Agreed. Harstem overrates Clem a lot though, "it's my name" is not backstory. Almost immediately after seeing Clem's nickname I baptized him to "Clemtard". Same with Bly. Those short nonsense-names based on either their names or nothing are not great.
@@bthero03 this Is perfectly true, he started playing when he was nine years old and if you ready Reynor in Italian It sounds exactly as Raynor in english
He is not the only Pro with a spelling mistake or rather a "naming mistake" either. IdrA did sort of the same, based his name on the Hindu character "Indrajit" and forgot the n.
@@pops1cle187 Raynor in English will always be Raynor in English, but Reynor in English can also be pronounced as Reeynor in English. Just like the word Key vs Kay.
I love Scarlett as a nickname. Also Oliveira and Showtime I would put much higher. And Oz goes straight into pick something new for me. I don't care if people think you are a wizard. Its a pop culture figure, pick something original.
I'm reminded of that SC2 comic where all Koren players getting signed have to pick a random English word from Bohemian Rhapsody to use as their nickname. "Bohemian Raphsody" -Queen- "Is this the -real- -life- ? Is this just -fantasy- ? Caught in a landslide, no escape from -reality- ."
I think DongRaeGu should be higher. It's unique looking, it sounds cool and is a place. It's kinda like Rotterdamn in that way, which imo is a really powerful nick too.
@@B1gLupu exactly this, DRG is a powerful letter combo as well and has always rocked the vibe check. Wish he would a included Rottie here cause I mostly like his list and wanna see how he rates my favorite Dutchie
You should do the actual nicknames next! The Finnisher, the Italian stallion, the boss toss, the shield of Aiur, the rocky zerg, the captain....there are so many actual nicknames to choose from! It would be an awesome vid 😄
Harstem thought Vanya is Ivan's childhood nickname, but in reality, it's just the short version of the name. It's like Robert and Bob, or Richard and Dick. Ivan becomes Vanya in Russian speech. Hence, not a cool nickname at all imo
It is hilarious to me that Gerald got where it did. To me it's an old white dude name, and not event spelled correctly if it's a reference to Geralt from The Witcher.
Gerald is just a normal common first name. I know a dude named Gerald. Geralt it just made up name by Sapkowski. Althought some people are naming their kids like that in Poland.
@@lelouchvibritannia7809 Acts like he’s above it all but then just walks in and regularly causes total chaos in any area he visits? Sounds like his Terran playstyle.
Also, what do we do with the fact that Artosis and Tasteless just decided to pronounce it wrong forever? Because apparently it was just too much trouble to waddle over and ask him his name.
But I agree with this man from the video. Harstem pretty good player, and I think he is significantly better than losers like Clem, Maru, Dark, Reynor and etc
Before you get to it, I just love the name Kelazhur. It sounds so unlike any other word in mine or English dictionary. Almost alien, in fact. I hope you give it a high grade!
Fun fact: firefly actually get a English ID after he was good enough to see some international play. Before that he just had a Chinese ID which was '夜蝶' roughly translated as 'night butterfly'. Funny enough, which is not aggressive at all.
@@sakesaurus in a wide sense - yes, it is (as nick is a shortened or informal version of a person's name). The correct way to address that issue would be to mention the fact that Captain here is talking not about nicks, but aliases/usernames, actually. But no one calls them so in that regard. In that sense, while you can definitely your diminutive as your online alias, it is kind of not so brilliant choice.
I think he was getting Bruce Wayne wealthy man type vibes when he said it sounds cool. I personally haven’t met any kid whose last name was Wayne who didn’t have at least rich parents if not wealthy.
I think points should be given based on the puns you can make while casting or giving names to a video. For example. -"Strange's build order", " This was a sPecial trickery to keep Dark in the Dark" and so on :)
I feel like Gumiho is the best. Get the crowd chanting GU-MI-HO! GU-MI-HO! No other name chants like that. Reminds me of the baseball player Ichiro when the crowd would yell his name.
Maru's nickname is just a shortened form of his favorite Korean hotpot chain. Said he wants to change it, but he's already been this good with the nickname. th-cam.com/video/2fATSKi2czo/w-d-xo.html Funnily, a lot of the Korean players really liked Reynor as an ID
I liked the google test. I think MaxPax should have been higher. It's a great name, strong, dependable, sounds like a roman centurion and it rhymes. Also Lambo King is a great name and hints at godly levels of post-irony. But my real takeaway is that you should have called yourself Harrstemzer to achieve perfection by your standards.
Given that he is the only few Protoss player that even gets close to the finals, he should remain as her0. As he is the her0 that we never knew we needed.
