Power Rank 04/10/2009 - Page 13
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Geo.Rion
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raga4ka
Bulgaria5676 Posts
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Origami
United States266 Posts
Jaedong: 5-4 since April 11th. 3-0 ZvZ, but 2-4 for anything else. Luxury: 1-4. Only win is against Sea on Outsider. Bisu: 3-1. Wins against Light, Backho, and Reach. Lost to the Great Contain though. Fantasy: Perfect 4-0 so far including a win over Jaedong. Jangbi: 1-5. Only win was going 1-2 against Baby in GOM where he was eliminated regardless. Stork: 2-4. His wins came from ZerO and going 1-2 against MVP in GOM. Flash: 6-2. Lost in the MST Winners match and lost a TvZ on Battle Royal. While Flash would be eliminated from the MSL if he loses again, it's pretty unlikely considering his competition. by.hero: 2-1. He really didn't do much this month. Beat Sair 2-0 in GOM and lost to Piano in PL. Skyhigh: 3-1. Advanced to MSL by beating Hyuk and Flash and has gone 1-1 in PL (Win over Young, Loss to Jaehoon) Nada: 1-2. Eliminated from GOM by going 1-2 against Falcon. The MST on the 30th will be pretty important for some people. | ||
iloahz
United States964 Posts
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disciple
9069 Posts
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Avidkeystamper
United States8551 Posts
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Sentenal
United States12398 Posts
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Geo.Rion
7375 Posts
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samachking
Bahrain4949 Posts
On April 29 2009 07:34 Avidkeystamper wrote: Skyhigh really making a tear up the ranks. I don't remember the last time someone went up so fast so soon. I'm not counting Leta, since he was good for a long time before his PR entrance. Did everyone forget the fact that Skyhigh was a GOM season 2 semifinalist and teared everyone's ass through( except Bisu who was in god-mode at that time) including his series vs Best which was fucking impressive SC while Best was still playing good PvT? Skyhigh was playing good SC last season 2, just his all kill put him on the spot, thats all. Fantasy(In series especially),Flash,Leta, are better than Skyhigh although he has been playing sick SC recently. | ||
Mogwai
United States13274 Posts
I'm honestly expecting a pretty unambitious rank next month with some ordering of Flash/Bisu/Jaedong in the top 3 pending anything silly happening and knocking any of them out of a league early. Other than that, I don't really know what to expect besides Lux remaining on the list at either 8, 9, or 10 with some sort of warning of dropping off if he doesn't step his shit up, Jangbi getting smashed for his poor proleague performances (and probably for losing to Baby too, but Baby played a hell of a series, so it's harder to fault him for that loss even if it is in his godmode matchup), and Stork getting a stern talking to for fucking up vs. MVP or possibly being removed from the list straight up. eh, as per usual, I just wanna see Steve write some ridiculous shit that's a good read. | ||
Shikyo
Finland33997 Posts
On April 29 2009 22:29 samachking wrote: Did everyone forget the fact that Skyhigh was a GOM season 2 semifinalist and teared everyone's ass through( except Bisu who was in god-mode at that time) including his series vs Best which was fucking impressive SC while Best was still playing good PvT? Skyhigh was playing good SC last season 2, just his all kill put him on the spot, thats all. Fantasy(In series especially),Flash,Leta, are better than Skyhigh although he has been playing sick SC recently. I personally have had my eye on Skyhigh for a long time... Especially after Idra said something like "If MSL was offline, SkyHigh would win it". Not too surprising that he's doing well atm, and I'm expecting a lot more of him in the future. | ||
Verilan
United States67 Posts
It's gotta be Jaedong at 1 (poor week but enough to hold his OSL win for another month since Fantasy and Bisu have only played 4 games each). Bisu for 2nd if he 2-0s his MST, otherwise he switches with Fantasy for 3rd. Flash for 4th, it's a big jump from 7 for 6-2 but everyone in between dropped the ball. (3-1 proleague, 1 bo3 over Pure, 1-1 to loser's game in MST) The rest of the rankings is muddy but uncontroversial. Luxury played even below expectations, if that's possible. His MSL win had to be honored last month but this month's proleague results should put him in a spot he more accurately deserves. Jangbi may have narrowly averted a free fall with his + Show Spoiler + one proleague win Not that Skyhigh and by.hero aren't great and all but no matter what, their positions this month are probably going to be overrated. Expectations exceed results for them by a large margin simply because there weren't enough games. I'd still put Stork somewhere around the 8th spot. Nada is out of course, but Leta belongs somewhere. Zero, Effort, and Calm are all looking really good. Is it enough to break Power Rank? You could easily slap them all on CBNC, zerg has the best up and coming talent. | ||
Geo.Rion
7375 Posts
On April 29 2009 23:36 Mogwai wrote: I don't envy FakeSteve's job for next month, this month's results are pretty hard to analyze as it's just early GOM games, MST groups, and proleague games on some maps with serious balance issues... I'm honestly expecting a pretty unambitious rank next month with some ordering of Flash/Bisu/Jaedong in the top 3 pending anything silly happening and knocking any of them out of a league early. Other than that, I don't really know what to expect besides Lux remaining on the list at either 8, 9, or 10 with some sort of warning of dropping off if he doesn't step his shit up, Jangbi getting smashed for his poor proleague performances (and probably for losing to Baby too, but Baby played a hell of a series, so it's harder to fault him for that loss even if it is in his godmode matchup), and Stork getting a stern talking to for fucking up vs. MVP or possibly being removed from the list straight up. eh, as per usual, I just wanna see Steve write some ridiculous shit that's a good read. Steve might just skip a couple weeks and wait till the situation becomes clerarer, haven't heard a word from him for quite some time, and it's the last day of the month so.... why dont we make a "guess when the PR will come out" poll? | ||
