Power Rank

Rank	Player	Prev	High	Description
1.	Jaedong (Z) (stats)	0	1	September was not a good month for the Power Rank. Firstly, virtually no games were played, and the games that did go down were of hardly any consequence. Therefore, with nothing for or against Jaedong this September, The Tyrant heads up this list for the 4th consecutive month. Before anyone asks, no, his loss to Bisu in Allstars is not going to nudge him down enough to drop a spot. LJD is the current OSL champion, and it's going to take more than a loss in a showmatch to dislodge him from the pinnacle of Starcraft.
2.	Inter.Calm (Z) (stats)	+1	2	The reigning MSL champion, this STX Zerg moves up a spot this September not so much for anything he did. Yet, with Fantasy dropping down the rank due to an overall dip in his standard of play, Calm steps up to take what is rightfully his. Going 2-0 in UPC in the only two games he played this month, he showed us that he is still very much at the top of his game, and there is absolutely no reason to push him further down than this. Finishing August with a MSL victory, Inter.Calm sits pretty at #2 this September, and with good reason too.
3.	Bisu (P) (stats)	+1	1	I'm telling ya, The Revolutionist was hard to peg this month. Succumbing to the power of assonance and losing two games to Zero and Hero, SKT T1's powerhouse came back with a flawlessly executed, and as we're told slightly modified build that threw the greatest Zerg in the world off his game. If he had done that in a game that anyone really cared about, he'd be moving up this rank at least a little further. As it stands though, it was just an Allstars showdown, and a victory there, albeit a good one, can only be weighed so much. Though Bisu played really well in WCG last month, he doesn't move up a notch here because he did so in September - he's here at #3 because Fantasy's play that was dropping towards the end of August continued on its downward path in September.
4.	Fantasy (T) (stats)	-2	1	As I just mentioned above, the end of August was not kind to this Terran, and September, as it turns out was no better. With no real games being played this month though, Jung Myung Hoon manages to drop down just two notches and balance precariously at #4. Though his Protoss compatriot didn't have such a hot month either, Bisu's play was at least marginally above him during the last thirty days, and let's not even argue about Calm - Fantasy drops down the rank this month because the PL finals are now a distant memory, and there hasn't been much going for our hero since then.
5.	Flash (T) (stats)	0	1	Although Flash lost to Sea earlier on this month, in the last week of September he salvaged the situation by nuking himself. Seriously though, the current GOM champion is more than deserving of a #5 spot, and not because of his really fun play against Savior in Allstars. If there were any games worth watching this month, Flash would most certainly have been at top form. Despite a WCG loss, and that to none less than Bisu, the Little Monster stomped through GOM in the last serious games he had, and there is no reason to believe that his form at present deserves anything less than #5.
6.	Iris[gm] (T) (stats)	0	2	The Berseker does not move this month, and understandably so - he played zero games. As CJ heads into R1 of Proleague though, you can be sure that he's going to have some heavy lifting to do. His individual league performance last season was solid, and even though he didn't walk away with any titles, making the Ro4 in both of them, and taking a fantastic five game series off Bisu in the process nets him a place on this PR as it did on the last.
7.	Stork[gm] (P) (stats)	+1	1	With results being a moot point this month, it's needless to say that play itself was weighed more heavily in this PR, and by that measure Stork certainly climbs a notch up. Although he did lose to Leta on Outsider in the first week of September, his jawdropping Goon-Shuttle micro in his Allstars encounter vs Fantasy is more than deserving of a slightly inflated rank. Beautifully executing a modified Bulldog build, Dinotoss completely neutralised the SKT T1 Terran's harassment heavy play and brought smiles to the faces of Protoss players everywhere. For leading Starcraft's R&D Department this month, Stork manages to move up a rank on which others have remained largely stationary.
8.	Kwanro[saM] (Z) (stats)	-1	7	Kwanro is the kind of Zerg you love to watch play. Uber aggressive, and always keeping his opponents guessing, when this pocket rocket delivers, he does so in style. Despite getting stomped by Calm in the MSL finals, the CJ Zerg made last month's PR, and he remains on this month's list, though moving a slot down thanks to a very solid looking Stork.
9.	Effort (Z) (stats)	+1	1	Like Iris, Effort has played no games this month. He moves up the rank by one then not by his doing, but via the undoing of Yarnc. Kim Jung Woo has not been at his best lately, and following his PL and WCG losses in August I wouldn't dare push him up further than this. The fact remains however that he doesn't deserve to go any lower either. In the recent past he led CJ through a good playoff run, and despite a disappointing performance in GOM wrestled 3rd place from July, and well, the truth is he's done nothing in September that negates any of that. Effort stays.
10.	YellOw[ArnC] (Z) (stats)	-1	7	So Yarnc did tear through his MST qualifier, but to be fair he did so beating the likes of Wrath, foru and ggaemo. Even if we were to weigh these games at all, his performance during the rest of September is average at best, with five losses in a row during eval and map testing games, and his one win coming courtesy of none other than failbathero. He drops down to ten this month, and at present it doesn't look at all like he'll be around the next time I write these up.

