EPTPower Rank 07/02/2010 - Page 35
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TriniMasta
United States1323 Posts
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revy
United States1524 Posts
On July 18 2010 17:09 o[twist] wrote: baby really is not playing well. i don't know what happened; i think the kid's psychological game is not strong. i've been a huge baby fan for a long time now but this is simply not the guy we thought was going to start winning starleagues awhile ago. awful  This isn't that uncommon a thing to happen to young gamers like him. He'll own it up for a little while and show you a glimpse of what's to come then he'll slump for a while. Then when you least expect it he'll be back and be very very good. Think about Flash. Now Baby didn't have quite the run that Flash did in and around Bacchus but that's the pattern he fell into, and its rough on a long time fan. At Bacchus I knew he would be the best ever then for 2 years he failed and failed again. Then finally he put together the most dominate 8 months of BW history, made it worth following for 2 years of fail. | ||
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o[twist]
United States4903 Posts
On July 18 2010 23:37 revy wrote: This isn't that uncommon a thing to happen to young gamers like him. He'll own it up for a little while and show you a glimpse of what's to come then he'll slump for a while. Then when you least expect it he'll be back and be very very good. Think about Flash. Now Baby didn't have quite the run that Flash did in and around Bacchus but that's the pattern he fell into, and its rough on a long time fan. At Bacchus I knew he would be the best ever then for 2 years he failed and failed again. Then finally he put together the most dominate 8 months of BW history, made it worth following for 2 years of fail. yeah it's just sad to see. baby's the only player i really get emotional like this about although i hate to see any of the big three in a slump. he also seems to take his losses really hard and hardly seems to get much enjoyment out of his wins | ||
flamewheel
FREEAGLELAND26782 Posts
Hopefully he'll recover, but this'll be a lesson to him... | ||
tree.hugger
Philadelphia, PA10406 Posts
On July 18 2010 17:42 TriniMasta[wD] wrote: finally fantasy is in there, gets what he deserves in the entire time. 2nd best terran, 3rd best player, this is why I love fantasy and have a bad pun of him in my signature. Oh god, that's horrible. But I love him too. On July 19 2010 14:17 o[twist] wrote: yeah it's just sad to see. baby's the only player i really get emotional like this about although i hate to see any of the big three in a slump. he also seems to take his losses really hard and hardly seems to get much enjoyment out of his wins It reminds me of  Leta last year. Great player, but totally sniped in the playoffs. It's taken him almost a year to recover, but after the match-fixing scandal he looked much improved. I think BaBy will recover faster because his match-ups are more solid and well rounded, and his TvZ isn't somewhat gimmicky. But he is also younger and more impressionable, so who knows? | ||
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Mortality
United States4790 Posts
Leta upto getting massacred. The 0-3 obliteration in the playoffs is what made Leta fall off. Baby was playing like a superstar even just two months ago. But then he seemed to hit a few bumps on the road. Those bumps seem to have managed to derail him completely. He entered the playoffs on a 5 game loss streak, his worst ever IIRC. He had already fallen off coming into the playoffs. And so far he's stank up the joint. If I were WeMade's coach, I wouldn't play him for ace matches until he gets his groove back. | ||
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Elroi
Sweden5600 Posts
On July 19 2010 14:17 o[twist] wrote: yeah it's just sad to see. baby's the only player i really get emotional like this about although i hate to see any of the big three in a slump. he also seems to take his losses really hard and hardly seems to get much enjoyment out of his wins ggg | ||
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pronesc
United States31 Posts
- this was not an average month for Flash. | ||
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flamewheel
FREEAGLELAND26782 Posts
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Vasoline73
United States8070 Posts
On July 18 2010 14:42 TwoToneTerran wrote: Literally because the proleague sponsors don't want to rent out the beach the finals are played on for 3 days. It's one of the biggest disappoints in progaming this year for me that we won't even get a properly long finals. Really? IMO all the playoffs should have been one Bo7. The whole 3 day thing is epically not epic :/ | ||
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Severedevil
United States4839 Posts
Weak players getting rolled back and forth for three days is pretty meh. I'd rather have more concentrated Bisu awesomeness. | ||
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Mortality
United States4790 Posts
On July 20 2010 05:06 flamewheel wrote: Argh Mortality don't break the layout! It doesn't breka if you use Firefox, but I'll go back and edit it to just a link. Better not use IE!!!!! | ||
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SuperArc
Austria7781 Posts
