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Top 30 Foreigner Ranking, August 2013 - Page 2

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LiLSighKoh
Profile Blog Joined October 2010
United States588 Posts
August 20 2013 04:52 GMT
#21
What did HuK do to be higher than someone like goswser? His terms in results, have been not been the best
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Shellshock
Profile Blog Joined March 2011
United States97276 Posts
August 20 2013 05:03 GMT
#22
These are always enjoyable. Thanks!
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ThePlagueJG
Profile Joined May 2013
Sweden1010 Posts
Last Edited: 2013-08-20 05:19:26
August 20 2013 05:14 GMT
#23
Nice list, but It would be coll with some explanations to why the list is like it(mainly for like the 15-30 players since its obvious why the top is the top)

Nr 1 and 2 is almost in a league of their own when they play their A game right now.(Don't take this literally a lot of foreigners a game is friggin good))
ThorZaIN | NaNiwa | SaSe | PartinG | sOs | Jaedong | sOs restored passion!
Fofflan
Profile Joined January 2013
Sweden1 Post
August 20 2013 05:28 GMT
#24
On August 20 2013 13:01 TheDougler wrote:
Show nested quote +
On August 20 2013 12:34 Flench wrote:
Has Scarlett won anything?


When's the last time Naniwa won anything?



Only 2 months ago...
mikkmagro
Profile Joined April 2011
Malta1513 Posts
August 20 2013 05:47 GMT
#25
le ToD!!!
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TheWorldToCome
Profile Joined January 2012
United States452 Posts
August 20 2013 05:53 GMT
#26
TBH Nerchio needs to be higher than TLO.
Starcraft 2 was designed to have a best race. You play the worst one.
Prof
Profile Joined November 2012
Canada60 Posts
August 20 2013 07:14 GMT
#27
On August 20 2013 12:34 Flench wrote:
Has Scarlett won anything?


I've always seen this argument as flawed and I am Naniwa and Scarlett fan.

The simple truth is that Scarlett has never competed in a Dreamhack, Homestory Cup or any other EU tournament. The only tournaments that she has competed in are MLG, IPL and WCS all in NA. If she had competed in multiple EU tournaments I have no doubt that she would have one at least one of them as they are actually easier to win then any of the NA tournaments she has played in. In order to win a EU tournament you usually have to beat at moost 2 or 3 Koreans. In order to win a NA tournament you usually have to go through 5 to 10 Koreans (for instance she would have had to go through 7 Koreans and 1 Chinese player to have won WCS NA). The degree of difficulty needs to be taken into account.
Musicus
Profile Joined August 2011
Germany23576 Posts
August 20 2013 08:05 GMT
#28
This looks very good, I don't think there is a lot I disagree with. Also Nerchio is climbing up again . Thanks Diabolus!
Maru and Serral are probably top 5.
vBr
Profile Joined July 2011
Sweden193 Posts
August 20 2013 08:23 GMT
#29
On August 20 2013 10:02 RiSkysc2 wrote:
suppy and demu are better than 20-30. In terms of results you could say this is accurate, but in terms of actual skill this is very inaccurate.


Demuslim has no business being top30 even, sorry to inform you of the fact that he has yet to win anything whatsoever and only performs adequatly on ladder. Now Suppy on the other hand..
FetusThrower
Profile Joined August 2013
United States50 Posts
August 20 2013 08:34 GMT
#30
That is a lot of zerg. Nice list, mostly agree with it all and I'm sure that if it's entirely based on results, it's accurate as hell. Well done , thanks for posting it.
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Tosster
Profile Joined August 2011
Poland299 Posts
August 20 2013 08:58 GMT
#31
On August 20 2013 12:22 Vindicare605 wrote:
Show nested quote +
On August 20 2013 10:09 Rhaegal wrote:
Scareltt over Naniwa?

that is just insane...

I'm sure this will give Nani a good laugh.


She deserves it.

Sorry, she don't. Maybe it will change after global finals?
Tosster
Profile Joined August 2011
Poland299 Posts
Last Edited: 2013-08-20 09:00:43
August 20 2013 09:00 GMT
#32
ToD and HuK places should be switched.
MiND.GaMeS
Profile Blog Joined August 2012
Germany218 Posts
Last Edited: 2013-08-20 09:19:25
August 20 2013 09:07 GMT
#33
I'm really sry because i thought "okay, he put some time into this. let's give this ranking at least a shot before destroying it with critics". But then i scrolled through it and was highly dissapointed how biased it is towards players that didn't accomplish anything.

