Power Rank 10/15/2008 - Page 5

On October 16 2008 13:09 Nick_54 wrote:


Ever since he helped knock Sea out, right?

On October 16 2008 17:43 Ver wrote:
Flash is hardly choking he's just lost his old iloveoov level of intelligence and mindset. Still shows smart play now and then but overall is a shadow of the old self and is a mindless robot terran more or less. Die robotic stupid flash so iloveoov's successor can be reborn again!

Top 4 look good but the rest are shaky.

Hwasin is 4-0 in october, although only fantasy is a notable win and his last games before that was getting trounced 3-0 by thezerg in his best matchup. Seems illogical to have him anywhere but 9/10.

While hwasin may be overly high, forgg on the other hand has to be more forgotten than sync. He shows incredible play and thinking in winning an msl and has went 16-7 against the hardest possible competition (minus shark) since he elevated his game and took out flash. Plus his main losses (to much/stork) were all on the same day where he had to play eight games! And his ranking goes 1/6/9. What's up with this?

A consistent top 5 is at least deserved. This month jd/stork/best were all better choices and fantasy is debatable. However ggplay has shown exactly 1 great game (game 1 vs flash), after getting a very easy second versus bad competition and getting horribly owned by Best. The other games versus flash were not particularly notable; game 2 wasn't that much better than july's attempt and game 3 while his mass ling strat was a good followup to a bad start he basically lucked his way out with that mine killing 3 vults. While I would like to be proven wrong, so far he has shown only a glimpse of Daum ggplay in his game 1 vs Flash in solving what Jaedong could not.

Jangbi as mentioned has been doing very nicely. He may look goofy but 10-0 pvz streak for a guy who's known for pvt makes him look not too shabby. Admittedly none of them are particularly good v P or at all, but he is also 4-0 overall since losing 1-2 to Light two months ago. Definitely should be up there over Hwasin or FBH.

On October 16 2008 20:27 SynC[gm] wrote:
Even if you hate Stork[gm] so badly, whether he just is in an arrogant team or because he's just so damn ugly, you gotta admit he's good.

On October 18 2008 22:15 Plexa wrote:
FBH swapped with Bisu and Best swapped with Stork would make me happy

On October 18 2008 23:35 ]343[ wrote:
stork is probably better vT and vZ (best epic failed vs keke, but I guess maybe that was "just" poor shuttle control)

best is better vP

so I think stork's placement is ok right now, but when (if?) best beats him, people will all be like "omg!!11! stork < best" and best will rise, even if his v(not-P) isn't as good as stork's (although I must admit best's PvT is good, but not as good as stork's ;o)

On October 19 2008 00:45 Geo.Rion wrote:


why do you say Stork is better vT? You should give some arguments, i did not see Best losing to T, or even getting in the danger of losing in last months.

On October 19 2008 00:45 Geo.Rion wrote:


why do you say Stork is better vT? You should give some arguments, i did not see Best losing to T, or even getting in the danger of losing in last months. He didnt need cheese, or failed cheese attempts by opponents, to make this

and vZ, their weakest MU, both are able to win against good zergs, or loose against less memorable zergs. Maybe a loss against type b sound less bad than a loss against Keke, but I really enjoyed the Best vs Keke, awesome game, Best didn't look bad at all, at least to me.

so back up your statements, i m really curios (no irony)