Ghost wrote:I don't have time to write an essay on each of EE's 1000 greatest players.
Yet you have time to write such a post. Nobody is asking you to write an essay, but a post just as long as the one you've just made would be required.
It's not like you can come here and say "there were better players", then just backing with a "I don't have time to say who they are" and still claim you are right. That's too easy.
Ghost wrote:I will say that you guys have already named most of the people, but your analysis and rankings are wrong because you didn't consider the unmentioned greats from years before that they played against. I'm not necessarily saying that the unmentioned players are "so much better" than the ones mentioned (it's still a possibility, never thought about it much).
Then I would like to ask you: are you sure you know enough the current players that have been mentioned so far? Do you know what strategies I use and how I carry them out? Do you know KrasS's, Goldi's, Splinter's? You don't.
That makes you pretty unqualified to judge on these players' abilities, you may be good enough to potentially say your word, but the fact that you hardly know what strategies we mostly use makes you unqualified to do that.
Ghost wrote:You could argue that players are supposed to only get better; but honestly the people that wtf pwned games back in the day, against much tougher competition, are the ones that really don't care all that much now.
People started mentioning reputation, and if you're going to consider it then it should be fully considered. That's where I'm saying a lot of you aren't qualified. It's sad to see even some of you veteran players call them by their newer aliases, instead of the names that they were most known by.
Because you are qualified Ghost? ( please don't take this in an offensive way

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Tell me what strategies Splinter would play at Reinaissance to Indy. It doesn't require an essay, all you need is 2 words. And tell me what Goldi would do at Stone age and Copper age. And tell me what I do at Nano age. Or tell me in 2 words how DavE would play Liga 1v1.
And don't say that you can't be arsed doing it, because this is what this topic is about.
The true fact is, that you know nothing about the following players, simply because you were not involved in the 1v1 circle. And there's nothing to be ashamed about lol, it's easy: as you were not involved, you can't know most of the recent player's developments lol
Which makes you less qualified than most of the players here (at least on new players), who have actually played against most of the players mentioned here in true 1v1s.