Power Rank 07/06/2008 - Page 8
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EsX_Raptor
United States2801 Posts
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United States3803 Posts
SHIFT 2-11 UP 1 PEOPLE. THAT'S THE REAL POWER RANK. | ||
TheTyranid
Russian Federation4333 Posts
Let me make it clear and simple. 1. Jaedong 2. By.Flash 3. Best[WHITE] 4. Forgg_V_ 5. Kal 6. Luxury[GsP] 7. JulyZerg 8. Lomo[fOu] 9. Hwasin 10. Much[gm] | ||
TheTyranid
Russian Federation4333 Posts
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FakeSteve[TPR]
Valhalla18444 Posts
On July 08 2008 06:28 TheTyranid wrote: This is a good PR. Thank you for putting Flash and JD above Best. He is a great protoss but he just does not have the status that they have; not until he wins an SL at least. Top 3 is perfect and overall it is very accurate. I first thought Hwasin might be a bit low but then realised that both ForGG, Lomo, and Luxury have preformed better against Kal, and Flash respectively. Even though Lomo lost, he elevated his game and pushed the best TvT to a game 5 where as the best TvZ has suddenly dropped and was dominated in 3 straight sets. jesus, thank you you're like the first person to realize that all of this happened | ||
Polar_Bear
Germany55 Posts
The other ranks seem to be pretty justified, but I absolutely can't agree with putting Best below Flash. It might be true, that Flash has a better "starcraft sense" and it's also quite possible that Flash will get better results in the future again, because we don't know for sure if he wasn't just tired the last few weeks, BUT this month Best just did the far better job. Since the last power ranking was made, Best went 11-3 and Flash 8-8. Indeed numbers can lie, but is this the case here? Best 2-0ed Much, beat Kal, Jangbi, free and 2 second class protoss, drew vs. really (1-1) and pulled out a win vs. Luxury in a bo5 (3-2). So, considering that PvP is Best's premium matchup there's nothing really special about the 7 wins vs. other protoss, but still he's shown that his play is extremely consistent. The loss vs. Really is kind of an "accident", which can occure every now and then. Anyway he demonstrated that he can do better by taking revenge in the ace match under huge pressure. In my opinion the special thing this month was the bo5 vs. Luxury. Most people agree that PvZ is Best's relatively weak matchup and Luxury was on a 10-1 killing spree before he faced Best in the OSL. I watched the games very carefully and finally I came to the result that Best is a true champion because he just managed to come back although everything went wrong in the beginning. He lost the first game because of an all-in move and the second one because Luxury is a strategic genius. In game three he looked smashed again but then found this great shuttle trick and turned it around. He kicked Luxury's ass totally in game 4 and game 5 was just epic by both players. The main thing is that Best is there 100% when it counts. That's the huge difference between him and e.g. Stork who plays hilarious when it's about nothing and fails in the finals every fucking time (we all remember the 5th game of the MSL finals were he outmacroed Bisu and FORGOT the bloody range upgrade). To put it in a nutshell: Best really improved a lot this month and has shown some qualities he hadn't shown before. Flash on the other hand played very inconsistently and just reached 50% vs. media opponents. The 8 wins were all against 2nd class opponents except of Mind who definitely is in a slump at the moment. Darkelf (ugly!!!), Zero, Mingu, Hyia is not exactly what I would call the cream of the crop. I excuse the losses vs. Luxury and ForGG, because they are topstars as well, but losses to Hero, free, Ruby and Lomo (twice) really make me think about Flash's condition. Though people don't confess it: Flash's play was freaking shaky lately!! His MSL opponent do-whatever-you-want-I-will-not-scout-you-in-the-first-game-anyway-Lomo is not that great at all, that this bo5-win could change the impression about Flash. There are also reasons for putting Best above Jaedong, but imo both alternatives 1.JD/2.Best, 1.Best/2.JD are kind of justified. As mentioned above the rest is well done. I still think that FBH should be in CBNC. He is one of the key players of the #1-team and is a threat to every Terran and Zerg out there. You are right, that he gets eliminated everytime he faces a protoss in a league, but also his TvP has improved. The series vs. Much was kind of close or at least close to close. | ||
il0seonpurpose
Korea (South)5638 Posts
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KiN2
Sweden18 Posts
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ScarFace
