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Charoisaur
Profile Joined August 2014
Germany15959 Posts
Last Edited: 2022-08-19 21:23:55
August 19 2022 21:17 GMT
#21
On August 20 2022 06:06 Balnazza wrote:
Guys....urgh. Okay, just because you all annoyed me...I mean just because I love this community so much, here is the Top 10 of players finishing Gold or Silver in EVERY Premier event listed on Liquipedia, except three Code A that are listed there which I felt was dumb, sorry. I was also too lazy to check for Top 4/8, if someone wants to do that, feel free and lets go! Also I won't post the entire list because it honestly is a hassle...may include a screenshot if you like?

Top 10 of all Premier events:

1. (Z)Serral (17/9)
2. (T)Maru (11/8)
3. (T)TaeJa (11/2)
4. (Z)Rogue (11/1)
5. (T)INnoVation (10/4)
-. YouKnowWho (10/4)
6. (T)MMA (9/4)
7. (T)Mvp (9/2)
8. (Z)Reynor (8/9)
9. (T)Polt (8/5)
10. (P)Neeb (8/4)

And yes, this list includes the regional DreamHack Masters in the last couple years, thus Neebs strong performance. But excluding them would have meant to also exclude GSL which is just odd. Though I assume this list will tank anyway since neither Rogue nor Maru are on the top?

Fret not! Here are also the Top 5 of every addon!

Wings of Liberty:

1. (T)Mvp (8/2)
2. (P)MC (5/4)
3. (T)MMA (5/2)
-. YouKnowWho (4/1)
4. (Z)Leenock (3/2)
4. (T)PuMa (3/2)
((T)TaeJa, (P)HerO, (Z)Stephano and (Z)NesTea tie for sixth place with 3/1)

Heart of the Swarm:

1. (T)TaeJa (8/1)
-. YouKnowWho (6/3)
2. (T)Polt (5/3)
3. (P)herO (5/2)
4. (T)INnoVation (4/2)
4. (P)sOs (4/2)
((P)Zest and (T)Bomber are tied for sixth place with 4/1)

Legacy of the Void:

1. (Z)Serral (17/9)
2. (Z)Rogue (11/1)
3. (T)Maru (9/7)
4. (Z)Reynor (8/9)
5. (P)Neeb (8/4)

Once again, do with those numbers whatever you like

I take from those numbers that Serral is the Goat if you rate HSC and DH EU the same as a GSL.

Do you think Glasgow Rangers is the greatest football team of all time? They have won the most trophies after all


edit: But at least your incentive behind making this post is now clear.
And your incentive behind not wanting to count IEM Katowice as a 'real' world championship
Many of the coolest moments in sc2 happen due to worker harassment
lechatnoir
Profile Joined November 2016
386 Posts
August 19 2022 21:19 GMT
#22
Probe did a baller video about this a few days ago!
Balnazza
Profile Joined January 2018
Germany1177 Posts
August 19 2022 21:35 GMT
#23
On August 20 2022 06:17 Charoisaur wrote:
Show nested quote +
On August 20 2022 06:06 Balnazza wrote:
Guys....urgh. Okay, just because you all annoyed me...I mean just because I love this community so much, here is the Top 10 of players finishing Gold or Silver in EVERY Premier event listed on Liquipedia, except three Code A that are listed there which I felt was dumb, sorry. I was also too lazy to check for Top 4/8, if someone wants to do that, feel free and lets go! Also I won't post the entire list because it honestly is a hassle...may include a screenshot if you like?

Top 10 of all Premier events:

1. (Z)Serral (17/9)
2. (T)Maru (11/8)
3. (T)TaeJa (11/2)
4. (Z)Rogue (11/1)
5. (T)INnoVation (10/4)
-. YouKnowWho (10/4)
6. (T)MMA (9/4)
7. (T)Mvp (9/2)
8. (Z)Reynor (8/9)
9. (T)Polt (8/5)
10. (P)Neeb (8/4)

And yes, this list includes the regional DreamHack Masters in the last couple years, thus Neebs strong performance. But excluding them would have meant to also exclude GSL which is just odd. Though I assume this list will tank anyway since neither Rogue nor Maru are on the top?

Fret not! Here are also the Top 5 of every addon!