Mogwai
United States13274 Posts
On April 30 2009 00:33 Verilan wrote: I think you're forgetting Fantasy, Mogwai. It's gotta be Jaedong at 1 (poor week but enough to hold his OSL win for another month since Fantasy and Bisu have only played 4 games each). Bisu for 2nd if he 2-0s his MST, otherwise he switches with Fantasy for 3rd. Flash for 4th, it's a big jump from 7 for 6-2 but everyone in between dropped the ball. (3-1 proleague, 1 bo3 over Pure, 1-1 to loser's game in MST) The rest of the rankings is muddy but uncontroversial. Luxury played even below expectations, if that's possible. His MSL win had to be honored last month but this month's proleague results should put him in a spot he more accurately deserves. Jangbi may have narrowly averted a free fall with his + Show Spoiler + one proleague win Not that Skyhigh and by.hero aren't great and all but no matter what, their positions this month are probably going to be overrated. Expectations exceed results for them by a large margin simply because there weren't enough games. I'd still put Stork somewhere around the 8th spot. Nada is out of course, but Leta belongs somewhere. Zero, Effort, and Calm are all looking really good. Is it enough to break Power Rank? You could easily slap them all on CBNC, zerg has the best up and coming talent. If Steve's not willing to put Fantasy over Bisu for 3-0ing Bisu and taking 2 out of 5 vs. Jaedong because he's "He just isn't as good as Bisu yet," what makes you think that he'll put Fantasy over Flash in a month where their results aren't as lopsided as last (where Fantasy did a helluva lot and Flash didn't do jack). Fantasy isn't as good as flash and in a month where you can mostly just look at proleague, losing to a Zerg on battle royal is a foregone conclusion anyway and that's the only real difference in their records. I'd be surprised to see Fantasy over Flash, and if that's the way it is, I'll be interested to hear the method behind FS's madness. | ||
Darth Peter
Romania438 Posts
On April 30 2009 01:06 Mogwai wrote: If Steve's not willing to put Fantasy over Bisu for 3-0ing Bisu and taking 2 out of 5 vs. Jaedong because he's "He just isn't as good as Bisu yet," what makes you think that he'll put Fantasy over Flash in a month where their results aren't as lopsided as last (where Fantasy did a helluva lot and Flash didn't do jack). Fantasy isn't as good as flash and in a month where you can mostly just look at proleague, losing to a Zerg on battle royal is a foregone conclusion anyway and that's the only real difference in their records. I'd be surprised to see Fantasy over Flash, and if that's the way it is, I'll be interested to hear the method behind FS's madness. It would be crazy to rank Flash above Fantasy. I mean Fantasy was no3 because in the past,after the OSL he played like an ass in Proleague,Gom and MSL. Now that he is tearing shit up in Proleague too,and being fresh off of an awesome OSL run,there is no way in hell Flash should be above him. Flash was always good in PL,we have to see how he will do in the current Starleagues before we even consider him for top 3. And so far,he didn't shine in the MSL. | ||
Mogwai
United States13274 Posts
I just think that it's a PR theme that if FS has a gut feeling about who's a better player in a slow month, he will put his gut feeling ahead of somewhat inconsequential differences in recent game results. I'm still not sold on Fantasy being better than Flash, and at the end of the day, I think that Steve's gut feeling on that issue is what's going to determine their ordering. | ||
Darth Peter
Romania438 Posts
On April 30 2009 02:51 Mogwai wrote: well, let's see what happens with Fantasy in MST tonight, though I fully expect him to make it out of that group tonight. I just think that it's a PR theme that if FS has a gut feeling about who's a better player in a slow month, he will put his gut feeling ahead of somewhat inconsequential differences in recent game results. I'm still not sold on Fantasy being better than Flash, and at the end of the day, I think that Steve's gut feeling on that issue is what's going to determine their ordering. Yeah,Steve puts his gut feelings ahead,but even if he had balls as big as July has,he couldn't put Flash in top 3 after 4 victories against players like Pure,Horang 2 and Piano,even if Flash looked well in those games. To sum it up,Flash looked okay last month,while Fantasy looked FUCKING great last month,and even before the last month. Flash can't get a top 3 spot yet just because he is a more established player. Bisu was above Fantasy because he still played unbelieavably that month. If it was about gut feeings than Boxer,Savior and Nada should be the top 3 in every single PR. | ||
Darth Peter
Romania438 Posts
1.Jaedong 2.Bisu 3.Fantasy 4.Flash,I guess 5. Leta 6. Skyhigh 7. Luxury 8. Jangbi 9. Great 10. Thezerg It's weird that there is two zergs who are winning because of map imbalances i guess,but still,you have to put somebody in the PR,and out of the zergs,these two have performed the best. Stork plays god awful,the other zergs are inconsistent,so are the terrans,I would even have a hard time putting Jangbi in,but whatever and I don't know,maybe Free is the only other option,or so. Really hard month. | ||
Mogwai
United States13274 Posts
I dunno, great has some nice wins... but seriously... ZergBong? dude... how're you gonna get booted from an individual league by ZergBong? | ||
Samurai-
Slovenia2035 Posts
Fantasy, Bisu, Flash and specially Leta are all showing stronger play... Jaedong showed nothing special this month since his OSL win was already counted for the previous month.. edit: he even lost to fucking ganzi... | ||
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