I'm content with this months power ranks. JD and Killer could have been switched and I don't think many would argue. I do expect a #1 Bisu power rank next month however. I feel like Bisu is like Yellow when it comes to power rank. He's always #3.

Mortality

United States4790 Posts

August 11 2011 17:32 GMT

#22

The order was pretty good. I thought a few of the comments could have been better. Especially for our top 5 I felt like you wrote a lot of words without saying much (too much repetition of "I wish the SPL finals would have happened" type sentiments, and too many cases of saying "X and Y are similar cases" when they really are not). The remarks seemed a bit wishy-washy where I would have preferred conviction.

Also, Soo should have been mentioned in CBNC. He was PR'd the month before back when everything we knew about him amounted to "so, he can play ZvP... and?" Now, okay, he hasn't proved himself to be really "strong" at ZvT or anything, but he's racked up some wins against decent players, pushing him through OSL 2-1 and MST 2-0, and I, for one, would not have expected him to survive that OSL group.

xarthaz

1704 Posts

August 11 2011 17:59 GMT

#23

On August 11 2011 23:55 sixfour wrote:
Zero, Soulkey and Light?

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Agreed. Its about damn time

Qaatar

1409 Posts

August 11 2011 18:27 GMT

#24

Zero with his highest ever ranking, and Light back in the top 10 again! Yes!

J1.au

Australia3596 Posts

August 11 2011 18:33 GMT

#25

Another good, controversy free PR. Which unfortunately means less excitement and drama in the comments. I hope the coming weeks will shake things up!

Crisium

United States1618 Posts

August 11 2011 19:50 GMT

#26

I agree with your top 6 placements 100%. Yay, Killer! 7-10 are also not bad choices. But...

I know you are subjective and therefore cannot be "wrong", but you made a real mistake leaving out Soo. He was ranked PR #7 last month. He goes 2-1 in OSL Ro16, advancing, and goes 2-0 in MST, advancing. That's 4-1 for the month. And you demote him out of the top 10, and not even CBNC worthy? His wins were mostly over Terran too, showing that he is not just a ZvP machine. What? I'll walk you through it again:

Soo's July PR #7
Soo's July Record 4-1, advancing in two leagues
Soo is demoted out of the PR, and out of the CBNC

Now as I said I understand it is subjective, but did his games really leave you unimpressed? Since he has the results, you must have seen something in his playstyle that disgusted you to punish him on the PR so hard after such a good month. I'd like your thoughts.

Go JangBi! Defeat Flash and return to the PR!

ffreakk

Singapore2155 Posts

August 11 2011 20:05 GMT

#27

That, or he could have just forgotten SoO.

In any case i dont think he can change the Power Rank, but maybe edit in a shout-out for SoO?

Im sad that Bisu doesnt have a chance to make number 1

but its true that he didnt have the chance to prove himself this month, and thus didnt have a lot to show for. But Zero above him still made me slightly depressed T_T

Edit: If not for Bisu n Flash, i was ready to call Swarm Season v2.0 T_T.. Gosh ZvP nowadays =/

Crisium

United States1618 Posts

August 11 2011 20:11 GMT

#28

Oh yeah, he can't change it, I wouldn't want that. But he should get some type of CBNC or shout-out for continuing to perform well and advance in leagues for yet another month. Unless Flamewheel was honestly unimpressed with his play, of course.

bearbuddy

3442 Posts

August 11 2011 20:14 GMT

#29

I think he just forgot. I know that it slipped my mind until I read Hyuk in the shout-out and thought to myself that there was an SKT zerg who played better.

Otherwise, a pretty good list.

flamewheel

FREEAGLELAND26781 Posts

August 11 2011 20:29 GMT

#30

Yeah, I forgot soO completely. To be honest because of limited time I only watched one of his games--the one against TurN where it was more TurN failing with the 5rax push. When I get the chance later tonight I will go take a closer look at his games and edit him in where he seems appropriate.

All Power Ranks are editable. When I received the position, I actually went through and corrected some of the old tags, since tags such as

<b></b> and <i></i>

and the likes no longer showed properly in some of the older PRs (though apparently I can use them now or something).

MisteR

Netherlands595 Posts

August 11 2011 20:51 GMT

#31

I love that you'll consider editing in a player you've forgotten Flamewheel

Nice power rank and it is indeed swarm season all over again.

Canadium

Canada171 Posts

August 11 2011 20:53 GMT

#32

I definitely believe Jaedong has what it takes to win another title and be the top zerg again.... It'll just be more difficult with so many zergs in the individual leagues and his ZvZ slumping so hard :/ Still.... We must believe!

hauton

Hong Kong743 Posts

August 11 2011 21:39 GMT

#33

1) Flash
2) Bisu
3) Killer
4) Zero
5) Hydra
6) Jaedong
7) Fantasy
8) Bogus
9) Stats
10) HoeJJa

imo

Killer is for real, Jaedong looks way too vulnerable, Fantasy had it easy but he looks decent, Light will always be a known quantity (blame TvP)

edit: actually I replaced Stats instead of Jangbi at 9 tbh

Stats is scarier because we know the absolute rapefest he can deal out when he's on his a-game, and he looks like he's on his a-game right now...

Iplaythings

Denmark9110 Posts

August 11 2011 22:13 GMT

#34

Need
more
Leta
Seriously, LETA for CBNC atleast.

Other than that power rank makes me warm and fussy with even stats getting CBNC

And Killer should have been above Jaedong, no reason for him to be below him other than "Jaedong is Jaedong"
but killer is a fucking killer, and him doing the "jump to 4th spot and may stay may disappear next month ala stats / shine " seemed like the best thing to do

DyEnasTy

United States3714 Posts

August 11 2011 22:24 GMT

#35

Love the power rank!

moopie

12605 Posts

August 11 2011 22:28 GMT

#36

I can live with this..

edit: nooooo HoeJJa

damn you PR updates.

flamewheel

FREEAGLELAND26781 Posts

August 11 2011 22:56 GMT

#37

Updated, sorry for forgetting.

Leta?

Aside from the game against Flash, I forgot about him as well. I'll take a look.

Mehhh not that big of a fan of Leta this time around--he just hasn't played enough. The games against CH and Flash were good, but it just comes down to he hasn't played enough. Before the two playoff matches we didn't see him for a month because he didn't make OSL.

BisuDagger

Bisutopia19299 Posts

August 11 2011 22:56 GMT

#38

A little off topic, but what ever happened to (T)

FrOzean. He hasn't played since march. Is he just terrible now? Also is (P)

Pusan coaching now or just never going to play again in the PL?

moopie

12605 Posts

August 11 2011 23:02 GMT

#39

On August 12 2011 07:56 BisuDagger wrote:
A little off topic, but what ever happened to (T)

FrOzean. He hasn't played since march. Is he just terrible now? Also is (P)

Pusan coaching now or just never going to play again in the PL?

iirc Frozean is retiring.

Crisium

United States1618 Posts

August 11 2011 23:12 GMT

#40

I wouldn't put Leta in the 10. He gets points for waving the "I beat Flash" card but I'm not sold.

I can agree with the lack of Fantasy, even if I would have given him a low rank myself. He will probably walk though Hyuk in the Ro8 (again), but his long term power still is uncertain and it's better to wait for how he does in the SPL finals before giving him a spot.