[GSL ST] ro64 Trivia by Code S Status

Primadog

United States4411 Posts

June 01 2011 08:00 GMT

Recently, there has been a lot of talk about how brutal the GSL Code A is. Implied in these conversation are that there are many talented players in relegated in Code A or lower that can dominate if they scaled the climb into the Code S. The GSL Super Tournament, as the first of its kind, pit together a mesh of 64 Code S, A, and former Code A players, making it the perfect battleground to testing this hypothesis.

Trivia

32 current Code S and 15 current Code A players are participant of the GSL Super Tournament. Nuts is the only player in the current Code S/A lineup that fails to obtain sufficient points to qualify for the GSL ST. Of the 17 players not in either Code currently, 6 were former Code S players. In total, 47 of the 64 players participating are or have been a member of the Code S.
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Original Code S - 10 of 17 remain.
MVP, anypro, Inca, MarineKingPrime, Tester, Hongun, Genius, FruitDealer, Ensnare, MC, Clide, Polt, Nestea, Nada, Kyrix, Zenio, Rain
Promoted to Code S - 10 of 15 remain.
SuperNova, Keen, Violet, July, sC, LosiRa, Byun, HuK, Alicia, Alive, Top Killer, Virus, Bomber, CoCa
Demoted from Code S - 5 of 15 remain.
Lyn, Check, TheWind, jookTo, Boxer, TheBest, san, Rainbow, Hyperdub, Leenock, Maka, LegalMind, Jinro, Choya, Vanvan.
Non-Code S - 7 of 17 remain.
MMA, Yugioh, Ganzi, Squirtle, August, ButterflyEffect, ACE, Ryung, Moon, Revival, Cezanne, JJUN, Junwi, Creator, Min, Noblesse, Line
17 of the current 32 Code S players were part of the original Code S lineup from the beginning of the year (MVP and Rain have dropped briefly into Code A). 7 of these 17 players (whom I label collectively as S - original Code S) exited the tournament in the ro64. As a group, they have a map record of 23 - 20.
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Out in ro64
anypro, Inca, FruitDealer, Ensnare, MC, Zenio, Rain
Advanced to ro32
MVP, MarineKingPrime, Tester, HongUn, Genius, Clide, Polt, Nestea, NaDa, Kyrix
Remaining 15 of the current 32 Code S players are promoted from Code A this year. Only 5 of the 15 players (whom I labeled collectively as P - promoted into Code S) dropped out at ro64. As a group, they have a map record of 23 - 13.
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Out in ro64
July, Losira, Alive, Killer, CoCa
Advanced to ro32
SuperNova, Keen, Violet, sC, Byun, Huk, Alicia, Top, Virus, BomBer
Corresponding to the promoted players, 15 players have been demoted from Code S, including Lyn whom was promoted in January but dropped out this May. 10 members of this group (whom I labeled collectively as D) fell at ro64. As a group, they have a map record of 12 - 22.
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Out in ro64
Lyn, Check, TheWind, Boxer, san, Rainbow, Hyperdub, LegalMind, Jinro, Vanvan
Advanced to ro32
jookTo, TheBest, Leenock, Maka, Choya
17 of the players participating in the Super Tournament never made it into Code S (collectively I label them as A). 10 of them have dropped out of ro64 with a group record of 18 - 21.
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out in ro64
YugiOh, Squirtle, August, ButterflyEffect, Moon, Cezanne, JJUN, Junwi, Creator, Noblesse
Advanced to ro32
MMA, Ganzi, ACE, Ryung, Revival, Min, Line
Of the four classifications of players identified above (Code S, Promoted Code S, Demoted Code S, Non-Code S), the Promoted Code S players performed the best by both numbers advanced and overall map record. On the other hand, non-Code S players suffer the most loses in their ranks, while demoted players had the worse map record.
Promoted Code S players have a winning record against all other classifications. Especially against demoted Code S players, whom they are 5-1 (10-3) against.
A special note about the current Code A players, 9 of which were demoted from Code S. Of this group, none of them made it out of ro64. In contrast, the other 5 Code A players in the Super Tournament have a 3-3 (7-6) record.
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Lyn, Check, TheWind, Boxer, san, Rainbow, Hyperdub, Jinro, Vanvan

Head to Head Chart

Head to Head Data

Code S vs Promoted
(P)

MC 0 - 2

Alicia

Polt 2 - 1 (T)

LosirA

NaDa 2 - 0 (Z)

CoCa

Rain 0 - 2 (T)

Keen
Total: 2-2 (4-5)

Code S vs Demoted
(P)

anypro 1 - 2 (Z)

JookTo

Genius 2 - 1 (T)

BoxeR

Clide 2 - 1 (P)

RainBOw

Kyrix 2 - 0 (P)

Vanvanth

Zenio 1 - 2 (P)

Choya
Total: 3-2 (8-6)

Code S vs Code A
(T)

MVP 2 - 1

Creator

InCa 0 - 2 (T)

Ryung

MarineKingPrime 2 - 0 (P)

Squirtle

TesteR 2 - 0 (Z)

YuGiOh

HongUn 2 - 1 (Z)

Moon

FruitDealer 1 - 2 ACE
(T)

Ensnare 0 - 2 (Z)

RevivaL

NesTea 2 - 1 (T)

Cezanne
Total: 5-3 (11-9)

Promoted vs Demoted
(T)

SuperNoVa 2 - 0 (Z)

Check

Violet 2 - 0 (Z)

TheWinD

sC 2 - 0

Hyperdub

Byun 2 - 1 (P)

LegalMind

HuK 2 - 1

San

aLive 0 - 2 (Z)

Leenock
Total: 5-1 (10-3)

Promoted vs Code A
(Z)

July 1 - 2 (Z)

Min

TOP 2 - 0

August

Virus 2 - 1 (Z)

Junwi
Total: 2-1 (5-3)

Demoted vs Code A
(T)

Lyn 1 - 2

MMA

TheBest 2 - 0 (T)

Jjun

Maka 0 - 0 (T)

Noblesse *
(T)

Jinro 0 - 2 (Z)

Line
* walk-over
Total: 2-2 (3-4)

Same Status
P: (P)

Virus 2 - 1 (Z)

KiLLeR
A: (T)

ButterflyEffect 0 - 2 (T)

GanZi

tkRage

225 Posts

June 01 2011 08:12 GMT

wow what a thread. nice.

Legatus Lanius

2135 Posts

June 01 2011 08:14 GMT

i was wondering what happened to ganzi :O

Primadog

United States4411 Posts

June 01 2011 08:23 GMT

Inferences

Code S players whom advanced through the up-and-down matches perform slightly better than the original Code S players and significantly better than former Code S players. That means as a whole, the Code S skill level have increased.
The current Code S players are performing only slightly better than the non-Code S players. The worst performing group are demoted Code S players whom are still in Code A, so expect them to quickly drop off from GSL all together.
Code A players whom has yet to break into Code S performs surprisingly well, indicating there are certainly talent blocked by the up-and-down system.

Zona

40426 Posts

June 01 2011 14:57 GMT

Yeah, I've always thought that the system really slows down those who are stuck in Code A, out of reach of the more lucrative prizes, but now you've provided some evidence for it.