This video needs a round 2 update where u add some of the other youtubers like upatree, artosis, zombiegrub. And also all the missing pros like neeb, astrea, dark, nina, heromarine, marinelord, beastyqt, that one super cheesy zerg (, forgot his name but awesome name), oh yeah bly! Awesome name.
Elazer is such a cool name, I really like showtime also because it's so funny when the announcer is yelling "and it's showtime", like you know it's up for a fun game, as for you harstrem, it doesn't really make any sense but it's fun to hear so I would put you in great
I think Creator is a better name than given credit for. While kind of generic sc2 specifically it can hint toward creating strategy and builds and play styles.
17:15 well, he is not the only one who picked «Young» in his nickname. Long story short, it was a meme among the close friends and some of them decided to keep it as a part of nickname, for example Yakov became YoungYakov, my Hasu teammate BlackStar became YoungStar
I'm surprised he didn't put Lowko and Reynor last just to rip on them, but personally I really like both their names.... their personalities might be persuading me though too.
One aspect you disregarded in your classiffication methodology, is, how a name sounds when being introduced in a SC 2 game. Something like Showtime for example... the caster will be saying something like "And in the top left corner, the protoss in blue... it is Showtime"... which sounds amazing, I think.
Just did the Google Test for Harstem. The first image is him taking a picture with a fan. But it's a meme picture where Harstem's head isn't in the frame (Dutch people tall, yadda yadda). Meaning the first face you see isn't him, it's the fan. Also, ShoWTimE should've gotten bonus points because player intros are always more fun when yelling "IIIIT'SSSS SHOOOWTIIIIIMME" Also also, herO even has another issue with the Liquid`HerO confusion.
Would you change GiantGrantGames / Triple G up a tier or two for the name GiantGrant? I think that's his nickname, also based on his real name, and GiantGrantGames is the name of the brand / channel.
This was unreasonably entertaining to watch. As I looked at the final list I was preparing for some harsh words about bad placements, but honestly I couldn't really see any nicks I felt were really poorly placed. Maybe that guy Harstem should have been down at Great, but otherwise this was pretty spot on. Would have liked some more old school players though, like ThorZaIN, NaNiwa and maybe LucifroN (that's actually a really good one).
Biggest Crime? No HeRoMaRinE, Tasteless, Artosis, Zombigrub and maybe a honorable mention of Grubby? All are passing the Google-Test. Gabriel Segat also manages this with his nickname: Big Gabe, TheCowboy/Captain cannot.
Regarding uThermal: I don't know if he intended it, but 'u' is the unit prefix 'micro', which would make his name 'MicroThermal'. Maybe he wanted to reference his ability to micro pretty well?
@@fbpo1699 You are right but there are plenty of examples where u is used for simplicity's sake (like µTorrent naming the installation directory uTorrent). It's like all the German umlauts losing their diacritics when incorporated into English (über, Doppelgänger). We don't know unless uThermal says what it is.
@@Lightkie People using or transliterating words or letters incorrectly frequently does not change their meaning though. So inferring a meaning from a letter or word, because another letter or word is sometimes incorrectly transliterated to that is just an omega stretch.
Okay, Harstem just likes short-names in Russian/Belarusian language, Vanya is a short-informal name for Ivan. Nikich is kind of short informal name for Nikita
Wayne should be at the very bottom. When hearing Wayne people always think about 1 of these 2: LilWayne, the American rapper or Wayne the friend of the TH-camr Markiplier who always gets picked on in group sessions. :D At best Wayne sounds like a random dude you met on the streets in one of the US States.
Winter is a season, should clearly be in bottom tier. Maybe if he was as good as Reynor he could be in the bad category with him. Only Reason Reynor is not in bottom tier is because he's good. A misspelled character from a game should be bottom tier.
Maybe the SWTE in ShoWTimE means Sleeping With The Enemy? There’s a lot of possible stretches you can go on if that’s what those letters mean along with his real name and that he’s German 🤔 The Captain even said he has a solid play style and his name means the wall in a recent harstemcasts 😂 Best brilliant name for sure if that’s how much thought truly went into it.
A crime against humanity is the idea that someone even wants to name himself after Jim Raynor. Apart from that a few honorable mentions: Wardi, Rotterdam, Artosis, Idra, Grubby, Special, Goody, TLO, Naninwa and Nerchio (and so many more that did fall off) Also... where is Dark? I know your rating towards english names, etc... but the way Dark got introduced 2016 during blizzcon and his attitude overall made this nickname always fitting and really cool to me.
