Dead piggy bc I think he makes the best moves.
Zibik bc I like his calculated yet gutsy style.
Impaler bc he makes great moves.
Sze to add game theory to the kung fu fight.
Myhand as myhand because he is afraid to play 1v1s with his main account for some reason.
unknown bc we need the safety-kill ratio kung fu panda style.
Beelzebub bc he avoids actual challenges he might lose and so nobody really knows how good he might be after playing 7000 games.
HHH bc his growth strategy and RR prowess needs to be represented.
Dunga for his creative counter strategies kung fu style.
Billy Walsh so there is some comedy (any player that loses to him would be laughed at)

Similar to Dunga you have Ruthless Bastard who is very creative with counterpicks and picking strategy.

I'd also like to include a spoiler or two. Find someone who wins often against high ranked players (relatively speaking) but maintains a low overall rating. A couple people with 1600 ratings have managed to beat several high ranked opponents in fair fights. Adding such a spoiler would require that all the participants be able to fight against multiple styles of play.

HHH has a very good style of play against very good players, but suffers against alternate playstyles. He does great in competitive RRs because of this, but has a lower rating on the ladder than his ability against good players would suggest.

Lollipop guild, Chris and fatih just for beating me on many occasions. Yoshi for being a very solid yet underrated player (+ 90% of the community blacklisted him ;)). Dead piggy for an extremely solid performance on the ladder and a nicely calculated playstyle. Ribena and SpinyPsy, because they never play 1vs1 games. Myhand and Gui just to put some pressure of expectations on them, possibly forcing close to perfect performances... #10 i don't know, let's say Arun.

I would vote for Dead piggy, Gui, Myhand, Sze, Zibik, dunga, Heyheuhei, Saladin, Fatih, and The Lollipop Guild because they are 10 of the best in strategic 1v1 in my opinion. I'm probably leaving out a few but these guys are all very good.

i bet arun would win in szes tourny

when i saw the name of this thread i immediately came to comment "Billy Walsh", But it looks like you beat me here Gui

Billy Walsch, 37, warflowvet, Flawless, Mal, Platypus, vostro, itallion stallion, Lion and maybe iehuehyeH

McQueen drinks again. His other tells him not to. :(

But a tournament of the players listed above would be priceless. Imagine the conversation.

too bad so many are inactive

HHH
Gui
myhand
dead piggy
niko
BishesUpInHerr
zibik
impaller
sze
timinator


Of course, many players have great play styles, but I think this group shows some of the best of different ones. Some great players like Gui, HHH, and The Impaller will be in everyones group, but I thought I would throw a few underdogs such as BishesUpInHerr and Niko who could really make things interesting.

If we could bring people back, I would bring back Myriad (I think was one of his earlier names, was also alexesfootisonfire or somthing. I miss that guy, he was one of the early greats which nobody would know about now.)

Another I would throw in if I had more options would be Aquaholic (dunno what his name is now), I learned quite a bit from him playing on the 2v2 ladder with him.

aquaholic now is tagg, your it and he is still active

Ah yes, I didn't meant to imply he was inactive, he would just be highly ranked and picked quickly by me if I had more than just 10 to pick.

Noob. should be in any tournament.

Good joke boston -.-

Unless you're trying to add cannon fodder for them!

Me because I want to play all these people:
Myhand I cant seem to get a game with him but everyone keeps saying he is the best. I want to see him live up to the hype.
Rayguns: I like to watch him play out his grand strategies.
Simba: I want to see more of his games against top players so I can learn more from him.
Zaeban: he just disappeared before i was good enough to challenge him and so never got a game.
Lion: I have played only once with Gui and I want to see whether playing weird maps and settings has made him better than his old ladder games.
Zibik: One of the only people I have a negative win ratio with.
Sze: the best defensive player to put the offensive players through their paces and make them prove themselves past picks and the first 4 turns.
Lollipop guild and Salah ad din (or something like that): I don't know why because I've seen very few of their games. I've just always associated these name with awesome 1v1 skills. I guess that makes them the wild cards.

There would be a prize of $100 so everyone brings their A game, I am starting to get the feeling I win a lot because my opponents all take their turns in under 3 minutes. What do you people think this is, a mother fucking game? ;)

No idea why I am seeing HHH so often in other peoples lists, it seems a bit cruel. Sze vs Rayguns would be the highlight for me.

I am viewed as a defensive player? I thought that if we measure aggression from 1-10 where 1 is Mian and 9-10 is zaeban I'd be around 7-8. I played rayguns quite a few times in the past, but he mostly played auto-games, rarely in tournaments.

Who is Mian? You pick obvious sensible picks all over the map and aim for an income advantage after all 3 picks are complete. You defend the income advantage until you win. You love a bottleneck you can defend. You sometimes counterpick but it is 345 over a cluster (either a first turn bonus or East West africa or something similar). You do not pick aiming for early contact. It's not super turtley but at the top level it's as close as you can get.

No offence, it's a good strategy and it works. And anyway this is only based off a dozen games.

I bet your rayguns games are interesting, did you win a lot?

"Billy Walsch, 37, warflowvet, Flawless, Mal, Platypus, vostro, itallion stallion, Lion and maybe iehuehyeH "

why is it that when im quoted i appear together with lots of trash? does that say somethign about me? i hate u rsp69... i like to offend myself before anyone else does it....

i never mentioned that they were trash, i think you're making an assumption there.

and that comment is funny, since it came from someone who imitated another player's name simply because he was bored. ;)

i said there was soem trash there :) and i said that i would probably be qualified as trash :)