PowerRank - November - Page 6
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SiCkO_
United States481 Posts
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Hapahauli
United States9305 Posts
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TheDougler
Canada8287 Posts
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SpiZe
Canada3640 Posts
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wenyuan
United States118 Posts
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On_Slaught
United States12190 Posts
Also, DRG is not "the dong." He isn't now, he never has and he never will be. | ||
Doof
United States204 Posts
On November 29 2011 09:49 SpiZe wrote: I feel like I am missing a crucial information... why won't we see much of Ret in 2012 ? Because there's no more big foreign tournaments until next year | ||
Inertia_EU
United Kingdom513 Posts
On November 28 2011 13:51 SoulTakerz wrote: You call DongRaeGu "the Dong"...Really? madness Thin ice eh? | ||
nanoscorp
United States1237 Posts
On November 28 2011 23:06 Talin wrote: Just as a suggestion, normally Power Rank articles involve more than just a summary of accomplishments - this is why it's called a POWER rank and why it's not an ELO rank or a GSL rank or any "objective" statistical rank. It's more like a way to express the sort of "gut feeling" ranking of players by taking into account how convincing and impressive their play is and how "feared" they are by their opponents. This is what you need to express in the article to justify the "misranking" of players that are either higher or lower than their results show for. This is why PR's are fun to both write and read in the first place. This article, on the other hand, really isn't much of a Power Rank at all. What you've done is pretty much listed their accomplishments and then ranked them based on your evaluation of what they've done. I would also put HerO in top 5 PR, but it's for the skill level he displays during games which is beyond what any other player has shown so far - but based on his accomplishments alone (pretty much DH win and nothing else) he wouldn't even make it to CNBC. Also it is unforgivable to compare anyone except HerO to Bisu. Agreed, this post feels more like a "Placement Ranking" than a true Power Ranking. Who is looking good in a particular matchup? Who made it deep in a tournament despite shaky play at times? I liked reading the BW PRs for the insight that comes from critical observation of *how* the players are playing. I'm a huge Leenock fan but can't help wondering how he would have fared in a ZvZ with Nestea. Taking the extended series off DRG was impressive, as was his performance in the Grand Final at Providence. I still wonder if his ZvZ and ZvP are anywhere near as solid as his ZvT. | ||
GinDo
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Esk23
United States447 Posts
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Hunterai
Thailand842 Posts
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Desirous
Canada95 Posts
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Itsmedudeman
United States19229 Posts
On November 29 2011 10:39 nanoscorp wrote: Agreed, this post feels more like a "Placement Ranking" than a true Power Ranking. Who is looking good in a particular matchup? Who made it deep in a tournament despite shaky play at times? I liked reading the BW PRs for the insight that comes from critical observation of *how* the players are playing. I'm a huge Leenock fan but can't help wondering how he would have fared in a ZvZ with Nestea. Taking the extended series off DRG was impressive, as was his performance in the Grand Final at Providence. I still wonder if his ZvZ and ZvP are anywhere near as solid as his ZvT. I'm pretty sure OP doesn't understand what a power ranking is. Fact is, power rankings are compounded from previous months, and I agree, this is just a placements ranking. If people wanted that you could just look up liquipedia and see how well each players did. People need to stop thinking about SC2 players from a week to week basis. | ||
ronpaul012
United States769 Posts
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Gladiator6
Sweden7024 Posts
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Railgan
Switzerland1507 Posts
On November 30 2011 02:49 ronpaul012 wrote: Hmmm, I'm curios as to why you only look at performance in the month of November? To me, power rankings are to add stability over time to see trends up and down. A power rankings of just November fail to show people the overall trends of a race or a player, rather it just shows that a player did well in 1-2 tournaments instead of all. thats why it's called powerrank NOVEMBER | ||
OopsOopsBaby
Singapore3425 Posts
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juked
United States691 Posts
On Nov 29 2011 13:33 OopsOopsBaby wrote: nestea dont even deserve top 20 tbh, let alone 8. If a 3 time champion that went through open bracket and made a respectable 12th place at MLG and only to beat in GSL by MMA (previous champion) and Huk. He is still a force to be scared of even though he is in a small "slump" | ||
The Final Boss
United States1839 Posts
On November 28 2011 13:49 SiCkO_ wrote: It puts him down as a protoss player because he played protoss in Brood War . Hopefully that does get changed. I was really tempted to put both of them on there, but neither did as well in November as Ret in overall consistency. Like I said, the last few were really close Frankly I don't think that Ret, IdrA, or HuK impressed me at all recently. They're all fantastic players, but you missed Banjo TT I think I would have done: Leenock MVP HerO Oz Jjakji NaNiwa NesTea MMA DRG HayprO (just because his run at MLG was the greatest thing. Ever). Also, I feel like Oz should be higher just because he has had a harder road than Jjakji. Jjakji's second group only had three players (CoCa TT), and Jjakji vs Puzzle seemed like less of an upset than Oz vs MMA (plus Puzzle didn't play well). Plus Oz was juggling MLG in addition to GSL (also this is coming from a Jjakji fan haha). That being said, you're ranking is probably better than mine ^^; I think that my love for Banjo might be creating a bit of a bias. | ||
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