Wardi doesn't belong on a SC player list, he's too terrible and always has been. Forever-stuck trash at the game, doesn't deserve to be on a list with these true gamers.
@@tambaz2276 first of all, you underestimate wardi as a player - since he reached masters with all 3 races I am pretty sure hes alltime better than you at this game + lowko is on that list - and lowko waaay below some names that got forgotten when it come to ingame skill or tournament earnings second: wardi is an important person for the sc2 community. hes not a pro player and hes not a good caster. but he works hard and deserves respect and brings us tons of games for others to cast. as winter says: respect to those who earned it. and wardi definitly earned it. so maybe he doesnt belong on that list - but i think its fair to place him in honorable mentions as i did
@@christianpetersen6771 Lowko is WAAAY better than Wardi, and Wardii is 100% worse than myself. I'm Masters with all 3 races too and I have a crippled right hand and didn't play the game for ten years, but I can still log in and beat Wardi in a bo5 Random vs Random, while Wardi is involved in the game professional. Lowko is M1/GM. I still remember when Wardi was early into casting tournaments in WoL, MFer wasn't even diamond and trying to do analysis and basically just spouting pure bullshit to all his viewers. Wouldn't accept any help to make his casting more insightful (I was Masters all races already at the time, this was around 2011 or 2012) and less full of misinformation. I felt bad for the lower level players watching his stream and getting "analysis" from someone so clueless.
So many playery with great nicks or greant characters not inluded. IdrA, Mana, TLO, incontrol, ThorZaIN, NaNiwa (great name, if you ask me), DeMusliM, Dimaga, Strelok, White-Ra.......... Hm.....all these names remind me how old i am, and times when i was watching SC2 esport..... I was tere Gandalfm 3000 years ago.
Vanya is short for Ivan in Russian, like Alexander/Alex or Richard/Dick (sorry nothing else comes to mind). For me, as a Russian, it literally sounds like plain Joe. I'm afraid there's no story behind that nickname, it's just his name, which is, no offence, quite common in Russia...
08:30 "Vanya" is not a nickname. It's just a "short" version of "Ivan". By "short" I mean more casual (unofficial). Basically every Russian name has this sort of thing, for use in between friends/family. E.g. I'm Evgeny, but Jenya for short. Dmitry would be Dima, Alexander is Sasha etc.
Another point to add, a main reason they will keep calling it a nickname is that some of the diminutives barely seem to bear any relation to the formal name. Alexander somehow turns into “Sasha”? 😅 can you blame people for thinking it’s a totally separate nickname
@@davidm2031 I think the misunderstanding here is the fact that the word "nickname" has 2 definitions, as in a familiar or shortened form of a proper name, AND later as an internet name, but in Russia (and I assume but might be wrong the rest of post-USSR countries) the word "nickname" got adopted into language only due to internet, and thus became a word that is specifically refers to someone's internet name, which is why (I think) people try to come to overexplain it in comment section. It's a weird thing that happened due to one language absorbing English word with a specific definition of it, gaining new meaning while shedding it's historical meaning it had in English language itself. It's fascinating stuff honestly.
I feel like you should look at the Korean translation for the Korean player names. Like Maru translates to High Peak, or Byun translates to "in a hurry"
Harstem could you do it for SC1? It would be awesome for brood war fans, especially because you don't know most of the players, so there will be no bias, you will just evaluating nicks. In SC1 the nicks were something new at that time, and some players were very creative, and capitalization actually mattered very much (dunno why u hate it so much). Some of them include: Mondragon, Testie, IdrA, Assem, Artosis, ElkY, Grrrr..., FisheYe, BrEaKdOwN, Schnibl0r, kolllll, Legionnaire, Androide, Advokate, Christian, MidiaN, Blackman, Draco, SunCow, Dreiven, ParanOid, AvernuM, and ofc the koreans: (here often clan tag plays a big role): SlayerS_`BoxeR`, [ReD]NaDa, iloveoov, XellOs[yG], FlaSh, SnOw, Nal_rA, [Oops]Reach, Bisu[Shield], GARIMTO, IntoTheRain (and IntoTheRainBOw), [NC]...YellOw, ChOJJa, Jaedong, sAviOr[gm], ShinHwA, JulyZerg, etc. etc. (for full list of nicks you could check in on sc:bw liquipedia, or ask some of the sc1 pros or scene enthusiasts, mb Artosis or someone) Oh there are so many awesome nicks, players and memories. I'd love to see you rank them (and I think many people, which come from broodwar would agree with me)... Edit: Hell, you could even do it with clantags, some of the best and good looking [foreign scene] were imo: ToT)nick( - Templars of Twillight , nick[pG] - proGamers, MgZ)nick - MicroGamerZ, MYM.nick - MeetYourMakers, iG. - (i dont remember). But those were sponsored teams, which was a very rare thing in broodwar _foreign_ scene.
for the first 2 min i thought he was going to rate nicknames "the captain, the professor, danish prince" etc. and then he started with "firefly" lol. oh.
