Power Rank Discussion Thread - Page 39

On March 26 2012 11:59 Caladbolg wrote:
Now 6... no disrespect to Jaedong, one of my favorite players, but winning vs Soulkey and losing vs Leta (and winning over a bunch of scrubs) in the past 2 months does not, a number 6 ranking make. In the normal course of things, maybe. If T8 still had a playoff chance and were playing serious opponents, sure. But in the context of things, it was simply too little too late. Jaedong mostly carried T8 this season but he's been extremely mediocre vs really good players, especially Terran. I mean, in his game vs Leta... (at around 9:05 of the VOD), 6 Hydras and 2 lings + Overlord get owned by 3 vultures, one nearly dead at that... I'm not sure that's an impressive show of skill. Not even on Leta's part. JD just walking into those mines like he was ggaemo. He wasn't even expanding behind that or anything. And then the mutas vs goliaths.

On March 29 2012 01:20 Nesto wrote:


Are you sure you are not placing a bit too much emphasis on that Leta game? yeah that move was not a great show of skill. On the other hand, the first spider mine took 4 hydra hits before it exploded (high ground ftw..).

He is still 6-1 in this past 2 months, including a lot of cool games, the spore block against modesty was nothing short of amazing, the game against SK was an awesome comeback. Also, in every single ZvZ he had to fight back from a BO disadvantage (hell, I can't even remember when he had a BO win the last time). Saying all his opponents were just "scrubs" seems a bit unfair.

Also I don't think I want to live in a world where a 6-1 record doesn't even qualify you for top 6 in PR

On March 31 2012 23:55 Mortality wrote:
So many upsets in the offline prelims. I don't know where to start.

On March 31 2012 23:59 HopLight wrote:


I'd start with Bisu.

On April 01 2012 03:12 ]343[ wrote:
YAYYY SIDEBAR