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Hahaha so funny. When JWD said that the new PR writer is going to be an amazing writer, I was thinking riptide. Then, still before seeing your name, after I read this sentence:
"While beginning the month with two wins against his nemesis EffOrt, Jaedong also lost to Orion in the same semi final, and then went on to get stomped by a SKT led by frontman Fantasy in the Proleague Grand Finals, letting down his team, and as his fans would say, himself."
I was 100% certain it was riptide =D No one writes in the same way.
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Good rank. I'd probably put Yarnc over Stork because a WCG silver < OSL Silver, and Yarnc only got stopped by the best MU in history, even if it was embarrassing.
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On September 01 2009 01:50 vaMpYr wrote:Show nested quote +On September 01 2009 00:51 luckybeni2 wrote: I can agree with you putting JD number one although he was far from dominant but fantasy as number 2? You cant possibly put someone there who has lost 6 of his last 10 games( two of his wins were against an amateur. He got kicked out of every league pretty badly so all you can say for his defense is his PL finals but that was it. He is more of a number five at highest. I'm ok with the rest just that hyuk deserved the 10 far more than effort (he won against July 3-1 not 3-0) and his 5-6 record this month. I mean seriously he beat far stronger players, has more wins and not a single loss. good post =) . hyuk instead of effort is a really good question , the STX masters finals really impressed me . but to comment this PR , fantasy #2 is NOT possible . he lost too many games in a pathetic way . the PL finals is not everything . bisu deserve EASILY the #2 spot , watch his games against luxury stork and flash and even perfectman . he is REALLY SCARY . bisu is the ONLY ONE who can be compare to jaedong , he is the ONLY ONE who can give a game to jaedong without let him being the favourite . the WCG will be maybe the best EVER . i miss androide =( . iris above kwanro is not possible too . kwanro played really well this month killed iris and zero . last month he RAPED flash , he deserve more than iris . iris 3 2 vs bisu is his ONLY performance this month . he got RAPED by flash and perfectman , he does NOT deserve more than the #9 spot . 1. jaedong 2. bisu 3. calm 4. fantasy 5. flash or kwanro 6. kwanro or flash 7. yarnc or stork 8. stork or yarnc 9. iris 10. effort or hyuk THIS IS THE GOOD PR . IM THE MASTER OF HUMANS . JUST DONT SPEAK AND FOLLOW MY WAY . ^^ joking :p
For someone who claims to hate Bisu and not mind Fantasy, you sure do put down the latter and talk up a storm about how awesome the former is.
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Should've been Bisu at #2, I think. Sure, Proleague matters, but Bisu has had a far more impressive month than Fantasy. Besides, Bisu did his job in the Proleague finals too, even though he wasn't given the opportunity to show off. And arguably, winning WCG Korea -- given the opponents -- is at least as good as defeating Kwanro in a ZvZ in my book.
Maybe also Calm above Fantasy, not sure about that.
At least all 10 people on the rank deserve to be there, and all are *roughly* in the right spots, so not much to complain about overall.
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United States47024 Posts
Good rank.
Like some others, I would probably have done Jaedong/Calm/Bisu/Fantasy, but I can see how your rank works out, both because PL/MSL Quarters feel longer ago than they actually were, and because Calm has had the lucky break of only needing to practice one matchup.
Also, good to see the CBNC mention of Hyuk.
I wonder how next month will play out given that we have such a dry month coming up.
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On September 01 2009 02:22 TheYango wrote: I wonder how next month will play out given that we have such a dry month coming up. The horror -_-
I suggest TL members join forces to sponsor a September Tournament where the existing PR top 10 can duke it out solely to decide their respective positions on the next rank.
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Riptide, I like your writing style a lot. Great rank!
Oh, and good luck at law school JWD!
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Ahw, awesome Riptide, nice "virgin" PR, I think you will do it just fine.
Even though I'd place Hyuk instead of Effort (Yeah I know, Blizzcon is a tourny but it's SC BW PR is about, not SC2, sorry to say it, but thats either a bit CJ biased of forgetting the other thing).
Edit; Kwanro needs a pokemon nickname.
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Great rank. No "not even close" section? (I'll admit I can't think of who to put in it except for type-b)
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good first rank, though I think this was a pretty straightforward one to do. I'm excited to see what you'll have for us next month when there might be some harder spots to nail down.
for what it's woth, I don't mind the CBNC format, but I think the player names should at least be linked to their TLPD pages.
