GosuAwards 2013 - LoL

Honorable mentions: Gambit Gaming, Cloud 9, CJ Entus Blaze, Royal Club

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Best player of 2013 Faker

이상혁

Team: SKT T1 K xPeke

Enrique Martínez

Team: Fnatic LoveLin

尹乐

Team: OMG Uzi

简自豪

Team: Royal Club Madlife

홍민기

Team: CJ Frost



It wouldn't be a fair list without first mentioning Faker. Faker has all the qualities you'd want in a mid-laner, being excellent at farm, having amazing map awareness, great engagements, solid teamfighting, and awesome 1v1 potential. Joining him in the mid lane is xPeke, who leads as arguably the greatest AP player in EU, the king of mid players. While globally OMG hasn't seen much play, LPL enthusiasts will of course realize the talent of LoveLin, who may be the best jungler in the world. Applying tons of pressure and having the most impressive role transition gives LoveLin a very deserving spot.

Lastly, we have to give love to the bottom lane. Uzi has overall been the strongest player in his role, practically making zero mechanical mistakes and finding himself nearly untouchable. While we almost gave this to Namei, who was MVP in LPL, Uzi felt individually stronger as a player. The last contestant obviously goes Madlife, often called "Godlife" for his insane skill on his support champions. Everything about how Madlife plays is how any player who wants to master supports should learn how to play. Essentially, he was having Season 4 battle influence in Season 3, carrying his team without any gold.

Honorable mentions: Diamondprox, Darien, Meteos, DanDy, Froggen, Doublelift, sOAZ, Cool, San, Alex Ich, Tabzz

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Best top laner of 2013 Shy

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Team: CJ Frost sOAZ

Paul Boyer

Team: Fnatic Flame

이호종

Team: CJ Blaze Gogoing

高地平

Team: OMG Homme

윤성영

Team: Ozone



Top lane was a tricky category with the range of viable styles this year, but we've selected strong candidates from a range of performance types. CJ Entus Frost's Shy has made a name for himself playing a variety of champions and styles. He could carry his team, provide good tanky initiation, and split push with ease. Fnatic's sOAZ complemented his mid laner, xPeke, by providing his team with a second threat and extra map pressure. CJ Entus Blaze's Flame perfected the tower dive initiation, singling out priority targets and escaping unscathed.

There is no true terror like a perfect area of effect initiation ultimate, and one could argue that no one does it better than OMG's Gogoing. Finally, Samsung Ozone's Homme specialized in the tanky damage soak top laner, and his skills allowed him to overcome other top picks in this category even when assassins were more popular in the Spring.

Honorable mentions: Kerp, Balls, Wickd, Expession, Impact

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Best jungler of 2013 LoveLin

尹乐

Team: OMG Cyanide

Lauri Happonen

Team: Fnatic DanDy

최인규

Team: Ozone InSec

최인석

Team: KT Rolster Bullets Bengi

배성웅

Team: SKT T1 K



The role of jungler saw a great deal of change throughout the past year, from the advent of invade and armor shred junglers to heavy ganking support junglers, the best players in this category have certainly had to adapt. Our first pick, OMG's Lovelin has adapted well, transitioning from a support player to the level three tower-diving monster we saw at World's. Much of his team's success can be attributed to his early game plays. The next pick, Fnatic's Cyanide, managed to control the map while many of his laners split-pushed. He maintained consistency and a near perfect smite record all season.

The next three picks in this category are all Korean stars. KT Rollster Bullets' Insec made his team a heavy contender and garnered a huge reputation as a Lee Sin player. As for bengi, much of SKT T1's success is often attributed to Faker, but his early oracles pickups and heavy ganking often snowballed his team in Champions Summer. Finally, while many of our other selections in this category sacrifice all to make their teams shine, Samsung Ozone's DanDy was an unstoppable Evelynn player who proved himself capable of carrying when his team fell behind.

