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Avidkeystamper
Profile Blog Joined June 2008
United States8556 Posts
December 11 2008 07:08 GMT
#861
On December 11 2008 15:53 bumatlarge wrote:
I don't think Sea haters exist, at least not on the TL boards


We're not supposed to talk about it, remember what happened to the last--
Jaedong
AzureEye
Profile Blog Joined December 2008
United States1360 Posts
December 11 2008 08:21 GMT
#862
Bisu should definately be #1 next PR

Stork and Bisu were neck-to-neck for #1, everyone was arguing Stork has been underperforming after OSL win and Bisu is still on fire after MSL win. Despite that fact, it was still hard to make a choice

However,
Bisu just recently beat Stork in BO5 at IEF Finals

Don't even try to argue IEF is not important or not, what matters is that Stork and Bisu played against each other and they gave us results so Bisu definately should be #1
Terrans who whine: http://www.teamliquid.net/blogs/viewblog.php?topic_id=107788
Geo.Rion
Profile Blog Joined October 2008
7377 Posts
Last Edited: 2008-12-11 11:54:36
December 11 2008 11:41 GMT
#863
On December 11 2008 17:21 AzureEye wrote:
Bisu should definately be #1 next PR

Stork and Bisu were neck-to-neck for #1, everyone was arguing Stork has been underperforming after OSL win and Bisu is still on fire after MSL win. Despite that fact, it was still hard to make a choice

However,
Bisu just recently beat Stork in BO5 at IEF Finals

Don't even try to argue IEF is not important or not, what matters is that Stork and Bisu played against each other and they gave us results so Bisu definately should be #1



Was it a bo5? Strange, i only saw 3 games. But yes, they surely took in serious that series agianst each other, who gives a shit about Kespa counts it or not, 40.000$ are 40.000$ dollars, ppl kill for that ammount of money
"Protoss is a joke" Liquid`Jinro Okt.1. 2011
CDRdude
Profile Blog Joined May 2007
United States5625 Posts
December 11 2008 11:48 GMT
#864
On December 11 2008 15:53 bumatlarge wrote:
I don't think Sea haters exist, at least not on the TL boards

I hate Sea. I hate the way his delicate hands firmly caress the keyboard. I hate the way he gently warms his dainty hands on his red rag. I hate his manly unit control. I hate him so much, I think he should be punished.
Force staff is the best item in the game.
Geo.Rion
Profile Blog Joined October 2008
7377 Posts
Last Edited: 2008-12-11 14:39:48
December 11 2008 13:57 GMT
#865
Fakesteve decided to wait untill this one hits the 1000 post limit
"Protoss is a joke" Liquid`Jinro Okt.1. 2011
Ideas
Profile Blog Joined April 2008
United States8179 Posts
December 11 2008 16:30 GMT
#866
I don't see how the next PR can not have Yarnc on it. He's been playing absolutely stellar lately.
Free Palestine
Darth Peter
Profile Joined October 2008
Romania438 Posts
December 11 2008 16:44 GMT
#867
On December 12 2008 01:30 Ideas wrote:
I don't see how the next PR can not have Yarnc on it. He's been playing absolutely stellar lately

Yeah,but so did Effort,Calm,Zero,FBH,Leta,Sea.Really and Pusan. And I am still not impressed by Yarnc's Z v P.
StylishVODs
Profile Joined December 2005
Sweden5331 Posts
Last Edited: 2008-12-11 17:01:28
December 11 2008 16:56 GMT
#868
On December 11 2008 06:27 abakben wrote:
Show nested quote +
On December 11 2008 06:04 AnOth3rDAy wrote:
seriously Bisu or Flash for #1. Bisu for #1 isnt really that crystalclear in my oppinion.

Flash has gone 17-3 his last 20 games, which of only 1 real loss(the one vs Zero)
I say only 1 real loss because the other two were from 14CC vs 9pool and a really really all-in dtproxrush build from horang2 @ byzantium.

and when i say not a real loss, i mean game that any player would have lost.
There is no single player on earth or will ever be who can defend a 9pool when he 14CC's nor can defend a DT prox with that opening flash did, he even scouted the prox with his sick scouting.

So basically 17-1... seriously bonjwa is back!!

What did you smoke while writing this ridiculouse shit? I want the same one


Everyone with different oppionons than yourself is smoking something?
The losses he got from Jaedong and Horang2 isn't going to change much when he is placed in a PR list imo. They tell nothing about his skill level since any player at any time would ahve lost those games. He was not raped or even outplayed.