Wings of Liberty:

1. (T)Mvp (8/2)
2. (P)MC (5/4)
3. (T)MMA (5/2)
-. YouKnowWho (4/1)
4. (Z)Leenock (3/2)
4. (T)PuMa (3/2)
((T)TaeJa, (P)HerO, (Z)Stephano and (Z)NesTea tie for sixth place with 3/1)

Heart of the Swarm:

1. (T)TaeJa (8/1)
-. YouKnowWho (6/3)
2. (T)Polt (5/3)
3. (P)herO (5/2)
4. (T)INnoVation (4/2)
4. (P)sOs (4/2)
((P)Zest and (T)Bomber are tied for sixth place with 4/1)

Legacy of the Void:

1. (Z)Serral (17/9)
2. (Z)Rogue (11/1)
3. (T)Maru (9/7)
4. (Z)Reynor (8/9)
5. (P)Neeb (8/4)

Once again, do with those numbers whatever you like

I take from those numbers that Serral is the Goat if you rate HSC and DH EU the same as a GSL.

Do you think Glasgow Rangers is the greatest football team of all time? They have won the most trophies after all


edit: But at least your incentive behind making this post is now clear.
And your incentive behind not wanting to count IEM Katowice as a 'real' world championship


Dude...ffs.
It is just a fun waste of time, just some random data. You can make one thousand arguments for the GOAT-discussion, I wasn't even trying to do one?!
Just to make this very, VERY clear: The sheer number of victories does not really help in the discussion, because at this very moment LotV has about 30 tournaments more than both other addons (WotL 85, HotS 86, LotV 116 and going). So players like Maru, Serral or Rogue who peaked in LotV already have an advantage over lets say Mvp who failed flat after WotL. If SC2 continues as it does now, there is a real chance Serral, Reynor and Clem (and I believe Maru since he is young enough) will have the chance to play more tournaments than a player that played WotL and HotS. So for the very useless discussion of who is GOAT my list here will become more and more useless with every coming year.

And please, if you don't like what is classified as a Premier tournament, take that discussion to Liquipedia, because I really just copied it from there. I didn't even check what tournaments who won, because it doesn't matter for the context of this. Only the Code A struck me as odd and I only noticed it because there was no second place.
If you think you can come up with a better list, again, feel free to do so. But I won't play the "sooo, how do I need to construct my list so that Rogue wins?"-game...do that on your own please

Oh and last but not least: I'm honestly surprised Serral was on top of this, even by a good bit. My guess would have been INnoVation, TaeJa or someone like MC/Mvp.
"Wenn die Zauberin runter geht, dann macht sie die Beine breit" - Khaldor, trying to cast WC3 German-only
Drahkn
Profile Joined June 2021
191 Posts
August 19 2022 21:48 GMT
#24
There are only two tournaments that are really considered "premier" tournaments even if TL lists a lot of tournaments under premier they are not.

The only Premier tournaments in SC2 is GSL (not super tournament), the old Blizzcon and the IEM World finals (not the side IEMs with smaller price pools in different parts of the world).

These are the Tournaments where every player attends and play their absolute best SC2 because the price pool and the prestige is way higher then any other tournament. If you look at the list of tournaments some people call "Premier" you can clearly see some of them are way easier to win then others hence why they are not premier tournaments.


This is not like up for debate these are facts.

Poopi
Profile Blog Joined November 2010
France12880 Posts
August 19 2022 21:53 GMT
#25
On August 20 2022 05:03 Balnazza wrote:
Show nested quote +
On August 20 2022 04:40 Poopi wrote:
Why not include IEM World Championship which are actual WC?
Weird list


So I have to include the ESWC aswell which is literally the Electronic Sports World Cup?

I don’t think they were as hard as WESG so there is no reason to include them given WESG have not been considered World Championships.
WriterMaru
Charoisaur
Profile Joined August 2014
Germany15959 Posts
Last Edited: 2022-08-19 22:44:40
August 19 2022 22:41 GMT
#26
On August 20 2022 06:35 Balnazza wrote:
Show nested quote +
On August 20 2022 06:17 Charoisaur wrote:
On August 20 2022 06:06 Balnazza wrote:
Guys....urgh. Okay, just because you all annoyed me...I mean just because I love this community so much, here is the Top 10 of players finishing Gold or Silver in EVERY Premier event listed on Liquipedia, except three Code A that are listed there which I felt was dumb, sorry. I was also too lazy to check for Top 4/8, if someone wants to do that, feel free and lets go! Also I won't post the entire list because it honestly is a hassle...may include a screenshot if you like?

