The award for the game of the year has perhaps been the most anticipated award. The jury agreed with the people and the game of the year is NaDa versus Yellow in the winners bracket final at BlizzCon
Several games were nominated, but BlizzCon dominated the field. The game that in the end won was as mentioned between NaDa and Yellow. It was definitely the shortest game nominated at less than 6 minutes. The game was played on the map King of The Abyss made by travin especially for BlizzCon.
NaDa took advantage of this special map in a unique way. He used his barrack to get his marines, medics and firebats across the mineral barrier. It was at the time immediately made a Recommended Replay here at GosuGamers. Follow the link at the bottom to read the comments it recieved then, and the other link to download it and view it all again.
The jury had nothing but praise for NaDa's play in this game. Jury member Legionnaire was at the time playing on the pro team eNature in Korea commented the amazing play; "I thought that I was top stuff, coming up with jumping Zealots and Dark Templars over the minerals with Probes (one at a time with about a 60% success rate) as my secret build for this map.".
As you can see, Legionnaire was quite sure that his master tactic was a great weapon against the other Starcraft warriors. However his comment continues. "Then he goes and makes me feel like a newbie with his matrix style - 'there are no minerals blocking my way'! Sometimes i hate him...". Similar tricks had actually been done before in the Korean Pro League, but the execution and timing in this game landed it as the winner of the GosuGamers Game of the year award.
Nominations: 2005's game
Sea.s2 vs ArtistTest (1 nomination) "Great battle with mass tanks."
Reach vs Mondragon (3 nominations) "Mondragon plays 3 games vs progamer Reach and proves he has international PvZ skills, especially with his win in game 2"
Pride vs Sabath (1 nomination)
"Posted on a lot of websites, and even having an rwa made for this game. Pride comes back from the brink of defeat in the most unusual way. With help from arbiters!"
Nada vs Yellow (7 nominations)
"During Blizzcon on King of the Abyss, Nada used a trick with a lifted rax to get past a line of minerals to win the game."
"That was really amazing, pure art, pure creativity, nada forever"
Sea.s2 vs Ameba[s.g] (1 nomination)
"Because that's amazing tvz performance from Nada and the game is pretty dramatic."
KaGa]1st[ vs Doochi (1 nomination)
"Amazing comeback from Kaga. Just incredible."
One award left to go.
The last of the awards for 2005 is the surprise of the year. It will be revealed shortly, so keep a keen eye on the front page of GosuGamers for that.
Links
GosuGamers - Original post of the replay
GosuGamers - StarCraft Awards 2005
GosuGamers - The Game Of The Year: Replay