Darth peter wrote: "I could say that Jaedongs's losses wasn't real losses because if he hadn't committed those stupid mistakes,he could have won"

This is not even close to what i said though... flash made a 14 cc, its a risk, not a stupid mistake.

Jaeden wrote: "u know that it was really his fault for goin 14CC vs 9pool, right?
Every loss counts."

Yes it's his fault, every loss counts ofcourse, but some losses counts more or less when making the PR. Usually games that shows a players skill level is the best games for PR decisions.

Krigstar wrote: "Even if you show the perfect formula on how you calculate what games are luck and whats skill, its irrelevant and no one should give a shit except those who desperately need retarded arguments to defend their favorite player.
What I'm saying is that when you start to value losses differently you just made a statement that you have NO clue of that the game is about."

There is a difference between knowing the "perfect formula for luck" and seeing that when someone does 14cc vs 9pool its clearly a BO win and probably wont be considered that much of a loss when making the PR.
You say no one should give a shit about in what fashion a player loses a game... i simply do not agree with that statement.

I'm pretty decent at playing this game and I've watched ALOT of games.
Losses can be valued differently but cannot give different results in a specific match. If you don't know this i think that its you who don't really know what the PR is about.

Krigstar wrote; Flash-fans: "BUILDORDER WIN OMG UNLUCKY!"

zerg fans: "flash is so predictable."

How about an objective point of view? Its OBVIOUSLY a BO win, and OBVIOUSLY not predictable since he hasnt played that map before and his other last 10 TvZ was not a 14CC.

Some cases are really obvious man, you shouldnt fight a losing battle. The only thing that might be negative for Flash in the PR from this match is that he might have done the 14CC because of too little preparation for the specific match and therefor he thought he might have to take a risk, but i don't think this is the case.

Finally
Some of you took it way too litterally. Ofcourse the losses are "real", he obsiously didnt get a win out of them.
But think of it. He has only lost 1 straight up skillshoing match in his last 20 games, you cannot deny that.

Even if you are unwilling to admit or agree to this, 17-3 is still a rediculous record.

Maybe this is not enough to claim Bisu's #1 spot, but its certainly enough to top Stork, who has done nothing special after his OSL win. Some people say, his OSL win should still be counted in the next PR. Why should it? This isn't the kespa ranking... he was great that month, he got #1 spot and he deserved it. He's not great this month, he doesn't deserve the #1 spot and he won't get it. Get it?

Also plz no comments about my way of quoting k?:/


According to Reach, he is the fastest learner he has ever seen. He start bw only like 2/3 years ago. Infact, his bw history knowledge is so limited, he didn't even know what the map Guillotine was.
Geo.Rion
Profile Blog Joined October 2008
7377 Posts
Last Edited: 2008-12-11 17:16:31
December 11 2008 17:14 GMT
#869
On December 12 2008 01:56 AnOth3rDAy wrote:
Show nested quote +
On December 11 2008 06:27 abakben wrote:
On December 11 2008 06:04 AnOth3rDAy wrote:
seriously Bisu or Flash for #1. Bisu for #1 isnt really that crystalclear in my oppinion.

Flash has gone 17-3 his last 20 games, which of only 1 real loss(the one vs Zero)
I say only 1 real loss because the other two were from 14CC vs 9pool and a really really all-in dtproxrush build from horang2 @ byzantium.

and when i say not a real loss, i mean game that any player would have lost.
There is no single player on earth or will ever be who can defend a 9pool when he 14CC's nor can defend a DT prox with that opening flash did, he even scouted the prox with his sick scouting.

So basically 17-1... seriously bonjwa is back!!

What did you smoke while writing this ridiculouse shit? I want the same one


Everyone with different oppionons than yourself is smoking something?
The losses he got from Jaedong and Horang2 isn't going to change much when he is placed in a PR list imo. They tell nothing about his skill level since any player at any time would ahve lost those games. He was not raped or even outplayed.

Darth peter wrote: "I could say that Jaedongs's losses wasn't real losses because if he hadn't committed those stupid mistakes,he could have won"

This is not even close to what i said though... flash made a 14 cc, its a risk, not a stupid mistake.

Jaeden wrote: "u know that it was really his fault for goin 14CC vs 9pool, right?
Every loss counts."