Top 10 of all Premier events:

1. (Z)Serral (17/9)
2. (T)Maru (11/8)
3. (T)TaeJa (11/2)
4. (Z)Rogue (11/1)
5. (T)INnoVation (10/4)
-. YouKnowWho (10/4)
6. (T)MMA (9/4)
7. (T)Mvp (9/2)
8. (Z)Reynor (8/9)
9. (T)Polt (8/5)
10. (P)Neeb (8/4)

And yes, this list includes the regional DreamHack Masters in the last couple years, thus Neebs strong performance. But excluding them would have meant to also exclude GSL which is just odd. Though I assume this list will tank anyway since neither Rogue nor Maru are on the top?

Fret not! Here are also the Top 5 of every addon!

Wings of Liberty:

1. (T)Mvp (8/2)
2. (P)MC (5/4)
3. (T)MMA (5/2)
-. YouKnowWho (4/1)
4. (Z)Leenock (3/2)
4. (T)PuMa (3/2)
((T)TaeJa, (P)HerO, (Z)Stephano and (Z)NesTea tie for sixth place with 3/1)

Heart of the Swarm:

1. (T)TaeJa (8/1)
-. YouKnowWho (6/3)
2. (T)Polt (5/3)
3. (P)herO (5/2)
4. (T)INnoVation (4/2)
4. (P)sOs (4/2)
((P)Zest and (T)Bomber are tied for sixth place with 4/1)

Legacy of the Void:

1. (Z)Serral (17/9)
2. (Z)Rogue (11/1)
3. (T)Maru (9/7)
4. (Z)Reynor (8/9)
5. (P)Neeb (8/4)

Once again, do with those numbers whatever you like

I take from those numbers that Serral is the Goat if you rate HSC and DH EU the same as a GSL.

Do you think Glasgow Rangers is the greatest football team of all time? They have won the most trophies after all


edit: But at least your incentive behind making this post is now clear.
And your incentive behind not wanting to count IEM Katowice as a 'real' world championship

But I won't play the "sooo, how do I need to construct my list so that Rogue wins?"-game...do that on your own please

No, but you did it for Serral


and don't act like you didn't want to make a point by posting the premier tournaments won list, your passive aggressive remarks made that very clear
Many of the coolest moments in sc2 happen due to worker harassment
Balnazza
Profile Joined January 2018
Germany1177 Posts
August 20 2022 00:13 GMT
#27
On August 20 2022 07:41 Charoisaur wrote:
Show nested quote +
On August 20 2022 06:35 Balnazza wrote:
On August 20 2022 06:17 Charoisaur wrote:
On August 20 2022 06:06 Balnazza wrote:
Guys....urgh. Okay, just because you all annoyed me...I mean just because I love this community so much, here is the Top 10 of players finishing Gold or Silver in EVERY Premier event listed on Liquipedia, except three Code A that are listed there which I felt was dumb, sorry. I was also too lazy to check for Top 4/8, if someone wants to do that, feel free and lets go! Also I won't post the entire list because it honestly is a hassle...may include a screenshot if you like?

Top 10 of all Premier events:

1. (Z)Serral (17/9)
2. (T)Maru (11/8)
3. (T)TaeJa (11/2)
4. (Z)Rogue (11/1)
5. (T)INnoVation (10/4)
-. YouKnowWho (10/4)
6. (T)MMA (9/4)
7. (T)Mvp (9/2)
8. (Z)Reynor (8/9)
9. (T)Polt (8/5)
10. (P)Neeb (8/4)

And yes, this list includes the regional DreamHack Masters in the last couple years, thus Neebs strong performance. But excluding them would have meant to also exclude GSL which is just odd. Though I assume this list will tank anyway since neither Rogue nor Maru are on the top?

Fret not! Here are also the Top 5 of every addon!

Wings of Liberty:

1. (T)Mvp (8/2)
2. (P)MC (5/4)
3. (T)MMA (5/2)
-. YouKnowWho (4/1)
4. (Z)Leenock (3/2)
4. (T)PuMa (3/2)
((T)TaeJa, (P)HerO, (Z)Stephano and (Z)NesTea tie for sixth place with 3/1)

Heart of the Swarm:

1. (T)TaeJa (8/1)
-. YouKnowWho (6/3)
2. (T)Polt (5/3)
3. (P)herO (5/2)
4. (T)INnoVation (4/2)
4. (P)sOs (4/2)
((P)Zest and (T)Bomber are tied for sixth place with 4/1)

Legacy of the Void:

1. (Z)Serral (17/9)
2. (Z)Rogue (11/1)
3. (T)Maru (9/7)
4. (Z)Reynor (8/9)
5. (P)Neeb (8/4)

Once again, do with those numbers whatever you like

I take from those numbers that Serral is the Goat if you rate HSC and DH EU the same as a GSL.

