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United States1475 Posts
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Warrior Madness
Canada3791 Posts
1) Nada 2) Savior 3) Oov 4) Jaedong 5) Boxer Kespa streak 6) Boxer 2 OSLs in a row 7) Garimto | ||
sidesprang
Norway1033 Posts
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Deleted User 31060
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87 months? that's insane. | ||
GhostKorean
United States2330 Posts
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A3iL3r0n
United States2196 Posts
I am curious to see how two through last gets ordered. EDIT: really good topic, btw. | ||
iCCup.Trent
Argentina450 Posts
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Oystein
Norway1602 Posts
People are talking about how its "only" a win streak, but during this streak Oov destroyed everyone in all matchups in his path winning 3 MSLs in a row and an OSL and dominated the scene for a year harder than anyone else ever did, even savior. edit : + hes the definition of clutch winning every Starleague final he ever entered, and he made the biggest impact of how the game was played and still is played today. | ||
A3iL3r0n
United States2196 Posts
On August 03 2009 04:16 Oystein wrote: Oovs 27-0 should be his entire era of dominance instead, because that was even more impressive than just the TvZ run (that alone is worthy a #1 spot imo) People are talking about how its "only" a win streak, but during this streak Oov destroyed everyone in all matchups in his path winning 3 MSLs in a row and an OSL and dominated the scene for a year harder than anyone else ever did, even savior. edit : + hes the definition of clutch winning every Starleague final he ever entered, and he made the biggest impact of how the game was played and still is played today. this is a really good point. oov's macro style showed how you didn't need exceptional micro if you had 1.5 times the amount of units of your opponents, and could constantly reinforce battles. | ||
QuickStriker
United States3694 Posts
On August 03 2009 03:40 Megalisk wrote: Obviously perfectman. Hahah yes, I'll support that but since he's fairly new.... I'll go NaDa!!!! You just can't hate this guy, and man, he was a beast and still is (his arm muscles!)!!! What a wonder! ^_^ | ||
Mikilatov
United States3897 Posts
Oov's 27-0 is absolutely insane though, especially how out of control it was to do such a thing at the time. | ||
ActualSteve
United States627 Posts
87 Months. Wow. Talk about a veteran. | ||
Jonoman92
United States9101 Posts
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stroggos
New Zealand1543 Posts
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NonY
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but nada's ranking streak blows both of them away | ||
Sosha
United States749 Posts
On August 03 2009 02:04 heyoka wrote: I voted Garimto because no one is giving him any love. I can't be the only one who thinks being the only person of his race to get 2 osls is insane. Very nice list! what about a Bisu option? He's the only Protoss to have acheived what he's done.. like 3 MSL's, 2 GOM's I think.. Highest ELO rating of Protoss users.. and he even had his hand at 'dethroning' one of the "wonders" of SC in Savior @ the end of his reign. I <3'd GARIMTO too when I seen him, watched the finals of him and boxer back in like 2001, but c'mon.. Bisu is hands down the most accomplished Protoss.. shoulda been a Bisu option ^ ^ A lot of those options are really magnificent though: Oovs 27-0 TvZ Nadas 83 month streak in top 30.. Saviors dominance.. Boxers dominance.. Best coming out of nowhere to win 17-0 PvP's.. in a time of Stork, Jangbi, Bisu and Kal.. The 2 age records for Flash and baby aren't that impressive.. its standard knowledge that younger players have more potential, and stamina to succeed and are powered towards stardom.. so naturally they try a bit harder and prolly have more time to practice.. cept for other actual progamers that's been in the field for some time and been practicing like 14 hours a day O_o gL | ||
NonY
8748 Posts
On August 03 2009 05:32 Liquid`NonY wrote: best's pvp streak is better than iloveoov's tvz streak but nada's ranking streak blows both of them away i'll throw down a few reasons for my first statement: --the era of best's streak was harder and more competitive than the era of oov's streak --tvz favors terran. it did before oov came along, while oov was there, and it still does even after the eras of july, savior and jaedong. pvp is balanced --oov had boxer helping him. bisu's pvp tutelage doesn't match boxer's tvz tutelage oov's success had to do with his new style and general strategy. it was a one-time genius that he played out for as long as he could. it's better to think of his streak in terms of how long it took opposing players to figure out how to win. if july didnt exist, the streak would probably be even longer, but oov's act is still the same. he would just be lucky enough to live in a world where his act got him even further. best, on the other hand, was playing against some great protoss players and he was beating them without any advantage other than on-the-spot decisions and composure. his macro superiority doesnt kick in until each player has 3+ bases. and even then, he might not be superior, since the protoss players of his streak's era were all capable of great macro. and the most amazing thing about it is that coaches and players were choosing to do percentage builds against best while best was usually just doing a very safe build so that he could survive for 8 minutes and work the mid game. he kept his streak alive by winning games from a disadvantaged position because he would not leave his games to chance. he just simply outplayed people in an era when that is nearly impossible to do for very long and in a matchup when outplaying someone often isnt enough. | ||
Nevuk
United States16280 Posts
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Simple
United States801 Posts
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nK)Duke
Germany936 Posts
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