Yes it's his fault, every loss counts ofcourse, but some losses counts more or less when making the PR. Usually games that shows a players skill level is the best games for PR decisions.

Krigstar wrote: "Even if you show the perfect formula on how you calculate what games are luck and whats skill, its irrelevant and no one should give a shit except those who desperately need retarded arguments to defend their favorite player.
What I'm saying is that when you start to value losses differently you just made a statement that you have NO clue of that the game is about."

There is a difference between knowing the "perfect formula for luck" and seeing that when someone does 14cc vs 9pool its clearly a BO win and probably wont be considered that much of a loss when making the PR.
You say no one should give a shit about in what fashion a player loses a game... i simply do not agree with that statement.

I'm pretty decent at playing this game and I've watched ALOT of games.
Losses can be valued differently but cannot give different results in a specific match. If you don't know this i think that its you who don't really know what the PR is about.

Krigstar wrote; Flash-fans: "BUILDORDER WIN OMG UNLUCKY!"

zerg fans: "flash is so predictable."

How about an objective point of view? Its OBVIOUSLY a BO win, and OBVIOUSLY not predictable since he hasnt played that map before and his other last 10 TvZ was not a 14CC.

Some cases are really obvious man, you shouldnt fight a losing battle. The only thing that might be negative for Flash in the PR from this match is that he might have done the 14CC because of too little preparation for the specific match and therefor he thought he might have to take a risk, but i don't think this is the case.

Finally
Some of you took it way too litterally. Ofcourse the losses are "real", he obsiously didnt get a win out of them.
But think of it. He has only lost 1 straight up skillshoing match in his last 20 games, you cannot deny that.

Even if you are unwilling to admit or agree to this, 17-3 is still a rediculous record.

Maybe this is not enough to claim Bisu's #1 spot, but its certainly enough to top Stork, who has done nothing special after his OSL win. Some people say, his OSL win should still be counted in the next PR. Why should it? This isn't the kespa ranking... he was great that month, he got #1 spot and he deserved it. He's not great this month, he doesn't deserve the #1 spot and he won't get it. Get it?




Also plz no comments about my way of quoting k?:/





Flash will face in PL Jaedong and Stork and most probably Bisu in the GOM, those games will test his current skill level.

About the previous game vs JD. Flash almost every game went for cheese or some greedy builds. 9 pool counters both of them quite safely. Flash took a huge risk, even if JD wouldn't go 9 pool, if he had gone 12 hatch and scouted Flash with his first drone even than he would have been behind imo, cuz JD could have done whatever he wanted: go for 2 hatch muta, ling all-in, duble exp etc... That was a bad decision. And don't forget that Flash did not meet too many top tier vT players Fantasy being the only very good vT (or at least used to be), and Free being a very good player overall. Study, Hyvaa, Hiya, Memory, Pure, Chalrenge, Dongrae etc are barely in the A lineup of the proteams, or not at all. His higher level opponents were GGplay, Jaedong, Zero, Fantasy, Free. Beat GGplay, Free and Fantasy (multiple times) lost to JD and Zero.

Nobody denies how good Flash is, just dont overrate it, saying he's 17-3 in his last 20 games (btw he's 17-5 in his last 22, kinda unfair to start countig when the win streak begins, those 2 losses were at the same time)
"Protoss is a joke" Liquid`Jinro Okt.1. 2011
Ideas
Profile Blog Joined April 2008
United States8179 Posts
December 11 2008 17:14 GMT
#870
On December 12 2008 01:44 Darth Peter wrote:
Show nested quote +
On December 12 2008 01:30 Ideas wrote:
I don't see how the next PR can not have Yarnc on it. He's been playing absolutely stellar lately

Yeah,but so did Effort,Calm,Zero,FBH,Leta,Sea.Really and Pusan. And I am still not impressed by Yarnc's Z v P.