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fruitdealer should be brilliant, because of the backstory where he had to quit progaming and sell fruit, because his parent got ill
Agreed. Harstem overrates Clem a lot though, "it's my name" is not backstory. Almost immediately after seeing Clem's nickname I baptized him to "Clemtard". Same with Bly. Those short nonsense-names based on either their names or nothing are not great.
I agree. fruitdealer is brilliant. the only gripe i have with this list.
That's so fking sad tho 😭😭
If I understood correctly his family has a fruit store and that is where the name stems from.
We didn't even have the opportunity to decimate HeRoMaRinE
he probably let him out bc he would have to create a whole new category lol
I like Marinelordd, heromarine, marine king ect
@@svsv1191 I guess you like marines... They're all just variations of the same idea which isn't that brilliant in the first place
@@svsv1191 I don't like MarineKing but for some reason MarineKingPrime sounds way cooler
Gabe is too big to fit into this puny tier list.
Reynor being reynor because he misspelled Jim Raynor is the funniest shit ever 😂
@@bthero03 this Is perfectly true, he started playing when he was nine years old and if you ready Reynor in Italian It sounds exactly as Raynor in english
@@YamaArash1 reynor in english sounds the same as raynor in english
Another peak comedy is that he's zerg main toss sub despite naming his ID after Terran
He is not the only Pro with a spelling mistake or rather a "naming mistake" either. IdrA did sort of the same, based his name on the Hindu character "Indrajit" and forgot the n.
@@pops1cle187 Raynor in English will always be Raynor in English, but Reynor in English can also be pronounced as Reeynor in English. Just like the word Key vs Kay.
Tbh, Harstem is such a brilliant name. It's also an anagram of Hamster.
Thanks, HENTAICOMBO
I agree with the Tierlist. If only Zanster just called himself Anton I would put him on first, wasted opportunity but deserved second place.
Damn Serral wins again.
I don't think he won cause of the name... its cause his achievements in playing SC2 spill over 😂
Serral reminds me of breakfast cereal.
I love Scarlett as a nickname. Also Oliveira and Showtime I would put much higher.
And Oz goes straight into pick something new for me. I don't care if people think you are a wizard. Its a pop culture figure, pick something original.
I'm reminded of that SC2 comic where all Koren players getting signed have to pick a random English word from Bohemian Rhapsody to use as their nickname.
"Bohemian Raphsody"
-Queen-
"Is this the -real- -life- ?
Is this just -fantasy- ?
Caught in a landslide,
no escape from -reality- ."
"Bohemian", "Rhapsody", "Landslide" and "Escape" could also be great names for Korean SC2 players.
I think DongRaeGu should be higher. It's unique looking, it sounds cool and is a place. It's kinda like Rotterdamn in that way, which imo is a really powerful nick too.
@@B1gLupu exactly this, DRG is a powerful letter combo as well and has always rocked the vibe check. Wish he would a included Rottie here cause I mostly like his list and wanna see how he rates my favorite Dutchie
You should do the actual nicknames next! The Finnisher, the Italian stallion, the boss toss, the shield of Aiur, the rocky zerg, the captain....there are so many actual nicknames to choose from! It would be an awesome vid 😄
It truly is the offseason content kicking in
When do we get more Christmas song covers?
Harstem just loves Slavic names: Vanya, Nikich, Yakov
he knows his vibes
Harstem thought Vanya is Ivan's childhood nickname, but in reality, it's just the short version of the name. It's like Robert and Bob, or Richard and Dick. Ivan becomes Vanya in Russian speech. Hence, not a cool nickname at all imo
It is hilarious to me that Gerald got where it did. To me it's an old white dude name, and not event spelled correctly if it's a reference to Geralt from The Witcher.
It's like Raynor and reynor yes. I also like how they have the same voice actor in my native language. So reynor and gerald are connected in a way
I think Gerald does spell his name with a t sometimes.
Gerald is just a normal common first name. I know a dude named Gerald. Geralt it just made up name by Sapkowski. Althought some people are naming their kids like that in Poland.
goblin's username actually doesnt use a capital g lmao. He says that himself, and check the liquipedia
also goblin way too low
That dig on Grant for being too large, he is a giant after all.
good one
Maru named himself after the cat called Maru.