On July 20 2010 06:06 Vasoline73 wrote: Really? IMO all the playoffs should have been one Bo7. The whole 3 day thing is epically not epic :/ well if only one day then bo9 would be better imo | ||
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Fenrax
United States5018 Posts
1. Jaedong (finally undisputable even for Flash fans) 2. Flash (if at all) 3. Bisu | ||
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Tempest[OEC]
United States417 Posts
On July 20 2010 10:46 Fenrax wrote: For next month it looks to me like 1. Jaedong (finally undisputable even for Flash fans) 2. Flash (if at all) 3. Bisu Even as a Bisu fan I wouldnt jump the gun and put him that high. A middle spot 5-7 should be sufficient. However there is still Ro16 of MSL to look forward to so this may change! | ||
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SuperArc
Austria7781 Posts
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Shikyo
Finland33997 Posts
On July 20 2010 09:47 Mortality wrote: It doesn't breka if you use Firefox, but I'll go back and edit it to just a link. Better not use IE!!!!! Aah so that's why I didn't have a clue of what he was talking about. Firefox ftw~ | ||
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Fenrax
United States5018 Posts
On July 20 2010 10:55 Tempest[OEC] wrote: Even as a Bisu fan I wouldnt jump the gun and put him that high. A middle spot 5-7 should be sufficient. However there is still Ro16 of MSL to look forward to so this may change! I am no particular fan of anyone. But I have no idea how Bisu could not at least be 4th. Except for JD, Flash and Effort I see no one being on his level. Haven't you watched his games? He's 12-2 since his comeback and man, those were SWEET games. Usually PvZ wins are made of somehow surviving the early game into Epic Storms or Reavers, but Bisu just flat out dominated a good number of his PvZs. For the ranking: I think it is undoubtable that JD gets #1. For #2, I would have a real hard time choosing between Flash, Effort and Bisu. Effort plays consistent since a over two month and has a good winrate again. Bisu is only back since a short time, but his play was just stellar, the by far best PvZ (7-0) we seen since months and also very good PvT (4-0). His PvP was despite the record not bad at all, one close loss and a clear buildorder loss make it 1-2. FlaSh just fell from a half year of dominace into a deep hole, with mediocre play, an Ace Match crisis and in the end he wasn't even Ace for his team anymore (though only in a completely irrelvant match). Being 8-8 since the beginning of June just isn't as impressive as the others imo. So if it was me, I'd rank it 1. JD, 2. Effort, 3. Bisu and 4. Flash but I took into account that Plexa has unique and unpredicatable criterias for PR. | ||
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Pandain
United States12989 Posts
On July 20 2010 12:27 Fenrax wrote: I am no particular fan of anyone. But I have no idea how Bisu could not at least be 4th. Except for JD, Flash and Effort I see no one being on his level. Haven't you watched his games? He's 12-2 since his comeback and man, those were SWEET games. Usually PvZ wins are made of somehow surviving the early game into Epic Storms or Reavers, but Bisu just flat out dominated a good number of his PvZs. For the ranking: I think it is undoubtable that JD gets #1. For #2, I would have a real hard time choosing between Flash, Effort and Bisu. Effort plays consistent since a over two month and has a good winrate again. Bisu is only back since a short time, but his play was just stellar, the by far best PvZ (7-0) we seen since months and also very good PvT (4-0). His PvP was despite the record not bad at all, one close loss and a clear buildorder loss make it 1-2. FlaSh just fell from a half year of dominace into a deep hole, with mediocre play, an Ace Match crisis and in the end he wasn't even Ace for his team anymore (though only in a completely irrelvant match). Being 8-8 since the beginning of June just isn't as impressive as the others imo. So if it was me, I'd rank it 1. JD, 2. Effort, 3. Bisu and 4. Flash but I took into account that Plexa has unique and unpredicatable criterias for PR. Are you forgetting Fantasy? Hell he just dominated Effort. For some reason, people still seem to underestimate Fantasy. For example, just as the match between him and effort started everyone was like "omg effort is going to PWN him.Fantasy got no chance! " Now obviously that is on the chat where everyone is stupid but still, I've seen it elsewhere. Fantasy's been doing pretty well, don't count him out. | ||
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Mortality
United States4790 Posts
JD, Bisu, Effort, Fantasy On one hand, if someone doesn't getting many opportunities to demonstrate his talent (Flash has played exactly 2 games since last PR), you don't want to hold it against him. On the other hand, these other players have to be rewarded. They are all playing really well and they have all delivered solid results over the past few months and they are all delivering solid results this month. Bottom line: it's too soon this month to try to rank people. The entire top 5 of the Power Rank is looking a little like a mash-up. 4 of these 5 are currently in Proleague playoffs and depending on who decides to transform into a wrecking ball and who decides to transform into a kitten's toy will decide a lot. | ||
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