Fantasy There are always trolls in any month of Power Rank writing. Fantasy is this month's king troll, what with the out-of-nowhere "I'm going to return to form and win in Starleagues" mentality. Seriously, the dude goes on a 6-game loss streak in Proleague during June but then decides to 3-0 his OSL group and 2-0 his MST group.
HoeJJa For the past few months, HoeJJa has suddenly decided to go into beast mode. Yes, after getting knocked out of his MST group he's in neither individual league. However, he has been instrumental in KT's success in making it to the SPL Grand Final, winning five of his seven matches. It's interesting to say this, but a good deal of KT's chance at gold right now depends on HoeJJa winning his match in the final.
JangBi If JangBi hadn't lost all three of his playoff matches [ZerO and Soulkey are good, but still], he'd have a Power Rank spot. Still, he gets kudos for stomping BaBy and Calm in the tiebreakers and 2-0ing his MST group. Looking forward to some more JangBang in the individual leagues soon.
Modesty I thought it was weird that Modesty made it to an OSL semifinal. I still think it's weird now, when he's advanced to another OSL quarterfinal [over the corpse of Jaedong] and made it to the MSL main as well. He also won a game in the Day 2 playoffs match against KT, where STX 4-0'd. Still, none of his games have been impressive or even fun to watch.
Stats After a period of dominance, Stats fell asleep. He failed out of both MSL and OSL prelims, and hadn't been holding up that well in Proleague. Then comes playoffs. After getting trounced in all three of his games against STX, Stats decided it was time to wake up. In the past few weeks, Stats has been pretty instrumental to KT's success, winning the five games he played against Stars and CJ. In particular, his games against ZerO and Hydra showcased some high-level PvZ. Currently, I just expect pretty much all non-Bisu Protoss to roll over and die, since Zerg players keep just hydra-busting them to death. Stats is one of my few hopes for PvZ, though since he's not in either individual league I'll have to wait.
The Proleague Grand Final should be interesting. Win or lose, I expect Stats to create a splash.
Shoutouts
Hyuk Hyuk, like Fantasy, is also a troll. Might be team-related. Because SKT is in the finals, he had no Proleague games to play. However, Hyuk did manage to 2-1 his ODT group, 2-1 his MST group, and 2-1 his OSL Round of 16 group to advance to the quarterfinals. Ironically, he'll be playing fellow troll Fantasy there. Basically, Hyuk is a not-so-good player that has managed to advance in both leagues... just like last season. What?
hyvaa Players with names starting with "hy-" tend to all-kill in STX Masters'. hyvaa all-killed KHAN, but I wonder how many teams actually really care about STXMC. Just thought this was kind of funny. hyvaa's been playing better as of late, though still nothing that impressive.
Perfective Perfective decided to go from losing almost every Proleague match [why did I put you on my FPL team, seriously?] to winning every one of his post-season games, with three of them being closing sets as well. His play may not be that good or inspiring to watch, but the results have mattered.
Really Really is another progamer to retire, and he won't be the last. Still, I am saddened to see him go. Ever since the dissolution of eSTRO, he hasn't been the same. Even if you don't really like Really, take a look at this old Proleague writeup.
One more thing--as you all know this current Power Rank writeup was delayed by almost two weeks. My question now is this: would you prefer to have one again at the end of August or wait till the end of September? Alternatively, September can be skipped and incorporated into October.
Personally, with school starting soon, among other things, I would rather wait the extra month (skip September). This is both me being lazy as well as there not being many games of Starcraft in the month of September since MSL is on hold till group selection some time in October. Once again, I'll leave it up to a poll.
Poll: PR for the next few months:
Write one every month (124)
53%
Combine August and September, do October as usual (105)
45%
Write August, combine September and October (6)
3%
235 total votes
Your vote: PR for the next few months:
(Vote): Write one every month (Vote): Combine August and September, do October as usual (Vote): Write August, combine September and October
Yay Killer is up there ^.^ I hope that Jaedong comes back with a vengeance though >.> Hyuk! Why do you troll me so?
Also regarding the poll, I truly don't mind having the 3 months merge. Much less problematic for you as you have school and it gives you much more information to see and we should (theoretically) get a very descriptive Power Rank.
So I'll vote for the 2 months combined and October alone. Hwaiting Flamewheel!
Bisu the only Protoss on the PR, so many zergs. Slowly Bisu, slowly but surely you'll get to number one. I also don't really think Bogus is invisible/overshadowed either, he's shot up in terms of recognition very quickly with the other two big names stumbling. Hopefully he moves up too
You must have had a lot of Vod marathons flamewheel haha
On August 12 2011 01:22 disciple wrote: btw I have a bet with Milkis that Jaedong wont win another title ever again (that includes MSL, OSL, PL and WL)
On August 12 2011 01:22 disciple wrote: btw I have a bet with Milkis that Jaedong wont win another title ever again (that includes MSL, OSL, PL and WL)
...GSL?
(I kid, I kid!)
It's getting really hard to make predictions about future titles. A year ago I would have said you were nuts, but with the apparently declining ZvZ, the inability to translate the ability to beat Flash into an ability to beat Flash in a finals, and so on, I'm starting to worry you might be right. It's a weird day when the farthest advancing OZ player in the OSL is a Zerg... who's not JD.
EPT
Fantasy
HoeJJa
JangBi
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