EPTPower Rank 05/03/2010 - Page 21
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Finland561 Posts
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tree.hugger
Philadelphia, PA10406 Posts
 EffOrt just jumped 7 places in the ELO rankings, from #10 to #3. He is now at his ZvP peak. And EffOrt had a case for the back end of the PR last month (I would've put him over great, MVP, and maybe Sea) but what he really was looking like at the time was a potential PR candidate for the next rank, as he was a favorite against Kal, and had won several in a row at that time. Everything has turned out well for him, and he's a likely top 5 for the next month's rank unless he gets absolutely wrecked by Flash (trust me, won't happen) or fails in proleague (also unlikely). Potential drama-storms in the next two weeks: - CJ plays KT this week. I'm sure both teams would rather their OSL finalists don't meet, which means they might not be played, or also that they may accidentally meet each other. If they do meet, both players will play ultra-standard, and both will be on cheese watch. At the same time, CJ will possibly try to get HydrA against Flash, and KT will probably try to match forGG against EffOrt. Expect EffOrt on either Match Point or Fighting Spirit, and Flash on Polaris Rhapsody. - Calm and Jaedong play next week, a match-up that Jaedong is almost universally presumed to win. This assessment is a vast over simplification. I don't like Calm very much, mostly as a rival to EffOrt, but he's among the elite second tier of zergs, and has beaten Jaedong before, and could easily do it again. How does the calculus change if Calm plays Flash? (Aside from making MSL executives cry fat salty tears.) | ||
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lowbright
308 Posts
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]343[
United States10328 Posts
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Captain Mayhem
Sweden774 Posts
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Rostam
United States2552 Posts
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o[twist]
United States4903 Posts
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lowbright
308 Posts
granted, it was the same matchup and a similar map pool, but let's be realistic. osl > msl | ||
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StylishVODs
Sweden5331 Posts
 or this for that matter. | ||
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J1.au
Australia3596 Posts
On May 15 2010 14:20 StylishVODs wrote: It seems odd that some jaedongfans are eager to come to the conclusion that being in both leagues drasically affected the outcome of jaedong vs calm, while not being so eager to accept the same concept for flash vs jaedong in last msl or this for that matter.Well getting into both leagues obviously isn't hard since Flash has done it twice! | ||
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tree.hugger
Philadelphia, PA10406 Posts
On May 15 2010 08:33 o[twist] wrote: lol "trust me, won't happen" somehow i actually don't trust your judgment as objective regarding effort tree.hugger I think EffOrt's a baller and all that, but I was more thinking of CJ's preparation with is usually top-notch. And know that I'm a huge EffOrt fan, but I know the difference between reality and my rose-tinted fan glasses. EffOrt is no slouch, everyone should agree on that, and what with the time for preparation, the nature of the match-up, and the fact that he has been known to posses S-class ZvT, I can't imagine  Flash will be able to coast like he did against our good-but-not-great protoss friends, Free and Pure. | ||
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o[twist]
United States4903 Posts
also and more importantly for power-rank purposes, lol sea | ||
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]343[
United States10328 Posts
just because he is so incredibly manly | ||
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Lazerbeems
151 Posts
On May 15 2010 15:25 tree.hugger wrote: I think EffOrt's a baller and all that, but I was more thinking of CJ's preparation with is usually top-notch. And know that I'm a huge EffOrt fan, but I know the difference between reality and my rose-tinted fan glasses. EffOrt is no slouch, everyone should agree on that, and what with the time for preparation, the nature of the match-up, and the fact that he has been known to posses S-class ZvT, I can't imagine Flash will be able to coast like he did against our good-but-not-great protoss friends, Free and Pure. Effort should put up pretty good fight, like Calm did, but I really don't expect it to be too close. It definitely won't be as painful to watch as Free vs Flash or as boring as Pure vs Flash but I expect Flash to be in control for the whole time. Even in his prime he didn't do fantastic against a depressed Flash, that carried a whole team and a bit more on his back. Unless Effort got substantially better than before, which could be possible, I'm expecting 3-0 or 3-1 seeing how much Flash has actually improved in macro, micro, game sense and most importantly multitasking. | ||
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Mortality
United States4790 Posts
Calm vs JD should be interesting, but I suspect that only a Flash vs JD final would mean anything. It's really early still, but thinks are sort of shaping up to the point where unless wild things happen, the next month's PR will be somewhat predictable. Next months PR: 1. Flash (duh) 2. Jaedong (most likely unless he utterly flops for the rest of the month) 3. Effort (?) 4-5. Kal Calm will probably fit in the ranking, but I think it will depend a lot on the rest of the month as to where, as high as 4 or as low as not even in the rankings. 5-7. Baby, Midas 6-10. Candidates thus far seem to be: Leta, Hyuk, Iris ???? On watch (at this point, looking at proleague results): s2, Zero, Roro (on a tear this round), Shine (also on a tear), Flying, Action, ??? | ||
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o[twist]
United States4903 Posts
i'm a huge baby fan so that will affect this but right now i kind of think it should be 1. flash 2. jaedong 3. effort 4. baby 5. calm 6. kal 7. free 8. midas 9. leta 10. hyuk cbnc: iris, roro, flying, action | ||
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SuperArc
Austria7781 Posts
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Mortality
United States4790 Posts
Well, that's overstating it, but the point is that I've been following him since before he was a big name (his PvZ really impressed me the very first time I saw it) and he's made a habit out of never being able to stabilize. I'd also hesitate before putting Baby so high unless he keeps up for the rest of the month and Kal and Calm don't. | ||
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J1.au
Australia3596 Posts
On May 15 2010 16:41 o[twist] wrote: agreed mortality. i'm a huge baby fan so that will affect this but right now i kind of think it should be 1. flash 2. jaedong 3. effort 4. baby 5. calm 6. kal 7. free 8. midas 9. leta 10. hyuk cbnc: iris, roro, flying, action I don't think so. The finals will be played this month, and Flash will win them both. The next Power Rank will be Flash from 1-10. + Show Spoiler + A fanboy can dream... | ||
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Cpadolf
Sweden1199 Posts
On May 15 2010 14:20 StylishVODs wrote: It seems odd that some jaedongfans are eager to come to the conclusion that being in both leagues drasically affected the outcome of jaedong vs calm, while not being so eager to accept the same concept for flash vs jaedong in last msl or this for that matter.Jaedong met Calm and Fantasy on consecutive days, while Flash had 6 days between Movie and Jaedong (compared to 7 for Jaedong). I accept that it had some impact that Jaedong had a little more time to practice than Flash, but there is a pretty big difference. Of course, Flash had a similar situation this season and he handled it fine (though he met MVP and Pure instead of the #2/3 Zerg and the #1/2 Terran). And for this Final he will have a full week to Practice compared to 9 days for Jaedong, but at that point I doubt it has any real significance. | ||
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