It's a good writeup from what I read but in all honesty, what's the point of a power rank when the last one was about a month back with not much tournaments to go on? Like, there were the LoveTV supermatches but it's not much to jumble up the power rank quite a bit.

Personally, I feel this power rank would've made a bigger impact had it been after SSL10 or LoveTV S3. Might also reduce the criticism of Bisu not being there and other players making the rank when they shouldn't be there (depends on what someone thinks).

Thyrym

89 Posts

November 02 2014 18:07 GMT

#22

Shuttle will play better in the coming months!! i can feel it!, and Movie is playing really well!!

Both deserve the spots!!

L_Master

United States8017 Posts

November 02 2014 18:42 GMT

#23

Haha so much ZerO and Jaehoon hate.

BisuDagger

Bisutopia19268 Posts

November 02 2014 23:25 GMT

#24

On November 02 2014 14:21 Probemicro wrote:
i like how OP and a few others just conveniently harp on Bisu's losses, omitting the 30/10 series where he beat killer (which was not posted on recommended snipealot thread).

a few losses here and there does not make bisu drop out of top 10 all of a sudden, when he still consistently laughs over lesser opponents which other expros actually sometimes struggle to barely beat. not to mention the people that beat him (killer, piano) are very good players on their day that can take games sometimes, they are not complete underdogs that seem to make people think "omg bisu loses to them bisu is trash XDDD".

sometimes i think people are just pissed he spends more time doing other stuff for too long on stream then actually playing.

then you have a certain terran on the top 10 that does not even stream or appear for close to a half of the month and yet still makes it to top 10, just wow. and not that i hate him. but from seeing his stream his play does show actual deterioration.

Bisu is not considered because he is no longer competing in sonic or lovetv matches. He will be added if he decides to compete again.

Iplaythings

Denmark9110 Posts

November 03 2014 08:30 GMT

#25

Man I do appreciate the highlight games youre listing under it and Piano's writeup was hillarious, so was the VOD.

Soo good to have a PR <3

Stratos

Czech Republic6104 Posts

November 03 2014 12:07 GMT

#26

Awesome write up. I'm a Biggerfan of monthly writeups like this, we get to see how the players gain and lose momentum before the major leagues. I think I prefer this "monthly" restricted rating over the classic default top 5-7. I am also happy to see I'm not the only one deeply troubled by PianO's tlpd pic, see http://www.teamliquid.net/forum/bw-tournaments/439582-lovetv-ro16-group-c ^^

anyway with Snow I don't get the scout hate. It's pretty much been Bisu's trademark afreeca unit for him and it worked well :p

HyralGambit

2439 Posts

November 04 2014 03:06 GMT

#27

On November 03 2014 21:07 Stratos wrote:
Awesome write up. I'm a Biggerfan of monthly writeups like this, we get to see how the players gain and lose momentum before the major leagues. I think I prefer this "monthly" restricted rating over the classic default top 5-7. I am also happy to see I'm not the only one deeply troubled by PianO's tlpd pic, see http://www.teamliquid.net/forum/bw-tournaments/439582-lovetv-ro16-group-c ^^

anyway with Snow I don't get the scout hate. It's pretty much been Bisu's trademark afreeca unit for him and it worked well :p

Yeah, but to Bigfan's point, if a Ro32 LSL or SSL doesn't end exactly at the end of a month, I will delay the power rank by a week if I have to if some players still need to play. But I won't delay the time between each power rank by more than 2 months.

Yeah, I'm adding more stuff to the power rank than just player x is doing well + vague description. I'm putting some games that people would like to see players in action or epic games of the month type of deal. Plus shedding on player's personality and uniqueness is also another goal

edit: oh and for those saying Killer should be #1, it's possible, the 2 Hwaseung Oz players Killer and HiyA are really close I think. We'll see in November

Mirabel_

United States1768 Posts

November 04 2014 04:59 GMT

#28

This would make the old PR writers proud. Back in the day the BW PR was the highlight of the month for me but HyralGambit has kept it up to date in more ways than one.

HyralGambit

2439 Posts

November 04 2014 23:41 GMT

#29

Killer vs Mong is tomorrow, if Killer crushes Mong convincingly, I definitely expect Killer as #1 next PR.

Snow and Movie are actually a lot closer than I thought. Check out the Small VODs thread if you want to see Snow vs Mind played this Monday. Snow has better PvT than Movie but Movie has better PvZ I think. Both are definitely I league above Shittle.

I think Jaehoon will beat sSak this week and let's see if hero can redeem himself

BigFan

TLADT24920 Posts

November 05 2014 03:49 GMT

#30

LOL sorry, no such thing as biggerfan. Can only be bigfan or just a fan

Agree on awesome writeup part.

HyralGambit

2439 Posts

November 09 2014 23:25 GMT

#31

Okay, so the most recent LoveTV "finals" involved hero vs sSak and hero vs HiyA (don't ask me how this makes sense to LoveTV). sSak 3-1 hero and HiyA 3-1 hero (and HiyA got 1k balloons).

Now it's true hero 3-0 Ample is some very impressive games. But on the other hand, it's Ample. Honestly, TvZ being sSak's best match-up (aka the match-up he doesn't ssuk at), hero is dying

The #2 Zerg Spot is open to anyone for the taking and Larva vs free is coming on Nov 12th.

Snow has been rocking in PvT, very dominant play. Snow/Movie along with Killer for Zerg are leagues above everyone else at this point and expect them 3 to be in top5 for next month.

HiyA is for sure above Mind/PianO due to sheer consistency. I'm not convinced sSak is back or not, we'll have to see his TvT and TvP.