Do you think Glasgow Rangers is the greatest football team of all time? They have won the most trophies after all


edit: But at least your incentive behind making this post is now clear.
And your incentive behind not wanting to count IEM Katowice as a 'real' world championship

But I won't play the "sooo, how do I need to construct my list so that Rogue wins?"-game...do that on your own please

No, but you did it for Serral


and don't act like you didn't want to make a point by posting the premier tournaments won list, your passive aggressive remarks made that very clear


Yes, when I clearly stated that my entire list is useless for the GOAT-discussion this was obviously a ploy to push my fandom onto you specifically. Btw, my favorite player of all time isn't even Serral, but Snute. Couldn't come up with a list on which he is on top yet :/

You do realize I made the second list just because people annoyed me about the tournament selection, yes? As I said, I wasn't even expecting Serral to be on top of that second list, I started from the bottom/the start when I entered the data. And even though you probably won't believe me, I would have posted that list in any case, because I really don't care.

As for my "passive-aggressive"-remarks: Yes, maybe. Mostly because I just posted a random piece of data and people got triggered by it, because their favorite player isn't as glorious as they thought. But instead of just taking the 30-60 minutes themselves to make their own list with a different tournament selection, they get angry instead? I promise you, it takes zero skill to make a list like this. Pick whatever data you like from Liquipedia, enter it into an Excel document, sort it by medals a few times and bam, list done. Feel free to post it in this thread as a different approach, as an alternative to my "only BlizzCon/WCS/EPT Grand Finals count".
But don't get huffy with me just because a very reasonable data-selection isn't giving you the outcome you like.

And as a note: You do see that sOs and Serral are tied in first place, yes? And should Reynor win the next IEM, he will take the thrown himself and I will gladly update the list then accordingly. Because I just want to have a simple WoF for "the" tournament of the year, nothing more.
"Wenn die Zauberin runter geht, dann macht sie die Beine breit" - Khaldor, trying to cast WC3 German-only
lechatnoir
Profile Joined November 2016
386 Posts
Last Edited: 2022-08-20 07:35:53
August 20 2022 07:35 GMT
#28


Let's pour oil on the fire.

It REALLY doesn't matter anyway but numbers are fun.
stilt
Profile Joined October 2012
France2749 Posts
Last Edited: 2022-08-20 08:28:29
August 20 2022 07:59 GMT
#29
On August 20 2022 02:30 Charoisaur wrote:
Show nested quote +
On August 20 2022 02:23 stilt wrote:
On August 19 2022 21:45 Charoisaur wrote:
Nope, IEM Katowice is also a World Championship.

meaning the title Blizzard gives out once a year

By your own definition IEM 2021- now shouldn't count as it's not run by Blizzard



Also copying my responses from the other thread where we had this discussion:
Fair enough I just think it's a bit weird / arbitrary to only call the world championships that are the result of a year-long circuit 'real' world championships. In fact I would argue the IEM qualifier format leads to a more fierce player pool because that makes sure only the most in-form players qualify and not players who were strong in the beginning of the year and then declined but still made it in on points.
Also in many real sports world championships just have a normal qualifier, so it's not like that's a defining feature of a world championship.

I mean it doesn't matter anyways, it's just semantics.
Whether you consider Rogue a 3 time world championship winner or a 1 time world championship winner who has also won 2 other world championship equivalent tournaments which are basically the same in terms of player pool, prestige and prize money and also have 'world championship' in its name but officially aren't 'real' world championships due to arbitrary criteria doesn't make a difference.


It has never been considered a wc until it was endorsed by blizzard as such. At best during the last years of wcs world it was the equivalent of msi in lol but the cash prize, the prod and the overall circuit the audience and the hype were nowhere near the wc world, nice facts distorsion here, it was often two times lower if no more, and when it wasn't in 2019, the difference was 300k k so no, the prize pool isn't "basically the same", as far as prestige, that's nothing more than revisionnism, each wcs was the pinacle of the starcraft years and were presented as such by writers, casters, players and the community.

I begin to understand why rogue fanboys consider him the goat when they literally invent titles. What's the next step now ? Genius was a world champ ? Lol Or let's add wesg as wc after all.

Anyway, glad to learn yoda and ace are world champion, it took 10 years for them to get recognized as such haha I ever remember people bitching about the gsl spot awarded to Ace after his victory because the level/prestige in the tourney was actually too low.
As said before, providence was actually a way bigger tournament at the time.

