Forgotten Champions - Page 3

On February 16 2025 05:04 WombaT wrote:
I think we’re scraping the barrel on Premier events a bit here.

It was hard to win say, Code A no doubt, but that was clearly a second tier event versus Code S.

Nonetheless, a fun trip down memory lane. It’s interesting to see names, and ponder why some of them became the SC equivalent of one-hit wonders, where others were able to stick around and make pretty meaningful runs.

Someone like Puzzle sort of emerged and looked really good for a bit and then didn’t do much again, got to the cusp of being really good but never really broke through. Or even a jjakji who while being an unfancied underdog in his Code S run, also looked legit in that run, and indeed at the time that was probably the best Code S final we’d seen.

I guess part of it is the sheer volume of pretty damn good players we used to have.