Maru has the personality of a cat so it works
@@lelouchvibritannia7809 Acts like he’s above it all but then just walks in and regularly causes total chaos in any area he visits? Sounds like his Terran playstyle.
Is this certified, I think it was his uncle that told him the name
Longer the video continued the more Goblin rank seemed personal :D
yesi noticed that too
Zoun comes from Zhaoyun, an ancient Chinese general / warrior that is known for his loyalty, courage and outstanding power.
Also, what do we do with the fact that Artosis and Tasteless just decided to pronounce it wrong forever? Because apparently it was just too much trouble to waddle over and ask him his name.
what a nerd
jk it's valid patriotism and respect for your elders
It was a fun idea! I laughed a lot when I saw Harstem's name put at the top, but it makes sense to like your choosing name
But I agree with this man from the video. Harstem pretty good player, and I think he is significantly better than losers like Clem, Maru, Dark, Reynor and etc
And really good man
You forgot Dark and Soo!
Best part of Harstem videos is when he roasts reynor
Before you get to it, I just love the name Kelazhur. It sounds so unlike any other word in mine or English dictionary. Almost alien, in fact. I hope you give it a high grade!
Not including IdrA, HuK, iNcontroL but including Life of all people should be a war crime
It's never a war crime the first time
Exactly the names I was looking for
Somehow I know you are from the U.S.
@@Sindamsc Canada :)
also no TLO
no heromarine, no like. Thats the biggest crime. Also other players like astrea, dark, neeb etc missing.
Astrea high tier
Yeah astrea and dark are great
@@ZealousPawn Yeah, Astrea is brilliant. Or at the very top of the Great tier.
Seriously astrea!
Neeb is great too!
Fun fact: firefly actually get a English ID after he was good enough to see some international play.
Before that he just had a Chinese ID which was '夜蝶' roughly translated as 'night butterfly'. Funny enough, which is not aggressive at all.
Vanya is not a nickname, it is a diminutive form of Ivan actually.
Whenever I hear Vanya I just keep thinking it is Viktor.
@@MiikkaMiksu I will find you
Came to comment same thing. Harstem needs a lesson on Slavic names, it seems.
i mean a diminutive form of a name is also a nickname no
@@sakesaurus in a wide sense - yes, it is (as nick is a shortened or informal version of a person's name). The correct way to address that issue would be to mention the fact that Captain here is talking not about nicks, but aliases/usernames, actually. But no one calls them so in that regard. In that sense, while you can definitely your diminutive as your online alias, it is kind of not so brilliant choice.
maxpax should be brilliant
Marineking is a great name considering he was basically named by the people
Another problem with the name herO is that there is several SC2 and SC1 players with the same name so it can get confusing.
Wayne got way too high. Just sounds like a random dude
I think he was getting Bruce Wayne wealthy man type vibes when he said it sounds cool. I personally haven’t met any kid whose last name was Wayne who didn’t have at least rich parents if not wealthy.
Wayne is great for exactly that reason. It's hilarious how simple it is 😂
He just made Vanya sound more fancier, dude.
agreed. he's not worthy
@@abyrvalg_ *less
I think points should be given based on the puns you can make while casting or giving names to a video. For example. -"Strange's build order", " This was a sPecial trickery to keep Dark in the Dark" and so on :)
Absolutely. And even more points if it puns the intro: "In the red corner iiiits ShowTime". Other than this being overused with people such as strange
I feel like Gumiho is the best. Get the crowd chanting GU-MI-HO! GU-MI-HO! No other name chants like that.
Reminds me of the baseball player Ichiro when the crowd would yell his name.
Biggest crime is the fact that TaeJa is missing! :)
@@stanimir5F I always liked TaeJa’s name.
Anyone who doesn't understand this video needs to subscribe.
This is Harstem level of humour.
I put this on fullscreen and i have no idea why
Quite. I only realised two thirds in that I didn't put it fullscreen as usual but there really is no point.
Maru's nickname is just a shortened form of his favorite Korean hotpot chain. Said he wants to change it, but he's already been this good with the nickname. th-cam.com/video/2fATSKi2czo/w-d-xo.html
Funnily, a lot of the Korean players really liked Reynor as an ID
Already a huge flaw with this list: goblin is no upper case G for his nickname
I liked the google test. I think MaxPax should have been higher. It's a great name, strong, dependable, sounds like a roman centurion and it rhymes. Also Lambo King is a great name and hints at godly levels of post-irony. But my real takeaway is that you should have called yourself Harrstemzer to achieve perfection by your standards.
herO should call himself "smile". Just plain, without any gimmicks
I was think Grin
Given that he is the only few Protoss player that even gets close to the finals, he should remain as her0.
