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Tuesday, April 17, 2012

THE LIST PART THREE

Its been a while since I released the 2nd part of The List and people are asking every day when the new, 3rd part, is coming out. Well, here you go.




SK.INSOMNIA
SK.INSOMNIA is legendary Human player from Bulgaria. I decided to open this part with him because he is the first winner of World Cyber Games festival which is considered to be the strongest Warcraft 3 competition. 
He won it in 2003 in unexpected Human mirror finals versus ChinaHuman. Apart from winning this amazing title, Zdravko won few others big tournaments and all of that under SK gaming clan tag. 
He is considered to be the pioneer in fast expansion strategies which tormented other race players in his era who had no clue how to stop them. He also became popular of his standard way of playing and one of few players who always played with ground units such as Knights and Priests against Orc players who were owning any ground army with their bloodlusted Taurens.

GOSU.POWA
Also known as EgZoN or xOni, this brilliant Undead player is originally from Albania. During the most popular and the strongest Reign of Chaos ladder era which happened from 1.15-1.18 he held rank 1 few times reaching 54 level as his maximum. 
With brilliant stats and strong way of playing he was considered to be as one of the best players at that time. His playstyle was similar to eS.Rus. Making fiends in literally every game he plays and using his micro game and good timings he was very hard to beat on the old map pool. By old map pool I am referring to maps such as Plunder Isle and Scorched Basin which were a bit different than they are now and didn't go so much in favor of Night elf players which was the only race that could have an advantage with its ranged units. 
His trademark is Dreadlord as first hero plus fiends strategy. This strategy became so popular that at one point of the time all Undead players were going for it. Specially on Legends.

ORC-OWNAGE
This brilliant Orc player comes from Russia. He was the first player to hit level 50 after 1.14. He is the one who also found his way to substitute Caster strategies which were main part of Orcs strategies before the Big Patch. He perfected Tower Creeping on every ladder map. From Lost Temple to Scorched Basin, he was literally unstoppable. After that he would always switch to Wyverns which annoyed his opponents who called these strategies "cookies".

HATE-LOVE-ANGER
HLA comes from Germany and his main race is Undead. He had short era with each race and different periods in his gaming career. He first became "famous" on his accounts aslog/glosa on which he used to maphack but after being caught several times and after getting desire for recognition from the community he stopped cheating and started to practice in order to become player he wanted to become. 
After 1 year of hard practice he was able to beat any top player from that time. He changed his attitude on the most famous replays website - Replayers from very rude to very polite. People started to like him very much and soon he became on of the most loved players of this game. At one period me and HLA had our own Warcraft 3 Roc players school in which we learned young and not so experienced players to become good. His best teammate was young German player ReignOfDark.
After hitting the highest strives in ROC he switched to TFT. There he had shown that he has great mindset and strong character. He was constantly learning and improving his gameplay and finally joined great German organization called Raptor-Gaming
He used to make short comebacks to ROC during 1.21-1.24 and on one account he was able to make 50/0 solo stats.

PUMPPAAJA-EKI
Pumpa is Undead player from Finland. He started to play ladder actively somewhere in 1.16 and soon became one of the most popular Undead players of that time. His highest level was 54.
Winning numerous tournaments in the past and in the present, with calm approach to his opponents and mannered behavior, Pumpa is one of the most loved and respected players in our community. His biggest ally is his countryman Draakki and he won several Replayers Clan leagues with his clans. 
In the past he used to switch to TFT and now he playing for clan called DkH.

BEN_MAGIC
Ben is from France and he plays Night elf. Even tho he switched to Random often referring to Night elf players as noobs who can only go for META. Pretty funny because that is the strategy that made him popular.
Still, he is one of the best Night elf players of this game. After strong era ended in 1.18 Ben started to play ladder and on his account YourDeathThere he had level 52 with 250/27 solo stats. Pretty amazing.
Not stopping there he won several major tournaments in www.w3roc.com organization, beating legendary Night elf player from Australia Philbot. He was the player with the most titles in my W3CUP until RapiNG overttook that record recently.

AKM_MANERED_MAN
Also known as ZiZo this Human player comes from Russia. It is certain that he became very good after he switched to TFT. Before that he was just an ordinary, middle skill human player without any achievements.
Still, massive gaming in TFT and practice made an amazing player out of him. It is obvious that talent was always there. On his TFT account LVL96PRIESTLEFDP he used to hit rank 1 few times.
However, his main ROC account is often related to his maphack buddy called Fynn who often played and faked his "friend" and by doing this ruined his good reputation.

MENTOR
Mentor is a movie maker. With his Replayers Rockerz series he made great games last forever and the moves made in the eternal. With great dedication and a lot of time that he put in creating these masterpieces he contributed to the community in enormous way. You can check for the links of his videos in the tab "Neat media".

9 comments:

  1. This is just so fucking awesome dinker! Can't wait for part four....

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  2. duckmuszekuperekinApril 17, 2012 at 6:36 PM

    FIRST :))))) Nice list, i like adding mentor too

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  3. i disagree with:
    n811, golan,rotan, draakki, es.rus, arnorc, xoni, orc-ownage, zizo, hardkilla, zen, hoffman, 1987orc, mentor

    i like the addition of eki ben and hla though.

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  4. You forgot HAN and LNO for your favorite Human player list,
    It's like not adding EKI/OJUNE in UD list!
    Or are they on a favorite random player list? Idk

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  5. Thanks a lot for this amazing website !

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  6. u forgot SoL.caf1.wS and SoL.Mimmox.wS, best ita players of all time and perhaps they can figure in the top 10 of all time

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  7. Thanks for the mention! I tried hard to reach the top, and my best rank was 78. But I think somewhere I actually stopped trying to be better and kept on just playing and thinking that would make me better. But the thing is one needs to critically assess oneself all the time. I should have done that.

    Also thanks for keeping it positive. I was accused a lot of flaming or trolling while I actually simply was immature and thought it was okay to always speak bluntly and unapologetically. Humbleness goes a long way I've learned since then. It took me until age 25 to really mature, didn't have good rolemodels until then.

    I really loved the Warcraft scene and game. I was bullied a lot so I lived online a lot. I even flew to visit one friend I met on Battle.net. A super skilled guy who in my honest opinion deserves a spot on this list ahead of maybe half the people in regards to skill. He had 110-2 stats with Night-Elf and almost always made KotG and basically a few of all tier units. His nickname was Sheep-eat-Sheep.

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