 Plexa Administrator January 31 2010 19:30. | Profile Blog # |
CBNC:
Calm - strictly speaking he gets the 10th rank since Power Outage doesn't really count. But there were some really painful games played by calm this month. Such as his game against Yellow and Mind. If you recall what I said last month about Calm and that he needed to prove himself and prove that he had fixed the holes in his game to stay in the ranks. He failed at that - he went 6-6 overall with a number of those wins being poor, and a number of the losses being humiliating (e.g. vs Flash later on in the month, not in the OSL). That is why Calm, or rather Clam, did not feature this month.
Movie - Movie got to the OSL finals by playing well in December. He did not play well in January (and neither did Shine for that matter). Movie was unable to refine his play sufficiently and as a result has a negative record for the month (even if you remove his losses against Flash). Movie has great potential, and once he refines his game he will burst back into the ranks. At the end of the day, I can't give Movie a place on the ranks just because he made the OSL finals, even though other players were eliminated earlier - they improved and their skill has shone through in other areas. Movie has been unable to transfer his success to PL/WL and hence unless he refines his play I don't expect him to do well in the next OSL.
Guemchi - Not much to say. 6-0 in Winners League is pretty damned impressive. Keep it up and you'll get on the ranks but at the moment it's a bit premature.
Zero - Zero's play slipped during January and due to a rough December I couldn't justify keeping him on the ranks. He's here because he can still take games off the very best, but he's a little too inconsistent for top 10 at the moment. I'm confident that over February, however, he will be able to remedy the situation and winning games in the WL (no more losses to Gorush okay -.-)
pre-emptive rebuttal:
Bisu - Bisu may be the greatest player in the world, but if he's not performing I'm not going to cut him any slack 'just because' he's Bisu. Bisu went 2-2 in January, lost Ace duties to Best/Fantasy and just hasn't shown any signs of being the best anymore. Honestly, Best has played a lot better than Bisu over the past month (just compare their games against FBH even), and Best was sooo close to making CBNC this month. I'm sorry Bisu fans, but he's going to need to do a lot more work before he'll get back into the ranks.
Shine - Shine had a bad month. In December he was connecting, in January he struck out, and struck out badddd. There isn't much to say here other than go watch the games, since Shine just didn't perform to the same level he did in December.
Best/Fantasy - both players are almost there, but they lack consistency. Fantasy looked really promising, but yesterdays games really shook my confidence in him. Best looked good as well, but he simply lost too many games to 'average' opponents (in unspectacular fashion) over January.
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| Plexa Administrator January 31 2010 19:33. | Profile Blog # |
| Some bugs in the PR - hopefully a coder can work out whats going on lol |
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| Scorch Austria. January 31 2010 19:41. Posts 2951 | Profile Blog # |
Yes, I called it!  |
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| Damian Germany. January 31 2010 19:48. Posts 333 | Profile # |
Sea no CBNC ?  Last edit: 2010-01-31 19:48:25 |
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| De4ngus United States. January 31 2010 19:49. Posts 4999 | Profile Blog # |
Wow, an EARLY powerrank? Nice!
Edit: Is there a way to fix the names in the sidebar? It looks kinda weird and spaced out between some of the names.Last edit: 2010-01-31 19:51:24 |
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| Plexa Administrator January 31 2010 19:53. | Profile Blog # |
On January 31 2010 19:48 Damian wrote:Sea no CBNC ?
On January 31 2010 19:49 De4ngus wrote:
Edit: Is there a way to fix the names in the sidebar? It looks kinda weird and spaced out between some of the names.
I'm having a coder look into it |
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 InFdude Bulgaria. January 31 2010 19:54. Posts 602 | Profile Blog # |
| You are going to get flamed soooo bad by stork fans. |
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| Umbrella Taiwan. January 31 2010 19:55. Posts 936 | Profile Blog # |
I'm expecting some controversy over Stork's placement, haha.
I'm also happy to see really grasp a high ranking as an eStro fan, even if it seems a little high in my objective perspective (3rd best player in the world at the moment?), simply because he hasn't made a significant mark in an individual league yet. However, his raw skill clearly shows through his Winner's League performance and he'll definitely be a threat in the next OSL/MSL. |
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| Avidkeystamper United States. January 31 2010 19:59. Posts 8551 | Profile Blog # |
Your rankings are so unexpected.
You seem to be a strictly monthly player with little reliance on statistics.
Gah! I can't post. I keep receiving the "Wrong Input!" screen, asdlkfajl!@!#
Finally!Last edit: 2010-01-31 19:59:40 |
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| Plexa Administrator January 31 2010 19:59. | Profile Blog # |
On January 31 2010 19:54 InFdude wrote:
You are going to get flamed soooo bad by stork fans.
he is 4-3 after all =/
On January 31 2010 19:59 Avidkeystamper wrote:
Your rankings are so unexpected.
You seem to be a strictly monthly player with little reliance on statistics.
