The Gods of Starcraft 2 - Part 1 IMnestea

Every game has their champions. Golf has Tiger Woods, Basketball has Michael Jordan, Warcraft 3 has Grubby and Legendary fifth race Moon. In Starcraft 2 we have MVP and Nestea. There is no denying the facts that IMMvP and IMNestea are currently the best players for their perspective race at this point of time. The God of Terran IMMvP or more commonly know as the Terran President in Korea and the legendary IMNestea or the Zerg President both holds more GSL championships than any other SC2 gamers out there. Both Mvp and Nestea holds 3 Gold medal trophies from GSL. This is no easy feet to even get into Code S as GSL is deemed the Mecca of the Starcraft universe. Koreans are always the leaders of this game since the early days of Broodwars with legendary names such as Boxer, Nada, Jaedong and Flash.

Both Nestea and MVP were professional gamers from the Brood War era. However, they did not accomplish anything more than just being a punching bag for the S Class players. Nestea was known as ZergBong from BroodWar only spots a measly 11-21 (34.38 % win rate) with minimal appearance. MVP on the other hand had a 30-46 (39.47) record during the days. These results were greatly inferior comparing to S class players such as Jaedong, Flash, Nada and Bisu with each spotting more than 60% win rates and going as high as 80% at some point during their peaks respectively.

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Nestea first won his first major tournament in SC2 during the GSL 2 championship. This backs during the end of 2010 where SC2 is at its infancy period. This was following the first GSL that was won by another Zerg player Fruitdealer, which is well known for his rags to Starcraft 2 riches where he was once selling fruits by the street to meets end before picking up on SC2. During the early stages of release, Zerg was considered the weakest race among all as reapers were a nightmare to deal with and 4 Gates reigns supreme. However, Nestea proved to the world how to play the Swarm properly.

Nestea won his second championship after trashing Inca from team Old Generation Starcraft (OGS) with an easy 4-0 victory over his opponent in GSL May. Inca tried to use some form of DT plays during all the games but failed miserably trying. This is probably the most one sided GSL ever. The Professor won his third championship in GSL July with an undefeated 20-0 perfect winning record without losing a game throughout the tournament and 4-0 his teammate Losira in the finals. No SC2 players has perform such an impressive performance with such a long win streak.

There's some rumours going around why Nestea is so good. People claims that Nestea never miss an larva inject. This even holds when the game goes longer as Nestea is deemed never to miss an inject. Upon checking a random replay by Nestea, I am really surprise and have to confirm this rumour is indeed true to the community. Nestea nearly never miss an inject. During the Yellow series where Nestea was invited to give him some advice, Nestea told Yellow to never miss an inject and when the Queens mana goes over a certain point, you lose the game. This is the challenge Nestea threw at Yellow.

Nestea are those players who will do extremely well and winning GSL is an easy task if he was given time to prepare the match in advance. Nestea is much more of a thinker and creating new strategies as compared to MVP who is a solid player. We can look at this by his performance during MLG compared to GSLs. However, this is yet to be proven as Nestea has only attended only one MLG. Players are required to play multiple games during the 3 day period. In GSL players have the luxury of a week or two to prepare in advance. Nestea has created some famous builds such as the Spine Crawler rush against Forge Fast Expanding Protoss. If I am not mistaken this was during his match against San. Nestea revealed a mass Overseer strategy in his finals appearance against teammate Losira by performing multiple contaminate on his opponent's hatchery to deny tech. Nestea is also known for his 10 Overlod> Pool build against Fast expanding Protoss to sneak in Zerglings before the wall goes up.

Nestea may be in a slump currently but there is no denying that Professor Nestea is the Zerg out there currently. No other Zergs came even close to this legendary Zerg player. Losira, the infamous Gracken Idra, Stephano, JulyZerg, DongRaegu, Leenock, Curious are not even close to what Nestea has accomplished.

With 3 Championships under his belt, Nestea will be looking for more gold medals in 2012 if he is able to dodge teammate MVP in Code S. MVP has knock Nestea out multiple times from contention and even during the World Championship during Blizzcon.

Nestea's tournament winnings to date is ranked no 2 in the world behind IMMvP at $ 229,840. This does not include any salaries or sponsors. Very impressive for being a professional gamer. It is reported that Brood War legends such as Jaedong / Flash earns around $300k to $500k per annum including sponsors etc.

Edit: The casting Archon Tasteless and Artosis is part to be blamed here. Artosis has hyped on Nestea that he managed to convinced nearly all of the SC2 community to think that Nestea is indeed a God. However, Nestea's recent slump has finally managed to awaken us from the Tastetosis spell that Nestea is only a mere mortal that can be taken down by we tiny humans.

Stay tuned for Part 2 with IMMvP