Kal might not of have played his best game, but it's undeniable that Yarnc played amazing vs Kal in their ace match.
Free Palestine
StylishVODs
Profile Joined December 2005
Sweden5331 Posts
December 11 2008 17:20 GMT
#871
Geo.Rion yes it was a risk, but with the correct BO 14cc isnt behind when the zerg 12hatch, its actually ahead. Otherwise there should be no reason for a terran to 14cc in the first place.
When im counting his last 20 games, its because before those he wasnt playing that well.. he lost a couple and won a couple and then suddenly he started winning everything. Something happened, he pulled his shit together, thats how strong he is now and those losses shouldnt count anymore in the PR, but in the PR before where he got a low rank.
According to Reach, he is the fastest learner he has ever seen. He start bw only like 2/3 years ago. Infact, his bw history knowledge is so limited, he didn't even know what the map Guillotine was.
Krigstar
Profile Joined August 2008
Sweden77 Posts
December 11 2008 17:39 GMT
#872
On December 11 2008 06:04 AnOth3rDAy wrote:
How about an objective point of view? Its OBVIOUSLY a BO win, and OBVIOUSLY not predictable since he hasnt played that map before and his other last 10 TvZ was not a 14CC.

Some cases are really obvious man, you shouldnt fight a losing battle. The only thing that might be negative for Flash in the PR from this match is that he might have done the 14CC because of too little preparation for the specific match and therefor he thought he might have to take a risk, but i don't think this is the case.


I see your point, but my point gets through pretty well here too. You claimed he went 17-3, but counting the "real games" he was 17-1. You explained those two losses pretty well and I somewhat agree that those could be mostly luck. The thing is, you said 17-1 and by that you assume all those 17 wins were purely skill based. So that objectiveness you speak of is just..... lol. There are only two choices here. You honestly believe the 17 wins were pure skill or you forgot/didn't bother to look it up. Either way it proves you are extremely biased towards Flash.

I was going to illustrate an example again, but what you just did proves my point exactly. You can't be objective by just having an open mind about the game of your choice, but to ALL games. Look at the Sea vs Stork games. Stork is like 100-0 vs Sea and still game after game sea-fans come up with explanations to the losses (luck, BO etc) which by all means may sound reasonable for that specific game, but I don't see them analyze Sea's opponents bad luck when Sea wins.
Aesop
Profile Joined October 2007
Hungary11305 Posts
December 11 2008 18:15 GMT
#873
I think the debate boils down to the point that Flash's BO5 stableness hasn't been tested lately. And being able to pull through in a full series and claiming championship is something we have Flash seen do in the past, but which he has not shown lately. Those traits make Stork and Bisu superior to him, at the time being.
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Jaeden
Profile Joined September 2008
Romania1489 Posts
December 11 2008 19:06 GMT
#874
I agree with u man, Flash plays some really good games nowadays, it`s just that he can`t be#1 , at least not this month. Oh and,
On December 12 2008 01:56 AnOth3rDAy wrote:
This is not even close to what i said though... flash made a 14 cc, its a risk, not a stupid mistake.

that was more like a stupid mistake...if u go 14cc for 543963 games in a row, something is really wrong.
Boxer: " Lee Jae Dong is the best player. He`s all about the micro; he`s the player which has the most amazing control"
StylishVODs
Profile Joined December 2005
Sweden5331 Posts
December 11 2008 19:42 GMT
#875
Jaeden he didnt do that, in his last 10 tvz he only 14nexused once and lost.

Krigstar, correct, all the 17 wins are probably not pure skill differences. Most of them are though, its just much mroe simple to look at 3 games than all the 17 games.. My point with all the stats and such was so people could easily see that flash is back in business.

It's not like i only watched his stats, i watched all his games. He is very good, he deserves top 2 power rank for next month, imo.

Im not extremely biased towards flash, simply saying that he's basically winning everything now...
I really like jaedong, but i can see his flaws and i wouldnt rank him high atm...

im trying to be objective about flash, he is playing good now, and he wins almost every game, has to count for something.. cant be compared to that many progamers right now.. its him and bisu actually.
According to Reach, he is the fastest learner he has ever seen. He start bw only like 2/3 years ago. Infact, his bw history knowledge is so limited, he didn't even know what the map Guillotine was.
]343[
Profile Blog Joined May 2008
United States10328 Posts
December 11 2008 20:23 GMT
#876
flash is playing very well. he deserves top 3 or 4 PR but maybe not 1st - I think bisu should get 1st.