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I really don't like Fantasy at #2- I'd have placed him at #4 or #5. When you have two Starleague winners, they really both deserve either 1st and 2nd place, barring extraordinary circumstances. Lets see, Jaedong is still Jaedong (despite some blunders resulting from FA stress), and he made the semi's of the MSL. No problem there. Calm not only won the MSL, but 3-1'd the greatest ZvZer in SC history and front-runner for #1. I think a player would have had to have had a flawless month break up the top 2, and Fantasy certianly did not, losing as many games vs big names as he won. He was certainly the centerpiece of T1 during their victorious PL finals, but he never had a chance to impress with a big bo5. Oh wait, he did. And he lost. I guess we could always use the standard "oh come on, it's Jaedong" excuse. Calm didn't have to.
That said, I like the rest of the rank and your writing.
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United States47024 Posts
On September 01 2009 03:39 3clipse wrote: I really don't like Fantasy at #2- I'd have placed him at #4 or #5. When you have two Starleague winners, they really both deserve either 1st and 2nd place, barring extraordinary circumstances. Lets see, Jaedong is still Jaedong (despite some blunders resulting from FA stress), and he made the semi's of the MSL. No problem there. Calm not only won the MSL, but 3-1'd the greatest ZvZer in SC history and front-runner for #1. I think a player would have had to have had a flawless month break up the top 2, and Fantasy certianly did not, losing as many games vs big names as he won. He was certainly the centerpiece of T1 during their victorious PL finals, but he never had a chance to impress with a big bo5. Oh wait, he did. And he lost. I guess we could always use the standard "oh come on, it's Jaedong" excuse. Calm didn't have to.
That said, I like the rest of the rank and your writing. IMO the thing that keeps Calm from the #2 or #1 spot is that he only had to play one matchup all month (ok, he played one non ZvZ match, but that's ZvBest; no A-class Zerg needs to practice that), where every other contender for that spot had to play all their matchups. While I'm not trying to take away from his achievement, I still don't think I'd put my money on him in a Bo5 against Jaedong or Bisu (Fantasy is a bit harder to judge; I don't 100% agree with him at #2, but at the same time, I'm not sure Calm deserves #2 off 1 matchup).
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On September 01 2009 03:55 TheYango wrote:Show nested quote +On September 01 2009 03:39 3clipse wrote: I really don't like Fantasy at #2- I'd have placed him at #4 or #5. When you have two Starleague winners, they really both deserve either 1st and 2nd place, barring extraordinary circumstances. Lets see, Jaedong is still Jaedong (despite some blunders resulting from FA stress), and he made the semi's of the MSL. No problem there. Calm not only won the MSL, but 3-1'd the greatest ZvZer in SC history and front-runner for #1. I think a player would have had to have had a flawless month break up the top 2, and Fantasy certianly did not, losing as many games vs big names as he won. He was certainly the centerpiece of T1 during their victorious PL finals, but he never had a chance to impress with a big bo5. Oh wait, he did. And he lost. I guess we could always use the standard "oh come on, it's Jaedong" excuse. Calm didn't have to.
That said, I like the rest of the rank and your writing. IMO the thing that keeps Calm from the #2 or #1 spot is that he only had to play one matchup all month (ok, he played one non ZvZ match, but that's ZvBest; no A-class Zerg needs to practice that), where every other contender for that spot had to play all their matchups. While I'm not trying to take away from his achievement, I still don't think I'd put my money on him in a Bo5 against Jaedong or Bisu (Fantasy is a bit harder to judge; I don't 100% agree with him at #2, but at the same time, I'm not sure Calm deserves #2 off 1 matchup). If it's not calm, it's someone else. Fantasy isn't #2 material. Except in the OSL.
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On September 01 2009 03:55 TheYango wrote:Show nested quote +On September 01 2009 03:39 3clipse wrote: I really don't like Fantasy at #2- I'd have placed him at #4 or #5. When you have two Starleague winners, they really both deserve either 1st and 2nd place, barring extraordinary circumstances. Lets see, Jaedong is still Jaedong (despite some blunders resulting from FA stress), and he made the semi's of the MSL. No problem there. Calm not only won the MSL, but 3-1'd the greatest ZvZer in SC history and front-runner for #1. I think a player would have had to have had a flawless month break up the top 2, and Fantasy certianly did not, losing as many games vs big names as he won. He was certainly the centerpiece of T1 during their victorious PL finals, but he never had a chance to impress with a big bo5. Oh wait, he did. And he lost. I guess we could always use the standard "oh come on, it's Jaedong" excuse. Calm didn't have to.
