Please tell ur friends, state ur opinion in this thread, rate the blog and go on reddit:
http://www.reddit.com/r/starcraft/comments/1kp8mu/top_30_foreigner_ranking_august_2013/
About me and the ranking
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Hi TeamLiquid (and reddit),
I'm DiaBoLuS, a german low-mid GM protoss player in HotS (3x HotS / 5x WoL). I play sc2 since the release of the beta and I watch a shitton of professional SC2 – basically all major tournaments, many online cups and ladderstreams as well. Also, im obsessed with rankings!
Therefore, i post a foreigner rankings for about a year now, and i plan to keep posting rankings on a monthly basis in the future. When i talk about „Foreigners“, i exclude non-korean asian players (chinese, taiwanese), simply because I dont see enough of those scenes to rank them, and they dont participate in your regular major tournaments too often. So you may call it a „Western Foreigner Ranking“ if you so desire.
--> no Jim, no Sen, no Xigua!
How do i make my ranking? Which criteria do i have?
My personal ranking watches mostly on results, but also on how they where achieved. Also, ladder-performances as well as past, major results play a role in my ranking – as well as my general impression of a player (does he seem talented / cheesy / cant seem to show off his full potential somehow). Activity obviously also plays a role – you cant call a player you never get to see one of the absolute best in my opinion.
Ranking system:
roughly
75% = my own rank /// 25% = aligulac.com rank.
both ranks will be shown in the players pictures, comulating in one rank.
So when criticizing the ranking, please talk specifically about my personal rank given, not the comulated rank, since the aligulac rank isnt influenced by me
! little explanation ! :
D: = Diabolus, my own ranking
A: = Aligulac, the aligulac.com ranking
C = Challanger league
P = Premier league
I'm DiaBoLuS, a german low-mid GM protoss player in HotS (3x HotS / 5x WoL). I play sc2 since the release of the beta and I watch a shitton of professional SC2 – basically all major tournaments, many online cups and ladderstreams as well. Also, im obsessed with rankings!
Therefore, i post a foreigner rankings for about a year now, and i plan to keep posting rankings on a monthly basis in the future. When i talk about „Foreigners“, i exclude non-korean asian players (chinese, taiwanese), simply because I dont see enough of those scenes to rank them, and they dont participate in your regular major tournaments too often. So you may call it a „Western Foreigner Ranking“ if you so desire.
--> no Jim, no Sen, no Xigua!
How do i make my ranking? Which criteria do i have?
My personal ranking watches mostly on results, but also on how they where achieved. Also, ladder-performances as well as past, major results play a role in my ranking – as well as my general impression of a player (does he seem talented / cheesy / cant seem to show off his full potential somehow). Activity obviously also plays a role – you cant call a player you never get to see one of the absolute best in my opinion.
Ranking system:
roughly
75% = my own rank /// 25% = aligulac.com rank.
both ranks will be shown in the players pictures, comulating in one rank.
So when criticizing the ranking, please talk specifically about my personal rank given, not the comulated rank, since the aligulac rank isnt influenced by me
! little explanation ! :
D: = Diabolus, my own ranking
A: = Aligulac, the aligulac.com ranking
C = Challanger league
P = Premier league
1. Scarlett
2. NaNiWa
3. Lucifron
4. Snute
5. Happy
6. VortiX
7. TLO
8. Nerchio
9. Grubby
10. Welmu
11. SaSe
12. Kas
13. HasuObs
14. MaNa
15. Dayshi
16. HuK
17. BabyKnight
18. goswser
19. ThorZaiN
20. TitaN
21. Starbuck
22. Bunny
23. mOOnGlaDe
24. Bly
25. ToD
26. sLivko
27. BlinG
28. elfi
29. Suppy
30. DeMusliM
The 20 following players
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March 2012
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September 2012
October 2012
November 2012
December 2012 (1)
December 2012 (2)
January 2013
March 2013
April 2013
May 2013
June 2013
July 2013
Thanks, I hope u had a nice read!
Edit: Will change the font / artwork of the big rank numbers - they are too shiny and you can see signs of the black background surrounding the "+/-" numbers. Maybe ill get to change that tomorrow already.