This is not Rogue fans inventing titles, it's the opposite lol.
This was never a discussion before Rogue started winning them as JJH777 already said, sOs was unanimously called a 3-time-World Champion by basically all of the community, most casters etc. and nobody ever argued against that.
This is just Rogue haters being salty he has won the most of them and trying to discredit him


That was never discussed because that was never considered as such, tell anyone what you're stating in 2019 and they will say bs.
sOs 3 times wc by the community, that's wrong, he was always deemed the two times world champions or the two times blizzcon winners because blizzcon at the time were the wc, the tournament which eclypsed the rest. In almost every intro by the casters, the community it was the two times wc.
Zest wasn't called a wc either btw, none of them were until the end of wcs and when rogue fanboy began to push the narrative he was the goat. Just like his "longevity" which is always brought up while he didn't win a premier before the second half of 2017, Dark being by far the best zerg of lotv until it happened, this one in term of achievements is a super underrated player.
And you obviously didn't adress my points, the prize pool being the more damning but narrative>facts.
Just like a look at the old threads, debates of the then competition or the list of the goat of hots/all time made by stuchiu good luck in finding ppl stating kato=wcs world in it but then again, pointing facts seem pointless.

And before you bring I am a serral fanboy, I consider the goat is Maru, precisely because he actually won a ton during the kespa period even if his lack of actual wc is a asterisk he has the longevity.
Balnazza
Profile Joined January 2018
Germany1177 Posts
August 20 2022 19:35 GMT
#30
On August 20 2022 16:59 stilt wrote:
Show nested quote +
On August 20 2022 02:30 Charoisaur wrote:
On August 20 2022 02:23 stilt wrote:
On August 19 2022 21:45 Charoisaur wrote:
Nope, IEM Katowice is also a World Championship.

meaning the title Blizzard gives out once a year

By your own definition IEM 2021- now shouldn't count as it's not run by Blizzard



Also copying my responses from the other thread where we had this discussion:
Fair enough I just think it's a bit weird / arbitrary to only call the world championships that are the result of a year-long circuit 'real' world championships. In fact I would argue the IEM qualifier format leads to a more fierce player pool because that makes sure only the most in-form players qualify and not players who were strong in the beginning of the year and then declined but still made it in on points.
Also in many real sports world championships just have a normal qualifier, so it's not like that's a defining feature of a world championship.

I mean it doesn't matter anyways, it's just semantics.
Whether you consider Rogue a 3 time world championship winner or a 1 time world championship winner who has also won 2 other world championship equivalent tournaments which are basically the same in terms of player pool, prestige and prize money and also have 'world championship' in its name but officially aren't 'real' world championships due to arbitrary criteria doesn't make a difference.


It has never been considered a wc until it was endorsed by blizzard as such. At best during the last years of wcs world it was the equivalent of msi in lol but the cash prize, the prod and the overall circuit the audience and the hype were nowhere near the wc world, nice facts distorsion here, it was often two times lower if no more, and when it wasn't in 2019, the difference was 300k k so no, the prize pool isn't "basically the same", as far as prestige, that's nothing more than revisionnism, each wcs was the pinacle of the starcraft years and were presented as such by writers, casters, players and the community.

I begin to understand why rogue fanboys consider him the goat when they literally invent titles. What's the next step now ? Genius was a world champ ? Lol Or let's add wesg as wc after all.

Anyway, glad to learn yoda and ace are world champion, it took 10 years for them to get recognized as such haha I ever remember people bitching about the gsl spot awarded to Ace after his victory because the level/prestige in the tourney was actually too low.
As said before, providence was actually a way bigger tournament at the time.

This is not Rogue fans inventing titles, it's the opposite lol.
This was never a discussion before Rogue started winning them as JJH777 already said, sOs was unanimously called a 3-time-World Champion by basically all of the community, most casters etc. and nobody ever argued against that.
This is just Rogue haters being salty he has won the most of them and trying to discredit him


That was never discussed because that was never considered as such, tell anyone what you're stating in 2019 and they will say bs.
sOs 3 times wc by the community, that's wrong, he was always deemed the two times world champions or the two times blizzcon winners because blizzcon at the time were the wc, the tournament which eclypsed the rest. In almost every intro by the casters, the community it was the two times wc.
Zest wasn't called a wc either btw, none of them were until the end of wcs and when rogue fanboy began to push the narrative he was the goat. Just like his "longevity" which is always brought up while he didn't win a premier before the second half of 2017, Dark being by far the best zerg of lotv until it happened, this one in term of achievements is a super underrated player.
And you obviously didn't adress my points, the prize pool being the more damning but narrative>facts.
Just like a look at the old threads, debates of the then competition or the list of the goat of hots/all time made by stuchiu good luck in finding ppl stating kato=wcs world in it but then again, pointing facts seem pointless.