As he is the her0 that we never knew we needed.
I like Harstem, my kids even like Harstem, and it's not bias, you are legit in the top tier of names.
Showtime is a great name. Way underrated
This video needs a round 2 update where u add some of the other youtubers like upatree, artosis, zombiegrub. And also all the missing pros like neeb, astrea, dark, nina, heromarine, marinelord, beastyqt, that one super cheesy zerg (, forgot his name but awesome name), oh yeah bly! Awesome name.
I would put Solar and MaNa a step higher. He did his buddy Lambo dirty too. Fun videos. Thanks, captain.
ngl. lambo did himself dirty
Elazer is such a cool name, I really like showtime also because it's so funny when the announcer is yelling "and it's showtime", like you know it's up for a fun game, as for you harstrem, it doesn't really make any sense but it's fun to hear so I would put you in great
I think Creator is a better name than given credit for. While kind of generic sc2 specifically it can hint toward creating strategy and builds and play styles.
Now I expect reaction videos from Lambo, Lowko... :D
FruitDealer should be best
Should change it to "WatermelonSeller"
@@Fummy007 doing that would misrepresent his build variety
17:15 well, he is not the only one who picked «Young» in his nickname. Long story short, it was a meme among the close friends and some of them decided to keep it as a part of nickname, for example Yakov became YoungYakov, my Hasu teammate BlackStar became YoungStar
I'm surprised he didn't put Lowko and Reynor last just to rip on them, but personally I really like both their names.... their personalities might be persuading me though too.
No lie. Harstem actually is one of the very best nicknames in sc2! Totally agree
One aspect you disregarded in your classiffication methodology, is, how a name sounds when being introduced in a SC 2 game.
Something like Showtime for example... the caster will be saying something like "And in the top left corner, the protoss in blue... it is Showtime"... which sounds amazing, I think.
i want a pro gamer called Shrek
I'd watch the captain read a cookbook. Love this guy!
I'd love to see you do all the nicknames, like Finnish Fenom, One-Man Army, Wonder Kid
Just did the Google Test for Harstem. The first image is him taking a picture with a fan. But it's a meme picture where Harstem's head isn't in the frame (Dutch people tall, yadda yadda). Meaning the first face you see isn't him, it's the fan.
Also, ShoWTimE should've gotten bonus points because player intros are always more fun when yelling "IIIIT'SSSS SHOOOWTIIIIIMME"
Also also, herO even has another issue with the Liquid`HerO confusion.
21:49 Living in Bavaria, that reaction to Gerhard Polt got me LMAO!
I feel like Clem should have passed the Google test as the Steam game only came out this year
I believe GGG’s twitch/YT was an indie game dev channel before his WoL deathless video so it makes more sense that way
MarineKing was Boxer and was nicknamed Foxer by fans but then Boxer started playing so he changed his name
For sure got to shout NESTEAA a couple of times in your room then rerate that name. Casters shouting his name was always a vibe
21:19 "when you think of Oz, you think of the Wizard"
Meanwhile.. flashbacks of the TV show from the 90s
yeah, same here. the show was sometimes brutal to watch
Would you change GiantGrantGames / Triple G up a tier or two for the name GiantGrant? I think that's his nickname, also based on his real name, and GiantGrantGames is the name of the brand / channel.
Lowko should be lower
Something I think the Captain may have missed is that Lowko is a creative misspelling of "Loco," the Spanish word for crazy.
@@ryanpcollins Which makes it even lamer.
@@ryanpcollinsi dont think lowko even knew loco in spanish means crazy when he created his nickname. I think it has a different story.
I would like to see a vote for this. everyone make their own ranking, and we average the score to get the people's tier list
Highly recommend playing Witcher 3 and getting to know Gerald.
Certainly one of my favourite games of all time.
Something birthed with Rotterdam involved being named Goblin is very fitting
This was unreasonably entertaining to watch.
As I looked at the final list I was preparing for some harsh words about bad placements, but honestly I couldn't really see any nicks I felt were really poorly placed. Maybe that guy Harstem should have been down at Great, but otherwise this was pretty spot on.
Would have liked some more old school players though, like ThorZaIN, NaNiwa and maybe LucifroN (that's actually a really good one).
Big Gabe’s not here because his giant boot is offscreen above, stomping on this list.
Glad I heard you say this idea! Hilarious
Bomber used to be such a cool player to watch. Feels like he was one of the first to really nail macro as Terran.
Great list. One point though:
A djiini is the one being in the world you should not ask for world piece.