United States1175 Posts
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FakeSteve[TPR]
Valhalla18444 Posts
On July 08 2008 15:46 ScarFace wrote: Kind of unrelated to the PR but its related to a person on the PR, and I don't really think its worth a thread/pming an admin: Shouldn't Much [pbuh] have Heart Toss as his nickname? no one calls him that | ||
Zortch
Canada635 Posts
On July 08 2008 09:35 Polar_Bear wrote: He kicked Luxury's ass totally in game 4 and game 5 was just epic by both players. Really? I seem to recall like 70 supply of mass lings vs 140 monster macro army of Protoss... Luxury choked hard....really really hard. I'm not saying Best isn't amazingly awesome. He is, but I don't think that game 5 was any demonstration of this. | ||
dinmsab
Malaysia2246 Posts
On July 08 2008 02:59 NotSupporting wrote: "Like his teammate fOrGG, I don't particularly like Lomo. But, this ain't about feelings, it's about StarCraft" *looks at sea's first place* hmm.... This is power ranks.. not skill ranks.. or win percentage ranks. Like Fakesteve said, power could exist in many forms... if tossgirl gave a bj to everyone on TL that would be counted as enough power to have her ranked #1 on FS's PR for 5 years. | ||
ScarFace
United States1175 Posts
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ThePhan2m
Norway2736 Posts
On July 08 2008 06:28 TheTyranid wrote: This is a good PR. Thank you for putting Flash and JD above Best. He is a great protoss but he just does not have the status that they have; not until he wins an SL at least. Top 3 is perfect and overall it is very accurate. I first thought Hwasin might be a bit low but then realised that both ForGG, Lomo, and Luxury have preformed better against Kal, and Flash respectively. Even though Lomo lost, he elevated his game and pushed the best TvT to a game 5 where as the best TvZ has suddenly dropped and was dominated in 3 straight sets. lol? what kind of excuse is it to put Flash and Jaedong before Best just cuz they once won a starleague? PR shouldnt have shit to do with past preformance, but the moment right now. And for this month, Flash hasnt been as good, And jaedong has made alot of mistakes in his games aswell, some of them just barley made it, but Best in other hand, play like a God! Best is 11-4 in June, Flash is 5-5, and Jaedong 6-5. Isnt this suposed to be an monthly PR? | ||
TheTyranid
Russian Federation4333 Posts
On July 09 2008 01:13 ThePhan2m wrote: lol? what kind of excuse is it to put Flash and Jaedong before Best just cuz they once won a starleague? PR shouldnt have shit to do with past preformance, but the moment right now. And for this month, Flash hasnt been as good, And jaedong has made alot of mistakes in his games aswell, some of them just barley made it, but Best in other hand, play like a God! Best is 11-4 in June, Flash is 5-5, and Jaedong 6-5. Isnt this suposed to be an monthly PR? It is true that Best had a better record this month but the fact is that Flash and JD are just better players at the moment. They are better. Flash is 5-5 but you must realize that every player has hiccups. Its just impossible to keep such a hight win percentage. At one point in the future Best is also going to have a crappy month. The point is that Flash is steadily advancing through the MSL as is Jaedong who completely destroyed Hwasin. Best whos ZvP still looks shaky. Once again do realize how hard Luxury choked in the OSL. Bests game isnt as complete as that of Jaedong or Flash but I say once again if he wins the OSL destroying July I will retract that statement as I will be convinced that he has great ZvP. | ||
Biff The Understudy
France7653 Posts
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FakeSteve[TPR]
Valhalla18444 Posts
On July 09 2008 02:45 Biff The Understudy wrote: lulz @ Sea[Shield]'s epic fail today against Hwasin in proleague. A game that doesn't matter that he had 0 practice for, keep that in mind | ||
Avidkeystamper
United States8551 Posts
On July 09 2008 04:36 FakeSteve[TPR] wrote: A game that doesn't matter that he had 0 practice for, keep that in mind Hwasin also had 0 practice for that game, unless STX tossed games on purpose. | ||
DoctorHelvetica
United States15034 Posts
On July 09 2008 02:45 Biff The Understudy wrote: lulz @ Sea[Shield]'s epic fail today against Hwasin in proleague. LOL DATS SO FUNNY HEY STEVE UR FAVORITE GAMER LOST HAHAHA IN YOUR FACE LOL | ||
FakeSteve[TPR]
Valhalla18444 Posts
On July 09 2008 05:45 xenero wrote: Hwasin also had 0 practice for that game, unless STX tossed games on purpose. that's very likely, especially considering hwasin bunker rushed | ||
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