And before you bring I am a serral fanboy, I consider the goat is Maru, precisely because he actually won a ton during the kespa period even if his lack of actual wc is a asterisk he has the longevity.


Just so you have some stats:
Rogue has not won a single Liquipedia Premier Tournament pre-LotV (and then went nuts ofc).
Maru has not won a WoL-Premier, but is 2 Gold/1 Silver in HotS, also going nuts in LotV.

(If you want to talk about longevity: The only two Top 10 Premier players that have won a tournament in every addon are Polt and MMA. PartinG and MaNa have atleast finals appearances in every addon. So technically, since MaNa is the only one of those four that is still active, he is the player with the highest longevity in Premier tournaments. MaNa GOAT confirmed? Who knows...)
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Charoisaur
Profile Joined August 2014
Germany15959 Posts
August 20 2022 19:55 GMT
#31
On August 20 2022 16:59 stilt wrote:
Show nested quote +
On August 20 2022 02:30 Charoisaur wrote:
On August 20 2022 02:23 stilt wrote:
On August 19 2022 21:45 Charoisaur wrote:
Nope, IEM Katowice is also a World Championship.

meaning the title Blizzard gives out once a year

By your own definition IEM 2021- now shouldn't count as it's not run by Blizzard



Also copying my responses from the other thread where we had this discussion:
Fair enough I just think it's a bit weird / arbitrary to only call the world championships that are the result of a year-long circuit 'real' world championships. In fact I would argue the IEM qualifier format leads to a more fierce player pool because that makes sure only the most in-form players qualify and not players who were strong in the beginning of the year and then declined but still made it in on points.
Also in many real sports world championships just have a normal qualifier, so it's not like that's a defining feature of a world championship.

I mean it doesn't matter anyways, it's just semantics.
Whether you consider Rogue a 3 time world championship winner or a 1 time world championship winner who has also won 2 other world championship equivalent tournaments which are basically the same in terms of player pool, prestige and prize money and also have 'world championship' in its name but officially aren't 'real' world championships due to arbitrary criteria doesn't make a difference.


It has never been considered a wc until it was endorsed by blizzard as such. At best during the last years of wcs world it was the equivalent of msi in lol but the cash prize, the prod and the overall circuit the audience and the hype were nowhere near the wc world, nice facts distorsion here, it was often two times lower if no more, and when it wasn't in 2019, the difference was 300k k so no, the prize pool isn't "basically the same", as far as prestige, that's nothing more than revisionnism, each wcs was the pinacle of the starcraft years and were presented as such by writers, casters, players and the community.

I begin to understand why rogue fanboys consider him the goat when they literally invent titles. What's the next step now ? Genius was a world champ ? Lol Or let's add wesg as wc after all.

Anyway, glad to learn yoda and ace are world champion, it took 10 years for them to get recognized as such haha I ever remember people bitching about the gsl spot awarded to Ace after his victory because the level/prestige in the tourney was actually too low.
As said before, providence was actually a way bigger tournament at the time.

This is not Rogue fans inventing titles, it's the opposite lol.
This was never a discussion before Rogue started winning them as JJH777 already said, sOs was unanimously called a 3-time-World Champion by basically all of the community, most casters etc. and nobody ever argued against that.
This is just Rogue haters being salty he has won the most of them and trying to discredit him


That was never discussed because that was never considered as such, tell anyone what you're stating in 2019 and they will say bs.
sOs 3 times wc by the community, that's wrong, he was always deemed the two times world champions or the two times blizzcon winners because blizzcon at the time were the wc, the tournament which eclypsed the rest. In almost every intro by the casters, the community it was the two times wc.
Zest wasn't called a wc either btw, none of them were until the end of wcs and when rogue fanboy began to push the narrative he was the goat. Just like his "longevity" which is always brought up while he didn't win a premier before the second half of 2017, Dark being by far the best zerg of lotv until it happened, this one in term of achievements is a super underrated player.
And you obviously didn't adress my points, the prize pool being the more damning but narrative>facts.
Just like a look at the old threads, debates of the then competition or the list of the goat of hots/all time made by stuchiu good luck in finding ppl stating kato=wcs world in it but then again, pointing facts seem pointless.

