DH: Stockholm - Power Rank! - Page 7

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GumBa

United Kingdom31935 Posts

April 26 2013 11:09 GMT

#121

Poltimus fighting!!

ArcadeR

Germany199 Posts

April 26 2013 11:12 GMT

#122

At some point DH should raise the prize money (a little bit).... I know DH is not all about the money but srsly: 3 enormous group stages, 32-ish-playoffs...should be at least a bit more for the top4 finisher.

mjuuy

Norway506 Posts

April 26 2013 11:41 GMT

#123

#7: kr (T)Mill.ForGG

He's more like 20-30 >_< yarr.

pms

Poland611 Posts

April 26 2013 11:47 GMT

#124

It looks to me that Stephano is burning out because of his easy-going attitude and soulless focus on money. He already mentioned once, that he will retire if his earnings won't be above certain annual threshold. I guess it could be predicted that he will retire.

nunez

Norway4003 Posts

April 26 2013 12:02 GMT

#125

gumiho and leenock the two best, maybe some koreans under them and then just a smooth blob of players below that.

Chloroplaste

France281 Posts

April 26 2013 12:09 GMT

#126

Good article and PowerRank as always.
But I really don't see JYP in top 15-20 of this. Not a single chance to see him at 6 position for me.

oneill12

Romania1222 Posts

April 26 2013 12:28 GMT

#127

GO LIQUID!

Shellshock

United States97276 Posts

April 26 2013 12:37 GMT

#128

just hoping for any combo of Gumiho, Polt, and Leenock in the finals

FueledUpAndReadyToGo

Netherlands30548 Posts

April 26 2013 13:18 GMT

#129

No Grubby line? Impossible. Fake power rank.

Oreo7

United States1647 Posts

April 26 2013 14:12 GMT

#130

Isn't grubby attending...?

tili

United States1332 Posts

April 26 2013 14:42 GMT

#131

On April 26 2013 17:58 StarGalaxy wrote:
Damn you for succeeding in offending me by not including TLO!

This. Perhaps BabyKnight too, I think they both have a good shot of taking out a korean or 2.

Otherwise, I am ridiculously excited to see jaedong go further than expected and see where stephano is at in general.

<3

bennyaus

Australia1833 Posts

April 26 2013 15:12 GMT

#132

On April 26 2013 13:42 AxionSteel wrote:

Show nested quote +

On April 26 2013 12:37 bennyaus wrote:

On April 26 2013 12:12 diophan wrote:

On April 26 2013 11:04 bennyaus wrote:
In achieving Code S via up and down groups, HuK has more results than half of these players who don't play in Korea (and are therefore not subject to the same level of competition).
What am I missing?

Results from a year ago aren't particularly relevant to a HotS powerranking.

If you remove WoL games then most of the power rankings don't make sense. You can't base power rankings off of a single qualifier or tournament, etc. Only Koreans have enough tournament games played in HotS to really categorise them decently...

To be fair I have been out of the scene, but I am not really sure what Naniwa (for example) has really done in the last year, and he is still referred to as an ex-GSL quarterfinalist, which is about as relevant as calling HuK an ex-GSL quarterfinalist... (which he is I think?)

#16: Definitely-not-EG.NaNiwa

One could argue that Naniwa is one of few foreigners with the experience, work ethic and raw talent necessary to take the fight to the Koreans this weekend. One could argue that despite a nearly empty match record in HotS, we should put our faith in NaNiwa, and believe that he has been practicing hard (even being sighted in Korea) to put the dispute over the Swedish throne to rest once and for all. Whatever the case, we're taking a leap of faith by putting NaNiwa up here as the highest ranked Swede of the tournament. With names like Gumiho, Polt, Leenock and Oz in attendance, the former GSL quarterfinalist has his work cut out for him. This is his time, more than ever before, to prove to everyone that he, and he alone, is the greatest Swedish Starcraft II player of all time, and we believe that he realizes this as well.

I like Naniwa, I have no problems with this, but if you're going to let him slip by with nothing in HotS then the same rules should apply to people like HuK, Grubby, etc., who aren't even on the notable players list? This is actually a completely irrelevant power ranking beyond top 5.

Your sig states you're a HuK fan, and you also have stated you've been out of touch with the scene, so obviously you're biased and also out of touch with what has happened of late.

Everytime we've seen HuK play lately he hasn't just looked like a foreigner, he's looked like a low-mid tier foreigner. There is absolutely no way he should even be in the honourable mentions, let alone the power ranking. Grubby on the other hand, should be an honourable mention for sure. Naniwa is a gamble, but a reasonable one given how he's always looked like one of the strongest foreigners in the last year.

Hey dude. I know everyone thinks HuK is bad, but his results are still worthy of a notable mention (even recent results.. qualification via KR for IPL6 + up and downs). Secondly, everybody except 1 or 2 players look bad playing against Koreans and HuK doesn't have team leagues against foreigners or random EU tournaments to make him look good like half of these players. Thirdly, 4-0. It is almost an anti-bias.

spoonmaster

United States347 Posts

April 26 2013 15:47 GMT

#133

A shame there's no Grubby line this time around.

Go Polt and Mana!

Corsica

Ukraine1854 Posts

April 26 2013 16:13 GMT

#134

Well, White-ra just beat 2nd best player in DH according to you.

Zealously

East Gorteau22261 Posts

April 26 2013 16:28 GMT

#135

On April 27 2013 01:13 Corsica wrote:
Well, White-ra just beat 2nd best player in DH according to you.

Where would you rank White-Ra then?

ACrow

Germany6583 Posts

April 26 2013 17:33 GMT

#136

Hm, after I saw Polt ranked as #1 I immediately checked to see if Fionn was involved in writing this. I was not surprised to find out that he was

Good write up as usual!

trada

Germany347 Posts

April 26 2013 17:46 GMT

#137

a threeway tie between Strelok Lucifron and YuGiOh. Direct comparison cant be applied and they have exactly even mapscores and they all defeated the 4th player in their group with a 2:0. I'm curious as to how they are going to solve that.