I love Waxangel generally. And this was a good PR. But as some mentioned (perhaps only half-seriously) that there wasn't enough Flash praise, I will say that it felt like you praised Jaedong for coming second more than you praised Flash for his incredibly month. I'm not trying to be too critical, and technically you made all the right noises of appreciation, but it just felt like the tone was 'yeah Flash did well, he's amazing. Ok now that's done with let's talk about the amazing Lee Jae Dong!'.

All I'm saying was Jaedong had "great", "spectacular" and "awesome" used to describe his play whereas all Flash had was "best player" used and that his play was extremely close skill-wise to JD's :p. He didn't even get 'Bonjwa' used : /.

Anyway good PR nonetheless~

bluetrolls

United States139 Posts

September 14 2010 06:55 GMT

#23

http://www.teamliquid.net/forum/viewpost.php?post_id=5420432

HopLight

Sweden999 Posts

September 14 2010 06:56 GMT

#24

A very agreeable power rank, and a nice first one especially considering that for most players there was nothing at all to judge them on.

My one piece of constructive criticism is that I'd like to see some more harsh & biased opinions, tell us who you hate but are forced to put up there anyways.

champignones

Panama160 Posts

September 14 2010 06:59 GMT

#25

i agree flash deserve more, but what can we do , there are more jae fans out there right?. i wonder what would happen with the PR if jae would have won both leagues instead of flash , wait wait i can imagine it:

"GOD is here risen from sky he is unbeatable, the Dong is inmortal can transform iron in cookies, wields the Mjolnir better than thor and convert water in wine. Walk on water too? is JD gg no re , everyone else just meh"

pretty much it

khellian

Korea (South)922 Posts

September 14 2010 07:00 GMT

#26

Not much to debate about really. Flash is f*cking aswome, the most dominant I have seen ever (even though I am not a fan) and Jaedong is f*cking aswome too, but obvoiusly less so then Flash atm (and I am a huuuuge JD fan). And to all the JD and Flash fans that can't get along, my dad beats your dad!

ISighZ

United States270 Posts

September 14 2010 07:11 GMT

#27

On September 14 2010 15:59 champignones wrote:
i agree flash deserve more, but what can we do , there are more jae fans out there right?. i wonder what would happen with the PR if jae would have won both leagues instead of flash , wait wait i can imagine it:

"GOD is here risen from sky he is unbeatable, the Dong is inmortal can transform iron in cookies, wields the Mjolnir better than thor and convert water in wine. Walk on water too? is JD gg no re , everyone else just meh"

pretty much it

Lol this post is awesome. Makes me laugh. I agree Flash deserves more praise. Flash dominates too much. I hope he loses to no one except Jaedong in the upcoming games so the rivalry continues! It's no fun when FVJ are one sided.
Thanks for the write up.!

Mooncat

Germany1228 Posts

September 14 2010 07:20 GMT

#28

While all the ranks are perfectly agreeable, I feel like this PR is lacking a bit of passion and enthusiam. Especially concerning ranks #1 and #2. To be honest I expected a small career recap of these two players, with the last two individual league finals being the all deciding pinnacle - the way it was perceived by the community. Also, Flash easily deserves to be called Bonjwa in this PR and I don't quite understand how it is out of fashion when he was officially declared as such.

Apart from that, good ranking!

Malinor

Germany4719 Posts

September 14 2010 07:34 GMT

#29

This is such a down to earth writing-style, I assume there will be a lot of FlaSh fans who won't be happy that you didn't call him the best thing since sliced bread (and I can understand them a little).

This will be fun.

Looking forward to your PRs in the future (BW won't die right now!)

Waxangel

United States33097 Posts

September 14 2010 07:35 GMT

#30

I have to save something for the OSL write-up you know :o

lobais

Denmark3 Posts

September 14 2010 07:39 GMT

#31

What is all this about "A world with no proleague"?
Has the last proleague been played? Did I miss something?

Waxangel

United States33097 Posts

September 14 2010 07:42 GMT

#32

On September 14 2010 16:39 lobais wrote:
What is all this about "A world with no proleague"?
Has the last proleague been played? Did I miss something?

there were almost no proleague games last month.

it's possible that proleague is over forever for different reasons, but that's not what I meant there.

mrkent

United States160 Posts

September 14 2010 08:09 GMT

#33

"He certainly showed he’s capable of beating Flash in a series"

What? JD 4 pooling 2x in a row clearly shows his lack of confidence in beating flash in a best of 5.

StylishVODs

Sweden5331 Posts

September 14 2010 08:16 GMT

#34

I agree with most people here.
The writing lacked some passion.

This PR had the unique chance to explain why a player won both induvidual leagues at the same time and describe why Flash is the new bonjwa.
Instead I felt as if you tried to equalize him to Jaedong rather than giving him enough credit.
(golden mouse, 3 consecutive dual finals, kespa ranking, elo, stats etc theres alot to talk about)
This is the third starleague final in a row Flash has beaten Jaedong in quite a dominant fasion afterall.

However, the rankings were good and I agree on most spots.
Thanks.

ZZangDreamjOy

Canada959 Posts

September 14 2010 08:19 GMT

#35

FlaSh isn't the first to win an MSL and OSL in the same season, but otherwise I agree with your rankings, cept I wish Jaedong won

writer22816

United States5775 Posts

September 14 2010 08:28 GMT

#36

Nice PR, I agree with everything! the writing however just seems bland compared to the other PR's. Maybe this is just me, but I felt that it lacked the spark of the previous PRs.

fallingdream

Romania452 Posts

September 14 2010 08:32 GMT

#37

Mediocre writing at best, nothing impressive. This PR was easy and somehow you managed to make it seem it was hard. Not enough credit was given to Flash and JD for their insane achievements, which makes me think you have strong negative bias. You could have also write a 2-3 line paragraph about this OSL finals and it's importance ( final being played in china and everything ).
Even though I couldn't care less about someone's opinion and judgement over programmers, I found this PR to be the worst one written as of yet. Hope you do better next time, good luck.

Holgerius

Sweden16951 Posts

September 14 2010 08:37 GMT

#38

Wow, there's quite a lot of criticism from the Flash camp.

FabledIntegral

United States9232 Posts

September 14 2010 08:38 GMT

#39

Honestly I found this months PR to be much more boring than usual in how it was written.

StylishVODs

Sweden5331 Posts

September 14 2010 08:44 GMT

#40

On September 14 2010 17:37 Holgerius wrote:
Wow, there's quite a lot of criticism from the Flash camp.

Yeah, I can understand them though.
Both Flash and Jaedong got less text than almost all of the remaining spots, and the text wasnt very enthusiastic.

On September 14 2010 15:59 champignones wrote:
"GOD is here risen from sky he is unbeatable, the Dong is inmortal can transform iron in cookies, wields the Mjolnir better than thor and convert water in wine. Walk on water too? is JD gg no re , everyone else just meh"

Also, this made me laugh