so fucking consistent with his 4 Code S finals in a row and almost nobody cared and everybody was talking about winners.

That's not true at all, atleast after his first 2 finals.
After 2 a lot of people still saw it as a big fluke, mostly because he got there by winning against parting and in a ZvZ both times, but Classics win was completely overshadowed by soOs story.
RealityTheGreat
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March 01 2020 14:12 GMT
#103
So now it is the time to update Best Games of 2019 right?
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