As an MC fanboy, I think the Power Rank undersells him on account of his play at MLG Columbus, in which he only got to play 1 series of PvZ, and played a lot of PvT series' (look at the winrates for that nowadays - the only Protoss who looks good against Code S Terrans in PvT is Parting, and his series against MKP gave him the most P favoured map there is). He was also barely knocked out in PvP (you know, fuck PvP and all that jazz).

The reason why Parting is being put higher up is because people rarely see Parting's PvZ compared to MC's. It is abysmal for a contender to the Protoss throne. He got stomped by DRG in 2 series, and defeated him in 1 when the Zerg King was also playing pretty poorly.

As for MC? His internation PvZ winrate is so good, winning a Bo5 series 3-1 makes his winrate worse. That's ridiculous. In Korea, MC has only recently played against DRG (a close 3-2 in BlizzCup, in which MC lost after making Carriers on a Protoss favoured map when 2-1 up) and Leenock directly after returning from winning HSC and not sleeping for hours. He still beat him 2-1, and looked fantastic when defending the proxy hatchery cheese. I believe that MC has by far the best PvZ in the world, seeing as Genius has struggled against the likes of BB2 and Curious (no longer good at ZvP) after his miraculous run to the GSL finals.

Clafou

Belgium921 Posts

April 05 2012 22:42 GMT

#123

"It doesn't really matter where we put HuK, because he's just going to steal our laptop at IPL4, login on our accounts, and place himself at #1 through #20. Anyway, can he really even argue with this positioning? Everyone else ahead of him is in Code S, or has better hair."

Loved this! :D

For those of you who didn't view the interview of HuK by trollbid at the last MLG (HuK comments the power rank) :

GleaM

United States207 Posts

April 05 2012 22:44 GMT

#124

Hmm huk at 17? Seems a little short-sold considering his MLG finish

FrodoAndTheSlobStix

United States158 Posts

April 05 2012 22:45 GMT

#125

The biased in this writing is just getting weird. I know many teamliquid staff write and it's a good , if not beautiful place for a writer to start. But the illlegtimacy of the writing. I mean there's just so many spots that have no conclusion to as why they should be there, besides personal hope or bias from the writer. And some that are misplaced , at least are explained why and the reasoning. But the biased is just unexcuasble as a writer and a web site.

Really just 100% misplaces. Few but true.

Hall0wed

United States8486 Posts

April 05 2012 22:47 GMT

#126

No Squirtle, and HuK not at #1 foreigner. =/

MKP at #1 is right though, but that was kinda easy. =P

Azuroz

Sweden1630 Posts

April 05 2012 22:48 GMT

#127

I almost love these pieces more than the tournament itself sometimes, such a beautiful work of written art, keep up the quality TL!
However with 40 high level korean players, there are bound to be people with differing opinions in terms of ranking, but i think it's relatively fair, the only real complaint would be putting leenock lower or completely replacing him with creator, he has been such an impressive player lately.

Perchloric

Brazil163 Posts

April 05 2012 22:49 GMT

#128

Very well written, expecialy the Nestea/MVP part. I hope then both to meet at the finals.

deathabene

Denmark83 Posts

April 05 2012 22:50 GMT

#129

bomber to take the thing just saying

even tho i know its gonna take alot from him

bundo

Canada113 Posts

April 05 2012 22:51 GMT

#130

man if marineking wins that would be pretty huge!!!

JJH777

United States4378 Posts

April 05 2012 22:55 GMT

#131

If the IEM World Championship was MC at his best, then the MLG Winter Championship was MC at his most mediocre

Or you know the far more likely and more reasonable:
The players at MLG were better than the ones at IEM.

It was the same thing with Hero winning Dreamhack. The players at Dreamhack were worse than the ones at places like GSL and MLG where Hero consistently failed until recently.

xUnSeEnx

United States183 Posts

April 05 2012 22:55 GMT

#132

How the hell is Puma ranked higher than Taeja, wtf ever these rankings are garbage

Plus Huk under Parting is a joke. Huk has beaten Parting a lot.

I feel like with these rankings someone is playing a late April Fools joke, lol.

Coal

Sweden1535 Posts

April 05 2012 22:55 GMT

#133

Man the comment about Huk is hilarious ^_ ^ Can't wait !: )

Romitelli

Brunei Darussalam566 Posts

April 05 2012 22:55 GMT

#134

DRG out of the top 20? oO

Aosi

Canada43 Posts

April 05 2012 22:58 GMT

#135

And so the war between Huk and nameless Team Liquid Esports writter begins....

DJHelium

Sweden13480 Posts

April 05 2012 22:59 GMT

#136

I like that you dare put Jjakji at #3. He seems really underrated, and could easily win the tourney. His TvT is not the best in the world, but it is not like he is below 50/50 against players like MKP and aLive.

Also, the Parting part (heh) is spot on, he probably is the best toss right now, even though he is not dominating.

Azuroz

Sweden1630 Posts

April 05 2012 22:59 GMT

#137

On April 06 2012 07:55 Romitelli wrote:
DRG out of the top 20? oO

He canceled his participation in the tournament.

Vapaach

Finland994 Posts

April 05 2012 23:00 GMT

#138

Puma at 14 = insanity

Puma should lose to pretty much every korean in the tournament, and some foreigners as well. There is no way he should be that high.

Nice power rank besides that though ^^

hersenen

Belize176 Posts

April 05 2012 23:00 GMT

#139

MKPs TvT isn't that great (55% win rate), how do you honestly see him going far into the tourney with so many terrans when his TvT is so weak compared to other top terrans there?

I'm calling it right now that he's not going to make it that far at all.

Also lol @ all the fools who underestimate puma.

RayOfTheVoid

Norway95 Posts

April 05 2012 23:00 GMT

#140

Gogo MarineKing, Maru and HuK!!!