And before you bring I am a serral fanboy, I consider the goat is Maru, precisely because he actually won a ton during the kespa period even if his lack of actual wc is a asterisk he has the longevity.

No, sOs was always called the 3 time world champion.

For the prizepool thing- it's true Blizzcon had a higher prizepool than IEM Katowice of the same year, but for example IEM Katowice 2019 had a prizepool of 400k$ and Blizzcon 2015 a prizepool of 250k$...

So why should Blizzcon 2015 be more prestigious than IEM Katowice 2019?
The difference in prestige between the two tournaments is marginal at best especially because Katowice was harder to win anyways because of the format.

Many of the coolest moments in sc2 happen due to worker harassment
AzAlexZ
Profile Joined September 2016
Australia3303 Posts
August 21 2022 06:12 GMT
#32
On August 20 2022 16:35 lechatnoir wrote:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5p9eukjLJA0

Let's pour oil on the fire.

It REALLY doesn't matter anyway but numbers are fun.

I'm just happy Rain is in the discussion.
Serral is certainly up there and you can't deny it
Faker is the GOAT!
Ciaus_Dronu
Profile Joined June 2017
South Africa1848 Posts
August 21 2022 09:53 GMT
#33
Not including the IEMS here is really stupid.

The big IEMS sometimes felt somewhat more serious as world title tournaments in terms of the difficulty and prestige than Blizzcon.
ejozl
Profile Joined October 2010
Denmark3383 Posts
August 21 2022 10:45 GMT
#34
But if you want it so there is only 1 World Champion every year, you have to chose which one is more important. And here I agree that WCS > Katowice.
It's true that casters called people double world champion and stuff like this, but just because the casters say this, doesn't make it so. According to Artosis there are 22 players in the top 10 and they are all the greatest in the world, as long as he puts on enough criteria to make that player stand out. For instance. Serral is the best player in the world. While, Rogue is the best player in the world, in korea. While, Maru is the best player in the world, in GSL...
SC2 Archon needs "Terrible, terrible damage" as one of it's quotes.
Charoisaur
Profile Joined August 2014
Germany15959 Posts
August 21 2022 11:10 GMT
#35
On August 21 2022 19:45 ejozl wrote:
But if you want it so there is only 1 World Champion every year, you have to chose which one is more important. And here I agree that WCS > Katowice.
It's true that casters called people double world champion and stuff like this, but just because the casters say this, doesn't make it so. According to Artosis there are 22 players in the top 10 and they are all the greatest in the world, as long as he puts on enough criteria to make that player stand out. For instance. Serral is the best player in the world. While, Rogue is the best player in the world, in korea. While, Maru is the best player in the world, in GSL...

Why is it necessary though to have only 1 world championship in year? In terms of prestige the difference between the tournaments is marginal at best and both have world championship in its title so it seems weird to me that people want to call only 1 of them a 'real' world championship.
Many of the coolest moments in sc2 happen due to worker harassment
Balnazza
Profile Joined January 2018
Germany1177 Posts
August 21 2022 17:59 GMT
#36
On August 21 2022 20:10 Charoisaur wrote:
Show nested quote +
On August 21 2022 19:45 ejozl wrote:
But if you want it so there is only 1 World Champion every year, you have to chose which one is more important. And here I agree that WCS > Katowice.
It's true that casters called people double world champion and stuff like this, but just because the casters say this, doesn't make it so. According to Artosis there are 22 players in the top 10 and they are all the greatest in the world, as long as he puts on enough criteria to make that player stand out. For instance. Serral is the best player in the world. While, Rogue is the best player in the world, in korea. While, Maru is the best player in the world, in GSL...

Why is it necessary though to have only 1 world championship in year? In terms of prestige the difference between the tournaments is marginal at best and both have world championship in its title so it seems weird to me that people want to call only 1 of them a 'real' world championship.