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riptide Administrator October 01 2009 00:20.

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There will be no CBNC this month due to a lack of games that mattered.

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AzureEye United States. October 01 2009 00:37. Posts 1360

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Awesome PR. I totally agree!!

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okum Austria. October 01 2009 00:40. Posts 5699

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Given the material available to work with, this PR is wholly respectable.

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SuperArc Austria. October 01 2009 00:55. Posts 7781

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this PR turned out to be way better than I expected :o

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Musoeun United States. October 01 2009 01:18. Posts 4324

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This looks like basically riptide's version of the August PR. And I'm a fan, especially with Calm at #2.

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ghostWriter United States. October 01 2009 01:35. Posts 3302

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Decent pr. It was a pretty good writeup, considering what you had to work with.

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tree.hugger Saint Paul, MN. October 01 2009 01:37. Posts 8952

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I mean, maybe this PR should've just been a predictive PR, aka what players we see doing best next season. There's really no point in ranking players after an all-star game and a few random test matches.

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Orbifold United States. October 01 2009 01:54. Posts 1922

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Least controversial PR ever.

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Scorch Austria. October 01 2009 04:33. Posts 2937

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On October 01 2009 01:54 Orbifold wrote:
Least controversial PR ever.

Indeed. When's the next come?

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3clipse Canada. October 01 2009 05:52. Posts 2541

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Good rank. Although very little changed, the few upward movers are some of my favorite players, so you have my horribly biased support, riptide.

Severedevil United States. October 01 2009 06:53. Posts 4498

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Mmm, Stork recognition.

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LunarDestiny United States. October 01 2009 07:15. Posts 4160

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Can't argue since not much games are play...

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Hinanawi United States. October 01 2009 07:32. Posts 2250

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Pretty damn boring month. It can't be helped considering almost no games were played, though.

All eyes on Calm for next month's PR. It'll be interesting to see if he's the real deal or just another Effort who posts good stats for a while and then tanks in a spectacular fashion.

I also have to cheer for Stork this coming month, he's got that "Pffffaw I just don't give a fuck" attitude that makes interviews with him so hilarious, and yet he's dismantling the likes of Fantasy. Bisu's better than Stork, but Stork is just more fun to watch. Especially when he runs into a thousand mines and still wins, you can hear the Terran player screaming.

Actually, is it just me or is PvT starting to look pretty scary for Terran again? Fantasy and Flash both got their asses kicked by the Protoss flagbearers (although Flash made it close, but compare that to Flash's old play where his goliaths made every Protoss player cry themselves to sleep and have nightmares).

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skronch United States. October 01 2009 08:12. Posts 2717

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On October 01 2009 01:54 Orbifold wrote:
Least controversial PR ever.

you mean least consequential PR ever

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j/k, i was looking forward to it anyways haha

hyst.eric.al United States. October 01 2009 08:15. Posts 2332

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On October 01 2009 08:12 skronch wrote:

Show nested quote +

you mean least consequential PR ever

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j/k, i was looking forward to it anyways haha

couldnt have said it better myself.

and boo boring september aside from the all-stars, i look forward to fbh peaking at number 1 next month.

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iamho October 01 2009 08:18. Posts 2455

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Jaedong's new profile pic makes him look like hyuk

Archaic United States. October 01 2009 09:19. Posts 4023

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On October 01 2009 01:35 ghostWriter wrote:
Decent pr. It was a pretty good writeup, considering what you had to work with.

This is pretty much all I have to say... Not the best, but not the best content either, so it was pretty good for the little content that you had to write on.

3clipse Canada. October 01 2009 09:39. Posts 2541

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On October 01 2009 07:32 Hinanawi wrote:
All eyes on Calm for next month's PR. It'll be interesting to see if he's the real deal or just another Effort who posts good stats for a while and then tanks in a spectacular fashion.

Effort can't be used as a measuring stick for Calm at all at this point. Maybe it's only recently that he's become universally recognized, but Calm's been posting solid results for the past year. It remains to be seen if he can keep up in the S-Class, but he's nowhere near as volatile as Effort.

mptj United States. October 01 2009 10:08. Posts 446

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Couldn't agree more!

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Hot_Bid Administrator October 01 2009 10:48.

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This ranking is completely filled with opinionated, ridiculous bullshit from a dude who clearly just coinflipped randomly to determine placement. Learn to watch games and analyze results without being a giant biased idiot fanboy please.

Jaedong at #1? Calm and Bisu in the Top 3?? Lack of GosI[Flying] from the Top 10!?!?

Seriously!??!

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