btw fakesteve... it's already the 12th T_T
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Darth Peter
Profile Joined October 2008
Romania438 Posts
December 11 2008 21:08 GMT
#877
Now come on Steve. I understand your busy and everything,bu than why not ask Oneother or anybody to do the rankings this month,and perhaps permanently. I see that the PR is such a great pain in the ass for you. You don't have to do it,ask somebody to write it,who actually enjoys it. I mean come on. You do this for the 4th month in a row now. You say that you are going to write the PR,say dates which are bullshit,than comes the 12-13-14th of the month and finally somebody does it for you. And next month,it's the same. I await for the PR since the 1st of December and for your comeback,and yet again you tell us bullshit. You are the best PR writer,but this cannot go on. Please do the rankings,or resign.
theonemephisto
Profile Blog Joined May 2008
United States409 Posts
December 11 2008 21:17 GMT
#878
On December 11 2008 13:15 Krigstar wrote:
Show nested quote +
On December 11 2008 11:50 theonemephisto wrote:
On December 11 2008 11:42 Krigstar wrote:
On December 11 2008 11:17 theonemephisto wrote:
On December 11 2008 07:48 Jaeden wrote:
On December 11 2008 06:04 AnOth3rDAy wrote:
seriously Bisu or Flash for #1. Bisu for #1 isnt really that crystalclear in my oppinion.

Flash has gone 17-3 his last 20 games, which of only 1 real loss(the one vs Zero)
I say only 1 real loss because the other two were from 14CC vs 9pool and a really really all-in dtproxrush build from horang2 @ byzantium.

and when i say not a real loss, i mean game that any player would have lost.
There is no single player on earth or will ever be who can defend a 9pool when he 14CC's nor can defend a DT prox with that opening flash did, he even scouted the prox with his sick scouting.

So basically 17-1... seriously bonjwa is back!!

u know that it was really his fault for goin 14CC vs 9pool, right?
Every loss counts. Maybe it wouldn`t count if flash had a VERY Important match to practice for ( like a final) but that isn`t the case. I agree that Flash plays well, but he`s got no chance at taking #1 spot this month.

What I think he was trying to say with that is that that loss doesn't really give you much insight into how Flash is playing or his current skill level. Yes, he took a big risk, and he lost out because of it, and the loss counts. But at the same time, the game says nothing about his actual ability (unless it was in a BoX where mindgames come into play). He didn't get outplayed.


And the 17 wins was of course pure skill wins that had nothing to do with build order? Why not just stop this bullshit right away and realize that mind games (i.e. build orders) are a part of the game.

Even if you show the perfect formula on how you calculate what games are luck and whats skill, its irrelevant and no one should give a shit except those who desperately need retarded arguments to defend their favorite player. What I'm saying is that when you start to value losses differently you just made a statement that you have NO clue of that the game is about. If you don't understand, tell me where the official line goes for when a build order is luck and not skill?

I never said anything about the 17 wins, I was just attempting to clarify what his point was because I think everyone was attacking a misconception. I'm sure that a couple of those 17 wins were straight BO wins (though I won't bother to check).

I don't think mindgames are a significant part of the game except when there's a history between the players or it's a BoX.

Losses ARE valued differently. There's a difference between being dominated in a one-sided rape and fighting a long back and forth game to the end. There's a difference between losing to a great player and losing to a bad one. And there's a difference between losing an evenly matched up game and losing a game where you had no chance from the 30 sec mark.

I'm not trying to say that the losses somehow "don't count" or something, I'm just saying that losses like that say very little to nothing about a players "skill" unless they become a pattern (like Flash from last season). And from what I understand, the PR is fundamentally about how "skilled" a player is, however you define that, and I just don't think that isolated Bo1 straight BO losses contribute much to understanding a players skill.


Pretty much all pro-gamers today in all interviews claim that mechanically wise, all A-class gamers are very close to equal now. So if we assume they are right and you believe mind games aren't a significant part of the game then what is? If you think about it for more than 30 seconds you'll realize this is what Starcraft has evolved to.

I think mindgames are extremely important, in fact, I was one of the ones arguing that Bisu should be #1 simply because he is probably the best mind-gamer in BoXs in the game right now or close to it. However, though they still exist, I don't think that they mean much in single games unless there's some history between the players (and even then it's questionable). Noone disputes that they play a huge part in the ultimate determination of skill, the single-day Bo5, but I simply can't believe that they come into play in single games.
StylishVODs
Profile Joined December 2005
Sweden5331 Posts
December 11 2008 21:56 GMT
#879
On December 12 2008 06:17 theonemephisto wrote:
Show nested quote +
On December 11 2008 13:15 Krigstar wrote:
On December 11 2008 11:50 theonemephisto wrote:
On December 11 2008 11:42 Krigstar wrote:
On December 11 2008 11:17 theonemephisto wrote:
On December 11 2008 07:48 Jaeden wrote:
On December 11 2008 06:04 AnOth3rDAy wrote:
seriously Bisu or Flash for #1. Bisu for #1 isnt really that crystalclear in my oppinion.