Biggest Crime? No HeRoMaRinE, Tasteless, Artosis, Zombigrub and maybe a honorable mention of Grubby? All are passing the Google-Test. Gabriel Segat also manages this with his nickname: Big Gabe, TheCowboy/Captain cannot.
Regarding uThermal:
I don't know if he intended it, but 'u' is the unit prefix 'micro', which would make his name 'MicroThermal'. Maybe he wanted to reference his ability to micro pretty well?
Yeah I think it's cool too. It's like milli-Kelvin.
The symbol is not a "u" it's the greek letter "µ" which is much more akin to the latin "m"
@@fbpo1699 You are right but there are plenty of examples where u is used for simplicity's sake (like µTorrent naming the installation directory uTorrent). It's like all the German umlauts losing their diacritics when incorporated into English (über, Doppelgänger). We don't know unless uThermal says what it is.
@@fbpo1699 you're, of course, correct, but u is commonly used to replace it because µ / _mu_ is not part of the basic ASCII character set
@@Lightkie People using or transliterating words or letters incorrectly frequently does not change their meaning though. So inferring a meaning from a letter or word, because another letter or word is sometimes incorrectly transliterated to that is just an omega stretch.
Okay, Harstem just likes short-names in Russian/Belarusian language, Vanya is a short-informal name for Ivan. Nikich is kind of short informal name for Nikita
Wayne should be at the very bottom. When hearing Wayne people always think about 1 of these 2: LilWayne, the American rapper or Wayne the friend of the TH-camr Markiplier who always gets picked on in group sessions. :D At best Wayne sounds like a random dude you met on the streets in one of the US States.
... Bruce Wayne...?
Winter is a season, should clearly be in bottom tier. Maybe if he was as good as Reynor he could be in the bad category with him. Only Reason Reynor is not in bottom tier is because he's good. A misspelled character from a game should be bottom tier.
I like it - and it seems that Serral can't just be any other than S tier, no matter if it is his games or his nickname :D
Maybe the SWTE in ShoWTimE means Sleeping With The Enemy?
There’s a lot of possible stretches you can go on if that’s what those letters mean along with his real name and that he’s German 🤔 The Captain even said he has a solid play style and his name means the wall in a recent harstemcasts 😂
Best brilliant name for sure if that’s how much thought truly went into it.
A crime against humanity is the idea that someone even wants to name himself after Jim Raynor.
Apart from that a few honorable mentions:
Wardi, Rotterdam, Artosis, Idra, Grubby, Special, Goody, TLO, Naninwa and Nerchio (and so many more that did fall off)
Also... where is Dark? I know your rating towards english names, etc... but the way Dark got introduced 2016 during blizzcon and his attitude overall made this nickname always fitting and really cool to me.
dark sucks, it sounds too edgy on top of being a random English word
Wardi doesn't belong on a SC player list, he's too terrible and always has been. Forever-stuck trash at the game, doesn't deserve to be on a list with these true gamers.
@@tambaz2276 first of all, you underestimate wardi as a player - since he reached masters with all 3 races I am pretty sure hes alltime better than you at this game + lowko is on that list - and lowko waaay below some names that got forgotten when it come to ingame skill or tournament earnings
second: wardi is an important person for the sc2 community. hes not a pro player and hes not a good caster. but he works hard and deserves respect and brings us tons of games for others to cast. as winter says: respect to those who earned it. and wardi definitly earned it.
so maybe he doesnt belong on that list - but i think its fair to place him in honorable mentions as i did
@@christianpetersen6771 Lowko is WAAAY better than Wardi, and Wardii is 100% worse than myself. I'm Masters with all 3 races too and I have a crippled right hand and didn't play the game for ten years, but I can still log in and beat Wardi in a bo5 Random vs Random, while Wardi is involved in the game professional. Lowko is M1/GM. I still remember when Wardi was early into casting tournaments in WoL, MFer wasn't even diamond and trying to do analysis and basically just spouting pure bullshit to all his viewers. Wouldn't accept any help to make his casting more insightful (I was Masters all races already at the time, this was around 2011 or 2012) and less full of misinformation. I felt bad for the lower level players watching his stream and getting "analysis" from someone so clueless.
So many playery with great nicks or greant characters not inluded. IdrA, Mana, TLO, incontrol, ThorZaIN, NaNiwa (great name, if you ask me), DeMusliM, Dimaga, Strelok, White-Ra..........
Hm.....all these names remind me how old i am, and times when i was watching SC2 esport.....
I was tere Gandalfm 3000 years ago.
