On September 14 2010 17:09 mrkent wrote: "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.
lol will he 14 cc's 99% of the time but when jaedong changes and decides to punish flash for it he decides not to do it once. If jaedong had done this in the MSL finals on the last map 4 pool he would have won.
But guess people well say anything... While I don't like that Jaedong 4 pooled in the third game that can't be changed.
On September 14 2010 17:09 mrkent wrote: "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.
lol will he 14 cc's 99% of the time but when jaedong changes and decides to punish flash for it he decides not to do it once. If jaedong had done this in the MSL finals on the last map 4 pool he would have won.
But guess people well say anything... While I don't like that Jaedong 4 pooled in the third game that can't be changed.
Yeah I don't think the 4pool had anything to do with being afraid of flash, it was a strategy used to scare off flash from making any 14CC attempts. You have to change it up abit in a rivalry to be able to stay on top of it.
Great writeup was fun reading and the reasonings for picks are very solid. Bit more on Flash would have been ok as people have been saying but hey it's good enough.
In the future for PL and such, wax will always have solid picks and I am looking forward to that. And he will have many more chances to talk about Flash and why he is #1 anyway :D
lol don't know where this expectation for 'more praise' comes from, if people want that they should make a thread for it. The PR should be concise, objective, explanatory etc., i.e. exactly as Waxangel has done it
WTF no Zero, not even in CBNC? 2-0 vs Action, beating Jaedong, Hiya, Effort, Snow, Light in Stars' great STX Masters run where he all-killed Oz. One bad loss in ZvZ (can't really call 2-1 vs Fantasy and 2-0 vs free bad) and that warrants no mention?
NaDa won both finals the same season. It was KPGA Tour and not MSL yet, but most people don't hold that against Nada. Do you?
I also don't want to say to praise Flash more, but you could have said more of his accomplishments. Especially relevant ones like:
On September 14 2010 09:59 Kazius wrote: Winning the MSL using risky fast expansion builds and sharp timing attacks, and then winning the OSL without doing so once.
Also you did not mention 3 consecutive dual final appearances. Just for the historians know when they look back.
Also, no STX Cup? But that's what first made our boy Stork come back into the ranking recently.
On September 14 2010 19:22 sixfour wrote: WTF no Zero, not even in CBNC? 2-0 vs Action, beating Jaedong, Hiya, Effort, Snow, Light in Stars' great STX Masters run where he all-killed Oz. One bad loss in ZvZ (can't really call 2-1 vs Fantasy and 2-0 vs free bad) and that warrants no mention?
On September 14 2010 19:03 structuralinertia wrote: lol don't know where this expectation for 'more praise' comes from, if people want that they should make a thread for it. The PR should be concise, objective, explanatory etc., i.e. exactly as Waxangel has done it
Its not so much praise as just more oppinions and thoughts that makes up for fun discussion. Most of the older PRs have alot more text for nr 1 and 2 than this one had.
Some bold statements, some bias or whatever just write something more so we can talk about it The writer talked almost nothing about how the top players are actually performing right now and what he thinks about it etc...
The rankings are good, although I'd like to see Zero atleast in CBNC. But there is not enough spirit, specially for a moment like we're in right now.
I agree with the ranking aswell, but maybe there could have been a similar thing to "power outage" in 3rd place to make the gap between 2nd and 3rd place more obvious.
Worst PR in such a long time. Complete lack of enthusiasm. It might be because Dong lost the OSL or whatever. The point of PR is not to list the players in descending order, otherwise you could just write them down from one to ten and say nothing. The point is to hear the authors opinion on what he thinks about the form of a given player in a given month and to give credit where its due.
It is also very unfair to Flash to say that Flash and Jaedong were "deadlocked in terms of skill", and Flash JUST grabbed all the trophies.
On September 14 2010 21:36 nimoraca wrote: Worst PR in such a long time. Complete lack of enthusiasm. It might be because Dong lost the OSL or whatever. The point of PR is not to list the players in descending order, otherwise you could just write them down from one to ten and say nothing. The point is to hear the authors opinion on what he thinks about the form of a given player in a given month and to give credit where its due.
It is also very unfair to Flash to say that Flash and Jaedong were "deadlocked in terms of skill", and Flash JUST grabbed all the trophies.
True. Flash showed to have a clear edge in both finals imho and if there was another Bo5 series between Flash in JD in the near future I don't think many people would seriously bet on JD to take it. Flash pretty much dominated JD in every aspect of the game in the last finals(except maybe micro in Game 2). This PR doesn't really reflect that.
EPT
I think I agree with most of it. 