I'm not strictly monthly, but anything before december I've completely 'forgotten' about. I tend to only go to the month before to decide between two players who played really well over the month. I beleive stats are a good starting point, indeed if you go by stats Stork leaves the PR, Kwanro sits around # 4-5 and so on. They can't tell you a complete story, so you have to watch all the games to know what those statistics mean. For instance, Storks win over Stats was garbage whereas Kals win over Leta was incredible. Last edit: 2010-01-31 20:03:59 |
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| kyzers0ze Singapore. January 31 2010 20:09. Posts 1059 | Profile Blog # | |
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| samachking Bahrain. January 31 2010 20:15. Posts 4949 | Profile Blog # |
You forgot the point that the maps are imbalanced when discussing an impromptu Bo5. This map pool was just as bad as Shinhan 3. The other point is that Bo5s are never impromptu so its irrelevant, Fantasy was a strong series player because of his preparation, that was the part that mattered and JD had way better prep during that finals considering both of them had the same preparation time with JD having a one day advantage. Btw the 3hat before pool on match point was only reactionary, a 9drone scout was sent before hand both by Killer + JD.
Also Plexa might you enlighten me on how and in what way are JD and Flash revolutionizing TvZ? I am just asking this question, the builds JD used in the finals are in no way viable in a standard situation and Flash has simply been playing textbook TvZ to perfection the past season with only better placement + better hard counters to guards and better MnM micro vs Mutas, with perfect macro with minimal unit loss. I dont see any revolution, simply godlike play here.
Overall its a fine power rank, and you did very well with it and all the positions are agreeable and the PO was a nice touch. It's really hard to do the bottom spots when there simply isnt much going on.Last edit: 2010-01-31 20:21:26 |
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pripple  Finland. January 31 2010 20:17. Posts 1712 | Profile Blog # |
| finally Really gets some recognition! 2nd best terran in the world at the moment for sure! |
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| okum Austria. January 31 2010 20:44. Posts 5700 | Profile Blog # |
Good, guaranteed-to-be-controversial power rank as usual  But I beleive there are some spelling errors.
FBH fighting! |
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| SuperArc Austria. January 31 2010 20:53. Posts 7781 | Profile Blog # |
I agree with the ranking 100%, but why do you say Jaedong wont have a chance against Flash in a bo5?
He out thought him once, why not a 2nd time? |
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| baubo China. January 31 2010 21:01. Posts 3265 | Profile # |
On January 31 2010 19:54 InFdude wrote:
You are going to get flamed soooo bad by stork fans.
As a Stork fan, I'm going to say this. I don't mind Stork's placement if all other placements place heavy emphasis on this month's play(such as FBH coming out of nowhere for #8 and Really at #4).
Personally, as long as the ranking is consistent with a certain set of standard, I'm fine. And if the emphasis is heavy for this month, then Stork's rank seems appropriate. |
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| Niton United States. January 31 2010 21:05. Posts 1497 | Profile Blog # |
On January 31 2010 20:53 SuperArc wrote:
I agree with the ranking 100%, but why do you say Jaedong wont have a chance against Flash in a bo5?
He out thought him once, why not a 2nd time?
The key word is "impromptu". Plexa thinks that if someone were to come up to Flash/Jaedong and told them they were playing a Bo5 -right now-, Flash would be the favorite due to the wave of raw ability he's riding on. Given how ridiculously Flash has been playing lately and how strong Jaedong's builds had to be in the MSL finals, i'm inclined to agree. |
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| kernl January 31 2010 21:06. Posts 81 | Profile # |
| I don't disagree, but if 50% of these players really are top 10 right now then there's really a lack of good players. I mean just listen to the names... Really, Leta, Kwanro, HiyA. Guys like that didn't use to be top 10 (except for Kwanro who cheesed his way on a couple of PRs with what I personally never agreed with ). |
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| SuperArc Austria. January 31 2010 21:10. Posts 7781 | Profile Blog # |
On January 31 2010 21:05 Niton wrote:
Show nested quote +On January 31 2010 20:53 SuperArc wrote:
I agree with the ranking 100%, but why do you say Jaedong wont have a chance against Flash in a bo5?
He out thought him once, why not a 2nd time?
The key word is "impromptu". Plexa thinks that if someone were to come up to Flash/Jaedong and told them they were playing a Bo5 -right now-, Flash would be the favorite due to the wave of raw ability he's riding on. Given how ridiculously Flash has been playing lately and how strong Jaedong's builds had to be in the MSL finals, i'm inclined to agree.
apart from game 4 where Jaedong foresaw Flash's 8rax, why is three hatch before pool not viable against rax expand? Even Xiaoxi managed to pull it off against Idra. And 12pool lair is always executable too.
They were not once in a lifetime BOs. I am pretty sure we're gonna see more three hatch before pool games in the future. 12 hatch 11 pool is just too weak. |
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| Xinliben United States. January 31 2010 21:10. Posts 931 | Profile # |
| I'm expecting good things from Really, his play has been so good lately. |
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