That said, I like the rest of the rank and your writing. IMO the thing that keeps Calm from the #2 or #1 spot is that he only had to play one matchup all month (ok, he played one non ZvZ match, but that's ZvBest; no A-class Zerg needs to practice that), where every other contender for that spot had to play all their matchups. While I'm not trying to take away from his achievement, I still don't think I'd put my money on him in a Bo5 against Jaedong or Bisu (Fantasy is a bit harder to judge; I don't 100% agree with him at #2, but at the same time, I'm not sure Calm deserves #2 off 1 matchup). I see your point. But here's the thing; it's common knowledge that ZvZ has traditionally been Calm's weakest matchup. He's already proven his ZvT and ZvP prowess. This is the month it all came together for Calm. He not only won his first Starleague, but he's proven that he can play every matchup exquisitely, taking out both players we used to think were untouchable as the top two zergs. Easily deserved #2 spot, with Bisu being a stronger candidate for #3 than Fantasy (not a huge issue for me though).
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Bisu and Jaedong are still the best players, Fantasy should've been 4.
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Would've liked to see Hyuk crack the PR, just for laughs. Good work though, riptide
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On September 01 2009 04:23 3clipse wrote:Show nested quote +On September 01 2009 03:55 TheYango wrote:On September 01 2009 03:39 3clipse wrote: I really don't like Fantasy at #2- I'd have placed him at #4 or #5. When you have two Starleague winners, they really both deserve either 1st and 2nd place, barring extraordinary circumstances. Lets see, Jaedong is still Jaedong (despite some blunders resulting from FA stress), and he made the semi's of the MSL. No problem there. Calm not only won the MSL, but 3-1'd the greatest ZvZer in SC history and front-runner for #1. I think a player would have had to have had a flawless month break up the top 2, and Fantasy certianly did not, losing as many games vs big names as he won. He was certainly the centerpiece of T1 during their victorious PL finals, but he never had a chance to impress with a big bo5. Oh wait, he did. And he lost. I guess we could always use the standard "oh come on, it's Jaedong" excuse. Calm didn't have to.
That said, I like the rest of the rank and your writing. IMO the thing that keeps Calm from the #2 or #1 spot is that he only had to play one matchup all month (ok, he played one non ZvZ match, but that's ZvBest; no A-class Zerg needs to practice that), where every other contender for that spot had to play all their matchups. While I'm not trying to take away from his achievement, I still don't think I'd put my money on him in a Bo5 against Jaedong or Bisu (Fantasy is a bit harder to judge; I don't 100% agree with him at #2, but at the same time, I'm not sure Calm deserves #2 off 1 matchup). I see your point. But here's the thing; it's common knowledge that ZvZ has traditionally been Calm's weakest matchup. He's already proven his ZvT and ZvP prowess. This is the month it all came together for Calm. He not only won his firts Starleague, but he's proven that he can play every matchup exquisitely, taking out both players we used to think were untouchable as the top two zergs. Easily deserved #2 spot, with Bisu being a stronger candidate for #3 than Fantasy (not a huge issue for me though).
nothing to say more .
i think people are underestimate bisu and calm and overestimate fantasy a lot . i think we will see some fun results in the next season ^^ . JAEDONG STORK CALM AND KAL FIGHTING !!!
OZ FIGHTING STX FIGHTING ESTRO FIGHTING HITE FIGHTING
SKT TO HELL
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Very well written and a joy to read. I loved the b alliteration in JD's commentary and how JULY wasn't as kind to August was to STX. Great PR and I can't see any way to change it.
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Bisu over Calm would be a serious and deliberate error. Calm did more to carry his team in PL than Bisu, won a major individual league, and took out the consensus #1 player in the process in his best matchup. There is literally nothing more Calm could have done in such a stretch without being bumped all the way to #1 (for example, hitting RO4 in another league or pushing STX to the PL finals). You really couldn't add a single achievement to Calm's recent resume without him automatically hitting #1 for the month, so he's got to be #2.
Bisu, on the other hand, didn't even get close to delivering a specific performance to put him on the border of a #1 ranking. Part of it was him getting creamed in individual leagues, and part was him not being matched up against JD in PL finals, but regardless he hasn't delivered a "nearly #1 performance" and couldn't possibly deserve a higher rank than Calm.
Fantasy is... probably misplaced. Do I think he's either the second or third best player in the world? Absolutely. But he probably should be #3, behind Calm, or #4, behind Bisu, both of whom have delivered a bit more consistently. Fantasy deserves no worse than #4 for his ridiculous PL finals, and his games against JD were very, very close, but in the end he left us wanting.
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Russian Federation1381 Posts
Well written!
I like the placements, JD and Calm are title holders they have to lead the rank, however Bisu could have been #2 or #3 after Calm, he's just crazy crazy strong lately, he didn't succeed in starleagues, but it's the same with fantasy. His micro vs Flash in game 3 was the most impressive i've ever seen from protoss.
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