In the past a ranking like this would have been way less attackable because you couldn't meassure a players success pointwise but these days things changed and people get points for every round they advance further in WCS. The WCS ranking system is very accurate itself when it comes to seperate good and bad players but i won't go into detail here.

A small example for some players you ranked very doubtfully in my opinion: Snute, Happy, Vortix and Nerchio are all ahead of Grubby when Grubby is the only one who really managed to make some noise in this seasons WCS and will be one of only 3 foreigners, who made it into WCS S2 Finals (the other two are Scarlett and Naniwa)

Not only are these 3 players the only 3 foreigners who made it to the S2-Finals, if look at the overall score, they are very accurately the top 3 foreigners when you actually compare points. Still you name 6 other players before even mentioning grubby which is a joke if you wanna make a good ranking. As said before i still think a ranking like you did is highly unproductive and not very viable because there is already a superior ranking system which is based on points for wins (WCS).

The thing about the WCS standings is: At this moment TLO (2025) is ahead of grubby (1750)... BUT grubby gets 500 points just for making it to the finals, he doesn't even need to win a single game so after next week grubby will be in the top 16 overall (surpassing the retired stephano) with scarlett and naniwa doing the same.

Everything i said is just a small example and i'm even tired of writing this small piece of text but i thought i wanted to give you some feedback on your very strange ranking.
____________

Conclusion: I think it's safe to say that the top 3 foreigners (at this very moment) are Naniwa, Scarlett and Grubby. While Scarlett and Nani are a bit seperated at the top 2, No. 3 (Grubby) is very closely followed by TLO i think.
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StarVe
Profile Joined June 2011
Germany13591 Posts
August 20 2013 09:26 GMT
#34
Just wondering how the math works when HuK is in 17th place in your own ranking and in 20th place in Aligulac and how this adds up to a 16th place in the joint ranking?
Valikyr
Profile Joined June 2010
Sweden2653 Posts
August 20 2013 09:51 GMT
#35
On August 20 2013 17:58 Tosster wrote:
Show nested quote +
On August 20 2013 12:22 Vindicare605 wrote:
On August 20 2013 10:09 Rhaegal wrote:
Scareltt over Naniwa?

that is just insane...

I'm sure this will give Nani a good laugh.


She deserves it.

Sorry, she don't. Maybe it will change after global finals?

Scarlett should be on a solid 2nd but Naniwa is the number 1 foreigner right now. Only way to argue about that would be if you only looked at the last WCS season and then Grubby should be tied with Scarlett.
PerryHooter
Profile Joined September 2012
Sweden268 Posts
August 20 2013 09:56 GMT
#36
It should either say "westerner" instead of "foreigner", or jim and macsed should be pretty high up there if not at the top.
"The fundamental cause of trouble in the world today is that the stupid are cocksure while the intelligent are full of doubt"
ErrantKnight
Profile Joined November 2012
Switzerland186 Posts
August 20 2013 10:45 GMT
#37
EmpireHappy ! He will be number 1 !
"Quantity is quality by itself"
Adonminus
Profile Joined January 2012
Israel543 Posts
August 20 2013 11:02 GMT
#38
Seems fine except I think that:

Goswser and Titan are underrated, Sase and Mana are overrated in that list.
Niejadek
Profile Joined May 2012
United States13 Posts
August 20 2013 11:24 GMT
#39
No Tefel instead of Mana ? Cmon
KalWarkov
Profile Blog Joined December 2011
Germany4126 Posts
August 20 2013 11:52 GMT
#40
On August 20 2013 18:56 PerryHooter wrote:
It should either say "westerner" instead of "foreigner", or jim and macsed should be pretty high up there if not at the top.


hm i should probably do that for the next month. confusion every time^^


thanks for all the positive feedback.
Yes, it remains to be the opinion of one community member for the most part, I'm just having fun doing those and i happen to get a lot of response on them.
There are no "correct" rankings out there (not even aligulac - just look at iaguz this month (rank13 foreigner - no offense to him but NO)) and there probably never will be, so i keep doing those^^

If there is anyone out there with enough knowledge, time and passion to do his own ranking on a monthly basis and share it with me before my post, i would be pretty happy, but there doenst seem to be anyone willing to do that (you would have to do a ranking for the first 70 players and send it to me within the first 2 weeks of the month every time).
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