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Mizenhauer

United States1906 Posts

February 16 2025 12:36 GMT

#41

On February 16 2025 12:10 WombaT wrote:

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On February 16 2025 12:02 CicadaSC wrote:

On February 16 2025 11:08 WombaT wrote:

On February 16 2025 10:08 dysenterymd wrote:

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.

Jjakji also had a second act where he got top 4 in some Dreamhacks/WCS Eu in 2014 and even qualified for Blizzcon 2014, so he wasn't a true one-hit wonder (even if EU was by far the easiest region to qualify from in 2013-2014 because online qualifier lag kept many Koreans out.)

An interesting question is who's the best player to never win a liquipedia premier tournament. Maybe Byul? He got 3 star league runner ups in 2015, a WCS Americas runner up in 2013, plus a few other deep runs as well as being a good team league player.

Good shout, it’s hard to think of players who haven’t got at least one.

Byul is probably top, perhaps Jaedong is up there? Bunch of runners-up including a WC and some other consistently high placements, but IIRC he didn’t take one home.

Bunny has had a pretty good career without grabbing one.

I remember jaedong winning Asus rog I think I'd count that as premier. Byul never winning though is super sad. He was a bit of a Kong. I remember seeing him crying after getting 2nd place in GSL.

Yeah I should have Liquipediaed it, Jaedong was quite a Kong (Jaekong?) but he did pick up a few.

One of the defining features of BW Kongs (including yellow since he started the whole thing) was winning weekenders and similar small scale tournaments, while failing to win the big one.

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