Honorable mentions: Meteos, Diamondprox

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Best mid of 2013 Faker

이상혁

Team: SKT T1 K xPeke

Enrique Martínez

Team: Fnatic Cool

余家俊

Team: OMG Alex Ich

Alexey Ichetovkin

Team: Gambit Bjergsen

Søren Bjerg

Team: TSM

As always, anyone who would deny Faker a right to the mid-lane awards would be a fool. Faker's flawless execution in teamplay, lane, and farming makes him a topic candidate for this category. He can make plays, be flashy, stay stafe, and more; he really does do it all. Another top mid laner, who has stayed consistently strong and is also one of the few remaining season 1 veterans to perform at a top level is xPeke. He was chosen for constantly making noteworthy plays like the infamous "backdoor" as well as his strength in a wide array of champions and teamfighting ability. As for Cool, every good jungler should be paired with an amazing mid, and this is definitely the case for Cool. The final two also hail from Europe, although the second one lives with Team Solomid now. Alex Ich manages to stay at a top level and be an awesome team player while simultaneously being a husband and a father. This trait cannot be attributed to anyone else, which puts Alex in a unique position where coupled with his lack of practice time with the team makes him a man of amazing talent. Lastly, we have the prodigy Bjergsen, who shocked everyone in his Copenhagen Wolves debut, and now rains fury over North America. Honorable mentions: Misaya, Wh1t3zZ, Dade, Froggen, Mancloud [easypoll]52adde7de4b0169ef69e71b1[/easypoll]

Best bot lane of 2013 Uzi

简自豪

Team: Royal Club Space

선호산

Team: CJ Frost NaMei

朱佳文

Team: PE Pray

김종인

Team: NJBS Imp

구승빈

Team: Ozone Tabe

王柏勤

Team: Royal Club Madlife

홍민기

Team: CJ Frost Sicca

李浩宇

Team: PE Cain

장누리

Team: NJBS Mata

조세형

Team: Ozone

Tabe and Uzi come in as fan favorites to the best duo lane of 2013 due to their synergy in and out of game. Uzi is essentially considered one of the most "perfect" carries in the game, and the fact that he only trusted Tabe as a support before moving to mid shows a lot. Space and Madlife deserve a mention because while Madlife is known for carrying the team, Space has been stepping out of his comfortable safety net and has started playing more self sufficient carries like Ezreal and Vayne. Namei didn't consistently have the most MVP points in LPL for no reason, and a lot of it was thanks to Sicca. Perhaps the most underrated of this category comes from these two.

In a time when Korea wasn't known for having incredible bot lanes, PraY and Cain were the outliers and consistently dominated their respective competition. This was, of course, until Ozone started showing their later half starting in the spring, where Korea's botlanes were starting to develop and the two were consistently winning lane. Imp plays very similar to Doublelift, and some would argue Mata is becoming equal to or better than Madlife (!!) It wouldn't be shocking considering he has the the highest KDA in his role.

Honorable mentions: Puszu+Yellowstar, Freeze+Deficio, Doublelift+Xpecial(All-Stars), Tabzz + Mithy, Mandu + Piglet

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Honorable Mentions: All of the great parody songs and content out there!

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Best Drama of 2013

Season 4 LCS Contracts The most recent drama came about when Riot released the streaming stipulations for LCS players in Season 4, forbidding certain games to be played on stream by players. This led to furious backlash by both the players and community, including players like Imaqtpie and Diamondprox showing some rather critical words about the policy. With many journalists offering their insight into the situation, Riot decided it was in their best interest to not just revert the changes, but shift them around in a matter Tabe / Chinese Controversy Former Royal Club support player Tabe has always been vocal about the poor treatment and pay of Chinese eSports players by L.ACE, an organization which not only hosts tournaments but is involved in the running of many Chinese teams. Things came to a head following the Season 3 World Championships when Tabe refused to cease speaking on player’s behalf – the L.ACE banned him from even being employed by any member team in any capacity or ever participating in one of their events. EdWard and Gambit In a move that shocked the community, support player EdWard left Gambit earlier this year to join North American team Curse, citing poor communication and frustration with his lane partner Genja. Shots Fired. However, after Curse failed to make the playoff, many speculated that EdWard would return to Europe, and despite many post from the Gambit members denying EdWard’s return, the Thresh Prince did eventually go back to his former team. Despite constant efforts from both the team and from the words of EdWard to deny the possibilty, The team returns to it's former "Moscow 5" state. The EU Superteam It seemed that not a day could go by during the off-season without new rumors surfacing regarding the formation of the “EU Superteam”. Reddit detectives dug through ranked 5 records and theories abounded, both ridiculous and plausible, although most of the speculation swirled around EG. That is, until the Alliance was revealed a few short days ago, once and for all shutting down the rumor-mill.

While the team isn't exactly what everyone suspected, Alliance has been impressing with their debut at the Battle of the Atlantic. TPA Implodes Despite their impressive victory at the Season 2 World Championships, the Taipei Assassins roster completely fell off the rails in spectacular fashion, leaving BeBe as the only remaining member. Many claimed issues with contracts and Mistake’s leadership, while others speculated that distraction and internal issues. Whatever the problems were, they must have been extensive for such a successful team to fall apart so quickly. While some of their players remain scattered across various teams, the majority have forfeited, and with them, came the grand downfall of the region's competitive standing on the global scale.



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