As a loyal, bandwagoning zerg fan, I am obligated to disagree with Flash>Jaedong. *Ahem*: FakeSteve, your power rank is wrong, because Jaedong is better than Flash. Now that I've got that out of my system, I quite agree. I'd probably have put Mind over Kal, but I haven't seen Ka's games, and I have seen Mind's games. I'm glad to see lux up there though, but it's pretty sad when savior doesn't even make the CBNC

brjdrb

United States577 Posts

March 04 2008 02:57 GMT

#30

I think flash deserves the top spot, though Jaedong is where he should be, right behind him.

idk about luxury, i haven't seen enough games to tell, though i'd say he doesn't deserve the #3 spot mainly because of that; i just haven't seen any extraordinary play from him (someone recommend a game or two if you don't mind).

i'd put stork higher mostly b/c i'm just a stork fanboy, but his spot is probably what he deserves. his games during the GSI finals were....boring at best. except for the game on Baekmagoji, where he actually didn't go carriers, and utterly dominated Flash. if only he had played a game like that on blue storm (where he dominated flash earlier as well) for the 4th game.......oh well.

i really don't think there's anyone else who stood out this past month. at least not in a good way

ThePhan2m

Norway2739 Posts

March 04 2008 03:02 GMT

#31

Great great powerrank! Bold moves by putting Luxury and Kal that high, they havent really gotten the chance to prove themselves to deserve those spots, cuz they havent played that many games, and not vs any one on the power rank, but in other hand, the other players you place there havent really shown any results to deserve those spots either. Future will show how strong Luxury and Kal really are!

ItchReliever

2489 Posts

March 04 2008 03:08 GMT

#32

3-7 is all debatable. Mind only didn't make the finals because of JaeDong and I think he would have beaten anybody else with the exception of maybe Flash. Same with Bisu, he only lost to Flash and I don't really see him losing to anybody else besides the top two.
Who's going to beat Mind and Bisu? Kal? Luxury? Stork? No fucking way. Mind and Bisu are still monsters and much better then these upandcomers and this choke artist.

zer0das

United States8519 Posts

March 04 2008 03:10 GMT

#33

This has probably been the biggest shakeup in a while... I don't think Jangbi deserves the #10 slot. He did a lot better than I expected, but he still got taken to game 3 against Orion. Not exactly stellar. I'd put Kal behind Mind, as I expect there's a good a chance that he'll get stomped by Jaedong too (although I think Kal will pull it off :> ). As far as Much goes... how do you go from red hot to terrible so quickly? His OSL group was easy, but he was stomping good opponents before then. >_>

Try

United States1293 Posts

March 04 2008 03:17 GMT

#34

On March 04 2008 12:08 ItchReliever wrote:
3-7 is all debatable. Mind only didn't make the finals because of JaeDong and I think he would have beaten anybody else with the exception of maybe Flash. Same with Bisu, he only lost to Flash and I don't really see him losing to anybody else besides the top two.
Who's going to beat Mind and Bisu? Kal? Luxury? Stork? No fucking way. Mind and Bisu are still monsters and much better then these upandcomers and this choke artist.

They just don't win enough games and meet Jaedong/Flash too early, Steve can't just speculate who they "would beat" and base the PR off that.

That being said, great job but I'm really starting to miss the sarcrastic, ridiculously and hilariously biased DJEtterStyle PRs =(.

kramus

United States1259 Posts

March 04 2008 03:37 GMT

#35

I thought Jangbi's series against Kal was quite amazing. If Kal had decided to go for a standard mid-long game for any of his three wins I'm pretty sure Jangbi would have taken that series. Jangbi's OSC group games (where he went 2-0) looked good too. He was considered a favorite against Anytime by most people in the live report thread, and rightly so, after watching their winners' match game.

Also, does 3-0ing Upmagic in a pretty one-sided series not count for anything these days?

Regarding Luxury, I haven't seen many good-length games from him where he doesn't just own a terran with mutalisks or maim a protoss with an early attack.

ZergZoul

Mexico408 Posts

March 04 2008 03:42 GMT

#36

JangBi IN. (T)

Sea the hell OUT of here!

tttt

United States386 Posts

March 04 2008 03:59 GMT

#37

Good rankings, IMO. The few things I disagree about:

I would put Stork at #3 over Luxury at #4. Stork is the best toss playing right now. His horrible choking in important situations shouldn't put him below Lux (who has yet to win anything big, while Stork has at least won WCG). I look at the PR in terms of #1 beats #2 etc. I can't see anyone but Lee Jae Dong or Flash beating Stork in a Bo5.

Darkblade2519

United States80 Posts

March 04 2008 04:05 GMT

#38

bisu should be alittle higher he has been player better then mind

Deleted User 31060

3788 Posts

March 04 2008 04:08 GMT

#39

On March 04 2008 12:59 tttt wrote:
Good rankings, IMO. The few things I disagree about:

I would put Stork at #3 over Luxury at #4. Stork is the best toss playing right now. His horrible choking in important situations shouldn't put him below Lux (who has yet to win anything big, while Stork has at least won WCG). I look at the PR in terms of #1 beats #2 etc. I can't see anyone but Lee Jae Dong or Flash beating Stork in a Bo5.

there's something coming up called the "OSL"...

Ace

United States16096 Posts

March 04 2008 04:21 GMT

#40

Jangbi is right where he belongs: CBNC.

Seriously, he hasn't even played that well and he had a path so easy on Protoss maps how could he not have made it that far?

Sea > Jangbi