Then again, in the earliest stages of SC2 there are far bigger and more important tournaments than the IEM Grand Finals, so why would IEM be counted all the way, but not for example IPL? Witht he BlizzCon/WCS/EPT Finals you just have a clear cut.
And I know you won't believe me, but just for the lolz I googled a bit about sOs and found multiple articles praising him in 2015 to become the first "two-time world champion". Because in 2015, nobody would even have the idea that the IEM and BlizzCon are on the same level.
But if it helps you, just take my list as the BlizzCon/WCS/EPT World Champions. Because for me, those are the big ones, the annual tournaments in which everything culminates (except for the first two, which I will just give a pass as "the first ones").
"Wenn die Zauberin runter geht, dann macht sie die Beine breit" - Khaldor, trying to cast WC3 German-only
Charoisaur
Profile Joined August 2014
Germany15959 Posts
August 21 2022 18:02 GMT
#37
On August 22 2022 02:59 Balnazza wrote:
Show nested quote +
On August 21 2022 20:10 Charoisaur wrote:
On August 21 2022 19:45 ejozl wrote:
But if you want it so there is only 1 World Champion every year, you have to chose which one is more important. And here I agree that WCS > Katowice.
It's true that casters called people double world champion and stuff like this, but just because the casters say this, doesn't make it so. According to Artosis there are 22 players in the top 10 and they are all the greatest in the world, as long as he puts on enough criteria to make that player stand out. For instance. Serral is the best player in the world. While, Rogue is the best player in the world, in korea. While, Maru is the best player in the world, in GSL...

Why is it necessary though to have only 1 world championship in year? In terms of prestige the difference between the tournaments is marginal at best and both have world championship in its title so it seems weird to me that people want to call only 1 of them a 'real' world championship.


Then again, in the earliest stages of SC2 there are far bigger and more important tournaments than the IEM Grand Finals, so why would IEM be counted all the way, but not for example IPL? Witht he BlizzCon/WCS/EPT Finals you just have a clear cut.

The same argument goes for Blizzcon
Many of the coolest moments in sc2 happen due to worker harassment
Balnazza
Profile Joined January 2018
Germany1177 Posts
August 21 2022 19:25 GMT
#38
So no one is World Champion? Wicked...
"Wenn die Zauberin runter geht, dann macht sie die Beine breit" - Khaldor, trying to cast WC3 German-only
esReveR
Profile Joined February 2010
United States567 Posts
August 21 2022 20:41 GMT
#39
I'm surprised no one has mentioned WCG yet. Pre-WCS I think most people considered the WCG champion as the "world champion."
Skill is relative.
uselless
Profile Joined April 2021
92 Posts
August 21 2022 21:27 GMT
#40
On August 20 2022 06:06 Balnazza wrote:
Guys....urgh. Okay, just because you all annoyed me...I mean just because I love this community so much, here is the Top 10 of players finishing Gold or Silver in EVERY Premier event listed on Liquipedia, except three Code A that are listed there which I felt was dumb, sorry. I was also too lazy to check for Top 4/8, if someone wants to do that, feel free and lets go! Also I won't post the entire list because it honestly is a hassle...may include a screenshot if you like?

Top 10 of all Premier events:

1. (Z)Serral (17/9)
2. (T)Maru (11/8)
3. (T)TaeJa (11/2)
4. (Z)Rogue (11/1)
5. (T)INnoVation (10/4)
-. YouKnowWho (10/4)
6. (T)MMA (9/4)
7. (T)Mvp (9/2)
8. (Z)Reynor (8/9)
9. (T)Polt (8/5)
10. (P)Neeb (8/4)

And yes, this list includes the regional DreamHack Masters in the last couple years, thus Neebs strong performance. But excluding them would have meant to also exclude GSL which is just odd. Though I assume this list will tank anyway since neither Rogue nor Maru are on the top?

Fret not! Here are also the Top 5 of every addon!

Wings of Liberty:

1. (T)Mvp (8/2)
2. (P)MC (5/4)
3. (T)MMA (5/2)
-. YouKnowWho (4/1)
4. (Z)Leenock (3/2)
4. (T)PuMa (3/2)
((T)TaeJa, (P)HerO, (Z)Stephano and (Z)NesTea tie for sixth place with 3/1)

Heart of the Swarm:

1. (T)TaeJa (8/1)
-. YouKnowWho (6/3)
2. (T)Polt (5/3)
3. (P)herO (5/2)
4. (T)INnoVation (4/2)
4. (P)sOs (4/2)
((P)Zest and (T)Bomber are tied for sixth place with 4/1)

Legacy of the Void:

1. (Z)Serral (17/9)
2. (Z)Rogue (11/1)
3. (T)Maru (9/7)
4. (Z)Reynor (8/9)
5. (P)Neeb (8/4)

Once again, do with those numbers whatever you like


i'm not going to get into any of this thread's debate, but i just gotta say, this number layout is terrible unless i'm missing something obvious. what are the fractions supposed to mean? before it was obvious that they were gold, silver, top 4, and top 8 finishes, but idk what these are
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