Flash has gone 17-3 his last 20 games, which of only 1 real loss(the one vs Zero)
I say only 1 real loss because the other two were from 14CC vs 9pool and a really really all-in dtproxrush build from horang2 @ byzantium.

and when i say not a real loss, i mean game that any player would have lost.
There is no single player on earth or will ever be who can defend a 9pool when he 14CC's nor can defend a DT prox with that opening flash did, he even scouted the prox with his sick scouting.

So basically 17-1... seriously bonjwa is back!!

u know that it was really his fault for goin 14CC vs 9pool, right?
Every loss counts. Maybe it wouldn`t count if flash had a VERY Important match to practice for ( like a final) but that isn`t the case. I agree that Flash plays well, but he`s got no chance at taking #1 spot this month.

What I think he was trying to say with that is that that loss doesn't really give you much insight into how Flash is playing or his current skill level. Yes, he took a big risk, and he lost out because of it, and the loss counts. But at the same time, the game says nothing about his actual ability (unless it was in a BoX where mindgames come into play). He didn't get outplayed.


And the 17 wins was of course pure skill wins that had nothing to do with build order? Why not just stop this bullshit right away and realize that mind games (i.e. build orders) are a part of the game.

Even if you show the perfect formula on how you calculate what games are luck and whats skill, its irrelevant and no one should give a shit except those who desperately need retarded arguments to defend their favorite player. What I'm saying is that when you start to value losses differently you just made a statement that you have NO clue of that the game is about. If you don't understand, tell me where the official line goes for when a build order is luck and not skill?

I never said anything about the 17 wins, I was just attempting to clarify what his point was because I think everyone was attacking a misconception. I'm sure that a couple of those 17 wins were straight BO wins (though I won't bother to check).

I don't think mindgames are a significant part of the game except when there's a history between the players or it's a BoX.

Losses ARE valued differently. There's a difference between being dominated in a one-sided rape and fighting a long back and forth game to the end. There's a difference between losing to a great player and losing to a bad one. And there's a difference between losing an evenly matched up game and losing a game where you had no chance from the 30 sec mark.

I'm not trying to say that the losses somehow "don't count" or something, I'm just saying that losses like that say very little to nothing about a players "skill" unless they become a pattern (like Flash from last season). And from what I understand, the PR is fundamentally about how "skilled" a player is, however you define that, and I just don't think that isolated Bo1 straight BO losses contribute much to understanding a players skill.


Pretty much all pro-gamers today in all interviews claim that mechanically wise, all A-class gamers are very close to equal now. So if we assume they are right and you believe mind games aren't a significant part of the game then what is? If you think about it for more than 30 seconds you'll realize this is what Starcraft has evolved to.

I think mindgames are extremely important, in fact, I was one of the ones arguing that Bisu should be #1 simply because he is probably the best mind-gamer in BoXs in the game right now or close to it. However, though they still exist, I don't think that they mean much in single games unless there's some history between the players (and even then it's questionable). Noone disputes that they play a huge part in the ultimate determination of skill, the single-day Bo5, but I simply can't believe that they come into play in single games.


Some pro-gamers are owning it up. Its coz they play better, and have better mindgames. Not just one.. most progamers might have close to equal mechanics, but a few of them are just better.
flash in his prime, jaedong in his prime, etc etc had better mechanics than all the others.
According to Reach, he is the fastest learner he has ever seen. He start bw only like 2/3 years ago. Infact, his bw history knowledge is so limited, he didn't even know what the map Guillotine was.
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December 11 2008 23:36 GMT
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On December 12 2008 06:08 Darth Peter wrote:
Now come on Steve. I understand your busy and everything,bu than why not ask Oneother or anybody to do the rankings this month,and perhaps permanently. I see that the PR is such a great pain in the ass for you. You don't have to do it,ask somebody to write it,who actually enjoys it. I mean come on. You do this for the 4th month in a row now. You say that you are going to write the PR,say dates which are bullshit,than comes the 12-13-14th of the month and finally somebody does it for you. And next month,it's the same. I await for the PR since the 1st of December and for your comeback,and yet again you tell us bullshit. You are the best PR writer,but this cannot go on. Please do the rankings,or resign.
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