EPTPower Rank 07/01/2011 - Page 24
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Holgerius
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swanized
Canada2480 Posts
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Kipsate
Netherlands45349 Posts
offtopic a bit but, lmao did you change your sig Swanized Hon_sin you fattie. | ||
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swanized
Canada2480 Posts
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Holgerius
Sweden16951 Posts
 Makes it really hard to make a fair ranking. | ||
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DarkMatter_
Canada1774 Posts
Flash JD Bisu Hydra Zero Light Bogus - won 2-0 in MST and won all his games in PL. Too bad his team failed and he doesn't have more opportunities to prove himself. Hoejja Other potential candidates are Horang2, Movie, Best, Sea, Jangbi. Fantasy has a great opportunity to redeem himself if he can sweep his OSL group, advance from his MST group and do his job in the PL finals. It's a strong possibility too consider that Sea is the only difficult opponent in his OSL group (hiya kind of sucks at TvT), his MST group is a piece of cake, and we know he's capable of showing an S-class performance at an important event like the PL finals. Stork may be able to steal a #10 spot or something if he can somehow make it out of the OSL group and the MST group. I don't see it happening though. | ||
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ghrur
United States3786 Posts
Edit: Zero! WHERE YOU AT? WHERE YOU AT? | ||
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DarkMatter_
Canada1774 Posts
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GhostOwl
766 Posts
On July 19 2011 23:06 Holgerius wrote: Ya, JD's complete lack of good opportunities to prove himself this month makes me sad. Makes it really hard to make a fair ranking. I feel like JD has already proved himself last month and kept up the winning streak (no losses at all) surely calls for #1 spot easily. Flash, on the other hand, would have lost his #1 spot last month if it wasn't for winning the 3rd starleague due to his inconsistent performance. Now, it's become even harder for him to justify him even for #2 spot because he lost to shuttle / zero and there's no starleague win to save him. I feel bad for Flash =/ , especially because he has a wrist problem but what can you do. =/ | ||
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Mortality
United States4790 Posts
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DarkMatter_
Canada1774 Posts
On July 20 2011 05:34 GhostOwl wrote: I feel like JD has already proved himself last month and kept up the winning streak (no losses at all) surely calls for #1 spot easily. Flash, on the other hand, would have lost his #1 spot last month if it wasn't for winning the 3rd starleague due to his inconsistent performance. Now, it's become even harder for him to justify him even for #2 spot because he lost to shuttle / zero and there's no starleague win to save him. I feel bad for Flash =/ , especially because he has a wrist problem but what can you do. =/ Unfortunately, winning 3 OSL games against mediocre opponents (assuming he actually wins them) just aren't enough to get you a #1 spot. Flash may have lost a couple of games but he's still playing an important role in PL and it looks like he'll sweep his OSL group as well (small chance he'll lose to Stork, but I don't see him losing to Shine). Flash already holds the #1 spot and his reputation speaks for itself. On top of that, if you consider the fact that he's helped his team make it through two round in the playoffs, and that he might potentially make it out of a tough OSL group, there's no way he can lose his spot. It's a little unfortunate for Jaedong because he might actually be the strongest and most consistent player at the moment but in a month where he can do little to prove that statement, it's hard to give him the top spot when someone like Flash is having a much greater impact. | ||
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VGhost
United States3616 Posts
On July 20 2011 05:34 GhostOwl wrote: I feel like JD has already proved himself last month and kept up the winning streak (no losses at all) surely calls for #1 spot easily. Flash, on the other hand, would have lost his #1 spot last month if it wasn't for winning the 3rd starleague due to his inconsistent performance. Now, it's become even harder for him to justify him even for #2 spot because he lost to shuttle / zero and there's no starleague win to save him. I feel bad for Flash =/ , especially because he has a wrist problem but what can you do. =/ I'm not sure I follow. Flash went 3-1 vs STX, the single loss a well-played game vs Shuttle, whom he then beat the next day on the same map. Flash went 3-1 vs Stars, the single loss to ZerO using an unexpected build on a Zerg-favored map. He beat Hydra handily in the OSL Ro16 and is almost certainly favored vs Stork and especially Shine. He's an MSL seed who won't even have to play a game for another month practically. Unless he collapses dramatically vs CJ (or SKT assuming KT's lineup holds up to get that far) I'd say Flash is doing just fine as far as holding on to #1 is concerned. That loss streak, in retrospect, just looks like he mailed it in for a few weeks on games that didn't matter at all - and given what we know of his health condition, who's going to blame him? Beyond that, who's a more plausible #1? Jaedong's probably going to beat Hyuk and hyvaa handily, but those will be his only games on the month, not enough to jump Flash. If he loses one of those, not a chance even if he advances. Bisu has an easy MST group which he should 2-0. Any claim he can make has to assume that and then be based on his PL finals performance - and even then, that will be a max of 2 games, and if he doesn't beat Flash may not be enough Hydra already lost one game to Flash this month: he should probably beat Stork and Shine but his placement also will largely depend on playoff performance - and given the maps, I doubt CJ's going to be fielding him as the ace except maybe on Day 1 (PL finals I don't know about, obviously). tl;dr: there's still some Starcraft left in the month but right now Flash looks like a pretty solid #1. | ||
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red4ce
United States7313 Posts
On July 20 2011 05:34 GhostOwl wrote: I feel like JD has already proved himself last month and kept up the winning streak (no losses at all) surely calls for #1 spot easily. Flash, on the other hand, would have lost his #1 spot last month if it wasn't for winning the 3rd starleague due to his inconsistent performance. Now, it's become even harder for him to justify him even for #2 spot because he lost to shuttle / zero and there's no starleague win to save him. I feel bad for Flash =/ , especially because he has a wrist problem but what can you do. =/ Most of JD's winning streak was already accounted for last month. He's 2-0 in July and at best will go 4-0 for the month. Not really enough to push him over the top to #1 IMO. Flash is 6-2 so far this month and will likely improve that record since CJ doesn't have anyone with a better than 30% chance of beating Flash besides Snow (assuming Skyhigh is still slumping). Flash's OSL group is tougher than JD's as well.If both players win out until the next power rank I expect Flash to be #1 easily. | ||
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setzer
United States3284 Posts
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Kipsate
Netherlands45349 Posts
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Yxes2211
United States1587 Posts
Hope he does it, even if JD doesn't get in the top 2 XD | ||
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TwoToneTerran
United States8841 Posts
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Yodo
Russian Federation327 Posts
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Holgerius
Sweden16951 Posts
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Malinor
Germany4732 Posts
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