Harstems new favorite nickname : Harrstem
He forgot the Gracken
Vanya is short for Ivan in Russian, like Alexander/Alex or Richard/Dick (sorry nothing else comes to mind). For me, as a Russian, it literally sounds like plain Joe. I'm afraid there's no story behind that nickname, it's just his name, which is, no offence, quite common in Russia...
Someone as talented and handsome as Harstem has no business having so many good opinions, too
The nickname pro player tier list here we go .
im going to Maru Japanese Kitchen and Bar to meet Harstem tonight
Nice and fun video! But for a more realistic Google test, it should've been done in private browsing 😎
08:30
"Vanya" is not a nickname. It's just a "short" version of "Ivan". By "short" I mean more casual (unofficial).
Basically every Russian name has this sort of thing, for use in between friends/family. E.g. I'm Evgeny, but Jenya for short.
Dmitry would be Dima, Alexander is Sasha etc.
"it's not a nickname its a....."
Goes on to describe what a nickname is.
Another point to add, a main reason they will keep calling it a nickname is that some of the diminutives barely seem to bear any relation to the formal name. Alexander somehow turns into “Sasha”? 😅 can you blame people for thinking it’s a totally separate nickname
@@dpend probably the most magnificent English example would be Richard turning into Dick.
You literally described the definition of what a nickname is in a comment saying that it's not a nickname. Incredible.
@@davidm2031 I think the misunderstanding here is the fact that the word "nickname" has 2 definitions, as in a familiar or shortened form of a proper name, AND later as an internet name, but in Russia (and I assume but might be wrong the rest of post-USSR countries) the word "nickname" got adopted into language only due to internet, and thus became a word that is specifically refers to someone's internet name, which is why (I think) people try to come to overexplain it in comment section. It's a weird thing that happened due to one language absorbing English word with a specific definition of it, gaining new meaning while shedding it's historical meaning it had in English language itself. It's fascinating stuff honestly.
How is jjakji great ? Or even oz / Youngyakov when some nicknames who are completely fine are in bad or "pick a new one".
Very accurate.
Disagree a little with Serral and Zanster.
edit: btw HeroMarine is bad too (hehehe)
Artosis did this once, I think he only looked at SC1 names.
8:30 small correction, - Vanya is the shortname for Ivan, not a nickname.
@Harstem a nickname clown related that I use on the European region is ClownPrince, if herO used that I would be honoured
Not including Idra, WhiteRa, iNcontroL, Grubby, Naniwa is the warcrime!
Vanya is "short" version of Ivan, many russian names have that: Vladimir>>Vova, Vyacheslav>>Slava etc.
Am I blind, or is there no Heromarine?
I feel like you should look at the Korean translation for the Korean player names. Like Maru translates to High Peak, or Byun translates to "in a hurry"
I know women that pay a lot of money to have lips as lucious as yours
It's hypnotic, the "my eyes are up here" kinda thing
Harstem could you do it for SC1? It would be awesome for brood war fans, especially because you don't know most of the players, so there will be no bias, you will just evaluating nicks. In SC1 the nicks were something new at that time, and some players were very creative, and capitalization actually mattered very much (dunno why u hate it so much). Some of them include: Mondragon, Testie, IdrA, Assem, Artosis, ElkY, Grrrr..., FisheYe, BrEaKdOwN, Schnibl0r, kolllll, Legionnaire, Androide, Advokate, Christian, MidiaN, Blackman, Draco, SunCow, Dreiven, ParanOid, AvernuM, and ofc the koreans: (here often clan tag plays a big role): SlayerS_`BoxeR`, [ReD]NaDa, iloveoov, XellOs[yG], FlaSh, SnOw, Nal_rA, [Oops]Reach, Bisu[Shield], GARIMTO, IntoTheRain (and IntoTheRainBOw), [NC]...YellOw, ChOJJa, Jaedong, sAviOr[gm], ShinHwA, JulyZerg, etc. etc. (for full list of nicks you could check in on sc:bw liquipedia, or ask some of the sc1 pros or scene enthusiasts, mb Artosis or someone) Oh there are so many awesome nicks, players and memories. I'd love to see you rank them (and I think many people, which come from broodwar would agree with me)...
Edit: Hell, you could even do it with clantags, some of the best and good looking [foreign scene] were imo: ToT)nick( - Templars of Twillight , nick[pG] - proGamers, MgZ)nick - MicroGamerZ, MYM.nick - MeetYourMakers, iG. - (i dont remember). But those were sponsored teams, which was a very rare thing in broodwar _foreign_ scene.
for the first 2 min i thought he was going to rate nicknames "the captain, the professor, danish prince" etc. and then he started with "firefly" lol. oh.