People claiming hvick "performed" better than rrtyui this year or other such nonsense like that are equating playing well with getting pp. If rrtyui's plays this year are enough to convince you that he's still a better player than hvick, then he performed better. I'm not saying hvick isn't a really strong player, but his body of work simply doesn't hold up to rrtyui's. In addition to the maps mentioned by vleaf (elemental creation, holy orders, and bakana's yoru naku usagi), rrtyui had SS on big black, FC-2 on 4 Dimensions, rrtyui-only-DTs like Hello Seattle and the I Burn marathon, that 800 combo FL play on that skystar map, that 1x sliderbreak play on DT gangsta (does the fact that they aren't worth pp make them worthless or something?), and a ton of unranked plays (FC on HW's helix diff, for example). Sure, maybe he played fewer generic DT maps than SW and got less pp because he was more interested in playing strange maps and getting nomod SS scores for funsies, but do you really think he was outperformed? How much of that could hvick do? And don't forget rrtyui's OWC performance. Pretty damn impressive.